I have no idea of the veracity of this*, but I think it’s great anyway.
Gravity wins again:
Hadfield returned to earth this week after 146 days in space on board the ISS. And while there were other astronauts up there with him, he was the one who kept us updated with the goings on aboard the vessel and gave us brilliant pictures like this.
* actually, now I do. Real tweet, but not the real man. 🙁
Drama! As spotted at a local Spar.
Obviously, I was only passing by the Ricoffy section on my way to the real coffee section.
For those of you who are unaware of what the product entails, it’s basically granulated ditchwater.
It’s bloody awful.
And now they can’t make it anymore, though quite what the “erratic supply of coffee” has to do with this is beyond me. I never realised that coffee was involved in the manufacture of Ricoffy.
But then I looked again. And I read more carefully. And they’re only halting the manufacture of the 500g products.
How bizarre.
Will this really affect the average Ricoffy consumer? Did it really warrant a SORRY with two exclamation marks?
Surely one could always share a couple of 750g tins with two other people? Or if you’re more independently minded, just double up on 250g jars.
Apparently, Ricoffy 100g will be produced in very limited quantities – namely 100g – so five of them would work nicely as well.
But the smart choice is still to buy none of any of them.
P.S. “Ricoffy Decaf”? Zero squared…
From BBC News Online:
People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found.
Thanks for that, Durham University. I’d never have guessed.
I’ll put it in my folder labelled “Startling and Important Scientific Research” along with:
Pope “more likely” to be Catholic, and
Bears “more likely” to shit in the woods
Oh – and that paper about disappearing teaspoons from Melbourne.
Why can’t I get a research project like that?