No sh*t sherlock...

There was an article on BBC news today which made me laugh out loud... apparently scientists have discovered women's shopping sprees are linked to their time of the month. No shit sherlock! Any woman could have told you that, without all the expensive research. We get grouchy, fed up, moody and feel the need to perk ourselves up. There's only two things in the world that do the job (neither of which begin with M, end with N and stand on two legs scratching their nether regions far too frequently for comfort)... shopping and chocolate... we're just programmed that way. It's genetic.

Anyway, the article got me thinking, what other scientific tests and research have been conducted, costing millions of pounds, just to confirm idiotically stupid or obvious facts we already knew... how about:

• Crabs can remember suffering pain - and we needed to know this because...? To make us seafood lovers feel a heapload of guilt when we're tucking into our crab salad or plonking a silently screaming crustacean into a boiling pot of water? And how did they test out this theory exactly? By torturing lobsters??
  
• Boozing every day causes liver damage - seriously... did we really need research in this nugget of information? Are the scores of Homer Simpson look-a-like alcoholics not evidence enough?!
• Chips smell like ironing boards - extensive research carried out to discover why chips smell so good... and the conclusion? They consist of a mixture of butterscotch, onion and ironing boards. How is that useful?! Why do we need to know that?! Can you imagine you work months and possibly years of research and someone asks you, "so, what is it that you're working on?" ..."er... how fries smell like household appliances...". Yes, the world truly is a better place for knowing that...