how to eat more beans.

1. breakfast time? why not eat BEANS on toast?
2. bored of that? add AN EGG or CHEESE
3. Lunchtime? How about BEANS with potato? (chips/mash/jacket/boiled)
4. Dinnertime? Well, time to try BEAN SURPRISE!* recipe below
5. Still peckish? try BEANS on toast again for a tasty snack.

next time: BEAN cookies. Tastygood.

Bean surprise
you will need:
an onion - fried
tinned tomatoes
BEANS
3 bean salad
BBQ sauce

instructions: combine these in a pan, heat and stir til beany.

beeb news: 27th Feb

earthquake, ruins, death, destruction. tsunami, fear, waiting, moving. tories, brigton, throwing, change. troops, waiting, fighting, dying. rain, continues, killing, woman. handshake, lacking, mancode, challenged.

crash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8203120.stm

there's this video that's been making the rounds on youtube about texting and driving, and if i were not far too nervous a driver to even attempt texting whilst driving then it would have deffo put me off this one!

it's a lot grim

but worth a watch.

madonna gets her baby...

a court ruled madonna could have a little girl from malawi.

madonna wasn't in the courtroom.

she hasn't complied with residency laws.

the child has family, but no money.

madonna brought this kid, fair and square.

i hope she is happy with her purchase.

(in other news, my grandad pointed out that by the time he was my age, he had 3 children, and i am childless. my grandad tells it like it is! perhaps i should go buy a child...)

head meets desk

what the hell kind of stupid place do i live in anyway?

besides the impending closure of fairbridge, the most awesomely successful youth project i have ever seen, what the goddam bum ass kind of rubbish is this?

pink lights being used to embarrass teenagers out of places that they hang around that they shouldn't hang around in. what the ey? here's the linketh: BEEB NOOZ

apparently these pink lights highlight imperfections in the skin, and give kids a pinkish tint, which they are hoping boys will find effeminate and therefore bad.

1. er, no.

2. just no

3. 'pink = girly = maybe homosexual = bad' and to be avoided does not equal 'helpful message' trying to keep lads away from things that are pink is just stupid and does nothing to challenge the idea that looking at all gay or feminine (or indeed, refusing to conform to a set of rules for acceptable masculinity) is something that is somehow less than.

4. why would local councils want to highlight medical/physical problems that so many people have and are probably already ashamed enough of in order to get them to conform? i dont even know where to start but i think most people at some point in their day are presented with a barrage of images of perfect skin, constantly reminding them that 'this is the goal, you are far from it' -- and then to have your local council install lights in order to highlight spots? srsly. i'd be all for going down to the local council and bodysnarking their decision makers, if i didn't think it was goddam rude and inappropriate, dehumanising and ultimately crap for everyone who has to put up with the huge negative self image problems perpetuated in this country. rraagh!!!

5. what happened to other approaches, such as defining reasonable spaces for young people to meet up, which are accessible, available and safe? or perhaps *talking* to the groups of young uns meeting up with their friends?

here's a couple of just as ranty posts: here and here

babies

the average age of first sexual encounter is now 14.3 years old.

70% of girls were coerced in some way in their first sexual experience, i don't know the figure for boys.

a lot more pregnancies than i thought end in abortion, which is more likely the younger the mum to be.

3rd trimester ladies shouldn't lie flat on their backs

sit ups too soon after birth mess up the shape of tummies and can lead to muscle damage

noooooooooo!

i love rhianna, she is wonderful and i am totally beside myself upset she ended up in hospital after (still alledgedly) being beaten up by her bf, chris brown.

i mean it's tragic and horrible that this happens to anyone...

http://jezebel.com/5149567/rihanna-is-the-alleged-victim-in-chris-brown-case

what upsets me just as much is the amount of really horrible comments i keep seeing about it, which just make me ashamed to be human. :-(

gotta have faith

spot the difference

a long read

but worth it

srsly....

and not for the squeamish!!

abort

so MPs are having a free vote on abortion this evening.

lets get a few stats in.

unless something changes in our biology:

520 of the total 645 MPs in the house of commons, will never become pregnant.

What is the average age of an MP?
Following the general election of 2005, the average age of an MP was 50.6

so, also, considering this:

"The menopause is the name given to the end of menstruation (periods). It is also sometimes referred to as 'the change of life'. In the UK, the average age for a woman to reach the menopause is 52."

it might be a safe bet to suggest that it is unlikely any MP is going to fall pregnant anytime soon, or ever. (edit: i have been reminded, quite rightly, that these older lady MPs may have had abortions in the past)

also, with an annual salary of £61,820 (as of 1 November 2007), the financial hardship of child bearing may be more difficult to comprehend. financial independence is a luxurious position from which to make moral decisions on behalf of others.

I sincerely hope that i am being judgmental here, and that these factors which might give MPs a safe distance from the realities of this issue (which are not the same for every person) do not prevent MPs voting in line with what their constituents deserve.

Luckily, at time of writing, nearly 400 MPs have voted against lowering the abortion limit to 12 weeks. frighteningly, 71 had voted for it.

I will write more on this another day, but the beeb comentator suggested that MPs are leaning towards the more liberal ideas. am i now so liberal that i see what others describe as 'liberal' as 'the very baseline of reasonable' ??

sorry, we can't help you, or your daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=566044&in_page_id=1879

Story is sad but hilarious, teenage rebellion, young love, exploitation, overbearing mothers, DEATH BY CANNABIS, TEEN PREGNANCY...

"It was then that we started hearing all sorts of rumours about Jack, that he'd given her cannabis. I was distraught, half expecting a call saying Victoria had been found dead."

Oh and the cracking line about her mum discovering a packet of contraceptive pills and assumed that this meant her daughter was sexually active.

The story is kinda saddening, half to me because the hate mail thinks it's fine to invade this girls privacy for a story. To publish details about her sex life/lack of. My sister passed tis story on to me, she has known this girl at school since the age of 5. Apparently the girl now thinks she is a celebrity, and holds her hand out and says 'NO COMMENT' to people. I despair, and sulk.

internets addict?

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogging-disease.html

Dr. Jerald J. Block, M.D., said that excessive internet and computer usage should be labeled a mental disease, as it has all of the components of a compulsive-impulsive disorder:

1) excessive use, often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives,

2) withdrawal, including feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression when the computer is inaccessible,

3) tolerance, including the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use, and

4) negative repercussions, including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue

z0mg scary beans!!

Dinner in the sky... for 22 peoples.

info: "More than 500 people could have access to this exceptional platform or just 22 if you're looking for an exclusive VIP event. The table accommodates three staff in the middle, chef, waiter and entertainer. Dinner in the Sky can be held at any place having a surface of 500m2, like Golf Courses, public places, race tracks, castles, vineyards or historical sites."

Stolen from KanyeWest's blog...



erk!!!

this really would put me off my food... i'd be passed out by this point!!