On Judith Curry: "It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it."
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Show posts MenuQuote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 October, 2023, 06:02:14 PMIf we're serious about this carbon thing, I thought, then why do we still have fizzy pop? Beer and cider and sparkling wine, sure, these things are entirely necessary. But fizzy pop? Rotten teeth, diabetes, and climatological ruin?
Quote from: Fortnight on 01 February, 2024, 03:17:26 PMI have no skin in the Rogue Trooper game as I've not read any, but I used to be in the camp of "one-off films are better than TV or film series" but my views have changed over the last decade or so.
A standalone film never seems to be sufficient to tell a complex or detailed story without feeling rushed, incomplete, or just badly edited.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 01 February, 2024, 02:58:36 AMThe Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Massacre.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2024, 01:10:43 PMReally enjoyed that - great to have you back, lads!
Alex is right about the Inspector Morse influence - I seem to remember Daves Bishop and Stone being fairly explicit about that at the time.
Which made it a bit weird to see Charlie Gillespie's muscle-bound, shirtless Armitage fighting monsters like He-Man battling against Skeletor's forces, instead of morosely pondering murder cases over a pint. I did like Charlie's naked Lisa Marsh at the time, though.
Quote from: norton canes on 30 January, 2024, 10:25:59 AMWith Mark Proksch as the Traitor GeneralOh, Colin Robinson actually does look like the Traitor General now you say it (after the shuttle crash).
Quote from: norton canes on 28 January, 2024, 12:20:41 PMQuote from: GoGilesGo on 27 January, 2024, 11:44:50 AMWhen I heard Neimand say he had 'briefly interviewed Noam Chomsky' years ago I thought for a moment he might be journo Ian Dunt moonlighting as a fiction writer
If he interviewed NoamChimpsky Chomsky then chances are he's on this list. Let's get to it!
Quote from: that-listTurkey and The US War On Iraq. Anonymous interviewer. April 3, 2003.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2024, 10:37:54 AMQuote from: sheridan on 17 January, 2024, 09:43:52 AMIf there is more than one adjective from the same adjective group then you need to add 'and'. So you can have a "big, green sign" or a "red and white sign"*, but not a "big and green sign" or a "red, white sign".
* like a barber's shop.
Well feck me, I've been teaching English as a second language for nearly 20 years, and never knew the rule about the 'and' or the comma with adjectives.
If I may be a pendant for a second, though, I'd say that 'really' was an adverb, not an adjective, and qualifies the adjective after it rather than the noun - you can have a 'nice car', a 'really nice car' but not a 'really car', as 'really' describes the niceness rather than the car.