Sideswipe: January 7: Ignore this at your peril

Mike took this image while touring around Oahu in Hawaii. "I guess they really mean it," he says.

Don't ask us

Translations of the phrase "We haven't got a clue."

• Corporate-speak: "We haven't got our arms around it yet."

• In law: "It depends."

• Airline also use "operational reasons".

• Teaching: "Interesting question, we're looking at that next lesson."

• I had a college physics professor who loved to respond with, "that's beyond the scope of this course".

• "These ideas are not mutually exclusive."

• In transcription, [inaudible].

• News: "The answer, as always, lies somewhere in between."

• In real estate appraising, it "depends on the market", which I can research for you, for a fee.

• Fulltime, stay at home mum: "Ask your dad ..."

(via @Hannah-Chutzpah)

Wildlife adoption news makes one unbearably sad Texan

Wildlife adoption news makes one unbearably sad Texan. Bless.

Debunking the moobs myth

The meat industry is now waging a war on plant-based alternatives such as the Impossible Burger, and Beyond Meat products. Various meat producers have claimed these plant-based alternatives are harmful and "ultraprocessed", with some comparing them to dog food.There's a new claim in town — plant-based meat alternatives will make men grow breasts. "As first noted by the Washington Post, an article labelled as "news" in the trade publication Tri-State Livestock News claims that eating Burger King's Impossible Whopper, a new faux-beef menu item, could cause men to grow breasts." The claim that soy-based foods, like the Impossible Whopper, will "feminise" men is a tired one that has been around for years — and still has no evidence to back it up ... other than the case of a 60-year-old man who developed benign swelling of male breast tissue and elevated estrogen levels. Doctors reported that he consumed nearly three litres of soy milk a day. (arstechnica.com)