Home team for the ruru!!

A BMI calculator will just use height and weight - if you have a lot of muscle bulk you'll get a higher BMI result even if you're lean. Conversely, some people are "thin on the outside, fat on the inside", ie they carry a lot of visceral fat around their organs. So while BMI can be useful, it's not perfect.

I've organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won't accept my body if I've died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they're done with me I'll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.

I have an Olympus Tough, which I bought because it's waterproof and I can take it out on the water without worrying. What I use it for a lot though is its macro settings, amazing levels of magnification. And both: took some great close-ups of tadpoles in a pond.

The Russian government cracks down really hard on anyone daring to protest against the war. You can be jailed for even calling it a war - it's a "special military operation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2022%E2%80%93present)

I regularly shop at a supermarket built on a site where people were burned as witches in the 17th century.

A ship's captain was away at sea and died after his ship was wrecked in a storm. Back home, his housemaid was accused of having created the storm and was burned at the stake. And there I am buying lemons and ice cream and toothpaste. It blows my mind.

Couple of HR people had sex on a desk, not realising they could be seen from the upmarket hotel across the street. Oops!

There were quite a few other incidents - it was quite a lively workplace - but this was the funniest.

He then shared particular frustration with the sudden change in his opponent, suggesting that the Democrats had orchestrated Biden's withdrawal to improve their chances.

Gosh, I don't think anyone else has figured that out! This guy is hella smart.

Some uk supermarkets have started dropping the use by date in favour of codes like this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012 The article says it’s to reduce waste and that staff will have special training to know when to bin stuff. I imagine the training is in how to read the codes.

Consider this: a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It really helps me understand just how obscenely wealthy these people are, how much money they are hoarding. They're leeches.

My father, a union organiser: "You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back."

Stood me in good stead down the years.

Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, "will this fit my XYZ?" and he answers, "I don't know, but it works ok on my ABC". It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.