Be Excellent To Each Other

And this one:

When I did some work for P&G (who own Pampers) I went to a meeting they were having and heard this rather scary statistic: Every week in 2006 there were 150 babies born that P&G either didn't know about, or didn't get a 'new mother' welcome pack out to.
That's, like, 0.1%.

There's 150,000 babies a week?

Fuck.

That would be 7.5 million a year, ish. That sounds a little bit off.

Please let that not just be in the UK. That must be for the whole of Europe, surely?

Did the Grimlet... get his?

My twin brothers were only awarded the one to share, which I thought was a bit tight.

It's Bounty that send out the pack of sample products from various manufacturers. We've had a few from them now. Whilst there are a few good bits and bobs, it's mostly lots of leaflets trying to get more personal informaiton off you (as if they don't already have loads to start with).

Corporatism FTFY

Still interested?

PM me, wont be cheap though.

Yup, and guess who the main 'sponsor' for that is.
Ever wonder why you never got any Huggies nappies in there?

Oh, I know. I've seen the contracts between Bounty and the various manufacturers...

After the experiments strapping butter toast to the cats' backs to try and build a perpetual motion machine failed, RG's department were left to dispose of them by dropping them into the particle accelerator and listening to the agonised yowls as the cats spun around the race track at almost the speed of light.

IT WOULD NEVER HOVER. IT WOULD NEVER HOVER. Any such strap is an impossible device. It would break: cat and toast would part and fall as normal. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD IT EVER HOVER.

It was a long time ago, MrD - you have to put it behind you.

could you not just butter the cats back?

What about if the cat was oriented longitudinally, on a buttered treadmill?

Last Tango in Paris?

Only if the cat were called Toast. A fine name for a cat.

Toast is also a fine lunch. Especially with either jam (not cat jam), or ham (not cat ham).

Or green cat spam from a cat spam can.

And we're back to Subway.

We're in agreement that the plane wouldn't take off though, right?

It certainly wouldn't hover.

When I had a subway (just the once I might add) the bread was so flaky it all crumbled away, leaving me holding salad sandwiched by meat, with butter everywhere. It was quite messy and I didn't enjoy it.

Since when did Subway start putting butter on their sandwiches?

Butter? That wasn't Subway.

Ehhhh, maybe it wasn't butter, but something was very greasy and felt all slimey on my hands.

(I do like butter though)

That'd be the meat, no?

These flashbacks are traumatic. I was trying to eat it waiting for the tube at Fulham Broadway, and it got all messy and I got all sad. I felt that there was a lot of filling for the money I paid though.

(It probably was the meat that felt slimey, yes, but very much so, possibly more than I was expecting).

Ooh - I'm gonna have to buy some of that stuff from Mimi's friend. Mrs Squirt loves stuff like that, and it's her birthday coming up. It does look tasty as well. Those little pinks hearts look delicious.

I think you might find the stress is largely related to being in Fulham Broadway.

Anyone dropping into this thread might be forgiven for thinking you were describing something entirely different.

Fried chicken? I hate it when that dribbles oil on me.

Why are they experimenting on Kamineko?

I work near there



That was my plan all along

Really? I live 10 minutes walk up North End Road, my car is currently sat uselessly in the Saab/Vauxhall garage next door to it.

Really? Spook!

Well, kind of. I live near Sutton and get the train to Wimbledon, tube to 'FBDY ' and then bus to work. Not getting the tube into zone 1 is almost 50% cheaper. I work a fair bit further down the Fulham Road - in the labs near the Marsden and Brompton hospitals, close to South Kensington station. It's damned expensive around there, most of the shops are dead poncy.

Joking aside, Fulham is actually a reasonably nice area, I quite like it. Not that I go out there often though.

To abuse a phrase: small city, eh?

Pretty much. I actually work in ealing, so I'm getting the tube the not crowded way from West Kensington. If I like, and when I have the car (sob), you can actually drive there pretty traffic free too. I don't though because it's £1 by tube.

As far as I can tell though, you're saving £1 on the tube by not going to zone 1....and then spending 90p on the bus. I'm not sure where your gain is here

I buy weekly travel cards, so the bus is included on them (for any zone). None of yer fancy pants pay as you go*. No sir, I am old school After the price rise recently, it's £20.20 for trains/tube in zones 2-4, and as much bussage as I care to shake a rolled up London Lite at. Not sure what 1-4 for a week costs, but last time I did that (which was a while ago) it was about 36 quid.

And it doesn't really seem to take much longer, and I get off the tube befoire it gets really busy around earl's court. Hurrah!

Man, what a dull-o conversation to start the day with.

*Unless I'm going into zone 1 for an evening out or something, which is not often.

I've had a box of Lush stuff for my birthday, I do quite like it but agree it's well over priced. I used to make my own (also being an aromatherapist) but it just didn't sell so I couldn't be bothered wasting my time with it anymore. Now I just sell everyday healthcare products.

I may have a Subway today. Meatball is sub-o'-the-day on Tuesdays I think (or is it BMT? One or the other).

After yesterday's meatball sub lunch I was still having meatball burps when I went for a run last night. Bleurgh.

*Adds "The Meatball Burps" to the band name idea notebook*

Is that a euphemism?

Meatball is Tuesday.

Today I'm eating the remaining food I got free over the course of the marathon weekend. You get given a few goody bags with cereal bars, milkshakes, sweets, biscuits etc. all over the place. Enough to snack on although being a fat pie and only 5 minutes walk from a Subway, I have a suspicion I'll be making a footlong visit later.

Have you spent much time in Watford? Because that was freakily accurate.

A footlong visit to the throne shortly afterwards.

I like Nando's. hey're relatively cheap and cheerful, and the wold herb dressing (or whatever they call it) is quite addictive. I used to go there once a week when I worked in Richmond (we had loyalty cards and the manager gave us free drinks), but haven't been there for years now...

Nando's is TEH ACES. Trufax.

My local subway stopped doing sub of the day last week.
Apparently the whole chain is phasing it out by the end of May, to be replaced by the rubbish 'taste of the month'.

And then after that 'Flavour of the year', and after that 'Subtle hint of the decade'.

I had a maccies instead. It's next to the subway. It was perfectly acceptable.