Interesting Links for 19-08-2015

[andrewducker]

• The UK is bringing in ratings for music videos - in the most counterproductive way possible
  • "So, if I make my video somewhere else then I don't have to rate it? Bye!"
  • (tags: music videos ratings )
• Why I am steadfastly against the two-child limit for child benefit
  • (tags: welfare children UK )

Comments

[gonzo21]

I would imagine one of the provisions of TTIP will be to make it impossible for any nation state to renationalise any assets that are in private companies hands.

[alitheapipkin]

The founder of 'Does the dog die' is clearly a person after my own heart - I *hate* it when writers kill off dogs just because. I famously have never watched another minute of 'The League of Gentleman' because they put a dog to sleep at the beginning and I yelled at the Boy for telling me it was ok to read 'Heart shaped box' without warning me there was dog death in it (anthropomorphised animal stories, of which I read a great many as a child, are exempt from this as I always go into those expecting death at some point and in that case it is treated as an actual character death rather than a cheap, how can we hit people in the Feels, thing).

Also, Dr Who should never be played by a woman...unless it's Tilda Swinton... because *obviously* there are no other "hopeless, undomestic, dozy, dreamy" *female* eccentrics. I think someone has been sucked into the strong female character fallacy.

[andrewducker]

I should probably warn you about The Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime...

[alitheapipkin]

I've read that already :)

The Heart-shaped Box thing was specifically because it is horror which I generally don't read without pre-screening by a trusted person.

Also re: Dr Who

[alitheapipkin]

I prefer this version - http://nerdist.com/hayley-atwell-wants-to-be-doctor-who-and-we-say-yes-please/

[supergee]

I hate to say it, but that two-children thing sounds positively American.

[andrewducker]

To be fair, in America the Child Tax Credit is about 2/3 of the amount you get in the UK.

[cartesiandaemon]

"Why I am steadfastly against the two-child limit for child benefit"

Because however hard you punish a child, you can't force them to go back in time and prevent themselves from being born even if they wanted to? :(

Because the birth rate is declining not growing?

Because dystopias are a warning, not a handbook..?

I mean, ok, those are reasons it's a bad aim. There are many more details the article explains why it shouldn't be implemented even if you wanted to :(

[andrewducker]

Yup, there are many, many reasons to not be in favour of it.

Publich Health England: 'e-cigarettes should be given o

[cartesiandaemon]

And even if they did have health problems, it's hard to imagine any way they could be worse than smoke-producing cigarettes.