In todays rant...
Now usually my rants are fairly long winded, pointless and given to excesses of folly. Today shall not be the day I deviate from this format, and as I'm practically the only person who reads my posts I choose to indulge myself. So to the literally handful of people who read my shit, today is...USELESS HORRIFYING FACTS DAY!
Ever eaten a food product that's red? Next time read the ingredients, if it says Natural Red 4, CI 75470, E120, cochineal or natural colour then you've eaten an insect. These are food dyes made using crushed red beetles. The females are killed then dried and their eggs sacks chock full of little red eggs are added to your favourite red or pink coloured confectionery. Yum yum.
Today is Hitler's birthday, he was born on this day the 20th of April in 1889. Still think birth control is evil?
The US was a world leader in frontal lobotomies in the 1940's & 50's, 40,000 people were subjected to the procedure, amongst the patients, *ahem*, victims was John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was incapacitated by the operation and institutionalised. When Rosemary died in 2005 at age 86 she was the fifth of the Kennedy children to die but the first to die from natural causes. By the time lobotomies were recognised as quackery on par with the most fucked up medieval treatments 70,000 people had been fucked over.
1 in 3 people will agree with popular opinion even if they don't share that opinion themselves. Your mothers warning about peer pressure was quite correct, especially if you are part of that feeble minded 33%. Great news for advertisers, the media in general, cult leaders, preachers and dictators. (The Asch Conformity Experiment 1953)
Trampolines, providing chaos, mayhem and a steady flow of punters to the ER since 1940. In calendar year 2006, reports the Consumer Product Safety Review, trampolines caused an estimated 109,522 injuries. Of those injuries, children from 4 years old and younger sustained an estimated 15,541; children from 5 to 14, an estimated 71.265; older children and young adults 15 to 24, an estimated 14,571; adults 25 to 64, an estimated 7,836; and adults 65 and older sustained an estimated 309 injuries. About 104,729 of those individuals of all ages who were injured were treated in emergency rooms and released. The rest, an approximately 4,793, were either hospitalised or dead on arrival.
Los Angeles, the San Andreas fault is set to go off in the next 10 years. "The big one' as it's known will be over 7.0 magnitude and will be felt all over the LA metropolitan.
That story about how the average person swallows 20 spiders in their lifetime while asleep, is thankfully an urban myth.
Holy shit I do go on, and I had so many more facts to share! Anywho, that will suffice. Please accept this wonderful plate of scones as a visual reward. My they are delightful and I'd do some pretty regrettable things just to have a piping hot plate of them right now.
Now usually my rants are fairly long winded, pointless and given to excesses of folly. Today shall not be the day I deviate from this format, and as I'm practically the only person who reads my posts I choose to indulge myself. So to the literally handful of people who read my shit, today is...USELESS HORRIFYING FACTS DAY!
Ever eaten a food product that's red? Next time read the ingredients, if it says Natural Red 4, CI 75470, E120, cochineal or natural colour then you've eaten an insect. These are food dyes made using crushed red beetles. The females are killed then dried and their eggs sacks chock full of little red eggs are added to your favourite red or pink coloured confectionery. Yum yum.
Today is Hitler's birthday, he was born on this day the 20th of April in 1889. Still think birth control is evil?
The US was a world leader in frontal lobotomies in the 1940's & 50's, 40,000 people were subjected to the procedure, amongst the patients, *ahem*, victims was John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was incapacitated by the operation and institutionalised. When Rosemary died in 2005 at age 86 she was the fifth of the Kennedy children to die but the first to die from natural causes. By the time lobotomies were recognised as quackery on par with the most fucked up medieval treatments 70,000 people had been fucked over.
1 in 3 people will agree with popular opinion even if they don't share that opinion themselves. Your mothers warning about peer pressure was quite correct, especially if you are part of that feeble minded 33%. Great news for advertisers, the media in general, cult leaders, preachers and dictators. (The Asch Conformity Experiment 1953)
Trampolines, providing chaos, mayhem and a steady flow of punters to the ER since 1940. In calendar year 2006, reports the Consumer Product Safety Review, trampolines caused an estimated 109,522 injuries. Of those injuries, children from 4 years old and younger sustained an estimated 15,541; children from 5 to 14, an estimated 71.265; older children and young adults 15 to 24, an estimated 14,571; adults 25 to 64, an estimated 7,836; and adults 65 and older sustained an estimated 309 injuries. About 104,729 of those individuals of all ages who were injured were treated in emergency rooms and released. The rest, an approximately 4,793, were either hospitalised or dead on arrival.
Los Angeles, the San Andreas fault is set to go off in the next 10 years. "The big one' as it's known will be over 7.0 magnitude and will be felt all over the LA metropolitan.
That story about how the average person swallows 20 spiders in their lifetime while asleep, is thankfully an urban myth.
Holy shit I do go on, and I had so many more facts to share! Anywho, that will suffice. Please accept this wonderful plate of scones as a visual reward. My they are delightful and I'd do some pretty regrettable things just to have a piping hot plate of them right now.
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xmisskrisx:
i have to say deucey, i prefer the before much more than the after.
platypuz:
Is it vegan ?