Column Comment 4
The Stratford Theory of Numbers (they're all wrong), why cats are suitable for vivisection, and laddies who lunch, here.
posted by Stephen Stratford at 11:40 AM
Thursday, September 29, 2005
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If all numbers are wrong, where does that leave Helen, Don and Tariana?
My cat is suitable for vivisection. Wher can I send it?
Mark cites this story from today's Herald: "More than half of schoolchildren cannot swim 100 metres and experts say the decline of swimming lessons in the curriculum is to blame. A study by Kevin Moran, from the University of Auckland, shows that
54% of Year 11 students cannot manage four lengths of a standard 25m pool. Other research, from Water Safety New Zealand, suggests the problem could be worse. It says three out of four children cannot swim 200 metres - the minimum 'safe standard' to get out of trouble."
A classic illustration of the theory. Is it really worse that 3/4 of kids can't swim 200m or that half of year 11 can't swim 100m?
Why don't you have a go at the lazy Sunday columnists? Look at this week's Sunday Star-Times - on the same page, Rosemary McLeod and Finlay McDonald both gave us their views on Kate Moss.
Why? Who in New Zealand cares what she puts up her nose, or who Pete Doherty is? Shouldn't the editor have given them a slap and told them to write about something interesting?
And they're not (always) the worst offenders. No one reads the Herald on Sunday, for good reason, but as for Kerre Woodham...
I guess it's a treadmill writing a weekly column: another week, another 500 words or whatever, another provocative view. I've been approached to do one and am very reluctant - how many opinions does one have? How many events can one say anything sensible and/or interesting about? Jane Clifton and Joanne Black in the Listener do it consistently, as does Steve Braunias in the SST, and that's about it. No, hang on, there's Lois Daish (Listener), Ray McVinnie (Sunday) and David Burton (Dominion), but then they've got a real subject that matters - food.
Speaking of columnists, does anyone think it a clever idea of the Herald to ask us to pay to read their columnists online? Fran O'Sullivan and Brian Rudman premier content? I don't think so.
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