Interesting Links for 25-09-2015

[andrewducker]

• Scottish thesaurus has 498,000 names to call the English
  • (tags: language UK Scotland funny )
• BT sets date for IPv6 network conversion
  • (tags: ipv6 uk bt )
• Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the vegan shadow environment secretary
  • (tags: Labour vegan meat farming politics )
• New Research on Overcoming Loneliness
  • (tags: loneliness psychology

Comments

[gonzo21]

Heh, #63 - James Corden.

Yup.

[alitheapipkin]

Yeah, I found that a very satisfying end to the list too :)

[gonzo21]

I'm sure he must be popular with somebody, because he's in movies and has a career and seems to be well paid. But I am yet to meet anybody who actually likes him.

[andrewducker]

I quite liked him in Doctor Who.

[supergee]

We're going to have to go outdoors to eat our burgers?

Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the ve

[cartesiandaemon]

"Meat eaters should be treated in the same way as smokers and targeted with ad campaigns urging them to become vegetarians, according to Labour's new spokeswoman for the farming industry."

Although as I ranted elsewhere, I think that's quite scummy reporting. Yes, what it literally says is true if you're particularly pedantic, but it sounds like she said that as spokeswoman, rather than "the person who was later appointed to cabinet position, six months ago, gave an interview to a vegan website, which we lifted a paraphrase from without acknowledging the time gap or giving any credit to the original source".

RE: Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the ve

[cartesiandaemon]

I'm also conflicted. I agree that would be unworkable as policy. But in theory, I think it would be an ideal society could move towards eventually. If politicians are only allowed to have ideals for which they they have a detailed policy worked it already just in case they're appointed to a lesser cabinet position in six months time, politicians will never have ideals at all...

RE: Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the ve

[cartesiandaemon]

I also had a long laundry list of minor annoyances with the article which are not really relevant but annoyed me

RE: Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the ve

[momentsmusicaux]

Yup, that's the second time in about a fortnight that I've found the Indie's reporting to be just shoddy (the last one was an article about how the imminent England plastic bag tax would CAUSE CHAOS! AND INSANITY!). And it's not even like I read the Indie much. Rather disappointed, what with that and the Grauniad/Observer being a bit rubbish about its reporting of Corbyn. That doesn't really leave anything decent.

[octopoid_horror]

"52. THAT. IS. NOT. A. PIE. IT’S A CASSEROLE WITH A LID."

I have ranted about this twice, in the last week. Not because I had a failpie, but I had a nice proper pie and was making my feelings re failpies clear.

[andrewducker]

Fail Pies are CLEARLY WRONG.

[octopoid_horror]

Although if served one, I would of course not say anything but would be absolutely outraged on the inside.

[andrewducker]

Of course! Mustn't grumble!

[momentsmusicaux]

> 20. When you’ve done nothing all weekend and then spend Monday at work feeling inadequate as people ask you what you got up to.

I'm immune to that now. Got baby. (Weekend was shit. Don't ask again.)