Obesity objection...

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"The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan" said Yvonne Taylor of PETA. Apparently their brand-new billboard (image left) was revealed in Gloucester today to coincide with the official opening of a new mortuary to accommodate the bodies of people who weigh up to 50 stone...don't they all or are there specific fatty facilities? The Beeb report that Gloucestershire County Council said its mortuary was one of many in the country that could take bodies of this size.



P.S. Do vegans not eat pastry? (Update 10 minutes later: Mighty O leads me to guess they do!)



 

Obesity objection...

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"The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan" said Yvonne Taylor of PETA. Apparently their brand-new billboard (image left) was revealed in Gloucester today to coincide with the official opening of a new mortuary to accommodate the bodies of people who weigh up to 50 stone...don't they all or are there specific fatty facilities? The Beeb report that Gloucestershire County Council said its mortuary was one of many in the country that could take bodies of this size.

P.S. Do vegans not eat pastry? (Update 10 minutes later: Mighty O leads me to guess they do!)

 

Obsessive Olympic oligopoly...

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A lot of hoohah about the 2012 Olympics, with Lord Coe pleading various things but all pretty stupid: asked 'how many of the seven million Games tickets already sold fall below the £50 price point he said he would 'not answer until the remaining four million tickets were sold'! So, two things: apparently all the available tickets were sold out ages ago (weren't they?) and also what happens if a batch of tickets isn't sold - some of the 1.5 million Paralympic tickets for instance. Another thing that peeves me is that only 10% of the chicken supplied will come from British farms.



Anecdote: great pie shop in Weymouth opening soon, chatting to the guy selling in the kiosk (in front of where the Handmade Pie and Ale House will be) said they were banned from having a "2012" pie i.e. no 2012, no "Olympic" no nothing to do with the games. Crazy. I know Paul has mentioned this craziness on more than one occasion.

Obsessive Olympic oligopoly...

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A lot of hoohah about the 2012 Olympics, with Lord Coe pleading various things but all pretty stupid: asked 'how many of the seven million Games tickets already sold fall below the £50 price point he said he would 'not answer until the remaining four million tickets were sold'! So, two things: apparently all the available tickets were sold out ages ago (weren't they?) and also what happens if a batch of tickets isn't sold - some of the 1.5 million Paralympic tickets for instance. Another thing that peeves me is that only 10% of the chicken supplied will come from British farms.

Anecdote: great pie shop in Weymouth opening soon, chatting to the guy selling in the kiosk (in front of where the Handmade Pie and Ale House will be) said they were banned from having a "2012" pie i.e. no 2012, no "Olympic" no nothing to do with the games. Crazy. I know Paul has mentioned this craziness on more than one occasion.