My mind is once again painfully churning with the ethics of food, mostly because of that bloke Jonathan Safran Foer who is holding forth in the Guardian all week - today he confidently asserts that all fish feel pain and any fish on your plate has suffered. A lot ( Read more... )

Hi guys, anybody know what a "related statistics file" is regarding a document produced on a PC? The suggestion seems to be that it is a sort of back up allowing you to see when and where the document was produced?

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I was in John Lewis with my Mum on Sunday looking at storage jars. I wanted jars that would hold just over a kilo of flour. The jars were labelled not in pounds or in kilos but in litres - why o why ? Anyway, I asked an assistant for help re converting litres into kilos - he looked very confused and went to fetch a colleague. Colleague announced ( Read more... )

Sainsbury's are selling own brand curry sauce for 10p a jar. As far as I can tell from the label it has nothing noxious in it (whey, though, so sorry vegans)and it tastes ike chip shop curry sauce.

some of you may find this news useful, I hope. I hasten to add that is in nio sense high end, not even high end chip shop :)

....and then no doubt trained in treating it by telling patients to lose weight.

I was rushed to hospital with suspected meningitis on Monday. I am now home, very weak, unwell and in pain but with strong painkillers ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I was a garden gnome.

What's the difference between a City trader and a pigeon?

A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Ferrari :)

Just went for a job interview. Job was at the lowest end of pay I can afford to work for, but was the type of organisation I really like working for, and was advertised as full time ( Read more... )

Racism sucks. I dont mean to be frivolous or snide but atm that is all I have to say.