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The Inadvertent Blog: Us and Them
http://inadvertentblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/us-and-them.html
Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Friday, July 27, 2012. So I was talking to someone the other day, and apart from being generally very lovely, she said a couple of things which suddenly abruptly reminded me of the gap between her generation and mine. They were jarring enough, in fact, that I'm still not totally sure that she wasn't just trying to get a reaction. And I seriously think it's pretty much equivalent. Why didn't you just say he was a poofter? Man, I don't even like to type words like th...
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The Inadvertent Blog: December 2012
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Sunday, December 23, 2012. So, today's post is motivated by the same thing which usually motivates the first post after an accidental long blog hiatus: I discussed blogs with someone and they were all "oh, you have a blog? I should check it out! And even though you know people basically never follow through on that sort of thing, you're all "maybe I'll check if my last post is any good, juuuuust in case! Act first, think/reflect later. Think/reflect first, then Act.
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The Inadvertent Blog: 10 words
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Sunday, July 01, 2012. 8221; and “Who is your favourite teacher? With the occasional dry joke is like trying the perk up Uluru by gluing a packet's worth of marshmallows to it. It’s a laudable effort, but you’re never going to make a truly appreciable difference. Also people are likely to object because of the disrespectful vandalism of a piece of world heritage, I guess. But damned if I want to put that in the yearbook. A yearbook should be a thing of fun! Of nost...
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The Inadvertent Blog: Inside-dogs
http://inadvertentblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/inside-dogs.html
Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Pressure zones and precipitation and what have you. It's sort of funny actually. Remember when you were a kid, and you went on long drives in the evening, like coming home after a big day at the zoo, or driving back from a holiday? Remember when you used to pretend to be asleep when you got home, pretend that you hadn't woken up in the backseat when the car had pulled in the driveway, so your parents would carry you in to bed? I have to sa...
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The Inadvertent Blog: In Which a Sense of Proportion could only make Life less Exciting.
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Thursday, August 06, 2009. In Which a Sense of Proportion could only make Life less Exciting. You know those people who take things just waaaaaaaaay too personally? You know the ones: good things, bad things, the weather in Paraguay, they secretly believe it all somehow reflects on them, and that their opinion is both relevant and interesting to friends, innocent by-passers, and passengers in their taxi? Wish I was there! 8221; not “Aha! It cannot possibly be conce...
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The Inadvertent Blog: Movies with Chris Hemsworth in
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Thursday, June 28, 2012. Movies with Chris Hemsworth in. You guys, I think I'm becoming an old lady. I went, on a whim, with some friends to a movie this evening, which started at 9:10, and by halfway through I was already totally ready to curl up in bed. Looks like even though I've ended up sitting up in bed writing blog posts at midnight the last few days, my secretly-elderly circadian rhythms are not fooled: they know (it knows? Maybe it's the spontaneity? So, f...
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The Inadvertent Blog: In Which Size is Power and Tim Burton is less than wholly Compelling (here be spoilers)
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Thursday, March 18, 2010. In Which Size is Power and Tim Burton is less than wholly Compelling (here be spoilers). Is it because once anyone starts messing about like that, all bets are off? Like all the inhabitants of Wonderland have a Gentlemen's Agreement not to start down the road of getting enormous and trying to step on one another, on the grounds that the consequent oneupmanship would cause irreparable damage to the infrastructure? Like cake makes people big...
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The Inadvertent Blog: There's not a lot to be done, I fear (insoluble problems)
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Thursday, June 28, 2012. There's not a lot to be done, I fear (insoluble problems). Do you ever read about the problems of the world, and worry that they're just not really solveable? Like, there might be solutions but they're a damn sight worse than the problems in the first place, or at least, no better? I keep coming back to this today, somehow. People often advance the argument that our population can only be sustainable up to a certain ceiling and then BAM.
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The Inadvertent Blog: In which “Fun Festive Gift Suggestions” are Preemptively Vetoed
http://inadvertentblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-which-fun-festive-gift-suggestions.html
Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Monday, November 17, 2008. In which “Fun Festive Gift Suggestions” are Preemptively Vetoed. You can tell these particular gems from the fact that the blurbs are reviews are always packed full of as many Latin words, parenthetically translated, as literarily possible. Every year, it seems, someone comes out with a book of ‘totally cool Latin phrases! Amaze your friends, and insult them without their knowledge! A great triumph has occurred, bringing joy to the hearts...
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The Inadvertent Blog: Deprecation is not the same as depreciation
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Now with added Emphatic Capitalisation! Sunday, June 24, 2012. Deprecation is not the same as depreciation. Today's musings are proudly (but humbly) brought to you be self-deprecation (I wanted to insert a link there to the Stuff White People Like page on Self-Deprecating Humour, but it turns out that it's a chapter in the book but not on the website). I was talking to someone recently who didn't seem to be entirely across the concept, and so I figured it might be rarer than I'd imagined? Even more than ...
