Fact of the day

I think most of them were my sales.

I thought reserves were for pussies. I got burnt, never going back.

That's the first time I've used the word pussies.

'Unexpected item in bagging area'.

I have a job at Sainsburys and that drives me up the wall

The number of editions of 'Top of the Pops' deemed to be broadcastable will be negative by 2013.

This is a mushroom

From here:

http://tiny-forest.tumblr.com/post/21861307951/red-cage-fungus-by-carol-knudsen-mushroom-blog

Lots of stunning mushroom pictures on that blog. Also some slightly NSFW artwork and some fairly bizarre attempts at making jewellery incorporating human teeth.

This one is similar:

That looks sore

From here:

http://tiny-forest.tumblr.com/post/21861307951/red-cage-fungus-by-carol-knudsen-mushroom-blog

Lots of stunning mushroom pictures on that blog. Also some slightly NSFW artwork and some fairly bizarre attempts at making jewellery incorporating human teeth.

The person who runs that blog has a really (really) creepy Etsy store:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Lufaa?ref=top_trail

Bleurgh.

Bike share/hire programmes in China dwarf those in the west.

The scheme in the city of Wuhan, central China, has 90,000 bikes and Hangzhou has over 65,000.

90,000 bikes!

Some jellyfish can swim as fast as 13 body lengths a second.
The faster ones have complicated body parts that optimise the jets of water and vortices created by their pulsing movements.

'Optimal vortex formation is favorable in fast-swimming jellyfish because, unlike the jet funnelling mechanism, it allows for the minimization of energy costs while maximizing thrust forces.'

Everything's too expensive.

In London, pumps remove about 30 million litres of water every day to stop the Underground's tunnels filling with water.

The water used to make Stella is pumped out of the Severn Tunnel.

Made in China.

Geoff Capes is the past President of the The Budgerigar Society and a keen breeder.

He got into budgies while working as a policeman. He was sent to arrest someone for a minor offence, but when he opened the door he saw his budgies and asked if he could have a look.

An hour later, he remembered why he'd been sent there, and had to apologetically explain to the man in question that he'd actually been sent there to arrest him and he needed to come down the station.

and a keen breeder.

there's no need for such offensive heterophobic language Pete.

Was the minor offence smuggling?

i think he was more of a boxers man

According to Max Clifford, Max Clifford has an average sized penis.

australia could fit into brazil with room to spare

If you earned less than £63,000 in the year to February, the average London house is earning more than you.

Thanks for coming...
Please try the salmon.