TT 7 Nov

From the TT desk: after a quiet start to the morning since the girls had run off to work (nah nah nah) I caved in and got some drugs for the cold. They seem to be working, nice to able to buy things without the spectre of being a P-head - and from the supermarket as well. Headed back to the Science Museum and had a great day looking at medicine stuff in the Wellcome museum, space race, planes and development of flight. All really interesting, if spoiled a bit by stupid school kids. Got to be a legitimate defence to shoot them. Weakened and went to the imax 'sea monsters 3d' film today. I say weakened, but given the topic (ancient aquatic dinosaurs), the music (Peter Gabriel) it wasn't that surprising I went. This one wasn't half as annoying as yesterdays, although they did insist on having a 'story' to hang the CGI stuff on. This featured a lot of palaeontologists reconstructing on the fly the story and magically revealing perfect fossils by using their brush. Now aside from the small issues of finding the skeleton, getting the skeleton out etc, I think the biggest issue was that all of the palaeo's were young. And the group they focused on was laughable, a good looking black guy and two hot babes (blonde and a brunette). Now I've spent some time with palaeo people, and I struggle to think of any that could be described as 'hot'. At least at the PhD level !

So I'm home now to have a reasonably quiet evening.

In the news review section that occasionally pops up in TT. Aside from the rapidly escalating crisis in Pakistan the major issue dominating the paper is the imminent opening of the St Pancras station refit - which takes over the Eurostar next week. An operation is taking place in New Delhi to separate a child from her parasitic twin who had led to her having 4 arms and 4 legs, but no bonus head sadly. Nylon tea bags are now being sold on the mainstreet in direct competition to the poor quality paper ones the Brits are used to.
But the pinnacle of news asides from today are the following top 'stupid' laws in England:
* People are banned from dying in Parliament. This is because its a Royal Palace, and technically anyone who dies there is entitled to a state funeral.
* It is an act of treason to to place a postage stamp bearing the monarch's head upside down.
* An old London by-law means a pregnant woman can relieve herself anywhere, including a policeman's helmet.

Tomorrow consists of me and Andrew heading to Oxford for the Porcupine Tree and Anathema gig. Woohoo. Beer! Gig!

B