have you all seen that gillian mckeith-v-nigella lawson email that is doing the rounds
about how one advocates healthy living and looks like X, the other lives on puddings and meat and looks like Y, complete with pics. it's quite an advert for cake.

secondly i read this as "whom you would like to see the back of on off-topic". well....

ironically my so-called friend just texted me - 10 days of silence had no effect, but the fb deletion was instantly noted. do some people have nothing better to do than count their fb friends?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:15, 5 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

facebook deletion is the ultimate modern insult.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:17, Reply)

well in this case i did mean it to be, and it has worked.
but if it's someone you never see or speak to, how/why would you even notice?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:25, Reply)

I have the Better Facebook add-on so as to split my feed into tabs
but one of the other things it does is notify me of unfriending. There are a few like that out there.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I was friends with Bert on FB for a while.
Then after his last epic meltdown he deleted me. It took me a few weeks to notice.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:19, Reply)

I didn't notice until he told me.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:21, Reply)

deleted by BERT?
that is quite a diss, boys
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:26, Reply)

I was a bit bemused by it
As I'd held back from all the 'fuck off bert' stuff. Maybe he was just culling every b3tan.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:29, Reply)

I once deleted my sister to make a point
It took her five minutes to text me to ask me to re-add her.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:19, Reply)

*sigh*
deleted fucked a point it onto the sex offender's register.

/berts
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:25, Reply)

That's the first time I've ever had a strikethrough.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:30, Reply)

*High fives*
It wasn't directed at you, it was merely an opportunity to make a cheap joke based on the resurfacing of everyone's favourite little simian scamp!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:33, Reply)

What an occasion to mark my first time!

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:34, Reply)

Fnarr

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Quality strikethroughing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:32, Reply)

I've noticed when I've been deleted 3 times
I wasn't counting friends, it was seeing that I couldn't view stuff anymore, or noticed they'd not shown up on my news feed for a while. 2 I expected, 1 was a bit of a shock.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:22, Reply)

Most people would notice straight away if I deleted them
When their newsfeed was no longer clogged with lefty-ramblings, casually interspersed with lyrics from whatever I'm listening to at the time.

I'm a terrible person.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:25, Reply)

Yes you are

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:28, Reply)

This is true.
Ah well.

Btw, Jody McIntyre shouldn't have been at those protests in the first place, especially not in the middle of them.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:29, Reply)

If you're trying to piss me off, it won't work
I'm all zen-like and such today.

/lies
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I'm not
If I was, I'd quote that retard Littlejohn, with his laughable bigotry.

I just don't think he had any reason to be at the protests, and while his treatment wasn't nice, what would have happened if the crowd had charged, or if the police had? He'd likely not make it out alive.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:35, Reply)

So disabled people aren't allowed to protest in case they get hurt?
In his own words:

blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who%E2%80%99s-apathetic-now/
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:36, Reply)

I'm not saying that at all, he is well within his rights
The police are currently being screwed by everyone, they're either being too harsh, or not harsh enough, all the while several of these protests have gone violent, and they've gone this way quickly.

If they suspected that missiles might be thrown, and they saw a guy in a wheelchair between them and the students, I think they would have to react. They could have gone about this better, but I think getting him out of the way was the right decision.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I'm obviously missing something here.
But I sense barely disguised hostility among the ranks...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)

Apparently today I am being trolled by Darth
AA is, I hope, joking.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Nope
I'm one of those who thinks the protests are pretty much entirely a terrible idea, and nothing but a reason for the little fuckers to cause trouble.

Charlie Gilmour is a fucking prime example of this.

There are those who protest for valid reasons, but those who protest because something that will not affect them in any way, simply because it is 'their right to', are often fools IMHO.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:38, Reply)

Charlie Gilmour is a cunt
but that doesn't mean that protests are unjustified.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:40, Reply)

For those it will affect, certainly
But for those who simply want a day out where they can smash windows, brick officers, and cause trouble knowing they can't get caught are cunts.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)

So some cunts are cunts
What's your point then?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:45, Reply)

People can't complain about bad treatment at these protests anymore
Now it's clear that several will turn violent, they can't then suddenly say 'How was I supposed to know?'

That's it really.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)

There have been plenty of peaceful protests up and down the country
and Jody McIntyre was complaining about being dragged from his wheelchair BY THE POLICE. His treatment by the BBC was fucking shameful too.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:50, Reply)

Gillian McKeith? Healthy living?
Does she fuck. She's a fucking disgrace to humanity, a total fraud, utterly ruins the good name of actual science and medicine and should be fed to pigs.

What she does is uses Woo and peoples stupidity to sell bullshit herbal supplements. There isn't one ounce of "healthy" in anything she recommends, with the exception of saying vegetables are good, which I think my 2 year old nephew can manage.

Seriously, there is no form of death that is too bad for her.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:25, Reply)

Haha! I believe it was "Dr" McKeith who claimed in her first book
that one should eat green vegetables (*tick*) because they're very nutritious (*tick*) and, most importantly, because the chlorophyll in them oxygenates your blood (*facepalm*).
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:30, Reply)

yeah, from the massive torch shining up your arse, presumably

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:37, Reply)

Ben Goldacre hit the nail on the head with this one, along the lines of:
Firstly, if there is a source of light in your bowel, you really would want a doctor to take a look at it.
Secondly, let's assume there is enough light in there for the chlorophyll to photosynthesise...would you really want all those inflammable gases in your gut to be given a nice big helping of oxygen?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I do love Ben Goldacre

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:41, Reply)

He's a b3tan

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)

So I heard
He's quite good to follow on Twitter, one of my favourites.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)

I've got an account on Twitter, but barely use it
Saves battery life, you see?

*runs*
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:45, Reply)

I like Twitter
my battery can fuck off.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:51, Reply)

I would like to campaign for his book to be read, cover-to-cover, by anybody who is being paid to cover any health or science-related stories.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)

But no one listens to science.
Why, if you asked them what the most important greenhouse gas is, what would they say?!

Afternoon, Mr. Cornix.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:55, Reply)

Half of them would probably say ozone.*sighs*
Good afternoon, Mlle Lampers. How's tricks?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:00, Reply)

I'm bedridden (unfortunately not being ridden in bed, or maybe fortunately, as I'd probably pass out or something)
so it looks like my evening of being dressed as a king prawn will NOT go ahead. Which is a shame. Apart from the whole not-having-to-endure-Walkabout thing. How has today been treating you?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:05, Reply)

Oh dear. That doesn't sound so good. (I was looking forward to seeing photographic evidence of this prawn costume...)
My day's been alright by comparison. Yes, I slept poorly (I think I was repeatedly awoken by the deafening flatulence of the drunken gastropod asleep on my floor) and I had to make a heartbreaking decision between seeing Hawkwind on Friday or John Crampton on Saturday. But I'm plodding on ok today. Plus they let me sing at the blues jam last night, so I think I'm still on a bit of a high from that.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Did you not let him into your bed? You could have spooned!
Is it lack of funds that's preventing you from going to both? That's a shame. Which one did you go with in the end?

Glad to hear about the singing, though. I don't know, I might be able to make it out of bed but going to an Australian themed club that will be packed full of SPORTSpeople and drunks does not really appeal. Ideally I would have a roaring fire and a bottle of gin, but, you know. Life goes on -swigs milk-
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:16, Reply)

We could have. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the bed wouldn't be able to cope with our combined weights.
Unfortunately it's a lack of time that prevents me from doing both. One of my bands is pestering me for a rehearsal on Friday night, Saturday night or sometime next week. As I'm away next week, I chose Friday. I know Crampton will be good and will be in my old local, whereas Hawkwind will actually just be "Dave Brock and cronies."

And yeah, I think even if I were at the peak of my health and in a phenomenally good mood, I wouldn't want to go anywhere near a bar/club full of drunk sports-types.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:25, Reply)

But then you could have made a nest for yourselves inamongst the shattered springs of the bed, in the path of so many bumders before you.
Oh, I see. That's a real shame, and I imagine this is one of the bands you enjoy. And on that note enjoy Crampton, too. I have not heard or heard of him but I'm sure you'll have fun.

Though everything would seem so much better seen through the beady eyes of a prawn...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:28, Reply)

There isn't a "most important" greenhouse gas.
It's relative to the different carbon cycles, biological vs fossil carbon, level of sink in the environment, etc,etc

Anyone who professes to know everything about the greenhouse effect is a lying cunt whatever side they are on.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:03, Reply)

Let me put my hands up and say I know nothing about greenhouse gases, atmospheric physics, the ozone layer, red shift, the water cycle,
carbon fuel, carbon dating, the El Nino effect, or anything involving numbers.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:07, Reply)

We're all on the inside surely!

(PsychoChomp, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:07, Reply)

badum-tish.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:15, Reply)

Well "stop eating so much crap" is healthy
doesn't make her a diet expert though.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)

She gave a very good tip if your finding it hard to poo.
Lift your legs up slightly thus opening up your rectal passage further.
( girlinthehole, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:35, Reply)

All well and good but you end up shitting on the floor.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)

No silly!
Do it while you're on the loo.
( girlinthehole, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)

Hahaha! I had gathered that.
I was questioning the angle of poopy trajectory - if the legs are gathered up, the bumhole would be facing forward and there is potential for a 'scatty' disaster.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:57, Reply)

Bit of a 'scattershot' technique, one might say...

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Or 'scattershit'?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:01, Reply)

I'd rather just take a book with me...

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 14:59, Reply)

Use Andrex instead - less harsh on the 'bronzer'.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Perhaps, but a lot more expensive than the worn-out Dan Browns
going for 20p a shot in old library stock sales...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:06, Reply)