Best job in the world

While I was going through the baggage screening at the airport I saw the funniest thing. Some poor Asian chick had been pulled aside for having liquids in her bag.

The customs lady seemed to be enjoying taking the woman's expensive moisturiser and perfume off her. Hmm, Jurlique, 150ml? Can't take it. CK fragrance 200ml? Can't take it. The poor passenger then came out with 'but I have used some of the moisturiser - there is only a little bit in there. 'sorry love, we go by the size written on the bottle'

She also seemed to have two tins of tuna and some kind of herbal cream (label was in Chinese, but it looked like 'roid cream).

I wonder if that is how customs do their Christmas shopping?

Queue ettiquete pt 2

I spent almost an hour in a queue for check in for an international flight today. Now as you know I have a very low threshold for idiots in queues (see this post).

The thing that amused me about today was that after queuing for and hour I was still surrounded by people who didn't have passports or documentation to hand.
What do you think we are queuing for ? The toilets? You need your passport to check in....

Maybe its a Sunday thing when all the people who have never flown before come and queue just for something to do.

Compatibility issues at the supermarket

I had a weird experience the other day. I was doing a bit of shopping at Aldi with the girls.
The thing with Aldi is although they have cheap prices the range is very limited. I do however love their ability to sell garden pumps and arc welders in the same isles as the strawberries.

Having filled the trolley and paid we then took to trolley full of bagged groceries to Coles to get some of the other bits.

I then found a percularity of modern design (or it might be a cunning ploy) by the supermarket designers.

Aldi trolleys are too wide to fit through the checkouts at Coles...

It was mighty embarrassing to have to reverse out (through the queue behind me) and get let out the special needs till.

It reminds me of my favourite saying. What's the good thing about standards ? There are so many took choose from..
(its a techy thing)

This is me

Its so me its very scary.....

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

Thanks to John for the heads up.

Labelling on Goods

I was in the servo last night to get some fuel (more on that in a separate post - might become two posts). While there I picked up a pack of mints. They were Eclipse mints that come in a little tin.

I was sitting in traffic this morning when I had a look at the pack. It has a plastic over-wrapper which stops the lid popping open before you crack the seal and open it.

Weird thing is that the ingredients were listed in English and FRENCH !! Now I am used to seeing product that might be made in Asia for the Oceania market that has ingredients listing in Thai and English, or any selection of languages that suit the region. The problem with the mints is they are aimed at Australia and New Zealand. Now last time I looked NZ was not a French speaking area of the world.

Maybe the frigtards at Wrigly in the US where the product is made think NZ is French speaking as they used to do all the French nuclear tests down there.

Weird.

- actually now I think about it there is French Polynesia down there. But why has it only got the Aus and NZ website and distributors listed, and not Wrigly, FP (or whatever it is called???)

Anonymous Blogs... Oh the Irony

I post this blog anonymously, not because I am scared, but more to do with the fact it is sometimes easier to describe situations and people if I can be removed from them. Also I know some work people know who I am and enjoy what I post )as long as it is not about them)

An interesting scenario came up with a colleague at work the other day. She had a public blog that her old bosses used to read. That was great until it turned sour with her employers. It then became a problem to post anything that was happening or to explain why things were so bad. So now she has moved to an anonymous blog that no one has the address to.

Isn't it ironic that a blog has become the secret diary we don't want our friends to read, yet the very nature of the Internet means we have to hide our identities in case anyone we know stumbles across it and sees what we have written about them. It is also a sad fact of blogdom that the only way people will find our blogs is if we give them the address. Its a kind of self defeating thing. "Here is my blog address, but don't read it - some of it is about you..."

We share more with strangers than we do with our friends.

Dishwasher etiquette

How did we survive before the advent of the dishwasher - I actually remember this, as it was only 6 months ago that I got one.

I hated doing the dishes and there was always the dishes stand-off when you or your partner would avoid them like the plague. You never want to be caught filling the sink to wash a single cup...
This has now been transferred to the dishwasher.

Once you put a single dish in it is then your job to load the entire thing, or worse when you are in the mood to load it before you go to bed you realise it is still full of yesterdays (now clean) dishes. Only thing worse than loading the dishwasher is unloading it first.

I always get sneaky and use cups and mugs from the clean load without emptying the whole thing. Thing is I caught the wife doing the same thing....

So the question is - should the person who fills also empty, or is it fair to share ??