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mayoraaseiJust...as a matter of interest:
Eight of this year's drive-by shootings have been clustered in Sydney's south-west: Auburn, Heckenberg, Guildford, Arncliffe, Smithfield, Fairfield and Greenacre.
...Auburn and Guildford, both near Granville, is what I'd call west, and not south-west, although it's a matter of personal preference. Heckenberg, Smithfield, Fairfield and Greenacre are all generally around the western area near Cabramatta, so there's a definite cluster there.
The fact that Arncliffe got thrown in there as "Sydney's south-west" is either completely arbitrary or just plain laziness to look up a street directory. The only thing east of Arncliffe is the airport and Cook's River, which runs straight into the Pacific. Maybe all areas west of the Pacific are "south-west Sydney"? Who knows =__=
As a completely unrelated complaint about statistics, there's this dental ad on TV now which has a catch line "the toothbrush more dentists use" (or something like that...can't remember if it was toothbrush or the 8000 other tooth-related items allowing you to do more things to it than you can with your laundry). That line really bothers me. "More dentists use"? More dentists than what? Than hamsters?
Eight of this year's drive-by shootings have been clustered in Sydney's south-west: Auburn, Heckenberg, Guildford, Arncliffe, Smithfield, Fairfield and Greenacre.
...Auburn and Guildford, both near Granville, is what I'd call west, and not south-west, although it's a matter of personal preference. Heckenberg, Smithfield, Fairfield and Greenacre are all generally around the western area near Cabramatta, so there's a definite cluster there.
The fact that Arncliffe got thrown in there as "Sydney's south-west" is either completely arbitrary or just plain laziness to look up a street directory. The only thing east of Arncliffe is the airport and Cook's River, which runs straight into the Pacific. Maybe all areas west of the Pacific are "south-west Sydney"? Who knows =__=
As a completely unrelated complaint about statistics, there's this dental ad on TV now which has a catch line "the toothbrush more dentists use" (or something like that...can't remember if it was toothbrush or the 8000 other tooth-related items allowing you to do more things to it than you can with your laundry). That line really bothers me. "More dentists use"? More dentists than what? Than hamsters?
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Date: 2006-03-27 11:32 am (UTC)Maybe as in, the majority of dentists, so more than half? Though that's a hazy extrapolation at best, the sentence is badly structured IMO.
Eh, I wouldn't think most dentists would really care about the brand of toothbrush... they might have personal preferences when it comes to the softness of the bristles, but I wouldn't think that any particular brand on the market might be better than another... it's a toothbrush not wine. :S
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Date: 2006-03-28 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-28 01:09 am (UTC)It's just that it's gotten even more annoyingly obvious that they're just randomly making up the statistics since they've moved on from the last one, which was the cliched "9 out of 10 dentist..." and "9 out of 10 cats..."