I saw this on our street driving home from the gym. Yes, that’s a supercharged 5.5 litre, 368kW, 700Nm, V8 Mercedes Benz E55 with an L-Plate on it. One of the 3 fastest sedans in the world – 0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds – with enough torque (that’s the happy juice that makes the car go …
It’s raining, it’s pouring…
There’s either a very large baby out there with a serious case of the squits, or considerable precipitation is about.
Amusing Quote of the Day – TelstraClear’s Dr Freeth
Regarding TelstraClear’s announcement about axing 100 jobs in NZ and moving some core activities to Australia: “Dr Freeth says the changes will reduce TelstraClear’s cost base and should improve its efficiency. Because of Telstra’s scale, “they can do things much faster and much cheaper than we can”. How on earth are we meant to take …
I’m going to get it for this!
Two blonde girls were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl …
While I’m on the subject – banks too.
The entry below about ticket agencies is reminiscent of 6-8 years ago when banks were pushing customers to use telephone, and later internet banking, as it would be ‘less expensive and everyone would win!’. This did occur for a while, until the prices were hiked, and the banks started making even larger piles of profit …