Matters of the heart

I was shocked to see the scale of the shooting at a university in Virginia yesterday. I’m afraid that I don’t have much time for the people who say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Yes that is true and yet putting a gun in those people’s hands make them so much more deadly.

I watched the film “Bowling for Columbine” a few years back and thought that was a really good film that highlighted a whole range of issues about guns and gun control. I thought Michael Moore overstepped the line a couple of times in it but ultimately it was difficult to get to the end of the film and think that the “right” to bear arms was a good thing. Yesterday yet more lives were devastated by someone exercising their rights.

Anyway, on a completely different note, I was amused by this story yesterday. It seems that chocolate is better than kissing. Apparently your heart rate increases more when eating chocolate than it does when you’re kissing someone. They tested this in a lab and everything, so it must be entirely true and accurate. I cannot imagine that the results were skewed at all by the people kissing being watched like lab rats in a cage and having their heart rate etc being measured by electrodes being stuck to their head. There is just nothing more sexy and able to make you focus on the task at hand.

I am sure any number of people being offered the opportunity to kiss someone they really fancy or to eat a Mars bar opting for the Mars bar. Hmm… Admittedly you can share a chocolate bar but I think there are other things that can be a bit more pleasurable than that – and also less likely to cause you to put on several stone and then die early from a heart attack. Of course if only one of them is an option, I guess it’s better than nothing, but I think I know which one is likely to make my heart race a bit faster.