i would have been pee-ed off (no pun intended) too if that bottle cost me a my precious half billion dollar note too.. (not that i know how much was paid for it) a gross way to make money... beats my entrepreneurship young years of selling bad perfume mixed with swamp water as perfume as a kid... not that i ever got to the door knocking. And not knowing about the legal age of working, insurance, taxes or anything i did try to start a kids-gardening service for weeding gardens at 20c a bucket (full of weeds) (we only advertised bout 4 houses on our street)
A ZIMBABWEAN man has been jailed for two years after he sold urine to residents in a mining town claiming it was cooking oil, according to state media reports.
Taser guns are being sold in the same way tupperware parties are held in the us. So i guess the next crime wave will be tasering each other.
Sure, perhaps id buy one.. but then whats me stopping from going nutters and tasering some guy who looked shonky who walked past? is it really so much safer than a gun, what if something did go wrong? and if i was attacked would i be able to get it out of my handbag in time to save myself? whats stopping it from going off in my handbag? and could i legally taser a dog who wanted a piece of me? they could make a real small model for that for kids for that reason.. but then can u really trust the kiddie tasers not to come out during a petty fight over the remote control? the whole thing is scary if u ask me!!!!
Look at how good our dollar is at the moment! US$350= A $364 whoot!!! How good is the aussie dollar going!!! Hubby is wanting a special 3D mouse... and found while he could order it in from a aussie company for $120 he could order the same mouse in from the usa for us$40 even with the conversion, postage it works out much cheaper?! *linkie for page about 3d mouse with youtube video demo*
Then theres the artist Bill Henson in deep-deep-do-do over his nude photos of a young girl and boy. Is it art? Yes it is art. BUT! In this age, alot of effort has been poured into protecting our kids, their innoncence, their vulnerabilities and its not like we need anymore kids or teens in the nude in photos... any child who had been abused in that way would be rightfully offended that someone could do the same and call it art, hang it in a gallery and get away with it!.. If it had been a painting perhaps he may have gotten away with it.. and for sure many nudes painted back thru time sure they weren't accepted by society at the time.. Those saying its art and portraying innocence and exposing their vulnerabilities, i dont believe it requires any talent to take a nude photo of a kid/teen to show that! I think its plain to see that in a photo of a teen fully dressed and under many layers of jackets, lol.. We are also in a time when sexualisation(sp?) of kids is banned in advertising material (and thats them being clothed!) and so u may as well say nude kids/teens are banned full-stop!today we all went out bed and mattress shopping! whoot! we have 2 furniture places a walk away(not ikea) and then theres a 'bed specialist' place (likely to be more pricey) in the other direction. We found a good bed and mattress. The bed, tallboy and 2 bedside tables in a package was $699 (down from $999 apparently) Hubby also found a new, nothing special, but practical desk to replace the old one we have for $99 (that and he needs a desk to fit 2 monitors on so he can do his graphics stuff better) they are both huge whopping 22inch+ screens ones a old sony one the other is our nice flatscreen one that came with the pc.
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It seems like YT video's aren't showing on either of our blogs or on Wiki. Not from my end anyway.
Mm, I agree..it probably will be the next crime wave.. people being tasered.. and taser guns in school yards.. though I sincerely hope not. I'd be tempted to taser a dog if it came at me.
You were quite entrepreneurial as a child! The only thing I can think of doing - and trying to sell as a child is a (self-made) magazine. I started a club called the "Coyote Club"..and by long hand.. tried to do a club magazine and sell it for 20 cents. I would have to write one page multiple times.. as I don't even think there were photocopiers back then. At school our handout sheets were like carbon copies.. with purple die.. and our pages would sometimes arrive almost damp and often smelling like alcohol. Kids would sniff the fumes from the paper..some would love the smell..others hated it. I don't know the technical term for making copies like that. But it would have been handy for my magazines. I can remember giving up the idea of making multiple copies.. it was too time consuming! And it was quite a thankless task.. People didn't like paying either!
I'm not surprised by anyone trying to sell anything these days.. as far as deception goes, nothing is new under the sun - but I feel sorry for the folk being swindled in any case.
Yeah.. I'm aware that the Aussie dollar has been pretty much almost neck and neck with the U.S. dollar.. I didn't know it was stronger though. Today I did a mock PayPal transaction (I didn't go through with it) - but the item was U.S. $16 and the conversion rate PayPal offered me.. made the item to be $17.11 Aussie.. so a bit more which would be wrong. I don't think they'd be offering me the best rate.. but yeah..it really makes you think.. NOW is the time to buy things from the USA!
I have a YouTube friend that makes real English Toffee.. not chewy apparantly..and doesn't stick to your teeth. It has a topping of semi-sweet chocolate and almonds. And I've seen video's of people receiving their toffee...eating it and loving it. She makes cookies for a living.. And she gets contracts like the Nikolodean awards..(most of her cookies are photo cookies) and they're individually wrapped.. and HUGE.. the size of a postcard thereabouts.. she does a lot of corporate cookies and birthday cookies. I was toying with the idea of ordering her toffee but had to ask her how much for post. It will cost about $16 to post for up to 2lb's. 1lb of toffee costs $16..but of course will weigh more when packaged. She said she'd make up the weight (up to 2lbs) with a cookie or two. I'm thinking about it.. it's an indulgence.. My car is desperately needing servicing.. gosh.. I'm off on a tangent!
But yeah.. let us know what goodies you get from the USA! I'd never heard of the 3D mouse before.. I'll have to checkout the demo when the video's are viewable again.. though the banner on Wiki had a mini-demo.
I'm in agreement re: the "art".. I'm just not in favour of nude photographs of minors..even in the name of art. I even put the "It's a girl" balloon over the newborn baby on my blog as you noticed. You just don't know what perverts are out there..and I didn't want to provide that level of nudity on my blog.. even with a baby.
Hope your Sunday has been good? xox :)
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