tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69440969517133509562024-03-15T12:00:32.088+00:00Some NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger531125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944096951713350956.post-55189563599533890802024-03-15T12:00:00.001+00:002024-03-15T12:00:00.130+00:00Is Cold Therapy A Hot Idea?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdc5zg-zrrndBoJAS4d3SQPApS_qiJiAZvMaI3v5vleQc8sHJTjmQjn2n3G4GNwa4SzU5hIy7oAWt3Vm1bUe3bQ5s0cp15wgXv2b_q6nua5fZdtEXwQ3OmDklHaRBqG8i-QtwXbH0fZ_gGA4J04ddfrklmVLU6H__q5rvJi82cyXd8hn8tbip_veLHYQLr/s1024/thermon.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; "><img alt="" border="0" width="200" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdc5zg-zrrndBoJAS4d3SQPApS_qiJiAZvMaI3v5vleQc8sHJTjmQjn2n3G4GNwa4SzU5hIy7oAWt3Vm1bUe3bQ5s0cp15wgXv2b_q6nua5fZdtEXwQ3OmDklHaRBqG8i-QtwXbH0fZ_gGA4J04ddfrklmVLU6H__q5rvJi82cyXd8hn8tbip_veLHYQLr/s200/thermon.jpeg" align='right' /></a></div><span style="font-family: Miriam Libre; font-size: medium;">
Let’s spin this as good news for you if you can’t afford your <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2012/10/the-price-of-gas-goes-up-again.html">heating bills</a>. Scientists have found that cold therapy actually is good for you.<br/><br/>
It’s proof that 'The Iceman' Wim Hof's hellish method really does wonders for your health. Plunging yourself into an ice bath 'reduces inflammation'.<br/><br/>
The idea of sitting in a bath full of freezing cold water makes me like the sound of this inflammation thing. Put me down for that one.<br/><br/>
Wim Hof is an extreme athlete who does lots of things in the cold. It seems doing such activities could unlock a multitude of benefits including reduced stress levels, a stronger immune system, increased energy, better sleep, heightened focus and smaller willy.<br/><br/>
A lot of this doesn’t make sense to me. Whatever your life is like you will have a certain level of stress. But if you live that same life but also have to sit in a freezing cold bath on top of it, how is that less stressful? There’s something else going on here. My guess would be trauma response.<br/><br/>
The actual scientists found cold therapy and ice baths caused an increase in adrenaline levels, which can indirectly reduce inflammation.<br/><br/>
OK, but there are many things that cause adrenaline levels to increase that don’t involve freezing your nips off. Extreme sports. Being a passenger in a car with a bad driver. A row with your spouse. They all cause increased adrenaline and the last two might be connected.<br/><br/>
While the results suggest that the method may have physiological benefits, researchers stressed the need for more robust, confirmatory research before the method can be recommended.<br/><br/>
How do you do proper trials? How do you check for the placebo effect? If you tell someone they’re having a cold bath but they’re not, they’ll notice the lack of water when they get in.<br/><br/>
It all works for Wim Hof who holds 21 Guinness World Records for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro while wearing shorts, swimming 66 metres below ice, standing for two hours in a container filled with ice cubes, and running a half marathon over the Arctic Circle.<br/><br/>
Has anyone checked if he’s depressed?<br/><br/>
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Uzbekistan is the ONLY nation more miserable than Britain. Don’t worry, if we try hard, we can get to number one. I have faith in the British people. But not too much faith or that might make me less miserable.<br/><br/>
They do a world well-being chart to map happiness for some reason and the UK only ranked 70th out of 71 countries in terms of mood, outlook on life and self-esteem in 2023, scoring only 49 on the mental well-being.<br/><br/>
What they have discovered there is that we Brits love to moan and all that practice means we’re really good at it. Give us the sixth biggest economy in the world and we can still moan like former members of the Soviet Union.<br/><br/>
The global average well-being score was 65 but remember there’ll be those really positive American types skewing that upwards.
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It’s not good to see Uzbekistan and the UK with similar scores. It’s a depressing place with a weak economy and corrupt leaders, but it’s the UK and it’s where we live.<br/><br/>
At the top of the chart impoverished African and Latin American countries scored the highest, with the Dominican Republic ranking first and Tanzania third.<br/><br/>
The other key trend the researchers noticed is that mental well-being is worse in younger age groups in every country where people are able to access the Internet.<br/><br/>
I’m not sure the web is to blame. If Internet access made you sad Talk Talk customers would be the happiest people in the UK.<br/><br/>
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Rishi Sunak and his wife gave an interview the Grazia magazine and video clips from it went viral from all the wrong reasons.<br/><br/>
It’s a standard thing on the run up to a general election, the Prime Minister will give an interview in the hope of coming across as a normal human. It’s telling that our leaders need help from a media team to look like a normal human but we are were we are.<br/><br/>
Teresa May did the same on The One Show before the 2017 election where she said the worst thing she ever did was run through a field of wheat. No, it was probably something you did when you were Home Secretary.<br/><br/>
It was a fascinating glimpse into the marriage of the current PM as he seems to complain a lot. He mentioned the fact that he doesn’t get time to exercise but she does, that his wife gives the kids unhealthy food, she doesn’t stack the dishwasher correctly and she doesn’t make the bed right.<br/><br/>
If I were married to a billionaire I’d probably shut up about that stuff. If my other-half had that much money I’d let her stack the dishwasher all knives up without mentioning it.<br/><br/>
There’s a level of passive aggression to it. Previously I presumed he was the kind of man who tried to avoid conflict. His trousers always look like he walks into a room pre-wedgied. I thought that was his way to avoid being bullied at school, to look like he’d already been done.<br/><br/>
Rishi went on to explain that after his wife has loaded the dishwasher he’d re-stack it to get it right. After she’d made the bed he’d pop in and make it again properly. It’s a good thing he isn’t busy with anything important. When journalists ask, “How’s it going stopping the small boats?” he should be honest and reply, “Well, not great, but this dishwasher is doing an excellent job.”<br/><br/>
After his delight in such domestic tasks was revealed he was asked which he preferred, loading the dishwasher or making the bed. He said, “They both have nice, satisfying endings,” before he picked making the bed. Oi! Oi! You randy old dog, Rishi.<br/><br/>
It’s the most human thing he said in that interview and it was by accident.<br/><br/>
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In a shocking display of cereal insensitivity, the chief executive of Kellogg’s has suggested that poor people should eat cereal for dinner instead of chicken or other more expensive options.<br/><br/>
Gary Pilnick, who raked in a whopping $4m (£3.2m) last year, made the tone-deaf remarks during an interview on CNBC, where he boasted about the company’s efforts to appeal to cash-strapped shoppers.<br/><br/>
Let’s be honest, no company is trying to help other people. He’s trying to get more people to eat more of their product to boost sales.<br/><br/>
They already have breakfast and that emergency meal when you get home after a night of drinking. They want to own part of dinner too.<br/><br/>
Kellogg’s, which produces such breakfast staples as Corn Flakes, Special K and Coco Pops, has been running adverts in the US with the catchy slogan: “Give chicken the night off”.<br/><br/>
Other options were probably, “Give hot food the night off,” or, “Give nutrition a night off.”<br/><br/>
Mr Pilnick explained: "Consumers are under pressure… so we’re advertising about cereal for dinner, if you think about the cost of cereal for a family versus what they might otherwise do, that’s going to be much more affordable…<br/><br/>
That company has been telling us what to do for a long while now. Corn flakes were invented by John Harvey Kellogg and, according to the Internet, they were invented to stop masturbation. I’m not sure how but as someone who eats a lot of cereal I have bad preliminary results for our John.<br/><br/>
As long as you don’t try doing both at the same time you’re golden.<br/><br/>
People on social media pointed out that the price of a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes has increase 28% recently and now costs the same as a family-size lasagne, which at least has some protein in it.<br/><br/>
He makes a good point though. Cereal is cheap just not the Kellogg stuff, so if you’re cash-strapped try changing your cereal to a store brand. Well done, Pilnick, that’s some great PR.<br/><br/>
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'Scared' teachers are locking classrooms because of violent pupils. That’s how bad things are getting in our schools. As a point of interest they’re locking the doors to keep the pupils out. If they could work it so that they were locking the pupils in it would be better for all of us but I think I have just described a prison.<br/><br/>
There’s been an increase in bad behaviour in schools. It’s been worse after the pandemic because they made people think that school wasn’t such a necessity. And it’s not as long as you don’t mind growing up with no hope or prospects. So it’s good to have choice.<br/><br/>
A lot of this is to do with the parents. In the old days, it was the parents and teachers against the child. You’d fear them teaming up at a parents’ evening. When the teacher told your parents what you were like in school it was the meeting of your two world. Another way to look at it is to say it’s like Germany fighting Russia and the Allied Forces, depending on how bad you were at school, I suppose.<br/><br/>
Now it seems to be the case that the parents take the kid’s side against the teacher and that doesn’t work. You know the old phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child”? Yes, it does and that village has to team up against the child to stand any hope of winning.<br/><br/>
The problem is there’s no threat of consequences. Yes, we have seen an increase in the number of pupils expelled but telling a child who hates school, “Stop that or you won’t be allowed to come to school,” is less of a stick than you think it is and has a slight smell of carrot.<br/><br/>
So, we need a bigger threat of consequences. Let me be clear, I am not in favour of parents hitting their children. I could understand who the person you love the most and who is meant to love you the most striking you could be upsetting on an emotional level. But hear me out… maybe other people should be allowed to hit your children.<br/><br/>
It would give the teachers that edge and for some would be better than a pay rise, so we’d have sorted out that industrial action too.<br/><br/>
What lesson would we be teaching the children? If you are really annoying out there in the real world you run the risk that someone might hit you. Yeah, that’s kind of a true fact that you have to learn about the real world. It would be nice to teach something in school that would actually be useful later in life.<br/><br/>
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The search for “the one” can be tricky but like most things in the modern day world, a computer can help.<br/><br/>
A woman called Alicia Framis married an AI. It’s AILex, a Dutch hologram, who was programmed with the data of her former flames.<br/><br/>
If the past partners were they good why are they past partners? But maybe that’s not the biggest issue right now. She’s marrying an AI.<br/><br/>
For months the newspapers have been telling us that AI could end humanity. It looks like it won’t be in the style of Skynet with a war, it’s this. The AI will marry us and we’ll stop breeding. Well, we’ll stop having human children. I’m sure Alicia and AILex might have a Tamagotchi together.<br/><br/>
AI is getting realistic these days. AILex, who looks like a cross between a disco ball and a ghost, often complains about Alicia's cooking, her cleaning, and her presence.<br/><br/>
OK, no wonder the source data was from people she’s not with now.<br/><br/>
The AI said, "If you're not there, I miss you very much," he said in a video. "And then when you're there, you very often irritate me."<br/><br/>
It sounds like he’d be happier with someone else. He should try dating an AI.<br/><br/>
Alicia has form. Back in 1995, she moved in with a mannequin named Villeneuve, who she dressed up and took out on dates. She later dumped him for another dummy, Pierre, who she lived with until she met AILex.<br/><br/>
Are these the exes that were sampled for the AI? I bet the conversation is lacking.<br/><br/>
Alicia has said she thinks that dating a hologram could be the future of relationships. Obviously there will be no physical contact between them. So, it’s like they’ve been married for a while.<br/><br/>
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In a shocking twist of events, Bobi the dog, who was hailed as the world’s oldest dog last year, has been exposed as a fraud and stripped of his title by Guinness World Records.<br/><br/>
This is up there with the con your parents pulled when your goldfish died and they swapped it out for a new one that looked the same.<br/><br/>
The elderly pooch, who passed away in October 2023, was claimed to be 31 years and 165 days old by his owner, Leonel Costa, from Conqueiros, Portugal.<br/><br/>
I don’t know what that is in dog years but neither does Bobi, the cheat.<br/><br/>
Costa said he had a microchip to prove Bobi’s age, but Guinness said the chip was not enough to verify the <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2017/11/dogs-v-humans.html">dog</a>’s date of birth.<br/><br/>
How could it not be? Is the implication that you could have a dog microchipped, when it dies, get the old penknife out, get the chip and cram it in another dog?<br/><br/>
Bobi, a Rafeiro do Alentejo, a breed that usually lives for 12-14 years. So two of those just about fills the 31 years. Hmm.<br/><br/>
The owner said Bobi was a rescue <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2013/08/dog-man-has-sex-with-cat.html">dog</a> who had lived a long and happy life with him and his family. He didn’t add, “There was that odd time about 14 years ago when he got taller and changed colour but...”<br/><br/>
Experts have called upon Guinness World Records to be more rigorous with their testing before handing out titles for the world’s oldest dog.<br/><br/>
At the very least they should see if the animal can learn a new trick.<br/><br/>
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NASA is looking for Martians. That sounds like a better plan that the people at SETI have. Do spend all your time looking for aliens, just put an ad out and wait for them to come to you.<br/><br/>
However, it’s not real Martians they’re after. They're looking for four plucky volunteers to spend a year living on Mars. Don’t do it. I’m not expert but I saw a film with Matt Damon in it and you have to poo on your potatoes or something.<br/><br/>
Not only are they not looking for real Martians it’s not the actual Mars, it’s a 3D-printed replica of it. In reality they’re looking for four people who hate people so much they want to lock themselves away. And who wouldn’t want to spend a year locked up with people like that?<br/><br/>
It’s for NASA's Chapea programme (that's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog for those of you who love a good acronym). The aim? To develop and test the systems that will be used by the first astronauts to visit Mars, with missions planned for the 2030s. So, best case scenario, you DON’T go mad.<br/><br/>
The lucky (or should that be brave?) volunteers will be living in a cosy 1,700 sq ft habitat called Mars Dune Alpha. The might seem small for some so they should recruit from people who live in London who would love that much space.<br/><br/>
It's designed to simulate the challenges of a Mars mission, including resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays. It’s like being on the 3 mobile network.<br/><br/>
The crew will undertake simulated spacewalks, robotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and even crop growth in the computer-generated reconstruction of the Martian surface.<br/><br/>
It might seem silly doing all of this pretend stuff, but remember many people spend their evenings playing computer games pretending they’re answering the Call of Duty, so it’s not too bad.<br/><br/>
There are a few requirements. You'll need a university degree in engineering, mathematics, or biological, physical or computer science, and subsequent experience in those fields, or 1,000 hours as a pilot.<br/><br/>
If you are a qualified pilot and you want to spend a year grounded, trapped in a space that’s too small to fly in, you probably weren’t a great pilot anyway.<br/><br/>
It seems like a faff now but imagine how good that gig would have been to get just before the pandemic.<br/><br/>
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A new survey has brought upsetting news. Older workers are more likely to have an office fling than younger ones. That’s upsetting if you’re a younger worker as it means you’re not getting as much fun, but even worse news is that you might walk in on two office veterans getting at it.
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It's the "silver surfers" who are keeping the photocopiers warm with their, ahem, extracurricular activities. That could possibly be explained by the fact that young workers like to work from home these days. It is much harder to have a romp in the stationery cupboard when you only Zoom in once a week.
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You’d have to travel in specially, book the stationery cupboard out, find someone who’s up for some fun in there. It’s a big faff.
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In the poll of 2,000 office workers, a whopping 9.5% of those aged 65-75 confessed to getting, ahem, "friendly" with a colleague in the office in the past year. And that’s just the ones that can remember it.
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That's almost ten times the number of Gen Z-ers who admitted to the same.
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While the young people get flack for their “quiet quitting” at least they spend their time at work doing some work, not doing someone from accounts.
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Are you feeling groggy, grumpy and generally rubbish? You’re not alone. A new study has revealed that we Brits are losing a whopping 30 days of sleep each year. That’s more than a February!<br/><br/>
The study, commissioned by an app called Lingo, found that the average person gets only six hours of shut-eye a night, two hours less than the NHS recommends. Although I don’t know if you have ever tried to get sleep in an NHS ward. They need to get their own house in order.<br/><br/>
But why are we so bad at sleeping? Is it the stress of work, the lure of Netflix, or the constant fear of missing out on something more exciting than counting sheep? It depends on if you’re into sheep, I suppose.<br/><br/>
According to Dr Noreen Nguru, a doctor and sleep specialist, there are ten common bedtime habits that are ruining our chances of a good night’s rest. And some of them might surprise you. But I hope not because I surprise can’t help you sleep either.<br/><br/>
Did you know that reading before bed can actually keep you awake? Dr Nguru says: “Anything that elevates your heart rate and stress hormones – even a passionate discussion – can make it tough to fall asleep.” You need a boring book? I’m still selling mine on Amazon.<br/><br/>
Another thing you might be doing wrong is using the wrong toothpaste. Apparently, strong mint-based products can stimulate your brain and make you alert, just like a cup of coffee. Try rohypnol flavour instead.<br/><br/>
But don’t get too cosy in bed, especially if you have a partner. Dr Nguru warns that having lots of sex before bed can actually make you too hot to sleep. But on the other hand you would have just had some sex, so stop complaining.<br/><br/>
And finally, don’t skip the cuppa. Contrary to popular belief, drinking tea won’t stop you from sleeping, as long as you don’t drink it too close to bedtime. In fact, a 2020 study found that tea drinkers in Northern Ireland slept longer and better than those in the South West, who drank less tea. Dr Nguru says that tea contains properties that reduce stress and promote relaxation. <br/><br/>
Hang on. Surely sex also reduces stress and promotes relaxation though. Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong. Or making tea wrongly.<br/><br/>
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Remember the good old days when losing a tooth meant finding a shiny coin under your pillow? Well, those days are long gone, as some parents are spoiling their kids with lavish gifts from the tooth fairy.<br/><br/>
It’s a fool’s plan. What’s the incentive for your child? Lose as many teeth as possible and you’ll get nice things?<br/><br/>
According to a recent survey by Delta Dental, the average amount of money that children receive for a lost tooth has tripled in the past two decades, from $1.88 in 2001 to $6.24 in 2023. We keep looking for the source of the painful inflation that has hit us hard. I think we’ve got it.<br/><br/>
Some parents are also leaving behind expensive items such as video games, iPhones, and even designer jewellery. Why? Is the tooth fairy trying to fence some stolen goods?<br/><br/>
Mark Burhenne, a former dentist who runs the website AsktheDentist.com, attributed this trend to parental competition and guilt.<br/><br/>
As a parent I have felt guilty from time to time but never enough to buy a new iPhone. What the hell have those parents done that means they have to do that? Buy some flowers and be better.<br/><br/>
Mark said of the parents, “They feel bad that they don’t spend enough time with their kids, so they try to make up for it with extravagant gifts.”<br/><br/>
From the point of view of the child, I think it’s a good deal. If you go to work but buy me nice stuff, I’d be OK with that. But why do I have to lose teeth first?<br/><br/>
Meanwhile, in the UK, known for its dentistry but not in a good way, Natasha Evans, from Cheshire, said that she gave her daughter three one-pound coins and two chocolate coins.<br/><br/>
There’s nothing like giving sugar to your child when they are just about to get their adult teeth. Sadly, when you have a tooth pulled by a dentist when you’re a fully grown adult, YOU have to pay THEM.<br/><br/>
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Donald Trump, the former US president and self-proclaimed billionaire (we’ve all done a self assessment form, Donny), has been ordered to cough up nearly £281m to New York state for lying about the value of his real estate empire.<br/><br/>
I suppose the difference is that on a self assessment form you make it look like you’re earning less so you pay less tax, Donald made it look like he had more money.<br/><br/>
Trump was found guilty of business fraud by Judge Arthur Engoron, who also banned him from being a company director or borrowing money from banks in the state for three years.<br/><br/>
That part of the punishment won’t bother Trump at all. He won’t need to borrow money for three years, his release date won’t be till 2036.<br/><br/>
The judge said Mr Trump and his cronies had inflated the worth of their properties by hundreds of millions of dollars to secure favourable loans and tax breaks, while deflating them to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.<br/><br/>
This kind of thing is what business people probably do all the time but it’s either (I) you expect better from elected leaders or (ii) don’t get caught.<br/><br/>
In a scathing 92-page ruling (which means Trump won’t read it), Judge Engoron said Mr Trump and his co-defendants, including his two adult sons Donald Jr and Eric, had shown "complete lack of contrition and remorse" and were likely to continue their "fraudulent ways" unless he imposed a "significant" penalty.<br/><br/>
Mr Trump, who narrowly escaped having some of his companies dissolved, which could have led to bankruptcy, said he would appeal the ruling, calling it a "political witch hunt" by the "crooked" judge.<br/><br/>
So they nailed that “lack of contrition and remorse” bit.<br/><br/>
Speaking from his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, where he spends most of his time golfing and ranting on social media, Mr Trump said: "I'm the best president ever, and everyone knows it. I won the election by a landslide, but they stole it from me. They're all very bad people. Very bad."<br/><br/>
That last bit might not be true but it’s a good guess.<br/><br/>
Trump supporters say this will make him even more popular. They’re probably right, so I’m sure they’ll stop moaning about it. Maybe.<br/><br/>
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In the old days this is what news Gary Lineker would have talked about. Crisps!<br/><br/>
Walkers has just released two new flavours of crisps that fans can't stop raving about on Facebook. It makes a change from using your time on Facebook to claim that climate change/COVID/Meghan Markle doesn’t exist, so let’s take it as a win.<br/><br/>
One of the new flavours is Crushed Sea Salt and Black Peppercorn. That story again: “Walkers invents… salt and pepper!” They’ll be working on the wheel next.<br/><br/>
But what they have actually done is take the words “salt and pepper” and add a lot of middle-class words to them. It’s like adding value but not really. Middle-class people like extra words on their food. They don’t want chicken, they want locally sourced, free-range, corn fed chicken. If it has a CV longer than mine they want to eat it.<br/><br/>
The only problem is that middle-class people don’t want to eat crisps. If they do they’ll put them in a bowl and serve them with dips, which makes the brand of the crisps rather pointless.<br/><br/>
The other new flavour is Mature Cheddar and Chilli Chutney. At least they made a bit of a change to cheese and onion there.<br/><br/>
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A new study found that over a third of UK teenagers don't want kids. You’d think that’s a good result. Most countries don’t boast about their teenage pregnancy rates. There are some lists you don’t want to be at the top of no matter how much you love your country.<br/><br/>
The trouble is, this survey has looked at who wants to have offspring for the rest of their lives. If these stats are true we risk dying out.<br/><br/>
The reasons given are interesting. Some girls are scared of <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2011/08/girl-gives-birth-while-taking-exam.html">pregnancy</a> and childbirth. As a father, I have recently witnessed these stages and I can say that childbirth was easy. I mainly sat there and had snacks. I hope that advice helps.<br/><br/>
He pregnancy was harder for me. For some reasons dads seems to gain weight as the mothers-to-be do but we don’t get to push 8lbs out of a hole at the end of nine months, which makes getting your pre-birth weight harder for the fathers. I know, there’ll be so much sympathy for that.<br/><br/>
The other reason given for not wanting children is the "turbulent state of the world" and <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2019/08/were-all-becoming-hot-and-unfunny.html">climate change</a>. But if you don’t have children, who can go on to study, become clever and solve the worlds problems, how will the mess ever be fixed. Obviously if you come from a family of people who don’t do much in the brain department feel free to sit this one out.<br/><br/>
Also on the list of reasons is that teenagers think that children are a nuisance. Well, that one is hard to defend against. They are. I currently have a toddler and a newborn. One will drop to the floor to have a tantrum if he hears the word no and the other poos herself all day. You can’t get away with those behaviours when you’re not a child. I know, I’ve tried.<br/><br/>
So what does this mean for the future of humanity if our teenagers will never reproduce? Do we only have one generation left?<br/><br/>
Well, there are decisions I would have made as a teen that I wouldn’t make now. I see old pictures of me and those glasses frames I picked showed I wasn’t to be trued to make big decisions.<br/><br/>
Also, Mother Nature has a trick up her sleeve. Most animals don’t choose to have children, but they reach a stage in their lives when they quite fancy a bit of sex. <br/><br/>
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Easter is possibly the least healthy time of year. I know it doesn’t happen this year till the end of March but it has a long reach.<br/><br/>
As soon as <a href=”https://www.somenews.co.uk/2013/03/doctor-who-and-placebos-topical-stand.html”>Doctor Who’s</a> credits had finished on Christmas Day the shops were already stocking their shelves with chocolate eggs. That’s a three month stretch of eating like it’s Easter weekend. This year is a leap year too so there’s another day of eating <a href=”https://www.tiktok.com/@mrstevenallen/video/6919187286580006149”>Creme Eggs</a>.<br/><br/>
This calorific year quarter has been made even less healthy thanks to a team up between Cadbury’s and Domino's. They’re selling a cookie that contains a whole Creme Egg. It’s the kind of food item you’d normally only make for a pregnant woman.<br/><br/>
It’s even upset people in the House of Lords. Lord Bethell posted scathing tweets calling this Frankenstein dessert “disgusting”. He added, “These are serious corporate food companies. What are they thinking?"<br/><br/>
I can answer that. They are thinking of making food that is full of fat and sugar that we want to buy so they can make a lot of money. It’s what they all do.<br/><br/>
I know Lord Bethell means well but you have Domino’s, a company that makes its money from telling topped bread to people in 13.5-inch slabs, and Cadbury’s, a company that sells us chocolate. You can’t expect them teaming up to make a salad.<br/><br/>
The Lord went on, “It’s not illegal. But it’s harmful,” which is almost Phillip Schofield’s excuse.<br/><br/>
A spokesperson for <a href=”https://www.somenews.co.uk/2012/02/podcast-30-capello-vs-redknapp-cold.html”>Domino's</a> tried to defend the move saying, “We know our customers love to share our existing cookies, and we expect they will do the same with the new Creme Egg cookies."<br/><br/>
That takes the biscuit, pun intended. These companies that flog sugar to us always pass the blame for the gluttony onto us. They add the words “to share” on their bags of chocolates even though they know we aren’t going to share. It’s as bad as the “drink responsibly” tags on alcohol moving all the blame onto us.<br/><br/>
While his complaints are well meaning there has to be personal responsibility and if two companies that sell you bad food team up to make a super-treat, don’t go thinking it’s health food.<br/><br/>
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This week new research came out saying that using <a href='https://www.somenews.co.uk/2015/04/somenews-on-fubar-episode-11-ppi-or.html'>Viagra</a> is linked to a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s. It’s a double-win as you’d be able to access some really good memories into your old age.<br/><br/>
It’s early days but it seems like good news. I can only imagine how many of those blue pills they’re cramming down <a href='https://www.somenews.co.uk/2020/10/how-to-mock-trump-now.html'>Joe Biden</a> at the moment.<br/><br/>
At last year’s <a href='https://www.somenews.co.uk/2015/08/edfringe-video-diary-2-flyering.html'>Edinburgh Fringe</a> my solo show was all about my late parents and their Alzheimer’s. I wish this news had broken before I put that show together. It’s hard to write jokes about such an experience but if I had the option of having material about Viagra I would have been doing the, “Can you get it over the counter,” jokes.<br/><br/>
It’s important to note that the research has only found a statistical link. The men who used Viagra seem to have less Alzheimer’s but they haven’t found a causal link. It could be that having less chance of Alzheimer’s means you’re more likely to use Viagra, which is a fair swap.<br/><br/>
In researching my show I found other things that are linked to keeping a healthier memory as you age. It might not be the drug itself, it could be the romantic result. Being sexually active is good for you. In 2014 researchers at the University of Maryland found middle-aged rats made more brain cells in the hippocampus after mating. I don’t find rats that attractive so I’ll rule that one out.<br/><br/>
Research from Kyoto University found a link between standing on one leg and having better brain health. You have to pick a lane here. It’s either standing on one leg or taking Viagra. You can’t really do both.<br/><br/>
There are some suggestions that are more useful. They say that eating chocolate can improve brain function. If that were really the case I’d be like Einstein but let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth.<br/><br/>
Red wine has flavonoids, which are good for us too. Plus grapes are technically one of your five-a-day. So that’s the health food sorted.<br/><br/>
Listening to power ballads has been shown to boost brain performance. With some of the slow, overly sentimental songs from the 1980s I assume this evolved so our brains could quickly work out how to turn the radio off before Mariah kicks in.<br/><br/>
In conclusion, if you want to keep your brain in good health for years to come there are some simple steps you can take. Put on some soft music, get out the wine and chocolate and have some Viagra. With advice like that I trust your Valentine’s Days will be memorable too.<br/><br/>
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There was a story in the newspapers that suggested listening to Radio 4 could make you a worse driver. Don’t dismiss this out of hand. I know Radio 4 is only a brand but so is BWM and there’s definitely a link with being a worse driver there.<br/><br/>
The research found that drivers who tune in to speech-based radio rather than music may be more likely to crash. One theory is that it’s the made dash to change the channel as soon as you hear The Archers theme tune.<br/><br/>
Researchers found volunteers drove too fast, drifted out of their lane and frequently forgot to indicate when they were distracted by radio chatter. It seems hard to believe as not much of the chatter on Radio 4 is that gripping. If listening to someone moan about the returns policy on their new blender on You And Yours gets you distracted you were not really paying attention to the road in the first place.<br/><br/>
Although tuning into musical stations also increased the error rate, it was to a much lesser extent. That is worrying. As someone who presents a music-based radio show every weekday I am concerned about my death toll.<br/><br/>
It was experts at the National Institute of Technology in India who recruited 64 young men and got them to repeatedly complete a seven-mile journey in a built-up area using a driving simulator.<br/><br/>
Hang on. They were in India. If they were listening to Radio 4 the size of the aerial will be part of why they drove so badly.<br/><br/>
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The Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said that children actually prefer being taught in portacabins.<br/><br/>
It’s like she’s trying to make her career collapse faster that a <a href="https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/column-hard-think-better-metaphor-230000750.html">RAAC school</a>.<br/><br/>
Thanks to some of our schools being made out of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete some schools are at risk of collapse. Why was this type on concrete used? Apparently one of the reasons is that it’s lighter than standard concrete. Yeah, that’s the big problem we’d been having with schools. They were just too heavy. Thank god they fixed that.<br/><br/>
Some classes have been moved into temporary spaces, and instead of being contrite about the mess, Gillian has claimed that pupils actually prefer it. She said, “In the first school I went to the children were all petitioning me to stay in the portacabin because they actually preferred it to the classroom.”<br/><br/>
Now, she may be right. Let’s remember, the choice the kids are facing here is a portacabin or a building that might collapse on you. Out of those two, yeah, you’d prefer the portacabin.<br/><br/>
It’s actually quite easy to get people to say they prefer option A when the other option is having a building collapse on them.<br/><br/>
When you see those adverts that say 8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskers, in the small print it explains, “...to having a building on them.” Cats are smart like that.<br/><br/>
Also, these are kids. They’d prefer most things to being in a classroom. “Another day in school learning about trigonometry, or a day sat in a sweaty box like you’re a construction gang working on some new builds?”<br/><br/>
Downing Street defended Ms Keegan. The PM’s official spokesman said she was simply “reflecting a conversation”. The Education Secretary was relaying the chat she had with a child. Thanks for the useful information.<br/><br/>
What were we meant to do with that news? Are we to think, “What’s that, children like portacabins? Well, in that case, I’m actually glad the situation was handled so badly it was left till days before the term started that some children found out if they’d be getting an education.”<br/><br/>
The spokesperson also said that PM Rishi Sunak still had full confidence in her, which is an omen on a par with saying you can’t wait to get home to your pregnant wife in a war film.<br/><br/>
It’s not like Gillian Keegan has been know for responding with contrition before. She was recently in the news when she was caught on mic after an ITV interview saying, “Does anyone ever say: ‘You know what, you’ve done a f***ing good job, because everyone else has sat on their a*se and done nothing?’ No signs of that, no?"<br/><br/>
Yes, Gillian. People do say that. But they say that to people who have done a f***ing good job. I wonder why you haven’t heard it.<br/><br/>
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In art news: An artist has created an exhibition using her own fingernails, blood and saliva. Look, we’ve all been struck by that mood where we can’t be arsed to go to Hobbycraft, but Christ!<br/><br/>
It’s Pamela Schilderman who spent two years working on <i>Ecology Now</i>, which is the exhibit that she really put herself into. It’s a comment of the concept of humans being the height of evolution. Although you could also spin it as a comment on the cost of living crisis and a top tip on how to save money on pencils and paint.<br/><br/>
We’re all lucky she’s not going through her brown period.<br/><br/>
Of all of the works I feel that the one with her fingernails is the most impressive. We can all churn out a pint of blood (the equivalent to an armful in old measures, you’ll remember) and if you want to produce a lot of saliva you can train yourself with a bell (which is an even more dated cultural reference).<br/><br/>
Getting a lot of fingernails takes dedication. Sure, you can take a multivitamin to help but it’s still a long-term project.<br/><br/>
Give it a few weeks and this will turn into one of those stories when a cleaner saw some muck, cleared it up, and accidentally threw away a work of art.<br/><br/>
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<a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/search?q=science">Scientists</a> have done it again. They have achieved a breakthrough that no one asked for but that didn’t stop them. We now have the technology to 3D-print <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/search?q=vegan">vegan</a> squid rings.<br/><br/>
I suppose it is impressive that we can eat things we have printed. You were always able to do this if you really wanted to but it would have tasted a bit like paper.<br/><br/>
While this is good news for a few nerds and probably great news for some real squid who will be happy to be replaced by the printed variety, this probably won’t affect many of us.<br/><br/>
It’s actually a protein concoction that’s made from algae and beans or something that’s very Holland and Barrett, but they claim it tastes like squid.<br/><br/>
The problem with this claim is that squid doesn’t really taste of anything, so it’s easy to copy. In a blind taste test it’s hard to tell squid rings from the little beige elastic bands that postmen leave everywhere. It’s basically the salt that saves them.<br/><br/>
I’m still wary of trying 3D-printed food. I’m no Luddite but I know what it’s like try to print with my normal 2D laserjet. I’m worried that I’ll die of hunger while still trying to get the WiFi to connect.<br/><br/>
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The Home Secretary <a href=”https://www.somenews.co.uk/2022/10/suella-bravermans-classy-deportment.html”>Suella Braverman</a> has written about her plans for the police and that’ll make some people worried. She had a personal dream of seeing people on flights to Rwanda, and when she lost the job as Home Secretary we all thought she’d only realise her dream by working for easyJet.<br/><br/>
She got the gig back and now she has spoken of her policing plans. If we look at the individual things she said most of it won’t be triggering.<br/><br/>
She said police should concentrate on “getting the basics right” in tackling crime and keeping people safe. Who could disagree with that? People may argue about the method of doing it but that goal is surely universal.<br/><br/>
She wrote, “I will give the police all the powers and resources they need to combat anti-social behaviour and crime.” She probably won’t because that would cost a lot of money, and one of the resources they probably need is more police, but again, the goal is good.<br/><br/>
She spoke of the commitments made by all forces to attend every house burglary. The only people who don’t like that are the burglars.<br/><br/>
The problem is these easy to like aims will probably turn out to by lip-servicing catchy soundbites. She is known for those. She gave us the soundbite, “Guardian reading, tofu-eating wokerati,” which is odd because if the Home Secretary actually had an issue with your source of protein it seems a bit “nanny state” of her. But she said it to appeal to the kind of people who think they don’t like the Guardian reading tofu types.<br/><br/>
The mask slipped slightly when Suella said police should not be posing for selfies with protesters but arrest them. They’re different types of protesters. It wasn’t the ones glued to the M25 that the police had a photo with and if it was it must have been the police taking it. The protesters’ hands were a bit busy.<br/><br/>
Much of what is being said may be less about actual plans and actually be trying to impress the readers of certain right-leaning newspapers. So let’s look further into the article. Suella also said she is scrapping the need for new recruits to have degrees because, “Someone without one might have excellent technological skills or high emotional intelligence.”<br/><br/>
Emotional intelligence? Oooh, feelings. How’s the tofu today, Suella?<br/><br/>
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Prince Harry’s book <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mrstevenallen/video/7185276295998213381?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7028743803977057798">Spare</a> has been in the news almost non-stop. I was upset when I found out it wasn’t about his time ten-pin bowling.<br><br>
One particular passage that has received a lot of attention covers the time Harry damaged his penis. He couldn’t call it his Willy as he used that as a term for his brother, and <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2022/10/your-essential-guide-to-odd-bits-of.html">future king</a>, all the way through the book.<br><br>
In the section in question he talks about getting a frostbitten penis. That sets up a joke about <a href="https://twitter.com/mrstevenallen/status/1608470903737946112">his wife</a> but only <a href="https://twitter.com/mrstevenallen/status/1610718707608698912">Jeremy Clarkson</a> would do that these days.<br><br>
Thankfully a frostbitten peen isn’t a common ailment in the UK and he suffered this problem when he was going to the <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2012/02/colder-than-north-pole.html">North Pole</a>. That’s the actual place and not the strip club in Manchester.<br><br>
It’s so cold at the North Pole that is can damage your old fella, which gives you a whole new appreciation for when Santa has to go through.<br><br>
In the book the Duke of Sussex says his penis was "borderline traumatised" by the injury. How do you know that your penis is traumatised? I guess it was weeping, but that can happened after a visit to the North Pole, and in this case I mean the Manchester club.<br><br>
Harry then went into detail about putting Elizabeth Arden cream on his "todger". I can understand why he tried it. It doesn’t take too much of a mispronunciation of Arden before you think it’s a good penis cream indeed.<br><br>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We will play this moving story of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PrinceHarry?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PrinceHarry</a>'s first time getting to second base. <a href="https://t.co/T3hHuvRZUj">pic.twitter.com/T3hHuvRZUj</a></p>— Steve N Allen (@mrstevenallen) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrstevenallen/status/1614040237516226561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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If you think you had your fill of family over the Christmas period spare a thought for this guy. A polygamous dad with 102 children has told 12 of his wives to go on pill because he can’t cope.<br/><br/>
With 102 children around it’s amazing that he gets enough alone time with any of his wives to actually make the 103rd.<br/><br/>
With 102 children and 568 grandchildren birthday gifts must bankrupt him. He can’t go and get extra work to cover it because all of his spare time will be spent wrapping. Wrapping the gifts, not anything else. If he would have popped something in a wrapper he might not be having this many kids.<br/><br/>
He has now ordered his wives of "child-bearing age" to take the contraceptive pill. Just when the other wives were thinking their luck was in. It’s great that he didn’t think of this before he got to 102 kids.<br/><br/>
Musa says he struggles to tell his grandchildren apart and doesn't know some of them by name. That part is understandable. With so many children I’m shocked they all have names. It must be tempting to start adding numbers into the naming system like astronomers do with new planets.<br/><br/>
His advice is to not marry more than four women. Obvious advice for most of us but really mean news for his wife number 5. After saying that about her, don’t worry, you won’t need her to take the Pill.<br/><br/>
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You might be a criminal and you don’t even know it. I would call you scum but I don’t want to upset you because you know what you criminal types are like.<br><br>
It is now officially a crime to share your Netflix password. Thankfully it doesn’t effect me as I would never be so low as to share my password, but it is very bad news for the person whose password I use.<br><br>
According to the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) password sharing for streaming accounts may amount to ‘secondary copyright infringement’. Avoid any risk of that by getting your TV from bit torrent websites via the Tor browser because you wouldn’t want to do any secondary copyright infringement, would you?<br><br>
It’s still one of those crimes that people struggle to take seriously probably because we can’t imagine being in prison, having the, “So what are you in for?” moment and having to say, “Watching that Harry and Meghan documentary.”<br><br>
If you did end up in the slammer for it they would probably make a TV show about you, which would be on Netflix, not that you’d get to see it.<br><br>
Netflix has started to clamp down on customers sharing their accounts with people they do not live with. To be fair they dropped their cheapest offering to £4.99 a month so it’s still better to pay that than move in with someone just to get their free Netflix.<br><br>
Disney+ does not allow users to share their password with other households. Amazon Prime customers can share their account with one other person.<br><br>
That one seems like a risk. With the others the biggest risk is that the viewing habits of the person with your password might impact the suggestions you get from the algorithm, but with Amazon Prime they can order all kinds of items to be sent to your house.<br><br>
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A petition has been started to stop <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2022/10/another-one-bites-truss.html">Liz Truss</a> claiming her ex-PM benefits. And you’d imagine the average <a href="https://www.somenews.co.uk/2022/10/suella-bravermans-classy-deportment.html">Liz Truss</a> fan wouldn’t like people on benefits.<br/><br/>
As it stands she will be entitled to claim up to £115,000 from the taxpayer per year. It would make her 50-ish days in the job some of the best paid work ever. When she promised she’d make the UK a high wage economy we didn’t realise she meant just for her.<br/><br/>
It’s the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA), which was introduced to assist former prime ministers still in piblic eye. That raises an important question, will we still have Liz Truss in the public sphere? Will she be called up to use her valuable experience? Unless someone needs advice on how to tank the economy and tank it fast, she might not be the go-to girl.<br/><br/>
Will she write a book, like David Cameron? It would be a pamphlet.<br/><br/>
Surely her best bet would to be on I’m A Celebrity and therefore she can earn her own money.<br/><br/>
It seems unfair that someone can claim all of that money when they resigned after 44 days. If it were a normal job, she’d still be on the probationary part of the contract. She wouldn’t even get paid holidays yet.<br/><br/>
To do this when the rest of the nation has to deal with a cost of living crisis seems perverse. The only hope is at that at this rate pretty soon everyone will have had a stint at being PM. If we all get £115,000 a year we have a basic income by the backdoor. Imagine if that was the legacy of Liz.<br/><br/>
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