I work with children a lot and some of them think milk comes from a tiger or a chicken.
Via BBC News - The rise of lazy foods.
I pity our next generation, I really do.
On the subject of buying pre-sliced, pre-peeled foods, I can sympathise with those that do, even though I don’t personally. It is a pain in the ass to peel potatoes every goddamn time, and so is doing all the slicing and dicing, sometimes.
The only veggies I can think of that I buy pre-sliced or ready to cook are packets of stir-fry veg. Hey, you try finding bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and the like separately!
I quite enjoy making a meal from scratch, because there’s something quite satisfying about feeding yourself. It’s like being an adult, or something. Having said that, I do retreat to a few staple meals rather than stretching myself. I really need to vary my range.
The Daily Star is well-known for putting eye-catching, celeb-obsessed headlines on its front page. More often than not they neither resemble the story that follows or, more importantly, the truth.
Tabloid Watch tears apart the last week’s worth of Daily Star front pages, which are, shall we say running fast and loose with the definition of “news”.
About the same time that the first figure was placed atop a four-story building at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, the Police Department issued a statement reassuring New Yorkers that the figures are not despondent people on the verge of leaping to their deaths.
The NY Times on Antony Gormley’s new outdoors exhibition and the police reaction to the lifelike figures being placed atop buildings.
The installation should be complete by 26th March, but there’s already a couple in place near Madison Square. One in particular should be easy to spot, right in front of the Flatiron Building. A small gallery is up at the Guardian.
Oh fuck, is it Mother’s Day THIS week?!
Somebody on the other side of the office.
It was at that moment that I learned to respect mustard
Me, telling
Vicky my mustard story. It really isn’t that thrilling, to be honest.
‘Backlash over BBC coverage of Tiger’s apology,’ said the Daily Mail, reporting that the corporation faced ‘fresh accusations of dumbing down’ after it led with the golfer’s apology as the top story on the same day that 1,600 workers lost their jobs as the north-east’s last steel plant shut down. But which paper put Woods on its front page – ‘Tiger’s mother forgives him, but where is Elin?’ – and relegated the steel factory story to page 10? Step forward … the Daily Mail.
Media Monkey’s Diary.
Ah, there’s nothing quite like a bit of hypocrisy to start the week. Classic Daily Fail.
Retired airman Stan Still, 76, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said his name had been “a blooming millstone around my neck my entire life. When I was in the RAF my commanding officer used to shout, ‘Stan Still, get a move on’ and roll about laughing. It got hugely boring after a while.
BBC News | ‘Most unfortunate names’ revealed
I really want to have a child just so that I can inflict a comical name on them. My surname isn’t particularly conducive to wordplay, but the girlfriend has a beauty of a surname that could be very funny with the right forename.
I don’t want to be rude but, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk and the question I want to ask is: ‘Who are you? I’d never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.’
Ukip MEP Nigel Farage criticises EU President Herman van Rompuy after his first speech to the EU Parliament.
OK, we know Nigel Farage is an utter twat of a politician, and that his party is wrong on so many points concerning Europe (but is happy to jump on the gravy train and absolutely milk the expenses for personal gain), but it amuses me when sentences start with “I don’t want to be rude, but…”, no matter who says it.
Invariably, something rude follows shortly thereafter, and it’s as if the speaker thinks his first words allow him to say whatever the fuck he wants, no matter how rude.
See also: “With all due respect…”
EDIT: Great comment on the Guardian story, from problemchimp:
who the f**ck is Nigel Farage, We’ve never heard of “him” in Europe. sounds like a small man in a small party looking for attention to please his handful of supporters. so UKIP are in tune with the British people with about 0.5% support? move on!
Just looking at pics of you without a beard in Egypt… you look so strange!
The girlfriend, commenting on how long I’ve had a beard for. We went to Egypt in June last year, and I think it was shortly after that trip that I started growing the beard, which has been in permanent residence ever since.
I’m getting bored of it though, so it might not last until March… Time for something different.
VIKKI, 21, from Essex. Vikki was astonished at Harriet Harman’s attempt to ban the word chairman for being sexist. She said: “The manual Riddick’s Rules of Procedure claims an etymology of chairman as derived from the Latin ‘manus’ which gives it gender-neutrality. Many scholars may consider this a false etymology, but you can’t argue with hundreds of years of commonly understood usage. Ms Harperson is having a laugh.
Man, News In Briefs gets better and better…
DANNI, 23, from Coventry
DANNI was thrilled to discover that Prince Charles had read her views on modern buildings. She said: “Architecture’s place in the metropolitan sprawl is a fascinating topic. I’m a deconstructivist at heart and Frank Gehry’s design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a triumph. There’s something about curves we all love.”
