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  • That's why you keep them tied up. Can't barb you if they can't move.

    Oh wait, we're talking about platypuses?
  • Well, looks like Benjamin Beever's been struck from the UK teaching register for unacceptable professional conduct - apparently, because he slapped a lass on the thighs and rubbed her stomach. He was also accused of tickling her, but that wasn't proven. Also, Shoving a year 7 student, grabbing another student by the wrist, intimidating an IT technician, allowing students to climb and jump from a wall without protective equipment, and using the word bollocks in an email.

    Though, by all reports, he seemed a pretty good bloke, and apparently ran an after school class in juggling and circus skills. Seems all a very strange situation.
    Have you seen the videos of me breaking passing world records with another juggler? That's Ben Beever.
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    Have you seen the videos of me breaking passing world records with another juggler? That's Ben Beever.
    F'serious? I only heard about it secondhand, I've not seen any explicit details, but on further grilling, it seems said first hand got it from Small World News Service, who are not the most reliable, though it appears they're talking about the same guy. Asking him yourself is probably the best solution if you must know - and if it's a story that's in error, he'd probably appreciate being told of it so he can take action, as these are serious allegations - but I'll keep my eye on it, just in case. It's the sort of story other news services - probably UK sources, like the Guardian or BBC - would pick up and run, if it were true.
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  • Have you seen the videos of me breaking passing world records with another juggler? That's Ben Beever.
    F'serious? I only heard about it secondhand, I've not seen any explicit details, but on further grilling, it seems said first hand got it from Small World News Service, who are not the most reliable. Asking him yourself is probably the best solution, but I'll keep my eye on it, just in case. It's the sort of story other news services - probably UK sources, like the Guardian or BBC - would pick up and run, if it were true.
    I'm not going to ask him about it. He's not a close friend, and it would be weird to not chat for a year or so, and only now get in contact. I'll meet him again in the summer, and if it comes up we'll chat about it then.
  • I'm not going to ask him about it. He's not a close friend, and it would be weird to not chat for a year or so, and only now get in contact. I'll meet him again in the summer, and if it comes up we'll chat about it then.
    That's fair play, then. For the record - I hope it's just bollocks, because he sounds like a pretty good guy, upon further investigation into the man. If I hear anything interesting that I can confirm - Mostly if it's false, but if it's true, it's also possible - I'll say so. Hell, if it turns out to be false, I'll probably contact him myself - I can't stand fake journalism bullshit, and if it's false, I damn well hope he drops a ten-ton shithammer on them.
  • I'm not going to ask him about it. He's not a close friend, and it would be weird to not chat for a year or so, and only now get in contact. I'll meet him again in the summer, and if it comes up we'll chat about it then.
    That's fair play, then. For the record - I hope it's just bollocks, because he sounds like a pretty good guy, upon further investigation into the man. If I hear anything interesting that I can confirm - Mostly if it's false, but if it's true, it's also possible - I'll say so. Hell, if it turns out to be false, I'll probably contact him myself - I can't stand fake journalism bullshit, and if it's false, I damn well hope he drops a ten-ton shithammer on them.
    He was up for some kind of review yesterday:
    regulation
    disciplinary orders and decisions

    name:
    Benjamin Beever (proceedings will be held at Citibase, Aspect Court, 4 Temple Row, Birmingham, B2 5HG)
    teacher reference number:
    awaiting details
    type of decision/order:

    date made:
    11 Apr 2011
  • He was up for some kind of review yesterday:
    Well, shit, that sucks.
  • Apparently, Cisco is shutting down the Flip camera Devision.

    Adios, Flip Cameras. We hardly knew used Ye.
    I use mine all the time! I can record for 2 hours in 720 HD, which is perfect for capturing two 50 minute shows in one night. I mainly use it to review my performances, but quite a few of my videos on YouTube are from that footage.
  • I use mine all the time! I can record for 2 hours in 720 HD, which is perfect for capturing two 50 minute shows in one night. I mainly use it to review my performances, but quite a few of my videos on YouTube are from that footage.
    And if I recall correctly, Rym has one that he uses, as does Omnutia's Mum - but it seems they just didn't have the staying power. I'd be happy to have one myself, in fact, and might buy one - the company goes down, it's likely the remaining cameras will drop in price.
  • Ours broke at PAX. Rym needs to send it in with the warranty.
  • Ours broke at PAX. Rym needs to send it in with the warranty.
    Suffice it to say, I suggest he does so with some urgency.
  • A new AWO and TMBG podcast in the same day? Surely the world is coming to an end.
  • Oddly, when I flew over to the UK, sitting next to me - and one of the very, very few white people on the plane, since we were flying china airways, to Taipei, right before the Beijing Olympics - was a bloke who shared my last name, was vaguely related, and shared the same name as my older brother - he was a brickie from Townsville, also heading to the UK to go work and live.
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    Recently, I find myself seized by the oddest urge to fly to Vietnam or Thailand and live there a while. I think I would have the savings to do so after a few months work at minimum wage.
    A new AWO and TMBG podcast in the same day? Surely the world is coming to an end.
    I miss Dial-A-Song.
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    A new AWO and TMBG podcast in the same day? Surely the world is coming to an end.
    I miss Dial-A-Song.
    Me too :( Some new people have acquired the old number and have set up a Dial-A-Song service for their own music, which is sorta cool because they're keeping up the legacy, but it's also not TMBG.

    I think TMBW set up their own Dial-A-Song at one point too, just playing recordings of old songs from Dial-A-Song, but I'm not sure it still exists.
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  • I have a lot of old Dial-A-Song bootlegs...and an unused landline.

    An idea is forming.
  • TMBW's members have archived pretty much every Dial-A-Song thing ever, so they're all out there, along with all the old newsletter MP3s. The only problem I'd see with this would be that playing bootlegs over a phone connection that were recorded through a phone connection to begin with would probably render them completely uncomprehensible.
  • Only one way to find out.
  • Oh, and there's TMBG Clock Radio boots, too.
  • This could be awesome. I'll need to figure out how to use a PC with a 56k modem as a phone with an answering machine.
  • Seems as though I can study abroad in Australia via a Math/CoSci program at my college of choice.
  • Seems as though I can study abroad in Australia via a Math/CoSci program at my college of choice.
    Do it. QUT or UQ all the way, baby.
  • edited April 2011
    An interesting WSJ article that claims that there is no male-female wage gap, more men are unemployed, and that women tend to earn, on average, 8% more than their male counterparts.

    Addendum before someone gets narky - "A study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30 found that women earned 8% more than men."
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  • edited April 2011
    Eh, the article treads over the same ground (the same bullshit) as all of these articles are, and is filled with some revealing language. "After all, many American women wish they could work less, and that they weren't the primary earners for their families." "Feminist logic" "Perhaps feminists feel awkward protesting a liberal-dominated government" Attempting to disprove the entire wage gap using a smaller portion of the workforce in the middle of a recession that has effected men to a greater degree... yeah, means very little.
    Post edited by open_sketchbook on
  • Eh, the article treads over the same ground (the same bullshit) as all of these articles are, and is filled with some revealing language. "After all, many American women wish they could work less, and that they weren't the primary earners for their families." "Feminist logic" "Perhaps feminists feel awkward protesting a liberal-dominated government" Attempting to disprove the entire wage gap using a smaller portion of the workforce in the middle of a recession that has effected men to a greater degree... yeah, means very little.
    It does also make some decent points, and some further decent points can be gleaned from it, such as average time at work, which gender works in which fields more often and the pay that may be associated with that, and the unemployment rates between the genders.

    Currently, I have no opinion on the article - I don't yet know enough to be able to form any sort of reasonable opinion. Maybe later. I mostly posted it for the discussion which would most likely arise.
  • Being dismissive of the social pressures that funnel people into those jobs didn't help his arguments much either.
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    Being dismissive of the social pressures that funnel people into those jobs didn't help his arguments much either.
    It was written by a woman heading up a pretty well-known feminist organization.
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  • edited April 2011
    The Independent Women's Forum may call themselves a feminist organization, but they are regressive and dispute every study and finding indicating any sort of gender gap. They are basically concern trolls writ large. Also, she's the vice-president, not the president, and she wrote a book that proudly calls itself politically incorrect. Yeah, real feminist.
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  • edited April 2011
    The Independent Women's Forum may call themselves a feminist organization, but they are regressive and dispute every study and finding indicating any sort of gender gap. They are basically concern trolls writ large. Also, she's the vice-president, not the president, and she wrote a book that proudly calls itself politically incorrect. Yeah, real feminist.
    I didn't really look into the details of the group. Sort of took it at face value, but whatever.

    Anyway, ultimately what this woman has to say is unimportant. The convinced are already convinced, the unconvinced will remain so. No reason to get all worked up.
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