Football and cheese
Jun. 9th, 2010 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofastolatI have no interest in football or the World Cup, and will not be watching it. However, I'm getting increasingly annoyed by articles that sneer at the whole thing, dismissing it as stupid, and implying that the writer is superior in some way by not being interested. Everyone is interested in different things, after all. While I don't feel passionate fannish devotion for any sports team, I certainly understand passionate fannish devotion for books or films. I don't like it when football fans sneer at science fiction fans and call their obsessiveness "sad", so how could I be so hypocritical as to do the same to them? I'm not interested, but millions are, and good luck to them. I don't think lack of interest in anything is something to be proud of - just as it's nothing to be ashamed of, either.
And on a totally different subject: I was looking at a new children's book (aimed at 9 to 10 year olds) on healthy eating today, and I came across the recommendation that people should eat only 2 portions of dairy products a day. Examples given of a "portion" were a glass of milk, or a hand-sized piece of cheese. I am baffled by the hand as a unit of measurement of cheese. Does it relate to the volume, or merely to the area of its cross-section? If the latter, does it matter how thick the chunk is? Could you have a chunk six inches thick as long as it could rest on your hand without overlapping in any way? Do you include the fingers? If so, are you allowed to spread your fingers as wide as you can get them, to maximise area?
And on a totally different subject: I was looking at a new children's book (aimed at 9 to 10 year olds) on healthy eating today, and I came across the recommendation that people should eat only 2 portions of dairy products a day. Examples given of a "portion" were a glass of milk, or a hand-sized piece of cheese. I am baffled by the hand as a unit of measurement of cheese. Does it relate to the volume, or merely to the area of its cross-section? If the latter, does it matter how thick the chunk is? Could you have a chunk six inches thick as long as it could rest on your hand without overlapping in any way? Do you include the fingers? If so, are you allowed to spread your fingers as wide as you can get them, to maximise area?
