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Today I thought I'd give making the roast a miss and instead go to the local carvery, a Toby Carvery. Our experience at the Leicester outlet compelled me to send them a little note via their feedback system:

Where to begin.

As we arrived, we saw an unlit sign proudly displaying a single course carvery for £5.25. Good price, we thought. It wasn't, however until after the meal that we're told it was actually £8 which was apparently clearly visible on the sign outside. It was not clearly visible.

We wouldn't have minded if the food had been in the slightest bit edible but it was about as difficult to swallow as the price it was being charged at.

After we had waited ten minutes for a table, we then had to wait a further 20 minutes queuing for the food. Again, not something we would have normally minded; it was quite busy after all which seemed to bode well for the establishment. When we finally got to select our food, the majority of it looked rather tasty. However, it was immediately apparent that the stuffing balls were overcooked. Anyway, we selected our food and sat down to eat. The majority of the food was undercooked. The potatoes were burned on the outside and hard to the point of being raw in the middle. The carrots were hard, the cauliflower was hard, the Yorkshire puddings were like rubber and the meat was tough and chewy. In fact, the only elements of the meal I did enjoy were the gravy and the horseradish sauce which, as my other half pointed out, is rather difficult to get wrong.

Having been regulars at the Toby Carvery in Swansea, we were incredibly disappointed at the quality of the food at the Leicester outlet. I barely managed to eat half of it before indigestion kicked in, at which point I pushed the plate to one side and waited for my other half to suffer the same fate.

We would both like our money back (£16) as we both agreed it was quite literally the worst meal we'd ever had the misfortune to sample. Said money should be in the form of a cheque and under no circumstances in the form of vouchers or a credit note as we have absolutely no plans to return to the establishment.

Yeah, it's only £16 quid but I'm going on principle here. Seriously, the food was shockingly poor and that's something you wouldn't normally say about a Toby Carvery. It's akin to false advertising!

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What you see above (click for larger image) is one very special device. No, not my beloved MoDaCo C600 (although that is rather special in itself). No what you see above is what I'm nicknaming the "Kaiser-Killer". It's the latest and greatest device from Asus, it's called the P750 and I've got the only one in the country! :D

It has HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 3.0MP camera, a bad-ass design and if you want to know more you'll have to wait a few days for my exclusive preview over on MoDaCo ;)

I won't be releasing any further info on this device so please don't ask. This is just a quick teaser as I couldn't keep it bottled up anymore! :P

There's my plan of keyless entry to car/home out the window then! :( 

Filed under: Wireless

As if pain, conspiracy, big brother, and lack of necessity weren't already enough to deter you, the average Joe or Jane, from getting a subcutaneous RFID chip implant, a number of studies over the past decade have amassed which link the chips to malignant tumors in animal tests. Besides the potential foul play going on at the FDA and VeriChip Corp. that got the chips approved for human use in 2004, studies showing as little as 1% cancer rates in lab animals led researchers to note that the aggressive tumors which immediately encased RFID implants with cancerous cells were "clearly due to the implanted microchips", and not random occurrences. That isn't to say RFID itself is dangerous -- we put far more powerful radios up to our heads every day using a cellphone or even a Bluetooth headset. But implants are still looking mighty sketchy all of a sudden; probably not the news some 2,000 US RFID implantees (including Mythbuster Kari Byron, who got a chip injection on-camera last week) want to hear, but the sooner you can deal with it, the better, says we.

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RFID implants linked to cancer in lab tests
Ryan Block
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:22:00 GMT

 What a fucking muppet! :roll:

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I'm sick and tired of the way Ebay let sellers get away with charging way over the odds for postage fees. Take, for example, a stick of RAM. Inland UK first class postage should be a max of around £2, right? Try £5! £5 to post stick of bloody RAM that weighs practically nothing!?

They earn stupid amounts from that site, the least they could do is put some money back into it. RAM will never weigh more than a few grams so why don't they incorporate that fact into some kind of postage fee calculation system and then do similar for other items that generally weigh a similar amount, then cap the postage fees. For items that can vary wildly, you could force the seller to input the weight or something. I don't know, there just has to be way to stop people abusing the postage fees!?

So ghey :(