And on a lighter note ...

Received this email today and it's definitely worth reading ...

Enjoy!


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

(Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

(30 minutes. lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)

Green News

Since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect this week it has been heartening to see all the articles in the press promoting green living.

One hopes that these become a regular feature and are not relegated. While Kyoto does not nearly begin to solve the problem of climate alteration, it is mostly definitely a start.

188 countries have ratified or accepted the Convention on Climate Change since it's inception in the earlies '90s: the exceptions are Andorra, Brunei Darussalem, Holy See, Iraq, and Somalia.

However, only 141 countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol which followed the convention. 6 more countries, including the US and Australia, have signed the Protocol but have not ratified it yet.

So that's 40% of greenhouse gas emissions that the offending countries refuse to deal with. And with the whole Protocol only asking an average 5% decrease in emissions, the scope of the problem really starts to be apparent.

THe UNs own page on Kyoto is a good start to really get into this. Watch out, it can be convoluted.

It leaves you wondering if the UN has any purpose any more.

URGENT food warning

Just seen this. A UK banned chemical dye has somehow managed to contaminate 359 food items available at all major supermarkets. Click the link to get a list complied by the FSA

Yahoo News Article

With any luck this should kickstart the various campaigns to have artificial ingredients from food removed

Human Condition 2

I suspect that this thread is one that is going to go on and on ...

This time our subject is an elderly woman who has sucessfully sued two girls who baked her cookies for bringing on an anxiety attack

OH MY GOD!

Read the article http://http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050204/80/fbtoj.html and weep.