The Continuing Adventures Of Your Own Personal Jesus

'Nuff said!

Dear Australian Public, You are a New Zealander’s dream – you are a flock of easily fucked sheep. You are stupid enough to buy into Tony Abbotts campaign designed to attack the incumbent PM on a basis of gender, not policy. You are stupid enough to buy into a campaign based upon sexism and outright bullying. And why is this? Says it all Because you have absolutely no comprehension of history. In the early 1990s John Hewson ran a campaign on the back of a proposed Goods and Services Tax. Both the GST and Hewson were soundly defeated by Paul Keating, and Hewson stood down, or was sacked – take your pick - and was replaced by John Howard. When asked about the GST, Howard stood before a media conference, at Tweed Heads, in May 1995 and said the following; “There is no way a GST will ever be part of our policy. Never, ever. It’s dead; it was killed by the voters in the last election.” Then, in 1996, just prior to the election, he stated; “My government will not intr...

The recent commentary about the utterly awful Coles ‘Downtown’ campaign certainly has displayed Social Media at its best (worst). The whole debacle is a classic example of how PR firms are able to put a positive spin on anything, even a negative campaign against Coles by, well, people. For those who don’t know, the ad features a pile of celebrity chefs, singing Downtown so out of tune and off key that Petula Clark would be spinning in her grave if she was dead. As it is, if she heard the song she might wish she was dead. Typically Facebook pages have been established to complain about the ads, but people who start complaint pages on sites such as Facebook aren't social media 'experts', such as those at PR companies, so they don't know what they're talking about. Or so we’re told, by the experts themselves, who decry anyone using the same tools that they use - if you're not working for a PR firm then you simply do not know what you're doing and shouldn...

There's a reason why I hate selling on eBay, and here it is.  To set the background, virtually each time we've shipped an item to France, Italy or Canada it's not arrived and the buyers have all claimed, successfully.  The fact that those countries have dodgy mailing systems means nothing - hell Canada Mail is on strike right now - we get the abuse, we're out of pocket.  As such when we decided to start offloading stuff from the overfull carport we clearly stated that we'd not ship to any of those countries and placed them on the exclusion list. We also decided that, and this is keeping with eBay rules, every item has to go registered and insured.  During 2008 we lost an amazing $2,000+ to buyers who insisted that we not ship insured or registered, lesson learned.  We quote the actual postage cost, more times than not we lose money on it, but, again, better safe than sorry. There's a third reason why we don't ship to France, and here it is.  The auction...