Hahah, silly “Daily Mail”. I wonder if they will publish any of our comments by tomorrow. 
The Independent or the Telegraph, depending on their political affiliation.
Oh, please. They look identical. I can all but guarantee that if you went out into the street and told people you’d devised a chemical process to convert salt into sugar that most of them wouldn’t bat an eyelash. Additionally, almost everyone has more than a passing familiarity with both salt and sugar; most people couldn’t tell you a damn thing about heroin.
Lobsang, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you or any average Joe on the street should not know how heroin is processed, but I certainly expect the media reporting on it to do some basic fact checking before publishing a story. Two minutes on Google would have prevented this stupid mistake.
They can’t even get their Patronising Journalist Dimensions right - the bus is a unit of length, not weight. They do correctly use football pitches for area (although of course for larger areas it’s Wales). I believe that for weights, the official stupid reader unit is blue whales.
And when it’s cold, the official unit of the number of hypothermic people is blue Wales.
I knew there was a joke in there, and I continue to believe so
I would like to know how many outer-space-visible bull mastiffs it would take to equal the weight of that cannabis, and whether bull mastiffs can be converted to heroin, and of course the street value of those bull mastiffs.
Would the outer-space-visible bull mastiffs be on a bus or not?
And the street value would depend on how you cut them.
Height, surely?
I had to read it again, I thought it was the incorrect use of S’s in the headline.
I didn’t notice anything. I have no idea how different drugs are related to each other.
Which one was this?
I suspect he means the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
And may I say that my understanding was that the traditional tabloid unit of weight was the Baby Elephant? (Or for smaller weights, the Bag of Sugar – 1 Baby Elephant = 150 Bags of Sugar)
Height is Nelson’s Columns
Easy - you can go through school in England and never hear about the British Empire, never mind one small war. Even when kids do history over the age of 14 it will practically all be about the 20th century. For younger children it is about primary and secondary sources (do they need this when they don’t have any grasp of historical narative?) and empathising with people in the past - “Imagine you are peasant who’s family has just died of the Black Death. Explain how you would feel about this.” :smack:
Salt and Sugar are legal, known, common in everyday use substances.
And I know enough about chemistry to know that sometimes it is possible to turn things into other things.
Yeah, I did. I noticed my mistake after I posted, then trying to edit my post, the board kept timing out :smack: