Things that make you go hmmmm

$110 flat rate + cost of parts via F&P's Customer Care! Rung up to find out authorised repairers in Upper Hutt, and they said they do it themselves up here.

Bleh, $110 to get told your washing machine is stuffed and gotta get a replacement. Get a cash back voucher for some of it, if we buy a new F&P one to replace it.

Dunno about the washing machines, but the F&P dishwashers are minging.

Of course not.  I use my Armitage Shanks washing machine.  Goes through the wash cycle really quickly and I'm always losing socks.

Harlem Shakes? Can't make up my mind on them...thoughts?

Good ol US of A 

 Islamist militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar 'killed in Mali'

This guy has already been killed six times. Well, the Algerian press have reported him dead that many times in the last fifteen years...

Rung up last Monday to get some Census forms, they said they would send me out some. Envelope arrived today. No forms just an envelope to send the forms back to them. Even better, that envelope is useless because they took off the plastic covering on the seals and folded it sideways sealing it.

I got yelled at for not being home when the lady came to drop off census forms. Then again when she came to collect them she said I'm never home, got out a map of the area she has to cover "it's a pain in the ass having to revisit houses when you're not home"

"I'm not sorry for having a life. It's a pain in the ass having to fill out these forms"

The guy came around to drop ours off at 10am on a Saturday morning and was like "You're the first house in the street where someone is home" - I live in a cul-de-sac with about 30 houses in it, mostly families. We had just got home from grocery shopping, I was really not surprised no-one was home, or didn't answer the door. (He was nice enough) 

Though ours got picked up with ease about the same time on Saturday. We tried to do it online, but our codes didn't work.

As for the empty envelope, I would send the return one back empty with a note "I completed the form you provided me with"

do it online, we did, easy as.

http://www.3news.co.nz/UK-football-team-loses-43-0-28-0-26-0--but-wont-give-up/tabid/415/articleID/289935/Default.aspx 

 Coming through immigration/customs/biosec at Auckland airport last week I saw a typed A4 page, sellotaped to a screen, saying that if you didn't want to be filmed for some TV thing called Border Security you should say so to those filming. It was in English only. I'd just come off a flight where I'd guess most of the passengers would struggle with English.

So, I thought I'd ask where the Chinese, Korean and Japanese signs were. (I think the three flights just in were from Korea, HK and Japan.)

That went down well. It was made clear to me that my questions were not welcome. Well now.

Someone at our house requested a Privacy envelope for our census forms. Was told "but I'm not going to look at the forms" before agreeing to one. LULZ

Yeah, we asked why didn't she just drop the envelope off instead off continually coming back if it was so annoying. She didnt respond. I get a feeling a lot of them do the job so they can be nosey and read them. Scary thought. 

Belgian scientists falsify sensational GMO and Roundup study

Powershop say  "Our intention is to use popular themes (eg. Gangnam style, gay marriage) and recognisable figures to provoke thought."

It provoked a giggle from me.

 In a DROUGHT, and car wash businesses (without recyclable water units) are able to keep operating???

Source: 

Hmm..... 

Of course they are. It's their business. Should commercial kitchens shut down too? Workers just go home and not earn wage? Blame the people using the car wash I guess. 

Probably when people stop using them.

At what point does any business that uses water get shut down? Business being open is vital, that is peoples jobs and livelihoods. Peoples gardens however aren't so vital, hence the outdoor water ban. 

Maybe if people stopped using the car washes, they'd see no point in being open, and close. Then you'd be happy (at the expense of those who work there, and own the car wash).

Also the article says that service stations are voluntarily shutting their car washes down at times. 

So don't really see your point. 

 My point. Car washes are not a priority in a drought situation.

No. But business is. 

 OK, even if prioritising that business negatively impacts on our water position?

The other thing that strikes me is the perversity (right word?) of it.
If a motorist uses , say, ten litres of water to wash their car in the driveway they are offending.
If a motorist uses ten litres at the local car wash they are not offending.  
Very much, for me,  a hmm....   situation.

Friend just chucked in his ten cents worth 'surely in this case we all have a moral duty to do our bit? After all, we are all in this together."

More hmm....

And they are doing their bit. They're shutting it down every second day. 

That's exactly what it is, prioritising. There probably would come a point where business would have to be shut down, but clearly that would be a last resort, AFTER the outdoor water ban. At the moment we are only at the outdoor water ban stage.

I do see the hypocrisy in your above example though. Fair point. But I hope you also see what I'm trying to say. Either way, an interesting discussion. 

Industrial users on rural water takes get shut down or have to reduce activity (based on environmental limits rather than water supply availability for human health/minimum requirements).

I think the worse thing is that sports grounds are totally banned from watering (forcing pratices inside), but golf clubs aren't. Especially when accompanied by "The club's 1200 members had largely stopped washing golf clubs and shoes". ummm

Golf Clubs are protecting a pretty major asset. And the livelihood of their entire club. They have also cut down on their water use, as much as they can. I believe they are mostly just watering greens.

It would however look pretty bad for councils to water grounds. 

A 'swim shop' has just opened up in alicetown as we head into autumn/winter. At least I've never noticed it before...it is possible that I'm just very unobservant...