Dirty Water - I'll Drink to That

If you're so upset with dirty water then why not buy bottled water or be done with it? Or, better yet, install your own sewage treatment plant in your back yard.

If something is not right, make it right for yourself and don't waste valuable energy trying to make the world conform to your standards. That's being co-dependant. You couldn't possibly have control over what the government does with it's water supply or the municipalities for that matter. Accept it and follow the principles of the Serenity Prayer from AA. You can't change it so accept it and move on. You can buy all the wonderful bottled water you like, install a great filter from your home, or better yet, don't drink water at all and drink only the finest vodka, gin or bourbon every day. That will do two things, give you a pure product to drink and sterilize everything that comes in contact with your body. Alcohol, especially grain alcohol of especially high per centages will kill just about any bug or pathogen out there.

I remember one year when everyone in the family was getting the flu, I had a few whiskeys and kept the pesky flu at bay for a long, long time.

Water isn't the only thing to drink. In fact sometimes it's the worse thing for you. When Humphrey Bogart filmed the Africa Queen, he was one of the few cast members who did not get sick because he didn't drink the water, but drank the booze instead!

Where are gone strong willpower and personal pride?

Ireland Minus R plus C Equals Iceland

Breaking away from the dreary but important task of finding any useful information about Ireland I mistyped Ireland and instead saw suggestions about Iceland..

Once again the Lolcano in Iceland has chucked its muck into the atmosphere and flights to and from Ireland have been disrupted.  Financial pages on the Times commented that the ash deposit accounts for another crippling impact on Ireland's airline industy's financial investments and calls for another research plance to check the air quality have benn made.

The research plane hasn't come back yet - it's got lost in a sinister cloud of deadly gas and ash.......

Prior to the first closure of airspace there had been an aviation industry global wide acceptance of zero tolerance of volcanic ash by the engine manufacturers.

Then there was talk of a 'minimum level' of volcanic ash tolerance. But what is that minumum?

Unless I have missed something in the media already, there has been little said by the engine manufacturers in public as to level of ash can be tolerated. Or is this an unknown factor?

Passengers due to fly today and now cancelled are inconvenienced but on balance are happy the authorities are putting safety first.

Hummer - Is it a Car or a Van

Recently while searching for van hire we at Derr eThings were appaled to see the appearance of Hummers here in the UK.  It would appear that some petrolheaded entrepeneur has had the bright idea of offering these monster-osities to geezers - focussing initially of the van hire london market.

Here's the thoughts of one of our freinds from across the pond:

Hummer is incredibly trashy-looking and ridiculously ugly car. Forget about the whole global warming, impact of climate change thing, that hulky steel box is UGLY and beyond tasteless. No, people make fun of it not because it gets bad mileage, people make fun of it because it makes you look like a uneducated rednecky hick that can't spell A to Z.

I still possess several windshield stickers which I enjoy affixing to the drivers-side window of extra-obnoxious vehicles that park along side me in parking lots. Of course, they say:
S Stupid
U Useless
V Van

No Buts its got to be butter

Margarine has fats in it that aren't found in nature. Refined polyunsaturated veg oil is an industrial novelty (whose introduction coincides with the rise of heart disease, and is implicated in most mental conditions).

Nutritionist have been peddling ideas based on dubious research - statistics produces pseudo-science - that are 180 degrees in contradiction to our hunter gather evolutionary heritage of 3 million years. There were no plump, sweet fruits 30,000 years ago: anthropologists even think there is no original, unmanipulated fruit left on the planet. Think crab apples and damsons for something closer to the truth (small and sour).

Just consider that most veg is inedible uncooked and much of it mildly toxic.

And since the unproven saturated-fat-heart disease theory has now been effectively shown to be only true of marge it's time to pick up a big piece of meat on the bone and eat real food again.

Here's raising my glass to butter! (Avoid 'Willow', it's mostly marge).