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Nick Harvey wrote:Talking of percentages, is anyone else severely pissed off by all this 80% dead at one speed, but 80% alive at some other bloody speed business?

Why do we have to try to compare chalk and pears?

If it was all on ONE scale, like 20% dead at 60, or 80% dead at 90, then my brain would have half a chance of doing a proper comparison, and possibly, getting the message.

Everyone else on the planet is dumbing down, yet our stupid bloomin' government is making it so soddin' complicated in their infomercials that you can't do a proper comparison at all.

Its not dumbing down if you have to use your brain to figure it out.. I would have thought it would have been no problem for you

at 40mph there is an 80% chance of killing the person you have just hit.
at 30mph there is an 80% chance of not killing the person you have just hit.

Simple.

Does anyone else want to bea the kid from the frosties advert over the head with a baseball bat?
(for his own good of course)

Altogether now:
LYRICS:-
========
They're gonna taste great,
they're gonna taste great,
they're gonna taste great,
I can hear the sound of frosties hitting me plate

They're gonna taste great,
with tony ma mate
everybody knows frosties taste great
even ladies who wait
or a pi - rate
and you teenage brother whos out on a date
if you live in Aus mate
or the empire state
even ladies with a person-o-lised number plates.
or a bloke in a crate
well he knows they taste great
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat

Can someone explain what a pentapeptied actually is?

Bail wrote:Can someone explain what a pentapeptied actually is?

Looks at Sput.


Most adverts irritate me. I really hate Barry Scott. Does he really have to shout and yeah that Frosties ad gets on my nerves too.
I did really like an advert for a car sometime ago. One with a father and son. The little lad is dressed as a robber and you get the impression that he's going to a fancy dress party but instead his fathers sent him to rob a bank.
That was funny.

harry and george

ICYes you can

nidave wrote:Altogether now:
LYRICS:-
========
They're gonna taste great,
they're gonna taste great,
they're gonna taste great,
I can hear the sound of frosties hitting me plate

They're gonna taste great,
with tony ma mate
everybody knows frosties taste great
even ladies who wait
or a pi - rate
and you teenage brother whos out on a date
if you live in Aus mate
or the empire state
even ladies with a person-o-lised number plates.
or a bloke in a crate
well he knows they taste great
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat
they're gonna taste greeeeaaaaaat

I heard a rumour that the lyrics were written by Des'ree.

Spencer For Hire wrote:I heard a rumour that the lyrics were written by Des'ree.

*Snigger*

I do love that song, "Oh life" - especially as she would rather eat toast than get raped walking through a park.

What a sensible girl.

Bail wrote:Can someone explain what a pentapeptied actually is?

A pentapeptide is a polypeptide chain of five amino acids. Why the hell a chain of *five* amino acids is better than a chain of four or six I'm not sure, but the cynic in me suggests that 'quadrapeptide' and 'hexapeptide' don't sound as sexy.

Oh, I love it when the government spends £millions of our money on prime time ads which demonise the motorist....

The one with the little girl lying in the road... "If you'd been driving at 5mph slower, I'd have survived"

How about rewording that to...

"If my mummy had been keeping an eye on me, instead of letting me play hopscotch in the middle of a f***ing main road, you wouldn't have hit me in the first place"

Positivity now, and one that I like...

I don't know if it runs in the rest of the UK but here in NI we have a fab PIF from the Department of Health on the dangers of undercooked sausages which runs when the weather is warm and people are burning the outside of food on barbeques.

Picture of sausage being cut and revealing the pink inside, as the Three Degrees sing "When Will I See You Again?".

How times have changed. It used to be that we were warned about the dangers of being shot dead in a pub, now the most dangerous thing we have are barbequed sausages.

tillyoshea wrote:

Bail wrote:Can someone explain what a pentapeptied actually is?

A pentapeptide is a polypeptide chain of five amino acids. Why the hell a chain of *five* amino acids is better than a chain of four or six I'm not sure, but the cynic in me suggests that 'quadrapeptide' and 'hexapeptide' don't sound as sexy.

Maybe they're being careful to ensure that none of their competitors find out what exactly makes their pentapeptides better then anyone elses, and are confident that the term "pentapeptide" alone will be enough to confuse the general wrinkly populus into thinking that this is truly a wonderful anti wrinkle cream because it sounds so fantasticly sciency.

I always thought that the average peptide chains that small are effing useless for anything because they can barely fold, so there must be something more to it then merely pointing and saying *Look!* *FIVE!*