Laserface posted:

Who cares? its entertainment.

open24hours posted:

If it were reframed as an OH&S issue I might be more sympathetic to it, but as far as I can tell the main objective is to promote 'fairness'.

It also seems like a lot of the things professional athletes put themselves through would be banned if sport were treated like other jobs though.

Anidav posted:

I don't feel like fighting.

Anidav posted:

Yeah it's been rough.

Recoome posted:

you are a p poo poo greens supporter, bub

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Counterpoint: nothing ever changes and Anime David will probably die alone with his hentais

Birb Katter posted:

Do I have to watch him die? Wait, I'm a hen guy not hentai. Nevermind.

ninja edit: yes, I am a cock.

Birb Katter posted:

There is a lot of piss taken in here. Anidav is doing fine, he's just in the transition phase of moving rental places which is always poo poo. Orkin is my sex slave and anything I say to him he deserves. Brown isn't even a colour so Blitzkrieg Of Colour is a lie. Loads of us know each other irl at least semi professionally or at least well enough from various threads and chatrooms that we're OK with taking the piss out of each other. The only person we really hate is willus and neither he or his chin read this thread so it doesn't matter.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Levity lightens the heaviest sole, you obtuse cracker.

The Peccadillo posted:

I don't know anything about the dude, but the article asserts he instructs dudes to choke women as a pick up technique, or something?

Seems like a smart nix, along with that dude who described how it was fine to grab and grope Japanese women in the street because there was a cultural dissensentive to do anything about it over there

The Peccadillo posted:

Next thing they'll deny Pietro Cortona a visa, for that awful painting of the Rape of the Sabines

Anidav posted:

Only select babies can handle nut milk

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NSW teaching students will face personality assessments from next year, the NSW Board of Studies has confirmed.

The President of the NSW Council of Deans of Education, Chris Davison, said the assessments will draw from tests similar to those undertaken for the army and will weed out candidates unsuited to teaching before they begin their degrees.

"The challenge is to have one that works for teaching. You probably need a much higher degree of empathy than you do in the army," she said.

Professor Davison said that the national program was necessary despite tough new regulations on literacy and numeracy imposed by the NSW government.

She said the personality assessments were being implemented because students with poor communication or behavioral issues were still undertaking teaching degrees.

"At one stage it emerged that someone in our own program at UNSW had major psychological problems," she said.

"They already had a degree in another field so had passed the academic requirements but they couldn't main eye contact, they couldn't maintain conversation. We found out they had recently been released from psychiatric ward and had problems interacting with people.

"Their counsellor suggested they take up a teaching degree. I counselled them to withdraw."

The Board of Studies' move to implement personality tests at all universities comes after a crackdown on teacher training by the NSW government in September.

For the first time this year, teachers had to achieve three band 5s to be accepted into university and pass literacy and numeracy tests, as thousands of school students prepare to return to school from January 28.

Less than 10 per cent of universities are impacted by the band 5 regulation, said Professor Davison. It does not apply to double teaching degrees such as a Bachelor of Science and Education.

The second degree is assumed to take the place of the three band 5 standard at most major universities.

Professor Davison said the tougher academic regulations announced by NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli at UNSW in September were "ironic, because we are not affected by them".

While the regulations may not have prevented students from enrolling at most major universities, the publicity has made a dent in teaching applications throughout the state.

"Across the sector there has been a drop in applications for teaching this year," said Western Sydney University's Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Denise Kirkpatrick.

Professor Kirkpatrick said she welcomed the government's tightening of teaching standards, saying it would lead to more well-prepared teachers in the state's classrooms.

Despite the crackdown, second chances have been extended to teachers who have not met the three band 5 standard through alternative entry schemes or scored a double degree position.

At the University of Notre Dame Australia, students who failed to get the required marks will be able to take a bridging course that will equate to the threeband 5 qualification.

The course will focus on HSC English and the seven key competencies outlined in the Australian Curriculum: literacy, numeracy, ICT capability, critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability, ethical understanding and intercultural understanding.

Tirade posted:

...a good thing, right?

Mithranderp posted:

The "good" part of the whole thing is the literacy and numeracy requirements.

But yeah it seems depending on how their methodology for psych assessments, they might exclude someone on the wrong basis.

Stoca Zola posted:

So the principal had words to goose-stepper to try and work out why the gently caress they thought goose stepping was a good idea, and the reasoning was that "it is the March of my peoples" only in this case, goose stepper insisted that goose stepping is something that Irish people do. I really don't know if the class was actually supposed to be representing traditional Irish marching styles in this parade, I got the impression that it was an on the spot idea not something that anyone had planned or rehearsed. Can anyone confirm or deny that there is any kind of traditional Celtic goose step?

Laserface posted:

If this is how people in this thread engage with other people when discussing politics it is no wonder that people wont listen to them.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

I've never seen that many comments on a Guardian Facebook post before. Pushing 200 in less than an hour.

quote:

Los Angeles: US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz's claim sexual assaults on women in Australia went up significantly after strict gun laws were introduced has been challenged by a Washington Post analysis.

Senator Cruz said on high-profile American radio host Hugh Hewitt's show on January 12 Australia's post-Port Arthur massacre gun legislation meant women were unable to defend themselves from being raped.

The Washington Post's Fact Checker column examined Senator Cruz's comment and on Monday rated it a "whopper" of a factual error, the highest rating on its "Pinocchio Test".

"And as you know, Hugh, after Australia did that [gun buyback program], the rate of sexual assaults, the rate of rapes, went up significantly, because women were unable to defend themselves," Mr Cruz told the radio host.

"There's nothing that criminals or terrorists like more than unarmed victims."

Conservative candidate Senator Cruz is Donald Trump's biggest rival for the Republican presidential nomination.

The gun debate has become a hot button issue in the presidential race, with Republican candidates like Senator Cruz and the National Rifle Association attacking President Barack Obama and Democrat hopeful Hillary Clinton's references to Australia's firearm laws.

The Washington Post analysis found no significant spike or drop but a gradual increase in sexual assault rates over the decade after the 1996 changes in Australia.

The increase was likely affected by a rise in the reporting of sexual assaults and there wasn't prevalent use of handguns for self-defence before 1996, as Senator Cruz suggested, the newspaper concluded.

"The rates didn't go up 'significantly' after the buyback and there's no evidence changes to gun laws in Australia affected sexual assault rates or jeopardised the ability of women to protect themselves," the Washington Post told readers.

The newspaper spoke to Samara McPhedran, senior research fellow at Australia's Griffith University and chair of the International Coalition of Women in Shooting and Hunting.

The Post also examined research by the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Law Library of Congress, Christine Neill, economics professor at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University and Andrew Leigh, an Australian MP and former Australian National University economics professor.

The newspaper also concluded given gun culture in Australia and the US is not comparable, including carrying concealed guns and the ability to carry firearms for self-defence, "politicians should refrain from attributing good or bad changes in Australian crime rates to the buyback program or to the legislative package".

"We also warn politicians on both sides of the gun debate about making broad assertions about Australia to justify policy arguments for the United States," the Post concluded.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...l#ixzz3yJvSYFzM
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Amethyst posted:

He was extremely obviously joking about the kangaroo thing.

adamantium|wang posted:

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

The film clip is literally an all-white band dressed in all white clothes playing in an all white room.

gay picnic defence posted: