Reading the metro on the tube this morning, the following stories stood out:
British Army used white phosphorous
Ah yes, that stuff that melts your face off. But they didn't use it on civilians! At least not on those who weren't at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ancient graves nail the grisly truth about vampires (written in letters with blood dripping off)
Archeologists found 16 skeletons with huge nails driven through their bones. Metro claims this is proof that vampires existed. Notice distinct absence of searching for enlarged canine teeth on these corpses. As well as lack of logical argument to get from one statement to another.
Bread roll from WWI passed down from father to son
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
In other news, I have decided to use the research job to work towards the craziest awesome ass-grabbing jeans known to mankind. I tried this with the nano and that didn't work... but I'm going to try and have a measure of self-discipline towards it. As the research money is kind of frivolous cash, I can justify spending that amount of money on something I could foreseeably not fit into sometime in the far future. So much for the concept of them being an investment...
BTW, Vogue are giving away masses of prizes for their tenth anniversary. Of course, encouraging others to enter ruins my chances, but hey, don't say I'm not generous :)
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