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Me too. Like when they advertise those jelly sweets that are pure sugar as being 100% fat free, or that ’1 serving’ of a breakfast cereal only contains 99 calories, then you see that 1 serving is the equivalent of some single atomic unit of measurement.

As an aside, what do you septics* call those jelly sweets, seeing as you call jam ‘jelly’? You know those chewy candies like, well, jelly beans. And why are they called ‘jelly’ beans when you can’t spread them on toast? One of life’s many mysteries…..

*Septics=Septic tanks = Yanks. Cockney rhyming slang, innit Mary Poppins?

Oh my God, how true is this? The most worthless dialog of a worthless operating system summed up by XKCD.

Those of you with exceptionally long memories may recall my love for XKCD: The ‘Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math & language’ which sums it up but doesn’t really do it justice.

The Raptor-fearing Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD, is nothing short of a genius in both a literal sense and his ability to write a mixture of hilarious, touching, insightful and occasionally impenatrable science-based comics using stick figures.

If you have more intelligence than the average DoFollow commenter then you’ll appreciate it: he’s recently began what promises to be an epic series: ‘Secretary’. Here’s Part 1 & he’s up to Part 3 on the site.