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Observations on a plane

When the guy next to you orders the Halal meal and a vodka, it’s hard to supress your cynicism.

When you’re tired and hungry, four glasses of wine and a cognac in under an hour make it very hard to focus on the six inch screen only eighteen inches from your nose!

Sitting on an aisle seat definitely beats the window option. Being one of perhaps only ten people in the whole of cattle class with an empty seat next to them and an aisle on the other side really rocks.

Greenland from the sky is amazing. This is about the twelfth time I’ve seen it from 6 miles up and it never ceases to amaze.

Ah too funny. Watching Will Ferrell film on the flight and his opening line is to promote quantum-paleontology. Deliberate irony about every halfwit out there who creates quantum-woo is obvious in context.

Nice story in the Telegraph… “Vatican attack on church conversions”:

The Vatican has expressed alarm over the “immoral” trend for churches to be converted into bars and nightclubs. Archbishop Gianfranco Ravisi … cited a church in Hungary that was deconsecrated and sold to become a strip club.

“It has now become a nightclub and a stripper performs her finale on the altar each evening,” he said.

Ah well moderate sexual exploitation of strippers is better than institutional paedophilia I guess. Lesser of two evils and all that.

About low Sodium Diets

I ought to note, briefly, that while the Cochrane Analysis that I mentioned two posts ago showed that a low sodium diet had little effect on blood pressure another Analysis by them does show that there is a significant benefit in reducing salt intake.

Specifically here for the long term effects.

Just goes to show how careful one needs to be even when someone has already done the research… reading that reduced Sodium wasn’t effective made me think that reduced Salt wasn’t effective until I had a really good look through their Hypertension group’s work.

TV Experts

After learning that Doctor Gillian McKeith is in fact just ‘Gillian McKeith’ and not quite as qualified as she is portrayed on TV I’ve had some skepticism of all the so-called experts on TV Programs. Tonight on Watchdog ‘Dr Lisa Ackerly’ was introduced as a Hygeine Expert. In my new-found cynicism I decided to check her out.

Turns out she’s quite qualified is Dr. Lisa Ackerly BSc(Hons), PhD, MCIEH, FRSH, MSOFHT, FRIPHH.

Expertsearch

Oh, Gillian isn’t recorded on Expert Search.