The House in Xiamen is killing the environment
A: “I read a story that we saw briefly on the news about why those patio heaters are bad.”
N: “… they’re bad for the environment, right?!”
A: “Yeah, so it seems.”
N: “Y’know, if a teevee journalist stopped me on the street and asked if I thought patio heaters were releasing too much carbon, I would say Not really, this is worse — *parp*!”
(Not verbatim — it happened yesterday. Cannae remember it word for word.)
(The House uses a lot of patio heaters.)
Jane Austen, not very successful author
If Jane Austen was alive today, she might not be able to find a publisher. Well, that inspires a lot of hope amongst writers, I’m sure.
Heh.
Toxic chemicals in food — good / bad idea (not sarcastic or rhetorical)
Probably my favourite quote for today: “The Beijing News said on Friday the latest steps included seeking feedback from citizens about a new regulation banning toxic nitrates in restaurants, and fining food makers up to 500,000 yuan ($66,000) for problematic products.”
Because, you know, citizens may not want to ban toxic chemicals in their restaurant food.
GM protestors f*%^ up big time, blame someone else
Hey, I’m not too keen on GM food either (I’m of the school of thought that if you fuck with Nature too much, Nature’s gonna bite back), but this is too funny:
The operation to sabotage the government’s GM potato trial was planned with care and under conditions of great secrecy. Two hundred and fifty protesters swooped on the 16-hectare site outside Hull, armed with shovels and filled with indignation.
They had the wrong field. They sabotaged a non-GM bean crop instead.
In a statement Mutatoes.org said: “With the information that we had and the short timescale available to us … we sincerely believed this to be the correct field. The public were not given sufficient information by the government, who supplied only a four-figure grid reference for the location of the trial.”
Hm. Government plans GM trial. GM protestors target GM trial. And they BLAME the government for not supplying complete information on its location?
Funny that.
The title makes it worth it
A real classic on indexed: If angle A is unknown, consider eating fewer cookies.
You know you’re in Glasgow when…
… an acceptable office motivational technique involves liberal use of the phrase, “I’ll cut you.”