Look at the mushrooms I grew:
As you may be aware, I'm fairly hardcore atheist. But, although I really don't believe in anything religious, I rather like the Turin Shroud. I like it because it's like a magnet for nutters. Despite the mountains of evidence dating the object to the middle ages, and further evidence which quite plainly shows it can't possibly have anything to do with the crucifixion, still the loonies try and shoe-horn wild theories and ridiculously unlikely scenarios round it in a desperate attempt to authenticate it. Why do they do that?
The latest theory is that a huge earthquake at around the time of Christ's death may have caused a radioactive emission which both created a photographic image on the cloth and impregnated the weave with subatomic particles to screw up the carbon-dating. This is not the first frantic attempt to discredit the annoyingly consistent carbon dating results. A fire has also been blamed in the past. In any case, I like the nutters.
It seems ages since I've done a nudity story, but I have one today. In Brighton, the centre of all that is trendy and Bohemian in UK, angry residents are celebrating after demonstrating in court that a newly built property is in breach of planning regulations. I'm not exactly sure why this would be a cause for celebration however, since the problem would seem to have been that the angry residents regularly saw naked people in the offending house. In fact one family had to stop their children using the garden climbing frame in case they caught sight of a naked person through one of the windows. Resident Stella Cardus (55) said, "Our lives were made a misery by this ordeal".
Ms Cardus is quite right of course. The sight of a naked arse getting exiting the shower can cause untold damage to a child, possibly ruin its whole life and turn it into a paedophile rapist before it even reaches adulthood. You can also get smallpox from toilet door handles, and masturbation really does make you go blind! Seriously, these people went to court over seeing naked people in the shower?! You'd have thought knocking on the door might have been a better approach if nudity is that terrifying to them.
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