Someone at the St Heliers Bakers Delight is a fan of cult TV Show Breaking Bad.
Consumers milked
A reader writes: "Are people insane? Every day there's a queue from one end of Farro to the other, waiting for the midday delivery of Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk, and apparently some
people have been selling bottles of the stuff on Trade Me for upwards of $20. I tried some to see what the fuss was about. It just tasted like melted icecream, and the sugar and calorie content was horrific. It's amazing (and sad) just how gullible people can get sucked in by the likes of Saatchi & Saatchi and how social media makes people act like sheep."
Baroness drones on
The chairwoman of a House of Lords select committee looking at the civil use of remotely piloted aircraft systems, Baroness O'Cathain, rather naively said: "I was horrified the other day when I was given a certain website to look at. I could see the roses in my garden. It was on a Google map or something, and I have no idea how it was taken. It was taken from up there. Obviously it was not a large aircraft, but this is happening. It did not fill me with a sense of security."(Via Matt Burgess @mattburgess1 on Twitter)
Behind the mask
Sales figures for surgical masks in Japan have more than tripled over the last decade - partly because of influenza outbreak fears in 2009 and concerns over microparticles after the 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear crisis. And now Ebola. But some aren't wearing them for health. One 46-year-old mother told Japan Today her daughter wears one for a completely different reason. "She puts on a mask and sticks headphones in her ears so that people won't bother her. It makes it harder for them to start talking to her." Some people even see masks as a fashionable accessory. An online search for "beautiful masked girl" will bring up hundreds of results, and an increasing number of companies are offering masks with assorted patterns, and even goes-with-everything black. There's even a mask whose seller claims it'll help you lose weight. Cosmetics maker T-Garden sells the Flavour Mask, infused with the scent of raspberry, which T-Garden says will boost your metabolism. (Source: Japan Today)
