The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

Belfast has got it!  BREAKING NEWS!  Er, "offbeat."

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/woman-finds-locust-in-salad-30153227.html

Woah. When I found a giant cockaroach in my Szechuan noodles, all that happened was my friends and I started calling the restaurant I got it in "A taste of cockaroach" [as opposed to its actual name, "A taste of Szechwan"]. It did not make international news. 

Did you use twitter?

Sad fact is it happened so long ago there was no such thing - no widely-available Internet, even. 

[alfred russel]

Belfast has got it!  BREAKING NEWS!  Er, "offbeat."

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/woman-finds-locust-in-salad-30153227.html

Woah. When I found a giant cockaroach in my Szechuan noodles, all that happened was my friends and I started calling the restaurant I got it in "A taste of cockaroach" [as opposed to its actual name, "A taste of Szechwan"]. It did not make international news. 

Because you're clearly not an ultra-connected british journalist.

No, but nowadays I am a lawyer ... damages for mental distress, anyone? 

That is the other thing...no one would believe the lawyer's story.

[Admiral Yi]

Braz shoulda wrangled a lot more than a free lunch out of this.

[garbon]

My co-worker asked if she was going to sue.

[Ideologue]

This is the main problem with insects has food. They all look totally disgusting. People would eat way less steak if each time in your plate you had an entire, yet small, cow.

I dunno.  People eat shrimp, the delicious cockroaches of the sea.

[Ideologue]

My co-worker asked if she was going to sue.

For what, the cost of her salad?

[mongers]

Braz shoulda wrangled a lot more than a free lunch out of this.

I'm thinking, edgy journalist with interest in competative eating competitions and unusual foods offers to eat locust found in salad, after all waste-not-want-not, bring in issues of 3rd world hunger, parlays this into a small slot on national/region tv magazine program, interest in eating other unusual found foods, becomes roving food reporter for obscure cable/freeview Channel 5 program doing sharp, witty and not too serious 5 minute 'food' items. 

'How cockroach found in takeaway help me overcome my marathon, marathon adiction in run up to marathon.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm thinking shakedown for trauma.

[katmai]

My co-worker asked if she was going to sue.

For what, the cost of her salad?

Mental Distress, jeeze no wonder you can't get a job as a lawyer.

[Ideologue]

You've swayed me.  B should absolutely pursue that cause of action in her loser-pays system.

[Josephus]

Belfast has got it!  BREAKING NEWS!  Er, "offbeat."

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/woman-finds-locust-in-salad-30153227.html

Woah. When I found a giant cockaroach in my Szechuan noodles, all that happened was my friends and I started calling the restaurant I got it in "A taste of cockaroach" [as opposed to its actual name, "A taste of Szechwan"]. It did not make international news. 

Did you try The Canadian Jewish News?

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Sheilbh]

Hit the broadsheets now! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-finds-a-locust-in-her-waitrose-salad-9236749.html

Waitrose and the Independent!


Saw this letter from Alec Guinness to a friend:

[Ideologue]

I mean, I wouldn't have pushed Alec Guinness down a flight of stairs or anything.  Osteoporosis is no joke.

[Eddie Teach]

CDM would have been on Guiness's ass about not seeing The Conversation.