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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 13-12-2016

Dec 13, 2016 12:00

Former Labour Home Secretary backs mandatory passports for all UK adults (tags: labour identity uk politics ) NSSM (Allowed me to run an application as a service, when multiple other attempts had failed) (tags: windows software ) "Are toasters always male?" and other questions about default gender. (tags: gender writing tv ) The Inside Story ( Read more... )

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Comments 23

supergee December 13 2016, 12:06:23 UTC

The toasters with two neighboring apertures are female.

supergee December 13 2016, 12:11:51 UTC

The passion thing has been done before. Newt Gingrich explained his open & notorious adultery as “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.”

ylla December 13 2016, 12:18:27 UTC

There are December days when it is perfectly light for a short period of time, and December days when it seems to forget to get light at all. I see no problem with commenting on this!

andrewducker December 13 2016, 13:00:51 UTC

Commenting on it is fine. Newspaper articles that it is Winter, possibly overkill...

amaebi December 13 2016, 13:56:09 UTC

Yes, it reads as serious. Or is that the fundamental cod?

steer December 13 2016, 16:52:01 UTC

It is reusable though!

gonzo21 December 13 2016, 13:07:16 UTC

So Blunkett, having failed to get mandatory ID cards in, has renamed them 'mandatory passports', and they'll 'stop immigrants sponging', and will try again.

And I expect it will work and we'll soon have to present our ID cards to access any public service. Then we'll need to present them when we travel outside our designated regions...

channelpenguin December 13 2016, 13:44:23 UTC

having failed to get mandatory ID cards in

Looks like I was right to leave my last UK job then! (the company was lined up to get the ID card contract).

gonzo21 December 13 2016, 17:16:58 UTC

I bet that was a lucrative slice of public money.

woodpijn December 13 2016, 14:29:29 UTC

The gender article confused me by saying "the cleanest version of a joke has as few pieces as possible." I eventually realised they meant the simplest and most uncluttered, but "clean" has a different and more salient meaning when talking about jokes. I thought they were saying that making the characters in a joke female made the joke dirtier.

steepholm December 13 2016, 21:19:54 UTC

I had the same reaction, till I reread it.

The article makes a good point - and of course the same could be said about default whiteness, able-bodiedness, etc.