tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.comments2023-10-24T01:31:22.914+10:30A live toad every morningShitheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comBlogger241125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-61249712575349466962022-02-14T03:46:12.388+10:302022-02-14T03:46:12.388+10:30lollolThe Modesto Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495938191100565263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-65996205187868653062020-05-14T05:35:28.274+09:302020-05-14T05:35:28.274+09:30I always knew it had to have a name and now, prais...I always knew it had to have a name and now, praise God, you've shown me the light. Hallelujah. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-25961977020957666812020-03-20T01:01:33.048+10:302020-03-20T01:01:33.048+10:30Posted eleven years ago, but exactly what I need t...Posted eleven years ago, but exactly what I need to combat the panic of coronavirus and take me to a world rather more sane than the one we find ourselves in. <br /><br />Thank you so much for posting all of these.Webrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975303713948128132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-3993406575564647482019-09-26T10:47:48.216+09:302019-09-26T10:47:48.216+09:30Children do have to take the long view!
Especiall...Children do have to take the long view!<br /><br />Especially when today's politicians are dying.<br /><br />Howard, on the other hand, was 80 this year...Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-54731373460159558042017-08-01T14:33:52.394+09:302017-08-01T14:33:52.394+09:30Still is, alas. Still is, alas. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-76448312824514645702017-08-01T14:23:38.301+09:302017-08-01T14:23:38.301+09:30I think there is a Higgins Trust which pays for sc...I think there is a Higgins Trust which pays for scholarships and fellowships and other such work.<br /><br />Leonie and Shirley had a great time? If I remember Shirley she was "always underrated".Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-22051474924299125442017-07-18T15:11:50.829+09:302017-07-18T15:11:50.829+09:30Reinforces that PhD equivalents are about research...Reinforces that PhD equivalents are about research not practice as they tend to be in America like PsyD and OstD.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-24131444376480707202017-07-12T16:22:29.502+09:302017-07-12T16:22:29.502+09:30Well, that's quick. Australia has never tried...Well, that's quick. Australia has never tried any Australian soldier for war crimes, ever. And our war crime laws are all geared to hitting people who've committed war crimes while in other nation's armies. We really don't seem to mind that much. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-48072564195028550312017-07-12T15:09:41.273+09:302017-07-12T15:09:41.273+09:30Hate it when Word does that.
It would be good to ...Hate it when Word does that.<br /><br />It would be good to list war crimes accused in various wars.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-30153233721949289142016-08-08T14:12:04.219+09:302016-08-08T14:12:04.219+09:30Glad someone liked SUICIDE SQUAD!Glad someone liked SUICIDE SQUAD!Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-89784738412181951162016-06-30T16:47:25.456+09:302016-06-30T16:47:25.456+09:30No, Australia is not.
As it stands we've only...No, Australia is not.<br /><br />As it stands we've only had the one successful plebiscite and that was over the National Anthem.<br /><br />People will be asking about plebiscites soon too.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-7236055823402465012016-06-18T08:04:12.159+09:302016-06-18T08:04:12.159+09:30I think I lost part of a tooth on the Queen's ...I think I lost part of a tooth on the Queen's birthday.<br /><br />It was a back tooth on my lower jaw which had given a lot of trouble.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-73980511854276597372016-06-13T11:05:14.473+09:302016-06-13T11:05:14.473+09:30Vote One Resentment.
And we all know that when se...Vote One Resentment.<br /><br />And we all know that when self-interest is in the race, it is trying. βΎΊππAdelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-13034617150509523762016-05-03T18:49:42.243+09:302016-05-03T18:49:42.243+09:30Hi Chris
Great contribution which I thoroughly end...Hi Chris<br />Great contribution which I thoroughly endorse.<br />Discovered to my surprise in my pursuit of Beachcomber stuff :))<br />Cheers<br />PaulAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740950930528417590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-60696168063699736052016-03-24T13:33:00.485+10:302016-03-24T13:33:00.485+10:30Dooley's a Roscommon man, so probably not that...Dooley's a Roscommon man, so probably not that Scots. I must look around and see if it's on talking book. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-44452091123354598382016-03-23T17:08:08.918+10:302016-03-23T17:08:08.918+10:30From the context - doesn't it seem more Scots-...From the context - doesn't it seem more Scots-Irish?<br /><br />As for the funny bit - Oirish...<br /><br />[ethnic jokes of the time, Chris!]<br />Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-62644083519990380612016-03-23T11:11:44.084+10:302016-03-23T11:11:44.084+10:30I actually wish Dunne didn't do the dialect qu...I actually wish Dunne didn't do the dialect quite as hard. I don't hear the Irish: I have to work out the code. Funny for all that, yes. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-12309868584587972822016-03-23T08:26:28.130+10:302016-03-23T08:26:28.130+10:30Live Toad/Chris:
FPD makes me laugh.
Working lot...Live Toad/Chris:<br /><br />FPD makes me laugh.<br /><br />Working lots on voices; dialects; comedy.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-36129832429326538222016-01-21T10:32:43.267+10:302016-01-21T10:32:43.267+10:30Actually, this one got in, minus the last sentence...Actually, this one got in, minus the last sentence. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-84975101919720244512015-12-11T10:08:01.336+10:302015-12-11T10:08:01.336+10:30(a) the previous comment should have been on the n...(a) the previous comment should have been on the next post, not this one, and<br />(b) mirablile dictu, the Age actually published this one. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-49832828767568061672015-11-30T10:32:56.177+10:302015-11-30T10:32:56.177+10:30Oh, and there are now no mobile phonebooks, either...Oh, and there are now no mobile phonebooks, either. Privacy. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-82357501158462278212015-11-30T10:32:20.237+10:302015-11-30T10:32:20.237+10:30Oh, and there are now no mobile phonebooks, either...Oh, and there are now no mobile phonebooks, either. Privacy. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-45046205331815563392015-10-27T12:16:02.988+10:302015-10-27T12:16:02.988+10:30DocG, 'word prediction' is a feature of co...DocG, 'word prediction' is a feature of communication programs (and, indeed, typing programs in general) that offer to finish your words for you - if you type 'antidisestablishmenta', for example, they'd probably offer you a choice of 'rian' or 'rianism''. If the person using the device picks one of those words, that saves them a number of hits. If the person refuses the option (is there a word 'disestablishmantarianist?) then they proceed as before. <br />But of course you knew that: you were suggesting that any letters not specifically typed by the person were phony, which is easy enough to say (or spell) if you don't happen to have a disability that makes every letter a lot of work. <br /><br />And then there's "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", which I have to say also pisses me off. True to the point of being trivial, but giving the speaker the absolute right to decide what constitutes extraordinary claims. I would have thought that a claim that a person who can quite clearly be observed to be typing by herself wasn't actually typing by herself is an extraordinary claim; you think otherwise. I would have thought a claim that most psychologists are utterly wrong on a basic issue to do with IQ testing to be boringly routine, giving their uninterrupted history of fucking all their endeavours up for the past century; you evidently differ. <br /><br />As, again, with "But the only way to determine the validity of these claims is for independent researchers to test Carly under controlled conditions". Is that what you say when you lose a game of Scrabble, or try to parallel park, or prod an avocado in the store? Not everything in life requires a publication in a refereed journal edited by your opponents. Some things - and I think a denial of this would constitute an extraordinary claim - are capable of being observed by you, now, here. Shitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-22042364854785585132015-10-27T07:10:49.939+10:302015-10-27T07:10:49.939+10:30What exactly is "word-prediction"?What exactly is "word-prediction"?DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501692.post-16411428683747543752015-10-27T07:08:18.131+10:302015-10-27T07:08:18.131+10:30Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidenc...Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If the claims are true, then what her parents accomplished with Carly is truly impressive and more research should be done to determine whether other children could benefit from the same process. But the only way to determine the validity of these claims is for independent researchers to test Carly under controlled conditions. And if that has not yet been done, then I wonder why. I've looked for references to published studies on Carly, in recognized psychological or medical journals, and so far I've found none. If you can provide such a reference or references I'd appreciate it. Thank you.DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.com