tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post499652447577808860..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: Old dogmas get another chance to pee on the post ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48266716923744247972014-09-25T22:54:06.913+10:002014-09-25T22:54:06.913+10:00Thanks Dorothy for another wonderful rant.
"...Thanks Dorothy for another wonderful rant. <br /><br /><i>"their desire to put religion back into schools, the way that once free and secular education, has now become radicalised by government funding, and turned into contending religious forces. Education as a tower of religous babel ..."</i> - Sure, except when it comes to claims on the state of exceptionalism and cash when all are on song.<br /><br />"Multi-culturalism" alternately spelt "divide and rule."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-65894718567616351622014-09-25T22:14:47.312+10:002014-09-25T22:14:47.312+10:00For those who can't be bothered to do a GHunt,...For those who can't be bothered to do a GHunt, here it is...<br /><br />Agoraphobia (from Greek ἀγορά, "open space" and -φοβία, -phobia) is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives certain environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, often due to the environment's vast openness or crowdedness. These situations include wide-open spaces, as well as uncontrollable social situations such as the possibility of being met in shopping malls, airports and on bridges. Agoraphobia is defined within the DSM-IV TR as a subset of panic disorder, involving the fear of incurring a panic attack in those environments. In the DSM-5, however, agoraphobia is classified as being separate from panic disorder. The sufferer may go to great lengths to avoid those situations, in severe cases becoming unable to leave their home or safe haven.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-7201612140005229462014-09-25T18:03:40.658+10:002014-09-25T18:03:40.658+10:00Flitton, Sheehan. Donnelly, the 3 (Agoraphobic) st...Flitton, Sheehan. Donnelly, the 3 (Agoraphobic) stooges of Fairfax. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35011045072361004132014-09-25T12:51:45.861+10:002014-09-25T12:51:45.861+10:00Oh dear DW, you pedant you, delicious, but clearly...Oh dear DW, you pedant you, delicious, but clearly he meant say Agoraphobic, thereby hinting at an explanation as to why Australians cluster in urban settings, afraid of the bush. This sets up a simple binary, city and bush, the English language and Donnelly, sense and Donnelly, spelling and Donnelly, grandma's grammar and Donnelly, and well ... bugger it, just binomial, the sum of two terms in which Donnelly and silliness amount to polynomial folly ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-12816144788898302792014-09-25T12:44:35.274+10:002014-09-25T12:44:35.274+10:00Hi Dorothy,
I'm a bit confused by this;
&quo...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />I'm a bit confused by this;<br /><br />"Initiatives like the Howard Government's Discovering Democracy and Values Education programmes, where children were taught to appreciate the institutions, values and beliefs that make us unique and bind us as a nation, were derided as conservative, Anglophobic and binary."<br /><br />Surely he meant to say Anglophilic????<br /><br />And what does binary mean in this context..two of what?<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com