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even in Russian forest (1:03")!

they aren't allowed to keep by catch caught in eu waters

Another idiotic EU regulation which sensible people oppose.

I believe they're looking to change it though

Another idiotic EU regulation which sensible people oppose.

Fisheries quotas, which are horse-traded by member governments, whose fisheries businesses keep saying that there are plenty of fish in the sea. Sensible people may oppose it, but it's a classic example of how special interest groups are able to disproportionately influence govt policy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html

As with anything in a newspaper you always have to wonder what the real story is. It might be that it's a foolish thing but there may be very good unreported reasons for the decision. It may well come down the the last sentence:

“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”

One would like the media to take a fair, unbiased look at the issue and report on it in a balanced way. Very rarely happens.

I see stuff I've been involved in totally misrepresented in papers with their own agenda. I wonder if they are incabable of grasping the complexity of an issue, can't be bothered, have too tight a print deadline or willfully misrepresent tofurther their agenda. Like any piece of spin you can always set your own angle and so many people do - it does annoy me, especially when there is the possibility of people taking opinion presented as fact at face value as may happen in this case (not saying you are by the way).

Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana law” look “positively sane”

What "bendy banana law"? Is he joking?

What "bendy banana law"? Is he joking?

From Wikipedia:

This regulation requires that bananas of the highest quality classification not have "abnormal curvature"[4], something that led to various stories about an EU ban on either curved[5] or excessively curved[6][7] bananas. This has been frequently repeated by pro-Europeans and Euro-sceptics alike; the former tending to regard it as an apocryphal or misleading Euromyth[5][7] and the latter regarding it as an example of needless European bureaucracy.[6][8]

As with anything in a newspaper you always have to wonder what the real story is. It might be that it's a foolish thing but there may be very good unreported reasons for the decision. It may well come down the the last sentence:

“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”

One would like the media to take a fair, unbiased look at the issue and report on it in a balanced way. Very rarely happens.

I see stuff I've been involved in totally misrepresented in papers with their own agenda. I wonder if they are incabable of grasping the complexity of an issue, can't be bothered, have too tight a print deadline or willfully misrepresent tofurther their agenda. Like any piece of spin you can always set your own angle and so many people do - it does annoy me, especially when there is the possibility of people taking opinion presented as fact at face value as may happen in this case (not saying you are by the way).

This. the claim seems to be along the lines of: the only way to avoid/ treat dehydration is to drink water. This is not true, as there are significant dietary sources of water, i.e. water coming from food, and also other drinks also contain water, e.g. fruit juice.

Drinking water doesn't prevent dehydration any more than eating a varied diet does.

Water bottle companies can claim to provide hydration, but claiming to prevent dehydration is a different thing.

Some sort of illness or being stranded in a desert are the only scenarios I can think of where only water prevents dehydration, and then you need Gallons of the stuff.

BBC article on body modifications.

Which contains this gem:

British fashion expert Gok Wan is also partial to large wooden ear plug adornments but it is not known if these are being used to stretch his lobe.

And, there's also this beauty:

Lego model of the Atlas detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Atlas Lego

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/20/investigation-mark-duggan-tainted

Broadly, the IPCC released false statements regarding the incident; specifically permitted the police to remove the car in which Duggan was travelling, thereby destroying any chance of recovering usable forensic evidence; and that three police officers gave statments that they saw a police sergeant throwing away the gun that was later found several feet from Duggan's body.

It doesn't seem as though anyone will ever get to the bottom of this incident. It looks nearly as bad as the De Menezes shooting, in terms of damage to reputation of the police, but much worse for the IPCC, if what the writer says is true.

From that Guardian article: -

'In all of my years of engagement with the Met, I have yet to witness such a shoddy investigation'

I find that hard to believe.

Shocking footage reveals tuna industry's slaughter of marine life – video footage captured by a tuna industry whistleblower has been released by Greenpeace, which reveals the routine slaughter of other marine species, including whale sharks, rays and whales

For every Tuna fish landed, 34 other fish are killed.

Some shit like that. Eat Mackerel instead (I think).

Or at least eat all the other fish.
Or....don't eat any fish!

Or take the bait.

I haven't seen any mention of this thoroughly ignorant Metro article on the forum today:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/882297-irresponsible-cyclists-should-pay-road-tax-say-quarter-of-drivers

"'Irresponsible' cyclists should pay road tax, say quarter of drivers."

Makes me livid!
Those meaningless stats too!
As we all know, there is no such thing as Road Tax. Roads are paid for from Council Tax.

I'm emailing the Metro requesting a correction and I'm about to email Confused to ask what the hell they're playing at by propagating this damaging myth. Do add your voice.

Grrrrr.

http://www.lfgss.com/post2531754-1167.html

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Or....don't eat any fish!

That would work too.

The rules are quite simple:
1: If you wouldn't kill it, don't eat it.
2: If you're not going to eat it, don't kill it
3: Leave some for the kids

http://www.lfgss.com/post2531754-1167.html

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aha!

Some good reader posts on the Metro one.

That would work too.

The rules are quite simple:
1: If you wouldn't kill it, don't eat it.
2: If you're not going to eat it, don't kill it
3: Leave some for the kids

yes, and...

1. If you don't even know what it looks like when alive, don't be allowed to buy it.
   

hmm venison - who killed bambi?

No one.

hmm venison - who killed bambi?

I wouldn't hesitate to shoot the deer who lay waste to my parents' garden produce.

When my grandmother was still alive we'd go to see her often, and it was far from unusual to see her out in her chicken run, teaching the battery chickens she had rescued how to peck by example, whilst her husband shot the deer eating their roses with a rifle propped on the window catch- he'd be firing from inside the dining room overlooking the garden.

Strange couple in many ways.