As cold as the coldest thing you can think of at the Castle
this morn, the deep, crisp and even has turned into a bumpy ice skating rink
and I have to go dahn to Tesco for some stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food.
The Gallic flu has flared up and I have this urge to install
a bidet...
Despite the imminent ice-age, people dropping dead form lack
of heat, austerity and patients popping orf in ’orspital the “Top story” on the
Beeb news is that some
Italian bloke who earns £6 million a year has resigned from his job as
manager of something called The English football team over another bloke that
allegedly made racial remarks about yet another overpaid diva.
So?
Plans to get people to adopt healthier lifestyles will not
work unless the government is more prepared to use legislation, peers believe.
The House of Lords science and technology committee
said ministers seemed to be mistaken in their use of what is known as the nudge
theory.
Nudging people is about getting them to change
their behaviour without necessarily banning activities.
But the group said that did not mean legislation
should not be used at all.
Committee chairman Baroness Neuberger said:
"There are all manner of things that the government want us to do - lose
weight, give up smoking, use the car less, give blood - but how can they get us
to do them?
"It won't be easy and this inquiry has shown
that it certainly won't be achieved through using nudges, or any other sort of
intervention, in isolation."
Methinks big brother is about to stamp his feet...
Morning is the best time to consume sweets because that's when the body's metabolism is most active - and we have the rest of the day to work off the calories, a new study shows.
Eating cookies or chocolate as part of breakfast that includes proteins and carbs also helps stem the craving for sweets later.
Amen to that...
Allegedly one of the spiritual leaders of Egypt issued a fatwa
(law, regulations) which banned Muslims from driving Chevrolet vehicles.
According to the new law, Muslims must not drive Chevrolet cars because the
logo of the company is a Christian cross.
There are several theories about the origin of the Chevrolet
"cross." One of them says that the designer of the logo was inspired
with the pattern on the wallpaper of one of Paris hotels. Another one says that
the author of the logo borrowed the idea from an American coal company. Some
people say that the designer tried to make a logo that would look like a
bow-tie.
Wouldn’t drive a Chevy anyway...
A cameraman has shot footage of what appears to be a giant
serpentine creature weaving its way through the icy waters of Lake Lagarfljót
in east Iceland.
While there have been several sightings of the
Lagarfljótsormurinn or “Icelandic worm monster” in modern times, sceptics have suggested
this latest iteration is probably just fishing net caught in the tide.
Legend has it that the Lagarfljótsormurinn started life as a
tiny worm placed under a gold ring.
As a fully grown monster, it roamed the countryside,
spitting poison and terrorising the local villagers.
While it was eventually thrown into the lake, it was never
destroyed, and continues to bring bad luck to everyone it encounters. Sounds a lot like the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition...
British climbers Tom Randall, 32, and Pete Whittaker, 20, put themselves through two years training in a cellar to become the first to complete one of the toughest rock climbing challenges in the world.
The duo travelled to the Canyonlands National Park in Utah to take on a geological feature known as Century Crack – a 49m (160ft)-long gap between two huge rock formations to hang upside down.
The pair had already completed an arduous training programme using a replica of Century Crack built in Tom’s basement.
They completed 5,300m (17,500ft) of horizontal, upside-down climbing, 42,300 pull-ups and bicep curls, and almost 16 hours of static abdominal holds during their six-days-a-week regime.
Sounds a bit batty to me....
And finally:
A village postman has resorted to arming himself with stick
to deter an aggressive pheasant who lives at the bottom of a resident's garden.
Villagers in Wootton, Staffordshire, are being terrorised by
the bird, which regularly attempts to peck anyone who comes near.
Locals have now discovered the only way of pacifying the bird
is to feed him raisins soaked in rum.
Not a pheasant plucker, but a.....
That’s it: I’m orf to wait
for America and Eurasia to join up (I may be some time).
And today’s thought:
Angus
