I hate parents who make decisions for their children. Just like those idiots who take little kids to politcal rallies and make the kids wear shirts with slogans and carry placards. Let your kids grow up who they want to be and don't force anything on them.
There is a lot of nonsense in the linked article, but it was the reference to Sean Connery that got my goat. Couldn't the author be bothered to research that Bond cars were designed by Laurie Bond and went into production in 1949 - four years before Flemming created James Bond and thirteen years before Connery took the role?
Actually reading the rest of the article the author did the absolute bare minimum of research, so probably not no. For example the Renault Dauphine "the slowest car in the world"? That would be the Renault Dauphine that had quite a successful competition career in the GT1000 class. So what does that say about the cars it beat then? Slower than the slowest?
@Brad the Chinese know their government lies to them and they protest about it every day. The reason they are laughing at you is that your government lies every bit as much as there's does, but in your country you like to pretend you are free. They're laughing because their country is gradually improving and they are gaining more and more freedom, whereas your freedoms are steadily declining.
Don't blame the media for making a big thing out of it. I'm sure the kid and his parents didn't want to make a big thing out of it. I'm pretty sure Target didn't want that either, if they did they could have done it themselves. It was a lone parent that made a big thing out of it.
People who truly don't care about these differences don't notice them. It was exactly the same thing when the BBC hire Cerrie Burnell to present preschool kids' TV. Until some parents started making a fuss I hadn't even noticed she didn't have two complete arms. Having a preschool son at the time I had seen her several times a day without noticing.
People who make an issue of these matters are often prejudiced, but know they shouldn't be so over compensate. We have friends who's son has epilepsy and some behavioural problems and they are always shouting about the fact that everybody should treat him like every other kid. They, however, do not treat him like any other kid. They are very patronising and restrictive towards him, but treat his younger brother like any other kid.
In the first book that the bear appeared in he was called Edward Bear. That was the book "When We Were Very Young" although the poem in question had orginally appeared in print in Punch.
At the start of the book Winnie the Pooh it is explained that Edward has changed his name to Winnie-ther-Pooh, because Winnie the swan no longer needed the name. And as for "ther-Pooh" well
"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what 'ther' means?"
"Ah, yes, now I do" I said quickly. I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
Apologies if I'm misquoting, but it is from memory.
It's interesting that according to the British media only Britain suffers from binge drinking.
Interestingly is seems that countries with a binge drinking problem are those where alcohol is now or has been previously demonized. Countries where alcohol is celebrated rather than demonized tend to have a much more mature attitude to alcohol.
I am also a little concerned that 5 average US beers would be considered binge drinking.
There used to be a saying here that a man had had too much to drink if he'd had "one over the eight". That is to say he'd drunk more than 8 pints. Or IOW more than an imperial gallon of beer (1.2 US gallons). Of course that was in the days before alcohol was blamed for all society's ills. A few years ago a politician talked about drinking 14 pints a night in his youth and people didn't believe him. Admittedly he was a Yorkshireman and the doubters were southern, but he probably wasn't lying. In my youth two gallons was considered a pretty good night.
Woah! You're telling me that there are teachers who encourage students to use Wikipedia as a research tool? How about teaching them to do some real research? Oh wait, that would require some real teaching.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source and many eductational establishments will no longer accept it as a source. One lecturer I know cites the issue of it's cyclic citations. That is to say the citations which refer to other documents which themselves refer back to Wikipedia. Others are simply critical of the number of errors. My personal view is that you have to fact check everything you get from Wikipedia, as such you are doing the research anyway and may as well bypass the Wikipedia stage.
That upper deck looks really claustrophobic. And they could have improved the aerodynamics and accommodation in that area had they fitted the sort of pop top you find on some Mazda Bongos.
Yeah and who bothered to check why? Anyhoo that seems to have been more of a joke at the expense of those sites who blacked out, rather than part of the protest. Hey look guys Google's still trading.
Actually reading the rest of the article the author did the absolute bare minimum of research, so probably not no. For example the Renault Dauphine "the slowest car in the world"? That would be the Renault Dauphine that had quite a successful competition career in the GT1000 class. So what does that say about the cars it beat then? Slower than the slowest?
People who truly don't care about these differences don't notice them. It was exactly the same thing when the BBC hire Cerrie Burnell to present preschool kids' TV. Until some parents started making a fuss I hadn't even noticed she didn't have two complete arms. Having a preschool son at the time I had seen her several times a day without noticing.
People who make an issue of these matters are often prejudiced, but know they shouldn't be so over compensate. We have friends who's son has epilepsy and some behavioural problems and they are always shouting about the fact that everybody should treat him like every other kid. They, however, do not treat him like any other kid. They are very patronising and restrictive towards him, but treat his younger brother like any other kid.
In the first book that the bear appeared in he was called Edward Bear. That was the book "When We Were Very Young" although the poem in question had orginally appeared in print in Punch.
At the start of the book Winnie the Pooh it is explained that Edward has changed his name to Winnie-ther-Pooh, because Winnie the swan no longer needed the name. And as for "ther-Pooh" well
"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what 'ther' means?"
"Ah, yes, now I do" I said quickly. I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
Apologies if I'm misquoting, but it is from memory.
Interestingly is seems that countries with a binge drinking problem are those where alcohol is now or has been previously demonized. Countries where alcohol is celebrated rather than demonized tend to have a much more mature attitude to alcohol.
I am also a little concerned that 5 average US beers would be considered binge drinking.
There used to be a saying here that a man had had too much to drink if he'd had "one over the eight". That is to say he'd drunk more than 8 pints. Or IOW more than an imperial gallon of beer (1.2 US gallons). Of course that was in the days before alcohol was blamed for all society's ills. A few years ago a politician talked about drinking 14 pints a night in his youth and people didn't believe him. Admittedly he was a Yorkshireman and the doubters were southern, but he probably wasn't lying. In my youth two gallons was considered a pretty good night.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source and many eductational establishments will no longer accept it as a source. One lecturer I know cites the issue of it's cyclic citations. That is to say the citations which refer to other documents which themselves refer back to Wikipedia. Others are simply critical of the number of errors. My personal view is that you have to fact check everything you get from Wikipedia, as such you are doing the research anyway and may as well bypass the Wikipedia stage.