BBC1's Should I Worry About Drinking

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Originally Posted by Alasondro Alegré

3 YEAR BUMP OUTTA NOWHERE!!

It was recently revealed that the woman that swaps jobs with her secretary in the "Should I worry about the office?" episode just learned to read and write. No wonder she wasn't up for the job.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ead-write.html

Wow. I would never have guessed that.
To be honest I don't really remember the "Should I worry about" programme, but I just saw the C4 programme in which this woman learns to read. It was very moving.
I will re-watch this Richard Hammond programme now.

-Update- I have re-watched this show. Now I know that this woman couldn't read a single word, it's not so strange that she got stressed when she had to the job of her secretary. This makes the 'experiment' quite useless really.

[Ironlord]

Two month thread bump! But seeing as it's another comment on the Should I Worry About...? series I see no point in making another thread.

Should I Worry About... Sausages? was on Dave a couple of days ago.

Of the catering sausages that Richard sent to be tested for fat & salt content, the ones taken from schools performed very well. These results from a 2004 programme are in stark contrast to the findings of my own taste buds when I was at school. My first experience of proper school dinners was on reaching secondary school in 1989. Within the first term I had grown to dread Fridays, because those meant three different choices of fish, all varying degrees of badly cooked or inedible, served with a mountain of soggy chips. The alternative? The world's worst sausages. They were hard and leathery on the outside, with the skin inevitably torn into a deep crevasse. Inside they were grey, dry and utterly tasteless. They cannot possibly have met the standards of minimum 42% meat that the programme said was the national standard. They probably didn't meet the national standard of 1989. The worst part of this is, I was at a private school which well and truly empties my parents' pockets, and very rarely was there any better option on a Fridat at least; other days were never much better. So I absolutely dread to think of how the state schools in the area fared.

Also in the programme were featured Sainsbury's Economy / Low Price / Basics sausages, which could not be labelled as "pork sausages" due to containing less than the minimum 42% pork. Ten years after the horrific school sausages experience, I was a second year undergraduate who didn't believe in paying a lot for food, and I practically lived on these. They were an order of magnitude better than the school sausages. By "better" I should probably say "less crap"...

I'd go as far as to say that the deliberately-made crap sausage, which contained more skin, rusk, water, salt and bits of pig's head than would be more fit for dogs than humans, would still have been less crap than the school sausage experience.

Brrr.