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Shane Warne thinks that anyone caught match fixing should be given a life ban. Perhaps he's right but perhaps someone who was given a very generous ban for only a year for taking a banned substance and who gave information to a bookmaker should not be throwing stones. -
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While I don't think that livejournal's latest facebook/twitter thing is very sensible on their part or useful, all it does is draw our attention to something that is already the case: that posting personal things on livejournal entails trusting your friends' list. Before this change, if I felt like it, I could have cut and pasted your innermost ( Read more... ) -
public libraries
I listened to an interesting little piece on Radio 4 this morning about the purpose of public libraries. It's available on Listen Again here if anyone is interested ( Read more... ) -
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The amazing shop over the road from us sells, amongst other delights (OH SO MANY PICKLES - I LOVE PICKLES!), dried aubergine. What can I do with this? I really want to buy some but I have no idea how to cook with it. -
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One of my friends linked to this post by sashagoblin on what to read to get inside her head. It got me thinking because I don't think I read in the same way. I don't think you could tell all that much about me from the books that I love. I read to get inside other people's minds, not to get further inside my own, it very much feels like an extroverted ( Read more... ) -
Poetry/music
I've been meaning to post about this for ages. As usual, I only get around to posting about it when I'm away all day tomorrow and therefore won't be able to reply to comments quickly but anyway ( Read more... ) -
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I made a post a while ago about the annoyance of the conversation, "Where are you from?" "Cambridge" "No, where are you really from?" [...] "Oh, so you're Indian!"
Someone madea very similar post on Commentisfree about the same thing.
I am slightly horrified by many of the comments.
Some suggest that people are just chatting her up. This has never ( Read more... ) -
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Shreena's Question Of the Day..
If a child asked you "Do you believe in God?" and you knew that you held a view contrary to their parents, how would you answer their question and why?
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I think the various proposals that seem to be floating around about co-habiting couples are just madness and it really frustrates me that the only people arguing against them are slightly loopy "must protect family life" campaigners. When quizcustodet and I got married, our legal rights and obligations within that contract were explained to us by the ( Read more... ) -
On the Today programme this morning..
"Britain's Beth Tweddle fell off the assymetric bars but she is through to the final of the floor exercise *snigger* appropriately enough.."
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