A woman meets a man walking his dog in the park, finds him attractive and funny and asks him out to dinner. She is, say, a doctor/dentist/banker. He is a teacher/shop worker/cleaner. There is no doubt in either of their minds that she earns considerably more than he does.

Who should pay for dinner?

Have just been playing with the BBC Election Seat Calculator. Now, quite probably I should not be expecting the algorithms to be accurate for swings of more than around 10% between Labour and Conservatives, but nevertheless...

(1) A three-way between the three main parties (208 seat each) requires:

• 27.0% support for Labour
• 33.0% support for the ( Read more... )

The Filipinos know what to do with criminals - introduce this into all British prisons and guarantee my vote:

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The First Rule of Gym Club is... you don't do Curls in the Squat Rack

The Second Rule of Gym Club is... you don't do Curls in the Squat Rack

I think I've made my point.

#472:        I just paid £18.50 for a haircut.

Ooooowwwwwwwww!

I dropped a 30lb dumbbell on my finger. If it wasn't clearly not broken I would suggest it might be broken.

Stoopid dumb heavy gym.

...it's not covered on my health insurance.

Stoopid expensive London.

I went book shopping today and discovered that Foyles on Charing Cross Road is awesome! I never thought Blackwells in Oxford would be beaten, despite being almost entirely academic, but Foyles must be about as big and has a huge range of non-academic stuff too - it's like someone has tagged a Borders onto the good bits of Blackwells. Seriously, it ( Read more... )

So, according to the health calculator on the Esporta website:

Body Fat Percentage (BF) - Your Score: 12% - Very Low

Acceptable fat levels for men are 18-25%

Your body fat percentage is very low indeed - you should consider gaining weight.

But wait, suspending our disbelief for a moment, let's see what else they had to say...

Body Mass Index (BMI) - ( Read more... )

A novel explanation for my being in the slowest queue at Sainsbury's today as I got stuck behind the man trying to buy all the butternut squashes in the world from a cashier who feels the need to scan each identical item separately. Have you ever seen anyone trying to scan the barcode on a butternut squash ( Read more... )