I do apologise, but one more thing about Star Trek; when they need to send an away team down to a planet, its usually lead by Commander Riker, but no matter what the weather conditions on the planet, no matter if there's a 100mph gale and pissing rain, or freezing temperatures, he never wears a coat!He's usually with Data and Worf, but obviously they don't need a coat, but Will Riker is a human, he's been very lucky not to catch pneumonia.
It sets a bad example is all I'm saying. All those nerd kids in the northern parts of America are going to watch him and think they can go outside when it's 20 degrees in the winter, sporting just a thin nylon type top. I've emailed in, but haven't received a reply yet.
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So now...I've been researching this latest hysterical food scare and of course it is just that, a food scare. It's fair enough to be concerned, the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with Dioxins, do you remember him? His face went all horrible if you recall and he glowed a bit like those kids in the Ready-Brek adverts of old.Nasty stuff and of course if you're selling pork goods you don't want to be nuking your customers if it's avoidable. But once again the meeeeja have sensationalised this with out of context numbers and now no one will go near a sausage and bacon sammich for love nor money.
Granted Dioxin levels 200 times the safety limits sounds a lot, but it's not. Viktor Yushchenko was exposed to under 1mg of these nasty chemicals. That's 1,000th of a gram. The safety limit for your basic average sausage is 0.6 nano grams - which is 1 billionth of a gram. So for a sausage to be found contaminated with Dioxins 200 time the safety limit is fuck all.
In sausage terms you'd have to eat approximately 400,000 of them to expose yourself to the same levels as poor Viktor. Of course, if you some how managed to eat that quantity of pork, the resultant cholesterol levels would cause a massive heart attack before your face turned into a rice pudding. Silly media.
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Sport now, I've gone off proper football again so let's focus on American football instead. Some interesting games tonight. I won't be having a wager cause it's all too confusing, but I'm fairly certain 10/11 for unders (34) in the Pittsburgh v Baltimore game is a shoo-in. I'm as confident about that as one can be in the context of this season. I'd like to see Blatimore win comfortably though as I've backed them to win the Superbowl at 16/1.
The Giants - Cowboys game is an intriguing one I think you'll agree. From a Redskins point of view we'd like to see both of them lose, but in the interests of Washington's fading play-off chances, I'd have to root sacrilegiously for the Cowboys.
The Giants have a +3 handicap, which is bizarre even if it's essentially meaningless for New York as Dallas look bloody awful at the moment and being at home cain't make that much difference either. Both teams coming off a loss, but Dallas are not a team at the moment and Terrell Owens has become, predictably, to team moral what 350,000 irish sausage sandwiches are to a healthy diet...even without Plaxico Burress, New York really ought to win this.
The Giants - Cowboys game is an intriguing one I think you'll agree. From a Redskins point of view we'd like to see both of them lose, but in the interests of Washington's fading play-off chances, I'd have to root sacrilegiously for the Cowboys.
The Giants have a +3 handicap, which is bizarre even if it's essentially meaningless for New York as Dallas look bloody awful at the moment and being at home cain't make that much difference either. Both teams coming off a loss, but Dallas are not a team at the moment and Terrell Owens has become, predictably, to team moral what 350,000 irish sausage sandwiches are to a healthy diet...even without Plaxico Burress, New York really ought to win this.
So to sum up - what should actually happen given my research is a total shoot out in Baltimore with about 100 pts each and Dallas to thrash New York by at least 40 points.
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Now the weather: It's cold, so no matter what you've seen on Star Trek, do wrap up if you're going outside.
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