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Tarquin the Terrible: Thoughts on FFVII Remake
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Thoughts on FFVII Remake. It's been about a month since the long-awaited remake of the classic playstation game, Final Fantasy VII was announced, so I thought I jot down some notes. Firstly - IT IS MIDGAR. There's a few points here:. Maybe that's a juxtaposition to the many birds that return at the end. Also - is that the sister ray? If you think about the OG - 8 massive reactors? The roads, pipes and th...
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Tarquin the Terrible: August 2011
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Do we need daddies? In the aftermath of these riots-cum-looting, or general thuggishness, whichever you prefer, much has predictably been made of fatherless families. For example IDS has just said:. 8220;We’ve been ambivalent about family structure in Britain for far too long.”. Of course, we all know this means single-parent families, predominantly single mothers. But are they really to blame? I bet you...
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Tarquin the Terrible: September 2012
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Probably not, and this is not a return, only I've witnessed something very strange at the BBC. It's a comparison of global salaries - all well and good, and apparently the UK average salary is one of the world's highest, basically the same as the yanks in parity terms. So you earn £1996 a month, which buys you $3239 currency, but that's worth $2453 in parity terms. The Australian dollar is of course, wor...
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Tarquin the Terrible: March 2011
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Further to my last post about pretentious nits reading whatever they like into a famous, and therefore deeply meaningful, book, this article on Frankenstein. My favourite has to be the Scottish guy who apparently wrote at university that it was about the English treatment of the Irish.right. Did he look at the publishing date? Ironically, Queen Vic was born in.1819. This is that 'shocking' book that beca...
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Tarquin the Terrible: Opal is a welcome development, but the fare structure is flawed
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Opal is a welcome development, but the fare structure is flawed. The long overdue rollout of Opal in Sydney continues apace, with more and more buses now accepting the cards and the best value paper tickets being retired in about 8 weeks. Anyway, I digress, hopefully my bus company will roll out by September and I'll be fine. I save $2 a week! What the fuss is all about. 13 weeks): from $4.86 per wee...
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Tarquin the Terrible: September 2013
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Finally, Media Watch has a pop at the left, hitting both the ABC and Fairfax. Would it be curmudgeonly of me to point out that it's rather convenient that this sudden change in editorial line happened just after. Their continued promotion by the ABC when they aren't particularly popular any more, however, says quite a lot about the management and culture at the organisation. Playwright' always rings alar...
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Tarquin the Terrible: August 2013
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Let's just rename it Murdoch Watch and be done with it. Another week, another full episode on News Ltd and the Daily Telegraph - I'm getting boring, but so is Paul Barry. This week it's makeup-gate - the story that a make up artist called Kevin Rudd rude on Facebook and this led to six articles in the Telegraph.cue investigation! No doubt the right wing are going to hammer this narrative a lot more than ...
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Tarquin the Terrible: April 2011
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Cyclists - don't you just hate them? Apparently MPs are to discuss a bill about punishing cyclists for reckless cycling, or killing. To be honest, it seems a little frivolous as I don't think they are very likely to kill us directly, or even indirectly, very often. But what I really want to rant about is the defence of cyclists, who once again continue to believe the rules do not apply to them. To tell t...
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Tarquin the Terrible: July 2015
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. Thoughts on FFVII Remake. It's been about a month since the long-awaited remake of the classic playstation game, Final Fantasy VII was announced, so I thought I jot down some notes. Firstly - IT IS MIDGAR. There's a few points here:. Maybe that's a juxtaposition to the many birds that return at the end. Also - is that the sister ray? If you think about the OG - 8 massive reactors? The roads, pipes and th...
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Tarquin the Terrible: How not to live off 80k
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Tarquin's take on current events, the world, life's irritations, and whatever takes his fancy really. How not to live off 80k. I don't really understand people who are hopeless with money, but then I don't understand a lot of people (like Greens voters). Jenni Ryall is a News writer on a 12 week course to stop being a financial disaster. Stop getting taxis everywhere, kick the $10 a day coffee habit etc etc - this week's lesson is (extremely crude) budgeting, or at least a cash flow statement. Probably n...
