I heard the news today, oh boy..

[SeanMacGabhann]

a jar of mushroom soup in the overhead locker?? Which must have been less than 100ml presumably? Which is SFA amount of soup....

[Huguenot]

I hadn't considered that, gets more mysterious doesn't it?

I can't find any soups in 100ml containers online. I found some condensed shite, but that was in tins, and I can't see them breaking up in turbulence.

Was this powdered soup?

Nope. Curioser and curioser.

[Huguenot]

And another one... panties panties panties

Oh, and in a moment's mild attack of enquiry, I've written to the airline for a clearer explanation of the soup issue.

[SeanMacGabhann]

according to A.N.Other forum, it was frozen mushrooms which melted. No idea how based on actuality any of this is mind you...

[Brendan]

It?s not very often I read anything by a music journalist and agree with it. But this I do: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/will_byers_school_of_rock.html

[david_carnell]

I concur until his last line about "no good bands without a bass player".

As one of the first commentators points out this includes the White Stripes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Two quality bands. IMO of course.

[Brendan]

Yeah you see that last line is where he goes from making a valid point to being an opinionated, look how cool I am (but never really was or has any hope of being), know it all (never actually got it in the first place) music journo.

[Moos]

Fattest and Thinnest Places in the UK

Big (forgive me) news from Sky where someone has identified 'obesity hotspots', none of which are a great (sorry again) surprise.

For those of reluctant to click, here are the highlights - comments are mine:-

Top 20 Fattest

1. Shetland

2. Torfaen

3. Blaenau Gwent

4. Neath

5. Caerphilly

6. Rhondda

7. Barnsley

8. Wrexham

9. North Lincolnshire

10. Merthyr Tydfil

11. Denbighshire

12. Doncaster

13. Carmarthenshire

14. Stoke-On-Trent

15. Wolverhampton City

16. Anglesey

17. Blackpool

18. Knowsley

19. Newport

20. Northumberland Care Trust

Top 10 Thinnest

1. Camden (smack keeps you slender)

2. Richmond & Twickenham (cash ditto)

3. Wandsworth

4. Kensington & Chelsea (see R&T)

5. Westminster (see K&C)

6. Hammersmith & Fulham

7. Brighton & Hove

8. Surrey

9. Kingston

10. Tower Hamlets

11. Lambeth

12. Bristol

13. Bath & North East Somerset

14. Lothian

15. Buckinghamshire

16. Barnet

17. Islington

18. West Hertfordshire

19. Bromley

20. West Sussex

A very clear correlation between poverty and obesity - no surprise there - but not a universal one: Tower Hamlets, anyone? Lambeth?

[Brendan]

There are like 3 people who live on Shetland. 1 of them happens to be fat and it kinda blows their chances.

[david_carnell]

I'd have said that Daffs and Northern monkeys are fatsos. :)

Still, they might be fat, but at least they're happy.

Brendan, have you been reading that BBC article on the use of statistics again?!

[Brendan]

Me and the entire 3 footed population of the uk.

[Brendan]

I knew it. You're all fing nuts!

[georgia]

Self-Service Check-In

[annaj]

Oh georgia, that brought tears to my eyes.

I feel so sorry for her!

[citizenED]

The Good Old Days?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

As it happens, I finished reading the "Midwife" book just a few days ago. And while it does contain distressing scenes that one wouldn't find today, it also laments the decline in morality and community which the journalist conveniently sidesteps.

[citizenED]

But then, to be fair, she is a jounalist looking for an angle on her opinion, so she picks evidence that supports it. She's not a social historian looking for the full picture. Her drift is to counter those harking back to the good old days.

[citizenED]

"I do" 86 times!

[Brendan]

It is so comforting to know that after 15 000 years someone is here to waste our money explaining to us what the effects and uses of alcohol are.

They could have just asked these guys.

Whose greatest contribution must be this ?

'Everybody Else': Enjoys a drink and is fully aware of all the possible consequences. Reckons as long as the NHS is funded by their tax money, they'll do whatever they want and Dawn Primarolo can shut her fucking face.

[mockney piers]

I wonder how much people were paid to come up with a list of the bleedin pointless.

I noticed 'alcoholic' was missing from that list.

[Brendan]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/grammar-pedants-fewer-interesting-200809031225/

;-)

[mockney piers]

That's a bit harsh their young man!

Should that of been I wonder how many people were paid then? ;-)

[Brendan]

Your write. Its just a joke.

[SeanMacGabhann]

That was just beautifully constructed. Love it

[Brendan]

I don?t mean to alarm anyone but everything is now fucked.

Completely and utterly fucked.

The scheming sociopaths who have been running Britain are doing their best to fuck it up even more so that its people are spread eagled, trousers down ready for the neo fascist who are soon to take power and oversee our brave new age of strangling corporate monopoly and curtailed, monitored personal freedom.

America is fucked.

Pakistan has exploded

So has Israel.

South Africa has taken one more major step towards becoming just another defunct, farcical African dictatorship.

We could have all been redeemed by a great big underground tunnel that may have created a black hole and sucked the entire bang shoot into non-existence. Unfortunately it?s broken.

And that?s all just from glancing at a few headlines.