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I'm afraid Evan Davis鈥檚 wine buying technique - you should always buy the second least expensive bottle - means he will generally be ripped off and often end up with what was actually the cheapest wine. Unscrupulous restaurateurs put a much bigger mark-up on the second least expensive bottle to catch out the many thousands of us who don鈥檛 want to be seen ordering the cheap stuff. That鈥檚 economics in action too, of course.

Take a leaf out of the French book - dine out in decent places and order a carafe of the house plonk. You鈥檒l eat good food, get just as merry and present an air of confident indifference to your smug sommelier (whose sole joy comes from secretly laughing at the pompous fools who pretend to be knowledgeable about wine).
PJ, Aberdeen, UK

Why are so many people, who know very little about the climate, so keen to argue that climate change is natural? When 99 per cent of the scientists actively researching it have concluded the extent of the current change IS man made. Climate change is natural, to an extent. This can be assessed by analysing ice cores from the polar regions which show the changes over hundreds of thousands of years. The change can be plotted as a line along the middle of a graph with peaks and troughs. At the moment the line has gone off scale, off the page and through the roof. It is frightening when you see clearly how bad it has got. Why has most of the population of the planet still got there heads buried in the sand ?
Michael, Aberdeen

So the makers of the say not to worry about riding around sitting on a canister full of explosive hydrogen. That's OK for now but I also see they intend to have a 'full-blown' production model by the end of the year.
Pierre, Luxembourg

I know this sounds a bit geeky but did anybody else notice that the hydrogen fuel cell motorbike on 大象传媒 Breakfast this morning looked eerily similar to the bikes in the slightly naff Battlestar Galactica spin-off series 'Galactica 1980'?
If the new bike comes with fold out wings (and orange detailing), I'll definitely be buying one!
Phil, Angus

The pedants are back in town. Chris A says '"Mexicans stage tortilla protest" is NOT an all-noun headline!'. Yes, Chris. We all know that. But it is a word that can be read as a noun. If you go back over all the noun watch headlines over the years, they would all be banned according to your strict criterion. Honestly, some people should have their keyboards taken off them before they do some harm.
John M, York, England

鈥淭exan monitor reader displays humour defect鈥� is also an all-noun headline, despite "Texan" being an adjective here, and "displays" being a verb here...
Tim Melville, Ely

, eh? Anyone care to suggest which one it might be?
Nicky, London

It's good to see the Beeb also getting on the .
Basil Long, Newark Notts

Re: Man flu and bird flu. If you cough up mineral water, does that mean you've got Evian flu?
David, Maesteg, South Wales

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