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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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pointless & uncalled for

11:07 / 18.10.06

There are three quite good independant sandwich shops in Strutton Ground and then there is a Gregs. Guess which one has a queue out of the door?

grant

23:34 / 18.10.06

From the John Byrne forum:
The rules that apply to JB and creators of comics don't apply to just us fans,
Roger. When you write or draw Batman, THEN you will be allowed to call him
Bats.

I... I.....

Liger Null

23:42 / 18.10.06

I did enjoy this bit:

"He's from a race of matter-eating people, don't judge him!"

"What a coincidence. I'm from a race of matter-eating people too!"

Disco is My Class War

11:11 / 23.10.06

Time to find a new job. Time to 'juice up' that resume. Time to repackage myself as passionate worker exactly right for this Great Temp Opportunity Receptionist/Customer Service Representative. Time to wheel out the old phone voice and if the worst comes to the worst, go back to the market research company I quit and beg for my old job back.

I shouldn't be complaining, mind. I've spent the whole year working as a casual research assistant for my advisor, getting paid $25.00 an hour to do photocopying. I've nearly forgotten what a real job is like. And it's that much more depressing.

grant

13:18 / 23.10.06

U.S. bans Vegemite.

I have no idea what this implicates for Marmite, but it can't be good.

StarWhisper

13:21 / 23.10.06

What is actually wrong with folate and what on earth is it?

Whisky Priestess

13:26 / 23.10.06

There are three quite good independant sandwich shops in Strutton Ground and then there is a Gregs. Guess which one has a queue out of the door?

Is it the cheapest one, because underpaid civil servants and breadline temps can't afford posh sandwiches?

pointless & uncalled for

13:35 / 23.10.06

The price difference is practically non-existant. Pain du Jour and Stiles are arguably better value for money and Simply Sandwiches tops out at £2.50 for a large, well-filled bap, their most expensive creation.

Greggs on the other hand tends to be a little measly with its servings. They also match lack of size with lack of quality in comparison.

As for the underpaid Civil Servants. All too many of them get sucked into Pret and Eat who, whilst of fairly good quality, are far more expensive.

■

17:08 / 23.10.06

Folate is folic acid. There seems to be nothing wrong with it in itself and indeed it's generally considered a very good thing, particularly for pregnant women. Wikipedia says that there is a concern, though that it might mask the symptoms of B12 deficiency, which is very serious.
A quick examination of an old jar lurking behind the much nicer Marmite says that a 4g serving of Vegemite has 80 microgrammes of folic acid (Marmite has 100 microgrammes). Ahhh, Marmite has B12 as well, which Vegemite doesn't. Still, it's not exactly an additive, it's part of the food, so it shouldn't come under the fortification rule, should it?

COG

17:16 / 23.10.06

I recently worked on a Nutrition conference and sat through a presentation on adding Folic acid to food (usually bread) in order to dose the general population. The plus side was the pregnant women part, but there was an upper recommended limit, and a type of nerve birth defect could be caused, IIRC.

It was a very interesting discussion on what was an acceptable level and which was the best delivery mechanism. Bread from big chain bakeries seemed to be the answer, as long as some bread was Folic free to enable a consumer choice.

Makes you wonder what else we're being dosed with for our own good. Not saying it's bad, it just makes me wonder.

Spaniel

19:48 / 23.10.06

I'm not sure we need to get all conspiracy theorytastic about this. IIRC, bread has been used as a way of delivering nutrients to the community since WWII. It's a matter of public record, all done in the open and entirely above board, and I don't think any other products are treated in this way.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:49 / 23.10.06

Except toothpaste.

■

20:21 / 23.10.06

And water. Full of supertoxins, apparently.
The point is that folic acid in Vegemite and Marmite isn't an additive, it's what they are made of.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:25 / 23.10.06

Lest we forget, bread, tap water, all dairy, all meat, and all chocolate ("candy" for you Americans) are poison. Poultry is poison. Fish is poisson.

Mourne Kransky

20:29 / 23.10.06

And bread makes you homosexual. You start lusting after firm, tasty buns.

■

20:40 / 23.10.06

Oh, just forgotten something that raised my feckles a week or two ago, apparently "Sugar is a toxin". I would link to the article but it's behind a registration wall.

Spaniel

20:49 / 23.10.06

How could I forget the fluoride thing. Silly me.

Bed Head

12:33 / 24.10.06

The whole ‘Sam luvs Ruth’ storyline in The Archers is downright unsettling to listen to. It doesn’t sound romantic, or even crazy-passionate, or anything remotely nice, it just sounds creepy and weird. I don’t want creepiness and weirdness from The Archers, and I don’t want to hear Sam’s heavy breathing and Ruth’s whimpering as they meet in a cowshed. I want stories about a village where the very worst thing that can happen is your herd getting a mystery disease which is then cured by the vet who happens to be your brother in law, and where a mixed-up crack addict can be totally sorted out just by being given a job by the local posh chap and by the vicar doing a charity abseil down the church spire or something. None of this weird stuff.

12:55 / 24.10.06

Hear hear, Bedhead. Who is this so-called 'Sam', anyway? I only listen to the Archers once a month or so, and I expect to be able to recognise all the characters! Otherwise they lack any emotional resonance. Suddenly this husky chap is moping around the milking barns and I know nothing about his pedigree.

Although I did like the way that radio makes silent sex scenes ambiguous, so after a long bout of groaning, Ruth had to say: 'Stolen kisses in the cow shed?! What am I doing!'

Bed Head

13:24 / 24.10.06

Heh. Actually, I rather liked the "stolen kisses" line, too! It was really only Sam growling something like "tell me this doesn’t feel good," the *way* he read it, that sent my own ewww-ometer soaring past 100. It almost sounded like the sex scenes in Jam at that point.

And Sam’s been in it for a while now, but skulking around in the background is sort of what he does. As a resident cow expert on Brookfield, I think he’s mainly been used to occasionally shoehorn in an interesting fact or two about government policy and how it affects cows. Oh, and I think he goes snowboarding, or something. As manly-man hunks go, he's nowhere near as hunky as the vicar.

Char Aina

10:39 / 25.10.06

i won't be getting my sampler for another week at the very least. paypal won't confirm my address(and therefore offer seller protection) without a card being registered there, and the dude doesnt trust me.
i've had stuff sent to the adress in question before, including off ebay.
it's not my house, but it's where i get ebverything sent, due to the posty round this bit being proper shit.

i don't know how to gain hir trust, and i wont be able to pay any other way anytime soon.

this is irksome, as i want to play with it NOW, not later.
i get hir trepidation, but i really wish it wasnt there.
i also wish that paypal would recognise my address as being kosher, and i dont get why it wont.

Char Aina

16:13 / 25.10.06

see update

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

16:36 / 25.10.06

I am stuck at work, knowing that Seven Soldiers #1 is out, and DYING to click on the thread in the Comics forum.

By the time I get out of work today and can get my Fiance's car my comic book store will be closed.

Cruel, cruel fate will make me wait at least until Friday to read it.

■

20:06 / 25.10.06

Snopes says the Vegemite story is false Hurrah! Sounds like Kraft trying to drum up sales in the same way Heinz did with Salad Cream a few years back. Naughty.

■

21:33 / 25.10.06

Tchoh! Why is CSS so damn hard? I know it works, so I'm not blaming the tools, but scrappy HTML was always so easy. Razzafrazzin standards compliance means I can't just stick a heading next to a picture, apparently. Have been trying for three days to just do that. Can I get it to work? Nope.

All Acting Regiment

07:13 / 26.10.06

Are you tired of being stressed?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:10 / 30.10.06

I appear to have become addicted to watching Dog Borstal. This can't be right.

Lama glama

19:19 / 30.10.06

There's something oddly compelling about it, isn't there? It's an excellent source of schadenfreude, watching those fools and their troublesome dogs. I laugh, my heavenly, doe-eyed 15 year old pup (he's still a pup in my eyes) sitting quietly upon my lap, as these human failures destroy their pets and know that my dog would never do something as horrific as humping the neighbour's turkey.

I invariably switch over before they resolve the dogs' issues, as an hour is possibly too long for a show about dysfunctional dogs.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

01:03 / 31.10.06

Don't worry, Stoatie. Dog Borstal loops around - along with everything else on digital TV - so quickly that before you know it, you're seeing the same problem dogs over and over again, and by this point there's no drama left in seeing the harsh man force the owner to do another ten pressups when the dog realises there is a get back at the humans via low-rent DIs, or the nicer trainers make the owners look foolishly over-worried by their straightforward transformations of difficult canines into healthy, well-balanced individuals.

Come to think of it, that happens within one episode anyway, doesn't it? That bloody door clang and bolt-slam: how many times a programme can they run the clip again?

Quantum

01:09 / 31.10.06

When will they have Gran Borstal?

"Well dear, there are a lot of coloureds in your neighbourhood"

CLANG! *ten pressups for grandson*

"Well it's just not natural is it?"

BAD GRAN! NO BISCUIT!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:35 / 31.10.06

I had to fight the urge to shout "DOG IN!!!" when I got home from walking Sheena last night. This is getting out of hand.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:40 / 31.10.06

Well quite, it might give your neighbours the wrong impression of your nocturnal activities.

matthew.

23:07 / 31.10.06

Attention single adults above the age of consent and under the age of 30: The [U.S.] federal government does not think you should be getting any carnal lovin' and is about to drop a major chunk of change on programs that are aimed at keeping your jeans zipped and your chastity belts securely buckled.

Good lord. What will they think of next? Wait, don't answer that.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:18 / 01.11.06

The Today programme this morning. Yes, it was very nice to wake up and hear them talking about comics. It was very nice to hear an interview with Brian Vaughan about Pride of Baghdad.

It wasn't so nice when, after the interview finished, the presenter (not sure which one- female, though, so certainly not Humphrys) said "but of course, at the end..." AND THEN SPOILED THE FUCKING ENDING FOR ME!!!

Seems Radio 4 has finally got to a point where it realises adults may actually read comics. Not yet, however, to a point when it realises that some of the adults who ARE ACTUALLY LISTENING do.

Princess

20:36 / 05.11.06

Dear "Friends",
I feel it is my duty to tell you, that in most forms of etiquette, it is considered rude to cancel at the last minute. This is doubled when the person you have cancelled on has spent he day writing a ritual *specifically* for you and at least an hour making incense with honeys and other annoying ingredients. It is especially rude to cancel because you "changed your mind" or "there was something better on".

But in particular, I feel the etiquette police might come down heavily on you because you told me by text AN HOUR AND A FUCKING HALF AFTER YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO ARRIVE.

Yours Sincerely,
Your friend
Princess Swashbuckling/

PS. Suck my balls you vapid parasites.

PPS. AND STOP CALLING ME A FUCKING WICCAN.

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