A Picture Paints..

..a thousand words. But can be interpreted in different ways.

Photo from Third Estate. It didn't look very peaceful to me! But Third Estate seems to think that is a good thing.....

This picture shows a number of things, the least important of which is that I’m getting a bit old for this sort of thing. It shows students from Essex University, of a range of ages and from diverse backgrounds, united in their rage [my emphasis] at what is happening in Afghanistan.

I do not like war, but I'm not going to get angry and go to war over it!

Beat This!

Mrs Weggis throws down the Gauntlet to her daughter-in-law.

R U A Nerd?

I picked up this Nerd Venn Diagram [below] from a blog entitled Vagina Dentata, written by a woman who claims to be a feminist with a sense of humour. That’s the sort I like, but I must admit that I have not encountered that many of them. Maybe it’s the circles I move in? I must get out more and investigate. Anyway, I found the diagram highly enlightening. Most of those terms seem to be used interchangeably in everyday language but now I am equipped I can label all of my friends and those who are not with the correct stereotype.

That blog is also about science. The slide show on that same post highlights the "actual" overlapping normal distribution graphs between the sexes. Something I think I have alluded to in earlier posts here but I can’t be bothered to go and find it. Do have a look at that slide show – it’s good stuff.

Movember

Miss Weggis, who works in the National Health Service, has persuaded her elder brother, Master Weggis, to grow a sponsored moustache in aid of Men’s health and specifically prostate cancer. The first shoots of stubble will appear on Movember 1st and blossom into a fully thatched upper lip at the end of the month.

Master Weggis has taken the idea to his workplace and all the boys are now signed up. But there’s a problem. The ladies feel a bit left out, so they have decided to do something in Fanuary!!! Quite what is unclear but I’m not sure I really want to know.

Liquid Measures

Earlier this week I was in the Gunmakers [what a surprise] with my friends from Afasic when Sue [bloody ManU supporter] was telling us about new government regulations to allow pubs to serve beer in two-thirds of a pint glasses. Wimps! This got me thinking. What business is it of government to tell suppliers or consumers what quantities they can sell or buy a product in? They don’t stipulate that you can only buy bananas in fives, and you can ask your butcher for 13 ounces of mince if you want. I can even buy one inch and a half 8 at my local hardware shop if I want to, not that I would. Anyway much more important things afoot.

Have you noticed how the modern plastic 2 pint milk bottles take up just about the same amount of room in the fridge as the old fashioned 1 pint glass bottles? It’s because they are square in shape and the fabric of the container is thinner.

Now, this is the important bit. If the breweries started selling beer in those 2 pint plastic bottles instead of cans and glass bottles I could double the capacity of my beer fridge in the garage. It would also reduce by 50% the number of times I have to drive to the supermarket to stock up and the number of times I have to turn the garage light on to get a drink. It’s got to be good for the planet, isn’t it?