Real biscotti, real value
What? A new podcast already? That's real value. Collings & Herrin Podcast 53 is here, a matter of days after the last one because Richard is on tour or something. Even my homemade biscotti cannot cheer him up. In the podcast, we find out that grapefruit juice can cause heart failure, television can give you asthma, having a job can get you stripped of your University Challenge glory, teenagers can cost nine thousand pounds, Sir Fred Goodwin was named by William Makepeace Thackeray, Tesco's offer real baskets as opposed to surreal or figurative ones, Richard's got another idea for a Slumdog Millionaire sequel, beer is a surprise sedative and teenagers' pants are designed to be seen.Can I just apologise for the burp with which this podcast begins. He was very tired.
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Happy Birthday, Andrew. Have a fun day.
Thanks. I apologise in advance for the inevitable time-difference between when you post comments and when they appear. I shall moderate later. I'm off out.
Happy Birthday Sir, enjoyed the grumpy bollox podcast this week.
I agree with you on the low slung trousers.Why anyone would choose to imitate this look, a look made popular by prisoners ferchrissake is utterly beyond me.
Oh the giddy joy of a mention in the podcast.... Well I say mention Richard couldn't remember my name - but a reference to 'someone on the guestbook' about my suggestion to pay Fred the Shred in coins. Oh the joy, the rapturous unalloyed joy of it all!
It's my birthday too!
Also Shaking Stevens and Kenny Dalglish.
Enjoyed the Podcast even though it was a rather slow news day.
Also does anyone remember the name of a comedy show that James Coyden was in about a boy band where he played the sort of Gary Barlow character? I remember it being rather good.
Zoltan Zander
Congratulations on two mentions (and related ones at that) of real science in this week's podcast! Firstly, the tweet Richard read out about the CYP450 system being pants referred to the cytochrome P450 system. These enzymes are responsible for breaking down drugs and other toxins in the body. Secondly, fruit juice causing heart failure. This is because a chemical in grapefruit juice inhibits some CYP450s so some drugs aren't broken down as they should be and build up to toxic levels. Sorry about this geeky post, but my wife's gone to bed with the flu and I'm at a loose end. And happy birthday by the way.
Has the biscotti caused Rich to burst into flames on the photo, or is this the next step on his raod to divinity?
Happy Birthday :)
Happy Birthday Andrew! Have a great day.
Just listening to the podcast, and I blame the pharmacist rather than the grapefruit juice or the medication. I worked in a hospital pharmacy for 5 years and it's common knowledge that grapefruit juice is contra-indicated by several medications. We always had to point that out to patients. There's an anti-biotic called Doxycycline that you can't use a sun bed with. Drugs are funny things.
Kate A
Happy Burp-day. (see what I did there?)
I'm two weeks behind on my podcast listening thanks to not riding on as many buses, and now another podcast has arrived. Egad. It's like having triplets, without the drain on resources, lack of sleep and stitches.
So it's nothing like having triplets. Sorry.
Happy Birthday Andrew!
One of the people I work with has taken to shouting "your trousers are falling down" at people who wear their trousers that low when they're walking away. It does make me laugh when they don't know how to respond.
littlefishey: but it is rather like having to eat three Christmas dinners in one afternoon, as lampooned on The Vicar of Dibley. It goes in, but it doesn't come out, at least not for a while... I'm all podcast engorged, with no bum.
As a offender of the 'off-the-bum' look I feel I should chip in with my (often) pointless opinions and a explanation of sorts..
The off-the-bum look started according to legend in the poorer areas of New York and was later popularised by late 80s and 90s Hip-Hop artists. The legend (as told to me) states that as people were too poor to buy their kids new clothes the practise of hand-me-downs was often practised between siblings and on the mean streets of New-York the BIGGER the trousers the BiGGER the older BROTHER!!!! this style of wearing baggy trousers was quickly adopted by members of the extreme sports community (mainly skateboarders) and the Baggy arse showing pants revolution took off..
the only problen with wearing trousers some 3-4 sizes to large for you was that even with a belt they tend to slowely slip down revealing the pantile area.
One of the other reasons why my friends and i used to wear baggy trousers was that it made shop-lifting easier.. (a friend of mine developed a technique where-by he was able to comfortably carry two 2litre bottles of coke out of the store (one down each trouser leg) without breaking his stride.
Now as a older gentleman I have found that the years of youthful large trouser wearing have left me incapable of wearing trousers that are anything under a good size to large for me.. I just find them really uncomfortable and strange.
anyway .. thats not a defence of showing your bum in public more of a explanation. I'm not sure if the 'kids' wandering around today have much clue of the above myths and half-truths. And anyway most of them seem to be wearing super-tight trousers these days which leaves little scope for old-skool arse bearing.. I would suggest the kids disscussed in the podcast are if anything highly unfashionable.. in the current skinny jeans dominated trouser world..
Andrew, re: your comments about not consciously putting your winter clothing away (i.e. only having one set of clothes), I've lived in Italy since the mid-90s, and I can tell you this is exactly what the Italians do.
They call it "il cambio di stagione", the change of season; in the spring they put away all their winter gear and take out the summer stuff, in the autumn vice versa.
This is why, as is a well-observed fact, Italians dress according to the calendar rather than the thermometer: go to Milan in March and it may be warm with blazing sunshine, but you will see women wandering around in thick fur coats; alternatively if there's a nippy day in late April/early May you'll see people shivering and underdressed.
Many apartment blocks have centralised heating systems (for all the flats) and there are legally binding dates when they can/must be turned on and when they cannot/must not. In Milan the heating is on from 15 October-15 April, regardless of the outside temperature. (The further south you go, the shorter the time period is...I think in Sicily it's something like 1 December-1 March).
End of "useless information about Italy" bulletin.
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