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Right, freshly made bread has a shelf life of around 3 days if kept correctly. Therefore branded, packaged, ready sliced, preserved loaves must have a shelf life of at least 7 days. So why is it whenever you buy one it only has about 3 days left of its shelf life? What is it doing for those 4 days?
I've got this revolutionary idea for motorists. Instead of driving really close to the vehicle in front and then applying the brakes so that the person behind thinks you're really going to stop or something, why not release the flow of fuel into the engine by reducing the amount of pressure on the accelerator pedal and try to match the speed of the traffic?
For the past few weeks there has been much coverage in the British press regarding the new licensing laws regarding the sale and consumption of alcohol that came into force at midnight on Thursday 24th November. Anti-alcoholic and, presumably anti-having-a-laugh miserable gits, have been rather vocal in their warnings to the UK government about the changes, predicting widespread booze-induced violence and a massive increase in public order offences. I, probably along with many other people, have been very interested to see how the first weekend would go...
Now I know I should really check more than one source but BBC News is usually quite good at reporting what is going on inside these shores - and beyond. So expecting a mass of reports about various cities in England and Wales being razed to the ground by drunken hooligans along with an obligatory tale of some old biddy's cat being murdered/kebabbed/buggered by "callous thugs high on drugs and alcohol", I opened the BBC site and made my way to the news.
"GASP!" I... erm, gasped I suppose, as I discovered that not only are all the cities and towns still standing erect and proud, but the weekend passed with little or no incidents at all!
Of course, that didn't stop those who opposed the law in the first place. Oh no - apparently the weather was to blame. "Nobody wants to fight in an icy puddle" said one "but mark my words, once the weather warms up we'll be doomed! Doomed, I say, DOOMED!" he shrieked, then tottered off looking embarrassed as lightning and orchestral string music failed to emphasise the drama...
Right, so this is a blog is it? Well this isn't just any old blog - this is eggblog. What's so different about this and just shoving my meaningless ramblings on my homepage? Well apparently this blog engine will keep everything in archives or something. Great - if I go off on one offending people then it keeps the evidence. Very useful, I don't think!!
OK, so it has other uses as well, such as alowing me to post stuff under different categories without having to mess about with editing several files and then uploading them all into the correct places afterwards, not forgetting to put the relevant links in the right places. It doesn't matter how careful you are, you always miss something and end up having to upload several corrections.
I've seen that many people use their blogs as some kind of diary or journal along the lines of "I saw a rabbit the other day and it looked at me and at that moment..." or other rubbish. Well I don't think I'll bother with that especially seeing how all I do between waking up and going to bed is rant about the traffic on my way to work, spend the whole day baffled, rant about the traffic back home again, then sit around watching TV or browsing the net and reading about how people saw a rabbit that morning.
Hmmm, it seems that I can truncate my drivel so that you have to follow a link to see the rest of it. Why would I want to do that? You somehow got here so I'm going to expose you to my crap whether you like it or not. Unless you've already left the page by now, in which case I can insult you and you won't even know. HA!