Bob Marley’s Doughnuts

New Weebl and Bob – surreal, but fun.

Sherlock, Shit, No.

According to the Guardian today, scientists in the US have “discovered” a link between sugary drinks and obesity and diabetes. Surely this really isn’t rocket science?

A single can may contain 40 to 50g of sugar. Somebody who drinks one can a day could put on 15lb over a year, [Caroline Apovian (a US nutrition expert)] writes. She advises doctors in the US to tell their overweight patients to cut down.

© Guardian Newspapers 2004

It’s an interesting article, but at the end of the day it really doesn’t reveal anything that anyone with half a braincell didn’t know already – sugary drinks = lots of calories. A simple equation that seems to have bypassed a whole bunch of people.

Soggy

Last night, it took me two hours to get home – it normally takes about 45 minutes. The roads were solid with traffic, and the entire thing was a nightmare. It turns out that it’s because two sections of the M60 around Manchester were flooded and so all traffic was diverted off the motorway.

The M60 has been a nightmare for this since it’s completion a couple of years back. For a city as legendarily rainy as Manchester, you’d think that the Highways Agency would have installed decent drainage on it, wouldn’t you? Apparently not – the entire section around South and East Manchester has permanent signs now about “Road liable to flooding”. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d have thought that the road you’d least like to see flooded and with standing water all over it would be a motorway. *Sigh*

Stupidity knows no bounds

Sometimes you really have to wonder about some people. Not content with reading a porn mag while on a plane (there’s a mental image there that I really don’t want in my head), this knobber found a photo he didn’t like, and decided to burn it. While still on the plane.

Not just stupid and dangerous, but a bigoted prick too – the photo he objected to was inter-racial. I’m amazed that the pointy white hood with eyeholes (assuming he was smart enough to remember to make them) didn’t alert the flight-staff to this man’s issues.

“My view is that a prison sentence is not appropriate but a degree of supervision is required.

“These offences are regarded as very serious and many judges would send him to prison – I want the public safety ensured.”

Judge Richard Hayward

So many judges would jail the twat, but of course this one won’t? Wanker. Words fail.

EDITED : OK, as Dragon pointed out (and yes, I’d missed this point) the man also suffers from a degree of schizophrenia, and yes, that does provide enough extra circumstances that jail isn’t appropriate. As the judge also says, “I am concerned about his lack of understanding about the danger he posed.” Mea Culpa, I should’ve read the article more closely.

Official Complaint

Regular readers will know that I have occasionally cast aspertions about work’s Head of PR, and his suitability for any the job. This is primarily because the man’s a shit-for-brains mental dwarf – an attitude held not just by myself but by many others within the council. However, due to being a) a contractor, and b) not overly well-versed in the black arts of subtlety, it’s been observed that in emails and communication with him, the words “You utter fuckhead” have been silently (but noticeably) added to a lot of sentences and explanations.

It turns out that The Arsehole has now complained about my attitude to the IT Director, along with the added complaint that he believes it is because he is From An Ethnic Minority (Capitalisation, Complainant’s Own).

I’ve been called into the IT Director’s office today to talk about this, and the Head of PR was there too. Oh joy, oh happiness.

  “[The Arsehole] has alleged that you have a derogatory and unpleasant attitude towards him, and has also alleged it’s because of his Ethnic Background” (I’m paraphrasing ten minutes of conversation there)
  “I had no idea of his skin colour. My attitude towards [The Arsehole] is based entirely on the fact he’s an incompetent twat. I’d never seen him until today.”
  “Oh.“

Meeting Ends. No action will be taken.

Bollocks

Bloody Blogger. I swear that on occasion it’s the most tempramental piece of crap known to man. I’ve just managed to multi-post the same thing five times – purely because each time I clicked “Publish” Blogger did precisely fuck-all, so like a ‘nad I assumed it hadn’t done anything. (A feasible logical process) But no, it’d published, it just hadn’t loaded up the “publishing” screen.

Note to Self : Sort out WordPress. Pronto.

Manky

Scaryduck wants to know – what’s the mankiest thing you’ve ever done in a workplace?

I suspect there’ll be a lot of bodily functions in the comments…