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Australia removes references to AD and BC from school curriculum

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  • #52
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,428 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    This is emotional correctness gone mad. Please inform the Daily Telegraph.


  • #53
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,891 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i'm autistic and have no emotions*, please stop using such an exclusionary term.

    *may be displaying a staggering amount of ignorance about autism.


  • #54
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Its health and safety gone mad


  • #55
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    This is people saying stuff is gone mad gone mad.


  • #56
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Zillah wrote: »
    Let's change to decimal time.

    Honestly though, it makes more sense, but I don't think it could ever work, swapping over would just be too hard.

    People said the very same thing when we done away with shillings.
    sensibleken wrote: »
    Its health and safety gone mad

    Ian?


  • #57
    Amateurish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Amateurish


    Next thing will be aussies going to the world pc court to get south declared as 'up'. Then Oz can be on top of the world almost.
    Personally I'd like to remove all references to north from Ordinance survey maps since north moves constantly. Or I could learn to live with consensus.


  • #58
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Amateurish wrote: »
    Next thing will be aussies going to the world pc court to get south declared as 'up'. Then Oz can be on top of the world almost.
    Personally I'd like to remove all references to north from Ordinance survey maps since north moves constantly. Or I could learn to live with consensus.

    No. Consensus is what gave us a new millenium a year early. Sorry but some of is are nit pickers and shall like to stay that way. Right is right no matter how many people are wrong :P


  • #59
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,891 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Amateurish wrote: »
    I'd like to remove all references to north from Ordinance survey maps since north moves constantly.
    north or magnetic north?


  • #60
    Amateurish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Amateurish


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    No. Consensus is what gave us a new millenium a year early. Sorry but some of is are nit pickers and shall like to stay that way. Right is right no matter how many people are wrong :P

    Well nit-picking may be an evolutionary advantageous trait passed from early primates, we're all guilty sometimes. Personally i don't have nits to pick.
    Ask the average man or woman to define time (without wikibloddypedia) and you'll get a blank stare - possibly for a long time, like 5 seconds. Its a naming convention which is used by the western world for simplicity. Outside of a few thousand years it has no relevance and is not used. Was t-rex jurassic or triassic or whatever or 65m yrs BC?


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  • #61
    Amateurish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Amateurish


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    north or magnetic north?

    Both actually i think. Magnetic definately moves and the earth wobbles on its axis, also the three gorges dam caused a slight tilt.


  • #62
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,891 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Amateurish wrote: »
    Both actually i think. Magnetic definately moves and the earth wobbles on its axis, also the three gorges dam caused a slight tilt.
    but the earth wobbling does not change the direction the north pole is from you - which is the common definition of north (i assume this is what is used by the ordnance survey). few people would use the celestial north pole to define north.


  • #63
    Amateurish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Amateurish


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    but the earth wobbling does not change the direction the north pole is from you - which is the common definition of north (i assume this is what is used by the ordnance survey). few people would use the celestial north pole to define north.

    sure mariners did for hundreds of years. Now we use gps which also is subject to drift since satellites are effected by lunar and solar gravity.


  • #64
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    Columbia wrote: »
    Wow, now that is a truly a non-solution to a non-problem. As if dating everything from 1950 is any less arbitrary than dating it from Jesus's birth.

    Yeah it does seem a little unnecessary, maybe if it was from the year 2000 or something it might make more sense


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