Thursday’s Trifles

Great news

for coffee drinkers. People who drink up to 4 cups of coffee a day diminish their chance of getting a cardiovascular disease by 20% compared to people who drink no coffee at all or more than 4 cups a day. This is the conclusion of research carried out by the UMC (University Medical Centre) Utrecht, who studied the lifestyle of 37.000 people.
Tea is even better for you (as if you didn’t know that already). Drinking tea diminishes the risk of getting a cardiovascular disease by a third.

So I’m thinking; if I drink 4 cups of coffee and 4 cups of tea a day… I’ll have about 47% chance of dying of a heart attack? 
 

Women rather go shopping

Another wonderful research, carried out by a marketing- and business consulting agency. Apparently 25% of women are not interested in football. Really?

A short summary of an interview in our local newspaper:

“You’ve only interviewed women?”
”We thought that women were the most likely not to be interested in football. They’d rather watch something else on TV or go shopping.”
”But women prefer to go shopping anyway don’t they?”
”………. Of the women who don’t like football, 57% even prefer cleaning the house.”
”So, if you’re unlucky the sound of the TV will be overshadowed by that of the vacuum cleaner.”
”………. Many women even prefer going to the dentist.”
”My dentist has a small TV-screen above the chair.”
”Hopefully he won’t get a woman in his chair who doesn’t like football.”
”Perhaps it’s better if he switches the channel to something like ‘the Bold and the Beautiful?”
”Women prefer to watch a movie.”
”But that takes too long at the dentist’s.”
”Perhaps some movie trailers”?

And apparently 5% of the women only watch football for the men playing and it would be more interesting to us women if the ban on footballers taking off their shirts was revoked.

Really?

 

You catch a pike with a beessie

First some background: a large supermarket chain called Albert Heijn gives you a ‘beessie’ with every 15 Euros  you spend. Yep, more junk. The ‘beessies’ they hand out have something to do with the World Cup Football currently going on in South Africa.

I personally can’t see the relation between a ‘beessie’ and the football, but hey, who am I to have an opinion about something I don’t have a clue about and am not interested in. Although I’d rather watch the football than clean the house. But that says more about how much I like to clean the house than about how much I like to watch football.

Anyway, I digress. ‘Beessies’ are available in the colours red, white, blue and orange. Funnily enough a friend just sent me a photo of his questionable trainers, but with a ‘beessie’, so I can show you what it looks like. We also would like your opinion on the shoes. Would you want to be seen wearing trainers like that? 

And now a summary of the interview with someone from a website for anglers who found out that using a ‘beessie’ to catch a pike works very well.

“Why are ‘beessies’ so very popular with pikes?”
”They move through the water wonderfully. If you remove the wire from the ‘beessie’, it dances nicely through the water. The pike will be provoked by that and eats it.”
“Do the fish only like the orange ‘beessies’?”
”Any colour will do. The redhead is a hit. That’s a ‘beessie’ with a red head and a white body.”
”Can you get a redhead at the checkout?”
”You’ll have to make it yourself. Anglers often create ingenious structures. I know someone who uses wooden carrots and bananas as bait.”
”You’ve organised a competition?”
”For the duration of the World Cup. Any fish caught with a ‘beessie’, can be entered in the competition.”
”Does a photo show if the fish has actually been caught with a ‘beessie’?”
”There is of course a risk of fraud. But I warn anyone who tries to cheat! They will be hit by the wrath of many Gods! Besides, anglers are extremely honest. They never lie about their catch.”