This time, seen on the bottom of a box of magnetic chess: Warning: This toy contains magnets or magnetic components. Magnets sticking together or becoming attached to a metallic object inside the human body can cause serious or fatal injury. Seek immediate medical help if magnets are swallowed or inhaled. Woah! First off, ‘magnets sticking [...]
The French are legendary for their bureaucracy, and they are proud of it. Questioned about it, they will slyly deny it but with that look in their eye like a cheeky child who took a cookie without asking. It’s a national institution and, in a wholly un-metaphorical way, it is one that employs vast numbers [...]
I was bought a book called “An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (or 200 years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)” by John O’Farrell. It’s some 587 pages long and worried me greatly. But, one night I gave it a go and found that it was one of the hardest books to put down. It [...]
A report from the Policy Exchange suggests that Britain would need £434bn to overhaul its infrastructure in order to be competitive in today’s world. Businesses have a massive burden placed on them through dealing with poor power supplies, limited access to resources, time/money wasted in congestion and high maintenance costs. Pointing out that our electricity [...]
I was messing with a rubber ring with my niece, when I noticed that, in addition to the usual European languages and Chinese, three different English languages were listed, probably for their different legal dialects. AU: Flotation toy warning: use only under competent supervision. GB: Warning! Only to be used in water in which the [...]
