Saturday, 20th November 2004
Things wot have happened
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A couple of weeks ago I bought some thin-cut steak from Tesco, only to find when I got it home that the overlapping bits, in sharp contrast to the bright red meat surrounding them, were a kind of brown/green colour. With six or seven days left on the best-before date, we scooted back to Tesco, had an apology and a replacement from Customer Services.
Guess what I found to be the case when I got the second lot home.
Upon returning this second lot of raw steak that was going green, I was firmly told they could only refund this time, not replace it since "there's actually nothing wrong with the meat" — apparently it's due to how the steaks lie on each other, and where the meat sweats a little. And it seems I'd find that "any other shop would have exactly the same". Riiiight.
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The Java program I'm working on at the moment (second coursework) only has very simple things to do at the moment, and is instead being completely stupid and not doing what I'm telling it to. And it's too late and I'm too frazzled to go through with a fine-toothed comb to find the problem — due to a very bad day (including internet dying every few minutes this evening) on top of a horribly hectic week — so at the moment it's all the robot's fault that it can't find its way through a maze. Nothing to do with me.
Update: When I looked the next day I found in about 10 seconds that the problem was an erroneous "less than" instead of "less than or equals" in my
forloop. Bah. Stupid late-night coding. -
Last week I made Kevin's weekend by taking him to our student cinema (well, lecture-theatre-come-cinema) to see WarGames in 70mm print. I think his joy lit up the lecture theatre :-) For my part, it was much better than I thought it would be since Kevin's explanation as to why it's a classic ran something like: "Along with Tron it was about the only computer movie of the 1980s!" So... it's a classic because it existed?
On the plus side though (from Kevin's point of view) I'm now less scared about being subjected to Tron.
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Yes, it snowed. It seems a lot of the rest of northern Europe did too :-)
I am duty-bound to reveal that my brother has started blogging. I think the correct welcome is, as Clair put it: "Mwahahaha".
Comments
Having bought a variety of different kinds of beef in the past, I have to agree with Tesco on this one. I don't know why bits of meat go brown where they touch, but they always do in my experience. There really is nothing wrong with it.
They're right about the meat--I used to work in a supermarket. Although it's not by a long way the stupidest reason people have returned goods, don't worry. Unfortunately for you, the Distance Selling Act doesn't allow you to to return perishable goods you don't know much about for any reason. Hmmm It's Lamby as well, not Chris. Bet you don't know who I *actually* am though. Also, I see that your blog now requires email addresses...haha
Okay, I think I knew that meat could go brown where it touches, but it really was distinctly greenish. Kevin was with me at the time and came to the same conclusion as I did.
It's probably unresovable in this one case since a) we're the only ones who actually saw it, and b) it seems I don't really know a great deal about raw meats. So either one of us could be right, but I remain convinced that green is not the right colour for any meat.
Vegetarianism rules.
Ahh I suppose. I would have done the same. I'm always taking stuff back, but that's because I'm a total freeloader! My message didn't mean to sound harsh: re-reading it makes it sound kinda blunt. btw do you do anything that doesn't involve Kevin? I mean, just wondering. I guess it saves him from writing a blog. --lamby
Well, during the week I'm mostly here, and mostly working, and Kevin comes up here every weekend. And he takes me to Tesco when I need to go because I'm lazy, and it's slightly quicker than walking.
Oh, but he does have his own blog :-)
Every single post that's on his homepage has zero comments... does nobody read his, or s..does nobody read his?
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Oh my god...that quote...it...it...totally changed my life! I can't believe that just summed it all up! Wow! W00t! Like, I'm a changed man! I'm going to buy that book that you plagiarised it from and live my life by random, Capitalised and over-generalised sayings, even though that the vast majority of them contradict each other. Anyway, apparently the pretentious book that the quote is from is "essential [for] the personal library of [anyone] interested in pursuing wisdom". I wish I was kidding. I would continue mocking it but it's far too easy.
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