Singing in the Shower
I was in the shower this morning, reading the bottles of shampoo, cleanser, shaving cream... as you do. MrB's shaving gel has an interesting instruction written thereon:
Take a hazelnut-sized blob of gel in your palm...
Hazelnut-sized? That's pretty... random.
What if you're severely allergic and come out in hives at the mere mention of nuts?
What if you are horrendously poor and have never had the privilege of nibbling on Nobby's nuts?
But then I got to thinking, what else is hazelnut-sized? Maybe they wracked their little German minds, and this was all they could come up with to quantify the 5.76gm blob they suggest you use?
I dunno. Am befuddled.
And all this is to clear my mind of what I read in the papers today. I just want to weep with the overwhelming sadness and hopelessness I feel burdened with. New police powers to search and monitor, with NO accountability but to the Minister in charge - no place for judicial oversight?
What Brave New World are we living in?
Take a hazelnut-sized blob of gel in your palm...
Hazelnut-sized? That's pretty... random.
What if you're severely allergic and come out in hives at the mere mention of nuts?
What if you are horrendously poor and have never had the privilege of nibbling on Nobby's nuts?
But then I got to thinking, what else is hazelnut-sized? Maybe they wracked their little German minds, and this was all they could come up with to quantify the 5.76gm blob they suggest you use?
I dunno. Am befuddled.
And all this is to clear my mind of what I read in the papers today. I just want to weep with the overwhelming sadness and hopelessness I feel burdened with. New police powers to search and monitor, with NO accountability but to the Minister in charge - no place for judicial oversight?
What Brave New World are we living in?
Labels: Outrage
posted by actonb at 8:24 am
7 Comments:
im so with you on the weepy-ness of the world. it makes me shake with rage one minute and feel utterly hopeless the next.
At the risk of making light of a serious para at the end of your post....
dude - did you WEIGH a hazelnut?
GW - It's hazelnut-SIZED, as in volume not weight I'm assuming. And no. I didn't. I'm not THAT dedicated to the concept of truth-in-blogging.
Mex - I am totally at a loss as to what to do/think about it all. I'm worried. Like really truly worried.
But what they fail to say is if that's a hazelnut with the shell on or off. And what variety? Barcelona, Butler, Casina, Clark Cosford, Daviana, Delle Langhe, England, Ennis, Fillbert, Halls Giant, Jemtegaard,Kent Cob, Lewis, Tokolyi, Tonda Gentile, Tonda di Giffoni, Tonda Romana, Wanliss Pride or Willamette?
Stupid shoddy labelling.
TMATP - Hee! No-one has ever done so much research for a single comment before. I'm so ...flattered?
And I had assumed the nut would be shelled, but I could be so very wrong. Imagine the wastage if MrB was basing his gel-usage on an UNSHELLED hazelnut and he's supposed to be using a SHELLED nut as his yardstick. Or nutstick. Or something.
Ok weird. Because last week I was doing the same thing in the shower and noticed my hair product stuff recommends using "one or two walnut sized" amounts.
I don't eat nuts! So I always get the portions wrong.
Damn Sunsilk, why not just use the ole' coin comparison thing? I know what a 50 cent piece size glob looks like....
(Ha, I said I don't eat nuts)
Miss! Miss! I know the answer to this one, Miss! Alexander Downer's brain is the size of a hazelnut, Miss (shelled hazelnut, that is).
Do I win a prize?
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