microwave dependence

So okay, I’ve had this microwave oven for about 5-6 years now. And the other day while I was making some popcorn I heard an extra loud POP and it turned out that the spinning plate had exploded. Um … why? Is it normal for a plate to explode like this? Has this ever happened to you?

I’ve since found a place where I can buy a replacement plate, but because of the stupid Feria I won’t be able to pick it up now until Monday. Which means I will have been without a working microwave for a week!

All of which has made me realise how much I depend on my microwave for those few small but significant things in my life. I mean, I never actually ‘cook’ food in the thing. In fact, I only ever use it for making popcorn, reheating coffee and defrosting stuff. But I didn’t realise until this week that those things are almost daily occurrences at casa az.

What do you use your microwave for?

cat dung coffee

Okay, this even ‘out-weirds’ the Germans…

Cat Dung Coffee For £50 A Cup

A gourmet coffee blended from cat droppings is being sold at a London department store for £50 per cup.

Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean are used to create Caffe Raro which is thought to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world.

The perfect beverage to go with the world’s most expensive sandwich.

what the fuck?

Came home after many tapas and mucho vino to find WordPress has totally changed everything… so that I have no idea how to upload my photos… nothing looks even remotely familar.

What’s going on???

Help?

sweet sixteen?

These must be Miss Bimbo ‘graduates’.

Seriously one of the vilest things I’ve ever seen.

(and no, it’s not a late April Fools)

 

miss bimbo

website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds

The internet game, aimed at girls aged 9 to 16, gives users ‘bimbo dollars’ to buy lingerie, diet pills and nightclub outfits. It has attracted 200,000 UK members

A website that encourages girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure was condemned as lethal by parents’ groups and healthcare experts yesterday.

The Miss Bimbo internet game has attracted prepubescent girls who are told to buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and to keep them “waif thin” with diet pills.

Healthcare professionals, a parents’ group and an organisation representing people suffering anorexia and bulimia criticised the website for sending a dangerous message to impressionable children.

It looks like since I first came across this article a couple of days ago that the Miss Bimbo website has been blocked. What do you think? Too much ‘nannying’ or does a website like this pose a serious threat to the young girls who visit it?

black bastard?

Had to start a new category for this - guess which one.

Why on Earth would anyone use this name for anything at all, let alone an energy drink? Any bets on how long they stay in business without a name change?

Over at the Black Bastard Website you can contact them by email and complain, since this choice of brand name seems to be intentionally racist and not simply an example of a cross cultural marketing blunder.

Wandering further around the blogosphere today I also came across this BBC article about an unfortunate name choice for a restaurant in Mumbai.

~ found on Letters Home To You ~