Never trust Google maps when it comes to shop opening times. I'm glad I double checked with the shop's website as well.

Nope, fair number of people at work, can't work to standards/process, or won't listen when told to follow said process. As a result deadlines go + quality suffers which makes everyone look bad

That sounds familiar

Something I've long suspected but only just discovered evidence - kaley cuoco had implants.

POIDH lol

Ok... so maybe it did happen!

Just as an aside has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Henry Cavill and Alistair Cook the England cricket captain? It's kind of extraordinary.

I can't help thinking 'berk'.

Spotify's hosting Gary Glitter albums; people are still listening to them in their thousands, and the last one has a release date of 2011!

That Germany has around 3 times as many refugees as the UK. Listening to the Daily Fail and UKIP rhetoric, you would assume that the UK had a bigger problem than many of its neighbours, but it is only place 15, 2 places behind France and 10 places behind Germany. Even by population density it is way behind - 144 natives per refugee in Germany, 319 per refugee in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... population

Okay, refugees aren't the same as all immigrants, but that is still a huge difference. I'd always assumed that the two countries were on a par.

You can't really use a statistic about refugee numbers in isolation. Many factors define how many refugees a country can help - economy, spare housing, diversity of existing population etc. I don't know what the average German thinks about 'immigration', but there are actually few absolutes in this debate, beyond the absolute that leaving people to be tortured and murdered is simply wrong.

Brazil nuts and bananas are radioactive.

If it's got Potassium in it, it will be slightly radioactive - Potassium-40 is radioactive and accounts for ~ 0.01% of naturally occuring Potassium. Coffee is also slightly radioactive.
Low sodium salt substitues typically contain a proprotion Potassium Chloride instead of Sodium Chloride (I've seen ones with 50 or 66% KCl before) so low sodium salt will be slighly radioactive compared to regular table salt.

K-40 is used to date the age of rocks - it decays to Argon-40. So, assuming that all the Ar-40 in a rock sample comes from the potassium it contains it's possible to work out whent he rock was formed (half life of K-40 is 1.248×10^9 years)

I did a years industrial placement at a nuclear power station when I was at university. I was told that if you took a jar of coffee into the radioactivity controlled area you wouldn't be able to remove it because it would be active enough to trip the alarms and would, technically, have to be disposed of as low level radioactive waste. Thinking about it now I suspect this to be [LIFTED] - if it decays by beta decay (which is normally what K-40 does) it's unlikely the beta particles would penetrate through the glass jar. I suppose the actual coffee itself might trip the sensors though.

I knew about the potassium content of the above stuff. Had no idea it was radioactive!