Category Archives: Musings

A Funny Couple of Days of Television

It’s been a very funny couple of days on Australian television. First we had this “apology” from Channel Nine over their “exclusive” news watermark: Then came this bombshell from Channel Ten newsreader Belinda Heggen towards sports anchor Mark Aiston: But to top it all off, comes this “Four Stooges” routine from Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson, […]

Ambiguous Facebook Fail

A light hearted one for Australia Day, I just saw this on Facebook. Circled in red we see “Application Requests”: So I clicked it, and the box popped up to say they had moved. Nope, it’s in two places. Facebook is cluttered enough without putting things all over the place. I’m sure people would find […]

Can Woolworths Really Do This?

On a recent trip to the supermarket, I spotted this interesting piece of advertising: I don’t know about you, but if I was CSR I would be pretty annoyed that my product had been singled out and jammed into the faces of customers as being the “bad choice” against the in-house brand. Doesn’t seem quite […]

Packaging Fail

Spotted this one in Woolworths while doing a spot of last minute New Year’s Eve shopping: What exactly is a “wood buring oven”?

Happy New Technology!

Here is some modern technology explained, complete with laugh functionality for your enjoyment on New Years Eve! Happy New Year to everyone – see you on the other side…(tomorrow)…

The Richie Benaud Score

We don’t get to see it very often, but today we saw the score which makes the hair on Richie Benaud’s neck stand up: Tyoo for tyoo tyoo tyoo. Marvellous.

Jimeoin On What?

Scanning the Foxtel EPG this evening, I came across this rather ambiguously named program starring comedian Jimeoin: I’m hoping they mean “ice” – as in frozen water – and not something else! Funny!

Classy Spam Fail

Got a belly laugh from a piece of spam I found trapped by my filters this morning, showing how truly classy spammers can be: Gee, that’s an attractive email. Let’s open that one! Not!

Supermarket Lazy or Misleading

In the midst of the weekly shop, I came across the following special offer: Seriously, what? Certainly confusing. I think in simple terms, you can see that you get two for ten dollars, no matter what items out of Plus, Cheerios, or Milo cereal you choose, but explaining how much you save depending on the […]

Carrie Bickmore Fail

You have to hand it to Twitter and the good humour that can come from it, especially given today’s revelation that Carrie Bickmore has painted Australians as “blokes” and “sheilas” who socialise at “fancy” places called McCafe. Big fail. But here is some of the gold coming through online: “Carrie Bickmore says we go to […]