Interesting reads
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@stockcar86 that link right?
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@taniwharugby people are crazy
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@mn5 said in Interesting reads:
@canefan said in Interesting reads:
@taniwharugby people are crazy
Seems to showcase all of the bad things about humans too. I'm sure there are good stories too....
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I found this quite interesting, if a little heart breaking.
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@majorrage that strongly and sadly reminded me of this story that first made me really sit up and think about the impact of concussions after sport. It's ten years old now, but I see Dave Duerson is mentioned in the BBC story. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/jul/19/nfl-star-brain-injuries-destroyed
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@taniwharugby When I arrived back from Europe everyone thought I was a Pom. In England everyone thought I was an Aussie (the shame - the shame).
I did meet a linguist in Helsinki in 81 who taught me how to pronounce 'e" words like Ben Pen etc instead of the Kiwi Bin Pin. Said we are lazy speakers we typically make the shape of consonants but don't necessarily pronounce them.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@taniwharugby When I arrived back from Europe everyone thought I was a Pom. In England everyone thought I was an Aussie (the shame - the shame).
I did meet a linguist in Helsinki in 81 who taught me how to pronounce 'e" words like Ben Pen etc instead of the Kiwi Bin Pin. Said we are lazy speakers we typically make the shape of consonants but don't necessarily pronounce them.
I was often told in the UK that I didn't have much of an accent but that was because I had learned in past visits to slow my speech just a little.
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@crucial I've told this before but where I worked in London the old cleaner was saying to everyone he thought I sounded strange not from round here like. Everyone said he's a fucking Kiwi you dim old fluffybunny. His classic reply was "Oh - I thought he was from somewhere really foreign..... like Newcastle" and he meant it.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@crucial I've told this before but where I worked in London the old cleaner was saying to everyone he thought I sounded strange not from round here like. Everyone said he's a fucking Kiwi you dim old fluffybunny. His classic reply was "Oh - I thought he was from somewhere really foreign..... like Newcastle" and he meant it.
To be fair Geordie IS a foreign language.
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@crucial yeah people didnt think I had much of an accent, and I deliberately emphasised any word my colleagues took the piss out of me about (ten, bed, etc)
I did have to tell a guy over the phone what the weather was like in the town I was working to prove I was in the UK as opposed to in a call centre in NZ...
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This is one hell of a read. Ebay harassment.
‘It has to be known what was done to us’: Natick couple harassed, stalked by eBay tell their story for the first time - The Boston Globe
David and Ina Steiner were terrorized for weeks in the summer of 2019 by a team of employees from Internet giant eBay. Here is their account of the events, which have led to criminal charges and a civil lawsuit.
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It’s Piers Morgan but this is worth a read. I didn’t quite agree with his column on Biles, but google is clearly trying to control the narrative here:
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A lot of this PR, but mildly interesting anyway.
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What Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? The Rialto Report
Honeysuckle Divine was a legendary stripper of the 1970s - with a particular talent that involved Jergens lotion and ping pong balls. This is her story.
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Really good article on Ian Roberts on the beeb.
PIERS MORGAN: Free speech is dying and Google is helping dig its grave
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