[Gllug] ist that right that the Oyster card got RFID on it?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Jan 21 16:24:35 UTC 2007


On 18 Jan 2007, Peter Ball stated:

> On 18 Jan 2007 at 1:52, James Roberts wrote:
>
>> Nix wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm waiting for them to tell me `the eating of human flesh within the
>> > station concourse can be dangerous and is illegal'.
>> 
>> I'm probably going to regret this question but I just gotta ask: I can 
>> see why eating 'long pig' is illegal (depending I suppose on the 
>> jurisdiction) and indeed arguably immoral (and I'm a veggie) - but why 
>> should it be dangerous?
>
> It's very simple each step you go up the food chain toxins are
> concentrated by a factor of 10 so eating carnivores is 10 times as
> dangerous as eating vegetarians, which in itself is 10 times as
> dangerous as eating vegetables.

Just to blow your mind: tubers of the potato (and other members of the
Solanaceae) could be considered carnivorous in a good light.

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