Populate or perish

I just endured a dull human resources related meeting in a drab windowless boardroom. Essentially this meeting was an exercise in humouring the Human Resources Division while attempting to justify their existence. During the meeting the convenor asked me to ‘populate’ a document. I think her intention was for me to fill the document in but with ludicrous office speech who really knows. Considering I was being asked to populate I was tempted to use Peter Costello as my inspiration and fill in one form for Mum, one form for Dad and one form for my country...

Just can't bear it...

A circus bear in a Russian circus kills his trainer and the journalist writes "It is not clear what caused the attack"

Um...huge wild animal forced by trainer to wear skates and play ice hockey....yep - that seems like motivation to me...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8320849.stm

If these woolens could talk...

Was given a scarf for my birthday. The care instructions tag sewn on to the scarf included this:

"Knitted garments prefer folded storage"

They 'prefer'? Did someone ask them about this??

I am aware that to maintain shape it is preferable to fold knitted garments rather than hang them on coat hangers but I feel we are being paternalistic here in telling these woolen garments how to live their lives.

If they just want to hang in the back of the wardrobe and lose their shape who am I to say no?

Digging deep

Australian soldiers currently fighting in Afghanistan are called 'Diggers' when referred to by the media or politicians. When 110 year old World War One 'Veteran' John Campbell Ross passed away recently the tributes that came named him as Australia's Last Remaining Digger. If that is the case does that mean that other veterans will not be able to use that term. It should do but it will not. The term digger is used by the media and politicians to generate specific emotions and ideals and it is a pity that it gets overused and abused.

Interestingly John Campbell Ross was barely a 'digger' anyway; he never left Australia in a military capacity and spent most of his time serving in Broadmeadows, Victoria. Am quite sure there was little digging to be done there...