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, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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)