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Bent bananas not a Euro-myth after all

Like Arthur Dent in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I know I am partly to blame. I should always try and storm the official building to get to the locked filing cabinet and check for myself, but... life is too short.

And I used to presume those who claimed to act in my interests, from local pols to national media, could and would do so on my behalf, and serve it up in a way I could understand, and respond to appropriately.

I recognise many of those counters you cite, and in fact think most were issued either by or on our dear national broadcaster.

So how, in the name of all that is professional reporting, could a clear as day FACT, in print, be 'debated away' so successfully for so long, he asks, rhetorically.

Probably in the same way the new FACT will be spun, in the same manner.

Is there anyone competent, or ethical left in the politico-media establishment, or have they all been bought by some form of career or financial patronage? In fact, are they all ... bent? If so, they can go and get it.

Substitute one word in the common phrase, and you have: 'If, eventually, all we have are those who specify the shape of beans, once the last bean maker collapses under the burden of carrying them, we will have no beans... and starve'.

Call it taking the myth.

Gaurdian - EU bends the rules on cucumbers

Relative values

I noted today yet another vague law is being trotted out on driving.

Seems that where once you were careless, you are now dangerous, and proceed straight to jail.

Unless of course it's pretty hard to prove, I guess. So having mown down a bunch of nuns at a bus stop whilst reaching for a Mars bar, I'd err on saying you had no clue how it happened.

Then it would, if innocent 'til proven guilty still holds true, remain an accident. Not very ethical, moral or fair, but there you go. And, in some cases, maybe the best of a bad job as, sad to say, and despite the best efforts of those in denial of this, accidents do happen.

Yabbering on a mobile, doing your lippy... throw away the key. Those are conscious choices in the face of all logic. Checking the kids in back... I'm not so sure.

However, talking of conscious choices to break pretty clear laws...

Uninsured drivers get lower fines but are killing more people

Hmnn, how many end up in jail?

Dangerous Driving

BBC - Careless drivers set to face jail