There are certain things in life that piss me off. Bad drivers, people who jump the queue, red heads and the french for example.
Now I get to add Fosters and their iconic beer VB to the list.
In what can only be seen as a greedy money grabbing move, Fosters have announced that they are dropping the alcohol content of VB by 0.1% so that they are able to save around $20 million in taxes a year.
To add salt to the already gaping wound the wholesale price of beer will rise by 2%!
VB Spokesman Mr Ben Wicks has said that the excise savings would be reinvested in the brand, particularly the new VB Midstrength and the popular annual summer promotion featuring collectible figurines.
Let me get things straight here Ben…
- I don’t drink Midstrength beer. I always drink full strength. If I wanted to drink a poor excuse for a beer I would purchase VB Midstrength. If you’re going to drop the alcohol content in anything drop it from that.
- I buy and drink your beer to get drunk. Not to play with silly little promotional toys.
- You are a gigantic tool of a man Ben.
I announce a boycott on VB effective immediately and hopefully those wine drinking CEO pigs at Fosters will understand the slight error in judgement they have made and will correct this immediately.
And to all the other brewers and beers out there don’t take the stupid actions of Fosters as an excuse to follow suit. A full strength beer should be a minimum of 4.9% period. Anything less is a joke and making us pay more for it is an insult and kick to the nuts.
Source news.com.au (link)
i’m a very indecisive person 99% 90% 95% of the time where i either cannot make up my mind or once i’ve made a decision i wish it was the ‘other’
this happened to me on the weekend in making a purchase for my birthday present from me to me. i was set on one option had to wait a minute and within that minute my mind had changed. in the end i just had to go with a gut / reflex instinct where i ended up purchasing the item that i liked ‘at that momemt’
anyway something that has bothered me for a long time is my gamertag on xbox live. a gamertag is your id to the gaming world and everwhere i look on xbox live i see sweet gamertags that are original and interesting.
i have already changed my gamertag from liptonrod to the current igav and want to change it again to the ‘ultimate gamertag’ that fits me.
seeing that i can’t make decisions and am also a rather unimaginative being i would like to throw it out there to the general public to suggest a suitable gamertag for me.
leave a comment with your suggestions and hopefully a nugget of gold will be polished and left waiting for me to pick it up and make it my own.
cheers
It’s been a long time coming but from May 31st the official ‘Telemarketers can go get fucked’ register kicks in and you can register your home and mobile phone now.
https://www.donotcall.gov.au/
I don’t know about you but only calls I get on my home phone is from fucking telemarketers so I can’t wait for some peace and silence.
The only thing I’m afraid of is that if they can’t get us on the phone what will they do next…?
Published on
April 24, 2007 in
Rants.
I never thought the following words would come out of my mouth but ‘I love the French’.
I love them because they show two new episodes of The Shield a week which is twice as much as our friends in the US.
The Shield is one of the best Cop shows ever and also has a spot in my top 5 shows of all time. It really is that good and I beg you to please sit down and watch the first couple of seasons if you haven’t seen this show or given it a fair run as it will have you hooked.
And with this Season 6 has started and is already shaping up to be the best season of The Shield to date and for those who have seen previous seasons this is a very good thing.
Straight off the bat I am not a very religious man. That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in a god or that maybe we are the product of some alien experiment, it’s just that I haven’t signed up to one of the many religious groups on offer.
So with this I started thinking about the Easter weekend and think that I have come up with an ‘alternative’ view on what it’s all about.
I call it the Testivus for the Restofus
First up is Good Friday, where everyone seems to be doing it for the kids so that they may grow. But what am I supposed to do? I hear you ask. Well that’s simple, you drink. Drink so they may grow. You don’t want any kiddies getting ill because you didn’t smash beers now do you? I know it’s a fair bit of responsibility to have on your shoulders especially but hey shut up and take one for the team. We’re doing it for the kids you selfish bastard.
From there the rest of the weekend is a bit of a blur but hey at least those little kiddies will live for one more year.
What does happen though is during the remaining days of festivities the Easter Bunny will deliver an egg people from all around will come and from that egg little baby Jesus hatches and pops out his head to decide if there will be another long week of winter.
That’s about all I’ve got (or at least remember) for now so if you have any suggestions for what else the Testivus for the Restofus may hold let me know.
Until then enjoy you’re long weekend.
I was just reading this celebrity gossip article over at www.news.com.au
COURTNEY Cox is desperate to have another baby. The former Friends actress, who already has a two-year-old daughter, Coco, with husband David Arquette, admits she would love to extend her family sooner rather than later. She told People magazine: “We’re hoping it will happen. We’re definitely thinking about it.” Cox, 41, underwent IVF, in-vitro fertilization, treatment to conceive Coco, and it is likely she will have to undergo the process again to have a second child.
- From BANG Showbiz
Can you spot the error in that article? If not go back and read it again and see if you can see it.
Found it? No?
I’ll tell you… It should read
COURTNEY Cox is desperate to have another baby. The former Friends actress, who already has a two-year-old daughter, Coco, with husband WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette, admits she would love to extend her family sooner rather than later. She told People magazine: “We’re hoping it will happen. We’re definitely thinking about it.” Cox, 41, underwent IVF, in-vitro fertilization, treatment to conceive Coco, and it is likely she will have to undergo the process again to have a second child.
- From BANG Showbiz
Come on, give credit where credit is due! He was the bloody WCW World Heavyweight Champion for crying out loud! It’s all about Courtney isn’t it…
I got ya back Dave.
Respect
Hey how’s it all going? It’s 4:08pm Friday afternoon, I’m tired and have a sore foot. I always find the last few hours of a Friday to just drag on like a bitch and the fact that I’m not doing any work doesn’t help either…
Work is going really well. It gets busy when it wants to but now that I’ve settled into the role it’s cruising rather well with no real dramas which means I can’t really complain so I won’t.
I will complain about my Media Center though, as it’s being a pain in the ass.
I wanted a nice quiet case to replace the large jet engine sounding case that I’ve currently got so I went and bought an Antec OvertureII which is pretty sweet. Nice and slim so it now lives in the TV cabinet, heaps quieter and looks alright too. As I already had a guilty conscious and already coughing up hard earned green for the case I decided to purchase a legit copy of XP Media Center 2005. Oh and shout out to the people over at www.digitalyes.com.au who shipped my order in under 24 hours. Cheers
So I’ve put everything together and test OK. Install XP Media Center and that’s alright too. Updated to the new Nvidia video drivers and they are awesome! No more fucking around with a billion settings to have your video card output correctly to your TV. Just select the display as a TV and 1080i or 720p (whatever suits best) as the resolution and bingo bango you’re done! I really liked that.
What I am having a fuckload of trouble with is my tuner card and getting a decent signal and picture for TV. It’s driving me (and I’m sure Hels but she’s awesome and puts up with my constant ‘tweaking’ and swearing at the TV) nuts as I know that it works seeing that I have ha it working perfectly before.
Hopefully tonight I will have it all sorted as it seems to be getting there ever so slowly but I have a deadline to meet which is 6:30pm Saturday as Funniest Home Videos is on…
Anyway so it’s now 4:21pm and the weekend is getter ever so closer but my foot still hurts and I need a nap.
I’m not sure what is planned for the weekend yet, but I’d be happy with just kickin back having a few brews.
If the weather permits I wouldn’t mind dusting of the BBQ and burning some meat. If I do I’ll let ya know.
After 3 glorious years of service including a few speeding tickets, a few bingles, numerous rock outs ,more drive through takeaway visits then a starving bum could dream about and all the good times you could wish for, my trusty Kennedy is being put out to pasture or “the wrecking yards.” The time has come to face the facts, he is getting on a bit in years and he is starting to fall apart like a leper on a jumping castle. He rattles and groans and has bits falling off and hanging out, not to mention his slightly abused exterior. Fear not though there is a replacement coming, whose name is tba,so you guys won’t be without your driver, and the good news is i can strip Kennedy for all the parts i want to keep, as long as it is safe for the guy collecting him to drive him away. So peace out my t(rusty) iron steed, you have served me well, i wish i could give you the blaze of glory that you deserve but frankly i need the money.
Hey guys please feel free to add your own memories or just dumb, irresponsible stuff you remeber doing in my car.
Apple has released 6 new ads in the hope of getting more ‘switchers’ from PCs to Macs.
You may notice that the ‘Mac’ is Warren from Ed or ‘That Dude’ from DodgeBall. He makes a pretty good Mac and the ads are pretty funny and play on the Mac vs PC thing…
Mac: “Hello, I’m a Mac”
PC: “And I’m a PC”
Mac: “Oh, hey… iPod, nice.”
PC: “Yeah, just a little something to hold my slowjam”
Mac: “Oh ya?”
PC: “And it works so seemlessly with iTunes”
Mac: “You should check out iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb cause they all work like iTunes. You know, iLife. It comes on every Mac”
PC: “i-L-i-f-e. Well, I – I have some very cool apps that are bundled with me”
Mac: “Well, like what?”
PC: “Calculator”
Mac: “That’s Cool, anything else?”
PC: “Clock”
Mac: “Sounds like hours of fun… (or at least minutes)”
I really do hope these ads bring more switchers to the Apple community because Macs are just better… and if you disagree you’re a fuckwit.
Clickity Click Click
Published on
March 22, 2006 in
Rants.
Jana Pittman is worried that the whole MCG will boo her out when she competes in her event tonight…Â
“She is an incredible athlete but her performance just depends on how the crowd treat her when she comes out into the stadium,” Rawlinson said yesterday.
“She is scared of hearing someone boo her. So I am just hoping everyone is behind her 100 per cent because she wants to run for them.”
“She has done an awful lot of crying,”
I’m no sports doctor but I didn’t think an ‘incredible athletes’ perfomance depended on how nice the crowd is. I thought it was all about how fucking fast you run because running fast is the key thing in winning this event.
So please Jana build a bridge, get over it and do what you gotta do.
Not everyone is going to like you so deal with it!
Booya!
There are certain things in life that piss me off. Bad drivers, people who jump the queue, red heads and the french for example.
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