Oh poo! My neglected corner of cyberspace. Had sort of forgotten all about it until I read the e-mail regarding Science Online London (which was sandwiched between a whole load of friend requests from MySpace; curious, I don’t have an account do I? – not that I remember anyway). Anyway, for those thinking of attending the event at the Royal Institution you may be interested in this review of the restaurant (from this weekend’s Guardian). I pass it on without comment except to say that I was in tears when I read it.
See how you give things away in a blog? – I’m clearly forgetful and I’m a Guardian reader…
Oh dear. He didn’t seem to like it very much.
In defence of science I would point out that the Wellcome Trust has always had excellent catering. And of course on the medical side places like the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine are centres of catering excellence.
Well, it is probably going to be taken out to prevent potential libel suits anyway. That part about “the repulsive, overpowering black olive mush that covered the monkfish” sound pretty libellous to me…
I found the reviewers perpetuation of tired, dreary scientist stereotypes as repulsive as he found his monkfish, I would imagine. When are we going to get beyond this idea that researchers aren’t mortals and care nothing for the pleasures of life?
p.s. I had a nice lunch there last year – very enjoyable.
The reviewer sounds like a corpulent dickhead, with none of the charm of a sick pig’s liver.
Perhaps a lack of personality is a prerequisite of being a reviewer for the grauniard.
Is that defamatory, do you think?