Yup.
A lovely day outside, and I'm stuck in the office.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:47, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

working sucks doesn't it?
at least I get to go home today, and then only have two more weeks of this blasted secondment to go
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:48, Reply)

Sometimes.
I would love to figure out a way to go freelance so I can sit in the garden with a laptop and a decent cup of coffee.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:55, Reply)

I'd love to not have to work doing something I don't particularly enjoy for too long on too many days
unfortunately by the time I realised that I would rather do something else it kind of got a bit too late.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:56, Reply)

You're a surfer, aren't you Vippers?
Have you seen in the news today that white tipped sharks have been spotted off the Cornish coast? Apparently they are man-eaters. It's on the BBC website this morning.

Just saying.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:01, Reply)

yeah, saw that last night
white tip isn't it?

interesting stuff. It's a long way from where I surf though. Except in a couple of weeks when I'll be down that way for my stag do
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:04, Reply)

what, here?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:06, Reply)

that is outstanding

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, Reply)

Oceanic white tips are pelagics, hence the name.
Unless you're surfing several miles offshore they won't be anywhere near you.

Also, I call "bullshit". White tips need water above about 20 degrees C to survive. I don't think Cornwall has that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:05, Reply)

2 seperate reports made to St Ives harbour master's office, according to the Beeb.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:07, Reply)

by retards more than likely
it probably was a shark, just not the sort they thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:09, Reply)

There's at least one story a year about great whites off the Cornish coast
There's never been any piece of vaguely conclusive evidence, and great whites at least have the necessary internal heat exchangers to survive in cold UK waters.

Perhaps this year's attention-seeking fantasists are going for a different flavour of scary toothy fish?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:13, Reply)

I don't think anyone who lives down this way actually takes it seriously
and if it keeps some Northerners off our beaches then I'm all for it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15, Reply)

neither of which were from qualified marine biologists
nor accompanyied by photos, decent descriptions, or any evidence whatsoever that these are white tips except that "they had white tipped dorsal fins"

Which is rather like me claiming that the cat that lives next door to me is a leopard because it's a bit spotty.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:10, Reply)

You are Richard Dreyfus
AICMFP
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:12, Reply)

*needs a bigger boat*

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:13, Reply)

"Here's to swimming with bow-legged women"

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:19, Reply)

*Walks away with tipex in my pocket, whistling the tune to drunken salor*

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:55, Reply)

it very much does not have that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, Reply)

Never too late, I always think.
Could do with getting out of the office though. Or just something that pays a decent living wage.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:01, Reply)

true
thing is, my job pays well, and until my mrs gets paid what she deserves (which is more than me) then I can't try and do something else.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:05, Reply)

Always circumstances!
Time to change mine, I reckon.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:11, Reply)

Same here and I don't have a window to the outside : (

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:48, Reply)

It's worse having a window
I have to sit and look across open fields to the Pentlands on one side and the Firth of Forth on the other, in glorious sunshine, and know I'm stuck at work

Of course, I'm not actually, I could fuck off outside whenever I wanted, but then I'm a lucky cunt in that respect
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:59, Reply)

You don't?
That's a shame. I always think exposure to natural light is important to remain healthy.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:02, Reply)

and sane

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:05, Reply)

This is why I go out at lunch most days.
I get stir crazy if I don't.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, Reply)

I hope you treat yourself to a tuna surprise at lunchtime today.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:09, Reply)

I might do that : )
Or I'll just have the usual.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:11, Reply)

It's your birthday. Have tuna surprise.
And a cake. Cake on your birthday is very important.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:14, Reply)

No cake.
I'm trying to keep the weight off.
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

But you can have a cake today.
It's the law.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:18, Reply)

It won't be the first time I've broken the law Jeff.

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:19, Reply)

I wonder if there is some bio-chemical response to sunlight?
I know that vitamin D is produced in the skin, but that's all I know. Anyone else?
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:10, Reply)

I suspect the mighty badger might know

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Biologist by trade?

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

Biochemical Engineer.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I was going for the "all-round smart-arse" angle
but whatever
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:17, Reply)

that too ;)
also "international cunt"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:20, Reply)

was going to say that
"biochemical engineer, all-round smart-arse, international cunt" would be a good sig, but frankly your current one will take some beating
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

yeah. vitamin D is produced in direct response to sunlight
Although not through windows, as it's probably UV triggered and glass is a UV filter. Although I might be wrong about the UV thing, I haven't checked. But I think that's why SAD lamps are useless for vit D deficiency.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I heard that as glass is a UV filter and bees see using UV that they can't see through glass
what do you make of that?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:18, Reply)

makes sense
Glass is def a UV filter, that's why you don't get sunburnt through windows.

The vitamin D thing interests me as I've suffered from mild psoriasis since I moved up to Scotland. UV therapy works, but then so does going abroad in the summer. But vit D supplements make no difference. Interesting.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:22, Reply)

Is it true that shortbread absorbs Vitimin D?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:22, Reply)

from what? the air?
Edit - doh, sorry, too slow this morning. Very good. Haggis would have engabled me to get it quicker, mind you..
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:23, Reply)

If glass is a UV filter how come UV tubes in tanning beds are made of glass?
Explain that one scientists? 100% proof of the existence of God!
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)

they aren't.
the tubes are made of doped quartz.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:26, Reply)

it depends on the glass it would seem
glass on those sort of tubes is particularly thin, and possibly has some weird additive or something.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:26, Reply)

like not being glass ;)

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:27, Reply)

always learning!

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:28, Reply)

well, to be fair
you can call it glass, I'm being pedantic. It's fused quartz rather than just fused silica, or rather a high percentage quartz.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Heavy Glass

( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

See you can't explain it
God exists
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Well, even if I couldn't explain it
lack of a convincing explanation otherwise does not somehow justify the existence of a bearderd sky wizard. In the same way that lack of evidence either way does not demonstrate the existence of an invisible pygmy aberdeen angus in the corner of my office.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:32, Reply)

Yeh but prove God doesn't exist!
You can't so he 100% does and is totally in control of our life's. FACT!
( Peej, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I don't need to.
I don't need to prove there isn't an invisible silent heatless-fire breathing dragon in my garage, either, because to all extents and purposes that matter there is no difference between that and no dragon at all.

/Sagans
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:41, Reply)

I'm currently reading a book
where God comes back from a fishing holiday (from Renaissance until present day) and finds that the world has got all fucked up. He goes to see Jesus who is having a jam with Jimi Hendrix, and ends up sending him back to Earth to sort things out.

He fails to do so by the old method, so he tries forming a band which doesn't go anywhere, so he basically goes on American X Factor.

That is as far as I have got. It's fairly amusing though, if riddled with temporal anomolies.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:35, Reply)

I fucking hate temporal anomolies.

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:38, Reply)

I no rite?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:40, Reply)

Extreme fishing with Robson Green God on Channel 5
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:39, Reply)

my mrs suffers quite badly from eczema
(not so much anymore unless stressed fortunately) and sunlight helps with that massively, but again I don't think vit D supplements do.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:24, Reply)