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that lolly mind looks appealing
is that a rocket or a starship without the sprinkles ?

i love the token bit of green stuff hidden up in the top left corner would that be 1/1,000th of your 5 a day

burger and fishfingers in a bap i've never been that profligate

nine-year-old girl who became an internet hit after blogging about her school dinners claims she has been banned from taking photographs of her meals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800
Fascists

Do they have the jurisdiction to do that...?

nine-year-old girl who became an internet hit after blogging about her school dinners claims she has been banned from taking photographs of her meals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800

Fascists

Hi,
Veg’s Dad, Dave, here. I felt it’s important to add a few bits of info to the blog tonight. Martha’s school have been brilliant and supportive from the beginning and I’d like to thank them all. I contacted Argyll and Bute Council when Martha told me what happened at school today and they told me it was their decision to ban Martha’s photography.

It is a shame that a blog that today went through 2 million hits, which has inspired debates at home and abroad and raised nearly £2000 for charity is forced to end.

Dave Payne

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Ah but...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-18421161

Potentially some shoddy reporting from the Indy. The BBC actually bothered to speak to the Council about this and they say that they have inspected the street and discovered no defects. So now we have another angle on the story.

So we have what appears to be a single incident which, unfortunately, has resulted in a significant injury. The Royal Mail hasn't backed up their claim with reports of other similar incident in that area and the Council has countered their claim with an inspection.
This leaves the following questions;
i) Was the Council's inspection of the street appropriately robust?
ii) Did the Royal Mail consider alternative measures to mitigate the risk? If so, why where they rejected?
iii) As the potential weak link in this story, is the mail delivery person's version of events credible?

Ha, so it's even worse than I suspected. You can be guaranteed that this will become an urban myth, though.

Are they really fascists, or are they just trying to cover up the shit that they feed to their school children, this hardly looks like it fulfils the nutritional needs of a growing child:

I wouldn't feed it to my dogs.

I occasionally eat school dinners - when I am working in a school, rather than just as an odd culinary hobby - and the quality varies a great deal. There's almost always salad available. One had no vegetarian option at all one week which is really bizarre given that not eating meat can be a religious/cultural requirement among many pupils. One school had a fruit-coordinator though to be frank she herself did not look like fruit was her preferred snack.
For adults the most important skill is smiling at the dinner ladies until they put an adult-size portion on your plate.

I still have nightmares about the stench of overcooked food emanating from the cafeteria at my school.

One school had a fruit-coordinator though to be frank she herself did not look like fruit was her preferred snack.

ha hahhhh. you could not make it up!

well he could have.

I occasionally eat school dinners - when I am working in a school, rather than just as an odd culinary hobby - and the quality varies a great deal. There's almost always salad available. One had no vegetarian option at all one week which is really bizarre given that not eating meat can be a religious/cultural requirement among many pupils. One school had a fruit-coordinator though to be frank she herself did not look like fruit was her preferred snack.
For adults the most important skill is smiling at the dinner ladies until they put an adult-size portion on your plate.

When I did some work in a school (one of those new-fangled academy things bedding-in in its first term) the quality of food was fantastic, but the portions meagre. I guess my smile is lacking.

One school had a fruit-coordinator though to be frank she herself did not look like fruit was her preferred snack.
For adults the most important skill is smiling at the dinner ladies until they put an adult-size portion on your plate.

Ha ha hah ha

Slow news day at the bbc news website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18455772

nine-year-old girl who became an internet hit after blogging about her school dinners claims she has been banned from taking photographs of her meals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800

Fascists

Unsurprisingly the council in question has performed a U-turn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18460488

see the power of londonfgss.com in action !

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http://www.uproxx.com/music/2012/06/wu-tangs-gza-teaming-up-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-to-make-a-hip-hop-record-about-space/

oh sweet jebus yes

The German mystery forest boy is a Dutch hoaxer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18456812

After Addison Lee, here come Pimlico plumbers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9334277/London-Olympics-2012-Games-lanes-will-be-ignored-in-an-emergency-warns-plumbing-company-owner.html#

Fuck the olympic lanes

Apple have reduced in store human interaction to zero.

you can now scan an item (under £400) using Apple store app and iPhone camera pay online and walk out of the store without talking to anyone.

It's because they realised that they've finally made all of their customers their retail staff. Anyone that owns an apple product never shuts up trying to make you get one.

Apple have reduced in store human interaction to zero.

you can now scan an item (under £400) using Apple store app and iPhone camera pay online and walk out of the store without talking to anyone.

This should be on the epic win thread.

Apple have reduced in store human interaction to zero. you can now take any item and walk out of the store.
fify

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16248932