Dracula fish discovered in Borneo

Isn’t this just the kind of news headline you like to see.
Eye catching and intriguing. Wow! I thought. How freaky. A fish that is afraid of garlic and crosses, sleeps in a coffin and wears a tiny little black cape….
Well no. Turns out this fish just has little fangs. I’m sorry, no disrespect to the 17mm member of the Cypriniform group of carp like fishes, but having fangs doesn’t make you Dracula. No one looks at a snake and says ‘Hey wow. A Dracula snake.’
Misled by the mainstream media again. And in a stream in the deepest darkest part of Burma a little fish has had his 15 minutes of fame.

A measure of mass by country

There was a Mass shooting in Alabama today. What constitutes a mass? 10 people. Oddly though the definition of mass changes by nation. 33 people were killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq yesterday but I didn’t the read the word mass in conjunction with that anywhere. Wonder how many Iraqi’s have to die to make a mass?

Hay hay.

If you thought the only thing that came out of Poland were electricians and plumbers who end up working in England, then check this out. I had no idea there was such a thing as export quality hay but here it is. Apparently Polish hay is so wild they have to keep it in cages.