links for 2009-06-17

"According to the survey, one in six men (17%) are concerned that their drinking will lead to "man boobs", one in four (27%) are worried about developing a beer belly, more than one in eight (13%) fear their drinking is affecting their appearance and nearly one in 10 (9%) worry that it is affecting their sexual performance." – LOL it's mean to laugh but I can't help it.

Most people know in their heart of hearts that sell-by-dates are little more than a supermarket invention to encourage shoppers to buy more and best-before dates are generally a shield against lawsuits from the kind of people who need "warning: contents hot" labels on their takeaway coffee. But there's something about those digits that can make even the most fearless foodie paranoid – "If I eat that past its sell-by-date yoghurt, killer bacteria is going to sweep through my guts like a pathogenic panzer division."

"It could be said that being a lollipop lady is one of the easiest routes to an MBE, but think about it for a minute. For a start, you must like children enough – even the horrid ones – not to want them to get run over. You have to get up early and stand outside in the rain. Cars are dangerous, obviously (a lollipop lady was killed in Cleethorpes in 2003 in a road accident) and they have even been warned about becoming victims of road rage (described as "lollipop aggression psychological disorder" by the RAC, though this does sound more like someone who goes wild with a Chupa Chup)."