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Deoxy

There is a God.

The true cost of cheap chicken

It's about time that battery chicken farming is banned in this country!

How to piss people off?

Good little collection, including

Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."

Reply to everything someone says with "that's what you think."

Ask people what gender they are.

Stores to ban 'cruel' eggs

Jamie Oliver does it again it would seem.

"Working class" supermarkets have half-heartedly and begrudgingly agreed to stop selling eggs from battery hens.

"Eggs from battery hens have already been removed from Marks & Spencer and Waitrose." And some time ago.

This sort of business should help us answer Tesco's rhetorical question - "why pay more?".

Big up Asda though - they insist they are "working hard" to phase out eggs from caged hens.

It would be better, I think, if our government would take the lead on such issues, rather than wait for private businesses to be shamed into action by a celebrity chef.

Clarkson mugs himself up

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.

The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.

He wanted to prove the story was a fuss about nothing.

But Clarkson admitted he was "wrong" after discovered a reader had used the details to create a ??500 direct debit to the charity Diabetes UK.

Clarkson published details of his Barclays account in the Sun newspaper, including his account number and sort code. He even told people how to find out his address.

"All you'll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I've never known such a palaver about nothing," he told readers.

But he was proved wrong, as the 47-year-old wrote in his Sunday Times column.

"I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes ??500 from my account," he said.

"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.

Police were called in to search for the two discs, which contained the entire database of child benefit claimants and apparently got lost in the post in October 2007.

They were posted from HM Revenue and Customs offices in Tyne and Wear, but never turned up at their destination - the National Audit Office.

The loss, which led to an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, created fears of identity fraud.

Clarkson now says of the case: "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy."

Ripping CDs may become legal

"Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under new proposals from the UK government."

Fascinating. You'd have thought that once you'd bought something it was, well, kinda yours to do what you want with.

http://www.torrentz.com and http://www.utorrent.com/ is all you need. Then you won't be breaking the law. I think.

Amusing

Christians.... all of 'em ;-)

Apple to cut UK download prices

to the same price the rest of Europe pays.

how very decent of them

not now though. "Sometime in the next six months"

and only because they were under investigation by the EU

considering how brilliant they, and their users think they are, for reasons i cannot fathom, i struggle to understand how a company that has so little respect for its customers manages to establish such a loyal following.

i think they are a bunch of thieving opportunists

The Flapping of White Coats...

... almost literally.

"The Department of Health has funded the Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Healthcare to set up the Natural Healthcare Council to regulate 12 alternative therapies, such as aromatherapy, reflexology and homeopathy."

"How does a regulator decide what is good practice and what is charlatanry when none of it has peer-reviewed, scientific evidence that it works?"

And, succintly put

"They may not do much harm. Sniffing aromas never hurt anyone, nor did homeopathic medicines. What's more, these remedies help believers. The placebo effect is therapeutic, and big green sugar pills work better than small white ones. Double blind trials, where the homeopathic practitioner examined the patient and then prescribed remedies but had no idea which patients were given the real thing or a sugar pill, detected no difference."

Homeopathy

James Randi reckons that homeopathy is nonsense.

In fact, he's so confident, he will give $1million dollars to anyone who can provide convincing evidence of its effects.

Astonishingly it seems that the practitioners are not queuing up to claim their prize.

If he was offering $1million to prove that ibuprofen works I think there would be a few takers.

Trying to claim that homeopathy doesn't work in a way that can be measured doesn't wash; if it works, it cures illness and that can be measured. End of.

Ali G

Surely the greatest comedy sketch of all time (90% of Partridge aside of course). This interview with Rhodes Boyson is just brilliant, before Ali G went all rubbish and was just insulting in celebrity interviews.

Will there always be education, throughout the nation, stopping domination... [best comedy timing of all time] .. in the station.

Grand Designs

Is back on this week - Wednesday at 9:00 to be precise.

I'm not a big TV watcher but Grand Designs is a great series, mainly down to one man - Kevin McLoud. Genius.

Sponsor Stonesy

Old stonesy is doing his bit for charity. I urge you to sponsor him generously.

In this words... "remember I'm a fat bloke and it's quite a long way to swim". It's a good cause too.

Jesus Christ

I???m not an advocate of health and safety lunacy.

However, as I read this story my eyebrows rose ever higher into my considerable forehead.

To summarise, a school has erected some new gates that have resulted in two pupils having their fingers severed.

I quote the head teacher, ???In both cases, the pupils were trying to leave school when they were supposed to be on site and were wearing rings when the school has a "minimal jewellery policy," said Mr Waring.???

This sounds alarmingly like he thinks the crime justified the outcome, no?

I???d hate to think what would happen if a kid turned up at school sporting one of argos??? finest around his or her neck!

Atheist Slogans

50 of them. Bit of a mixed bag. This is a good'un though.

Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers

Ever Been Taken Up The Oxo Tower?

A few amusing reviews of the famous Oxo Tower restuarant. made me laugh anyway!

"One piece of advice: if you've never been there before, you might be a bit put off by the surroundings - sometimes you might find a few rather unattractive-looking hangers-on near the entrance but my advice is just keep your eyes firmly on the front door and before you know it, you'll be safe inside."

Creationist Museum

Genius.

A creationist museum hits hards times. Justice in my view. Maybe they should fucking pray a bit harder.

Anyway, in a bid to prevent closure they're trying to sell off some of their assets - including a mastodon skull worth $160,000 or so.

Forget knives and spoons Alanis, this is proper irony - they are claiming that it is 40,000 years old. As we all know, this is impossible as God created the world much as we see it today less than 10,000 years ago.

Supernatural

Despite people's apparent willingness to believe in the supernatural, this about sums up the situation.

George Lamb

Best radio DJ ever. On radio 6. Brilliant.

Paxman

Jeremy Paxman is a don.

He's complaining to M&S about the quality of their pants.

"Their pants no longer provide adequate support" unfortunately conjures up images of distended testicles - never pleasant.

But I was only thinking this morning how shit M&S socks are these days. They used to be expensive (in my view) but last ages - not any more. They're cheap and rubbish. Where to turn?

I can't pull on a pair of slightly aged socks without the fear of making a hole in them.

Spurs crush Arsenal

A wealth of lovely headlines, great pics and quality match reports this morning.

From the Inde:

"The wait is most emphatically over: after eight years, 76 days and a whole heap of pain Tottenham have beaten Arsenal at last. And they did not just beat them but turned their rivals into a squabbling, humiliated mess who left the pitch arguing among themselves while Juande Ramos' team celebrated a place in the Carling Cup final."

From the Sun:

"Wenger said the score did not reflect the match. He???s right there. Tottenham could have had seven. "

I could go on but I really must do some work now

Are Arsenal the worst losers in sport?

"Fans have grown used to Wenger whimpering in defeat like a spoiled child who???s had his lollipop snatched, but after last night???s 5-1 thrashing by Tottenham Hotspur in the Carling Cup he hit a new nadir for incredible childish excuses. "

Life on mars

Proof no less.

According to the daily express.

A fuzzy vaguely human shaped picture photoshopped over an image of some orange sand may be proof that there is life on mars despite the fact that there is no water or food and a hideously inhospitable climate.

Honestly.

Scientology bashing

Some hackers have decided to try to take down scientology related websites.

Permanently.

Good on them I say!

Aspartame

Bad for rats, no doubt. But seemingly fine for humans.

According to the National Cancer Institute in the States anyway.

"A study of about half a million people, published in 2006, compared people who drank aspartame-containing beverages with those who did not. Results of the study showed that increasing levels of consumption were not associated with any risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain cancers in men or women."

Guilt-free diet cokes from now on!

Drunk Scots

Not a good look

Weird

While setting at your desk... check it.

Hip Hop tracks from Excel Graphs

Quality.

Guess the track titles