Wednesday 13 February 2008

News Roundup

When I read the headline “Hamster prices triple in China” my first reaction was oh no now they have found a tasty recipe for hamsters – my fears were unfounded, it appears that the dawn of the year of the Rat has led the Chinese into a frenzy of buying hamsters for pets.

John Peel's grave has finally been marked with a grave stone on which is the quotation from the Undertones song Teenage Kicks that he had always said that he wanted placed there "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat".

This last one is just plain bizzare, the National Health Service are claiming on their web site that “'sexercise' can lower the risk of heart attacks and helps people live longer.”.

Not only that "If you're worried about wrinkles - orgasms even help prevent frown lines from deepening." - read the article here.

What neither it or the NHS site will tell you is how the data was collected, did they have teams of sex inspectors roaming the land checking that group A were having regular sex sessions while control group B were abstaining? Surely we have the right to know, and also where to apply.

5 comments:

Sezme said...

Hamsters smell.

The sex study? Yeah, how did they conduct it? Perverts.

DBA Dude said...

rt, Really?

The mind boggles.

phlegmfatale said...

nice to know Mr. Peel's now been properly planted. Bless him.

By the way, I love the Nouvelle Vague version of Teenage Kicks.

Lin said...

Get your application in quickly for the next study - I hear vacancies tend to fill up quickly. Even if the studies might be flawed in their conclusions, you'll have done your bit for science.

DBA Dude said...

Phlegmmy, Had not heard it before, have now - pretty cool.

Lin, I am hoping that they will accept overseas applications - might be able to pick up a fake medical degree on the cheap :)