Quote of the week!

[Cody]

In case you are not familiar with Jacob Rees-Mogg, imagine somebody dressed like Bertie Wooster, with a diction like Sir Percy Blakeney and talking anachronistically convoluted bollocks like an overacting steampunk cosplayer after three pints of Theakston's Old Peculier.

[Cody]

"Brazil nuts in toffee fill the nose, followed by linseed oil, a suggestion of flowering blackcurrants, sweet, aromatic peat smoke and a hint of tobacco".

Such is the description of Ardbeg Cask No. 3 which has sold for £16m (sufficient spirit to fill 440 bottles, valuing each one at £36,000).

[Old Murgh]

"Brazil nuts in toffee fill the nose, followed by linseed oil, a suggestion of flowering blackcurrants, sweet, aromatic peat smoke and a hint of tobacco".

Such is the description of Ardbeg Cask No. 3 which has sold for £16m (sufficient spirit to fill 440 bottles, valuing each one at £36,000).

Insane price but it makes more sense than NFT "artwork".

[Cody]

Although it may not be what you fancy on sweaty days, scientific research suggests spicy and hot foods can actually help cool you down.

Don't need "scientific research" to know that - which is why I cooked a large pot of lamb karai last night.

[Disembodied]

We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.

[Cody]

Zombie robots feasting on human flesh? Sounds like something Netflix would produce.

[Disembodied]

I didn't realise it was so old, but it's a story from 2009:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... s-research

the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot – known as Eatr for short – does indeed power its "biomass engine" by digesting organic material

but apparently it's a vegetarian. Or at least it was in 2009.

[Cody]

...apparently it's a vegetarian.

It's amazing what people/robots will eat when they get really hungry! Biomass is biomass!

[Cody]

The inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held at the weekend.

<sniggers>

[Disembodied]

The inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held at the weekend.

<sniggers>

If you have a better way of getting cabers, I'd like to hear it!

[Cody]

I'll just "toss" this in:

[Old Murgh]

Wow, they're real. I thought they were mythical beings.

[Cody]

Wow, they're real. I thought they were mythical beings.

What... smiling women with clipboards in the forest?

[RockDoctor]

What... smiling women with clipboards in the forest?

That has the air of an Open University "Summer School" in Applied Ethnography.

(I did an Astronomy one once - at an observatory under the final approach to Mallorca International airport. You had to learn to reject spurious data - which was a valuable lesson.)

[Cody]

It's just one damn thing after another!