Hold me now, I'm hoping that you can explain

Yesterday, I pottered along to the Barbican to see what was going on at their Brainwaves Weekender. Among other things, I parked myself on the floor to watch Helen Arney present the unappealingly-titled I'm a Neuroscientist, Get Me Out Of Here!.

I'd have titled it "Listen to five smart people, who are neuroscientists, talk entertainingly and informatively about their subject". Which isn't as snappy, but there you go. Anyway, they were entertaining and informative.

( But... I'm a mathematician, get me out of here )

You know that I've been drunk a thousand times

Yesterday, ChrisC was reading a news story entitled something like "Iceland meat pies found to contain no meat at all". The story basically ran that the beef pies were being checked for horse meat content, and were discovered to be entirely free of meat from any kind of animal at all.

At this point, I can't see the URL the story is coming from, but I feel I know where I am. This is a satirical story about the frozen food emporium, Iceland, and their low-quality meat pies.

Except it's being touted as an actual, genuine news story about the large, bankrupt, volcanic island, Iceland, and their mysteriously vegetabley meat pies.

I'm pretty sure that not being able to distinguish between actual news and satire is a sign of the end times.