Category Archives: Musings

When Abbreviations Backfire

The V8 Supercars Championship returns to Pukekohe Park Raceway in New Zealand this weekend, with the Kiwi round having been run on the Hamilton Street Circuit for a number of years. V8 Supercars fronted a large amount of money to revamp the Pukekohe – (pronounced “Pucka-co-ee”) – circuit, affectionately known as “Puke” – (pronounced “Pucka”), […]

Bernardi Manages To Miss His Own Point

Driving home from the station last night, I caught what I felt was an extraordinary speech in the Senate from the self-proclaimed bastion of all that is good, Cory Bernardi. It was a speech which appeared on the surface to be primarily about free speech – (I think so anyway, as you can never be […]

One Meat, Two Prices

In another in the long running series of Coles pricing fails, comes this one: One for $8.00 a kilogram, and in the same compartment, another for $9.00 a kilogram. No prizes for guessing which one came home with me.

My Kitchen Fools

I don’t actually watch either show, but in attempt to milk some more ratings points, and therefore advertising dollars out of their ratings hit “My Kitchen Rules”, Channel Seven have decided the contestants will soon appear on a special episode of “Deal or No Deal”. Sorry, what did she say? “I’m feeling inspirated!” Oh. My. […]

Do Not Drink No Teeny Bopper?

Saw this pit cover on a customer site today, and chuckled – (click for closer view): If only it was spelt “Beiber”. Oh well!

Supermarket Maths Fail

So how exactly does this one work? The normal price is $1.75 for a single unit, so the normal price for two units would be $3.50, right? So at “2 for $3”, surely the saving is 50 cents, not 38 cents? Also, at the normal price and the special price, the price per 100 grams […]

Bye Honey! Off To The Salno!

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but haven’t gotten around to taking a photo of a new hairdressing salon that opened up a couple of months ago in the shopping strip around the corner from my house until now. Salno? “Just a little of the bcak, please!” This reminds me of a […]

Live From Just A Moment Ago

I got something of a giggle out of this sequence of stories coming out of the RSS feed of Melbourne’s The Age newspaper: Firstly, Mike Hussey retires from test cricket with a victory – (twice, mind you) – circled in green, followed by continuing live commentary of the cricket, circled in red – (remember of […]

How To Incompetently Not Find A Water Main

At about eight o’clock yesterday morning, my phone line went dead. Obviously, this brought down my ADSL service with it. This isn’t entirely uncommon – given the age of the copper phone lines in my street – (predominantly installed in the 1950’s when the estate was established) – and the slightly down hill nature of […]

Hurricane Sandy Duh Moment

People might die? Duh! Of course, people have already died throughout the Caribbean as a result of Hurricane Sandy, so this is a moot point anyway.