Apologies for the distinct lack of activity – this last week seems to have been rather busy for some reason.
My main focus of rant today is the current plethora of bullshit science in adverts for all sorted of facial concoctions, lotions and potions. These use words such as dematifying and redensifying and contain essence of cherries and other such “exotics”. The added clincher for these sorts of ads is the pseudo-scientific trial which found 55% of the 19 women who used the product found some sort of improvement in a self-evaluated questionnaire.
I feel that this is the modern day equivalent of snake oil; charging astronomic prices for little more than grease and perfume in a bottle. Surely there should be a law against this sort of thing, but maybe we shouldn’t bother protecting the stupid with far too much money at their disposal; maybe I should even get in on the act: Lomas’ patent skinjuvenating cream. Has a certain ring about it don’t you think?

The current date and time is:
04-04-04 04:04:04
Soooo cool :)

The Virgin air ambulance landed in the garden square outside my house today. Feel sorry for whoever it was called for…
Anyway, it was kind of exciting as it flew over the house setting off car alarms in its wake. I managed to video it as it took off. Sorry about the shoddy quality – I only had my stills camera to hand which does rather basic video.

If you want to sign up to the aerobitches mailing list (meant for those who were in my year in aeronautics) visit here.
A mail has been sent out inviting all those I could find, but if you haven’t got one, use the link above instead.

Originally this site (domain) was meant to be used as a way for my year of my undergraduate degree to keep in touch. That sort of fizzled out, but someone emailed me today asking where it had gone…
Anyway, I want to set up a mailing list instead for us all, so I’ll endeavour to set one up, but in the meantime drop me an email (see the bar on the right) if you have any suggestions.

There’s an article on the BBC today about how impoverished young people can’t afford to buy condoms and so have resorted to using cling film and even crisp packets as a last resort.
I feel salt & vinegar crisp packets should now come with a warning printed on them although I would have thought the combination of the chafing and the vinegar would make for an unpleasant time. Gives a whole new meaning to “ribbed for extra pleasure”. Eugh.
As part of my civic duty, they should be reminded that condoms are available gratis from GPs and sexual health clinics, but then I guess as the article points out if they can’t even afford a bus fare, that’s probably out of the question. Perhaps if they spent less money on crack then it wouldn’t be such a problem. Ah well, the youff of today, tomorrow’s dole scum…