31 July 2018
Road rage turned up to eleven
30 July 2018
29 July 2018
Heaping on the autism one shot at a time
28 July 2018
27 July 2018
26 July 2018
Self-checkout pros and cons:
- If the supermarket in question charges for plastic bags, you can just type in 0 when it asks how many you need regardless of how many you're taking.
- Sometimes, a product that was damaged on its way to the shelf or nearing its expiry date will be "reduced to clear", and will have a sticker with a cheaper price covering the barcode. One of my money-saving hacks is to scan the reduced price item but put a full-priced item in the bagging area. If you do this, please buy the lower-priced item as well so that it doesn't look as suspicious.
- More coming when I can think of them.
25 July 2018
24 July 2018
23 July 2018
Snapshots of poverty circa TWO THOUSAND AND FRIGGEN EIGH
New Zealand families are sleeping on mattresses in their living rooms and leaving the oven door open to stay warm this winter. Results from a nationwide survey commissioned by the Salvation Army illustrated the tough choices people were making during the colder months. The survey of over 1000 Kiwis showed 45 per cent of respondents had gone without heating in the last year due to cost and 44 per cent didn't go to the doctor when they needed to because they couldn't afford it. Manager for The Salvation Army's welfare services, Jono Bell, said his initial response to the figures was disbelief. "But on reflection, I thought, actually the numbers are not too dissimilar from what we are seeing on the frontlines," Bell said. "It's not just beneficiaries but people in our community who are working are still not making ends meet and are being forced to choose. It is a widespread problem." Of course it's a widespread problem. And the blame lies squarely at the feet of the 1% and their lackeys in Government.
22 July 2018
21 July 2018
20 July 2018
19 July 2018
18 July 2018
MADIBA@100
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own Light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.