h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>>sunlight is also highly overrated.

I live in England, so I wouldn't know.

Speaking as an MS sufferer, sunlight is *not* overrated. It's essential for the body to produce vitamin D. Having said that, you only need about 10-25 minutes, depending on how bright the light is and how much of your body is exposed.

Due to a mixture of lack of sunlight and the fact that my mediciation actively breaks it down I take vitamin D tablets

Apparently the body gets worse and worse at accepting it into the body the more you have (helpful for preventing any overdose I suppose) however since I need so much this means I'm on tablets (tiny ones) with 15,000 percent of my recommended daily allowance

Ouch! I'm taking six times the RDA and I thought that was enough for most people. Just shows how little I know!

I'm going on a Mediterranean cruise in September. I should get enough sunshine to produce vitamin D for the winter. I'll still take the tablets, though.

I hadn't really noticed any difference before I had blood tests for it (which I got just as a matter of course from my treatment) or after it, now taking the tablets

I get enough calcium so I can't really pick up rickets, which occurs if you lack both

I've said this before, but it's very annoying that we are an hour ahead of the UK. When I log in at lunchtime, no one has posted anything for hours. When I have to log off because lunch is over, the UK has its lunch break and things start to move.

There's a solution to that: we all need to skive more.

sales calls from mobile phone companies,
I've just told you I only buy pay as you go phones stop trying to sell me a contract at "only £17 a month" I don't even top up that much

People who think it's OK to have their radio on loud after midnight. I went to bed around that time last night and I could hear music/speech coming from outside the house (i.e. from the street, not from the house next door). It wasn't clear enough to hear every word, but it was loud enough to disturb me and stop me getting to sleep. I have a device that plays relaxing sounds (flowing stream, sea, bird song), but even that couldn't drown out the sound. The nuisance didn't stop until around 00:30.

I suppose the moral is that I should go to bed earlier.

I haven't had a cold call in ages. I do tend to wind the callers up so I think that maybe word has gotten out about me

I think I should start invoicing them for my time...
that would pay for the phone...

PH: poncified porridge. I was all geared for my porridge for supper. Really ready for it. Then I realised there is sugar in it. And golden syrup. And blueberries. And this last one's the killer - chocolate chips.

Is it too much to ask for porridge to taste of...you know...oats? I know it's a blasphemous suggestion but it might just work.

KB, I must be missing something; why don't you just use porridge oats?

KB, whatever you do, don't move to France. It's virtually impossible to find a cereal over there that hasn't been 'poncified'. The most common additive is chocolate in some form, but there are other things as well.

quotes is right. Use porridge oats. Hubby has been making porridge in the microwave for years. I haven't mastered it, but he says it's easy enough - milk + oats in a microwaveable container. Make sure the container's at least twice as big as the quantity of porridge you're making, though.

Well, I thought they were porridge oats. And indeed they were. With a lot of other nonsense added...The other point is that if you're staying at a hotel, or someone else's house, you don't have as much control over it. And that's the problem - people now think this is normal. If you want porridge, people now seem to assume by default that you want golden syrup in it.

like you KB I hate oddly sweetened fruit stuffed porridge
if i wanted that I would eat muesli

It's getting harder to find anything unponcified these days. I recall posting several years ago about being in the dried fruit section of the bulk dept at a supermarket. I could find raspberry flavoured dried cherries, cranberry flavoured dried cherries, blueberry flavoured dried cherries... but could I find cherry flavoured dried cherries? Could I heck as like. I've gone as far as writing to Newman's Own about why they have low-fat Fig Newmans, wheat-free Fig Newmans and fat-free Fig Newmans, but no just plain old nothing taken out nothing added bog standard ordinary Fig Newmans

Don't even get me started on what's happening to beer these days Coconut IPA?

>>Don't even get me started on what's happening to beer

It was sobering to see the hopefuls* on the Apprentice producing flavoured beers, by the method of adding concentrates to existing beer.


* 'hopeful' as in 'hopeless'.

I've never watched The Appendix but I did hear about the beer one, where they kept going on about 'beer product' instead of just calling it 'beer'. Sheesh.