tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post2774021057267838880..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: The Age Pleads: Spurn Our Advertisers!Bunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-18754164464168826332012-07-20T22:34:24.316+10:002012-07-20T22:34:24.316+10:00I wonder if she will close her online shop during ...I wonder if she will close her online shop during buy nothing new month?<br />/cricketsSiren49noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-67613225379219168942012-07-08T02:42:55.110+10:002012-07-08T02:42:55.110+10:00Bit of a bonus when the girl who sounded smart in ...Bit of a bonus when the girl who sounded smart in comments sticks her photo up and turns out to be cute as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-1950084980003654562012-07-08T02:35:17.904+10:002012-07-08T02:35:17.904+10:00"Buy nothing new month"
"Wear this&..."Buy nothing new month"<br />"Wear this" day.<br />"Wear that" day.<br />"Take this to work" day.<br />"Bring this to work" day.<br /><br />How about all you people avoiding real work by leaching taxpayer money under the pretence of creating yet another "day" just go get real work. <br /><br />If you donate 10% of your hard-earned to the Salvos it will actually do so some good.<br />Yes, it's harder than pretending you "run a charity".<br />Yes, you actually have to work.<br />Yes, your kids might have someone to actually look up to.<br /><br />mr.simmonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-48943649446231975962012-07-07T04:22:40.702+10:002012-07-07T04:22:40.702+10:00"properly hemmed-and-darted".
I'm ..."properly hemmed-and-darted". <br /><br />I'm impressed. That you even know what that means.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-61544487216385283362012-07-07T02:23:44.260+10:002012-07-07T02:23:44.260+10:00Can she call the clothing line "Derilicte&quo...Can she call the clothing line "Derilicte", or is that copyrighted??mojo, Unrepentant Yanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-87712997202011474592012-07-06T16:45:18.222+10:002012-07-06T16:45:18.222+10:00Yes, strong peasant calves for when we all have to...Yes, strong peasant calves for when we all have to go back to subsistence farming and pull our own ploughs around muddy fields. If the greens get their way.<br /><br />StanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-55753206553236475302012-07-06T11:04:38.381+10:002012-07-06T11:04:38.381+10:00It must make her mum proud to see her step out in ...It must make her mum proud to see her step out in such style. <br />Oh, am I allowed to suggest that she has only one mother these days, or is that discriminatory against naturally superior same-sex parents?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-72154798160178032482012-07-06T10:38:29.929+10:002012-07-06T10:38:29.929+10:00You might want to have a look at the Wilcox cartoo...You might want to have a look at the Wilcox cartoon in today's Sydney Morning Herald. <br /><br />I was one of the millions who watched and enjoyed the State of Origin match on Wednesday. <br /><br />According to bien-pensant cartoonist I am living in an "intellectual vacuum". How nice of them to tell me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-24225594157245784232012-07-06T08:29:39.489+10:002012-07-06T08:29:39.489+10:00From the website linked at the bottom:
"Tama...From the website linked at the bottom:<br /><br />"Tamara Dimattina is far to (sic) modest."<br /><br />Yes and she has much to be modest about.<br /><br />Idiots.Rabznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-59834531864857967962012-07-05T22:15:57.826+10:002012-07-05T22:15:57.826+10:00DiMattina....were we married once?DiMattina....were we married once?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-50419351864853994762012-07-05T21:22:39.940+10:002012-07-05T21:22:39.940+10:00Love the 'Ads by Google' ad when I read Ta...Love the 'Ads by Google' ad when I read Tamara's conscientious consumption piece - "GE Capital use industry experience to Help Austrailain Businesses Grow" - not much growth in eclectic second hand shoppingJimberlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-83242953655756407422012-07-05T21:12:58.327+10:002012-07-05T21:12:58.327+10:00Love the 'Ads by Google' ad when I viewed ...Love the 'Ads by Google' ad when I viewed - 'GE Capital uses industry experience to Help Australian Businesses Grow' - not much growth in eclectic second-hand shoppingJimberlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-38899162670745891752012-07-05T14:34:07.475+10:002012-07-05T14:34:07.475+10:00First rule in needlework class:
Match the cotton c...First rule in needlework class:<br />Match the cotton colour to the material colour<br />Second rule in needlework class:<br />Put both right sides together so you sew along the wrong or inside edges, enabling you to turn the garment right side out and HIDE the stitches when done!<br /><br />Anohter epic FAIL byone of the Failfax mob!<br /><br />(Just sayin, as she thinks she is an expert whereas she is the rankest amateur!)Jazzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-89831281763141535242012-07-05T13:48:39.202+10:002012-07-05T13:48:39.202+10:00Been thinking about launching a Vacuous Consumptio...Been thinking about launching a Vacuous Consumption Fightback. Wandered down to the Koala Killers (H Normans) to have a look at Plasma TVs.<br />Have to get the power hungry 200Hz type mainly for watching the Bombers - they are so quick these days they are just a blur on the old TV.<br />But they only go up to 165cm (that's 65" to you Prof)<br />Can anyone recommend anything bigger and noisier?<br /><br />The Irish LionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-21488044789959099352012-07-05T12:04:35.150+10:002012-07-05T12:04:35.150+10:00Good heavens, that looks like something children u...Good heavens, that looks like something children used to whip up out of odd pieces of material that Mum's used to put in a bag for their toys outfits. <br /><br />Surely this lady jests?Merilynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-79345827802336135142012-07-05T11:07:23.542+10:002012-07-05T11:07:23.542+10:00Fairfax still uses some newly manufactured paper a...Fairfax still uses some newly manufactured paper as fodder for its presses. A more appropriate practice would be to use the animal dung product like that manufactured from the excrements of the North American moose and other ruminants, on behalf of some environment action groups. <br />Apropoos, and not just for October.Leo Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-65717176552409814262012-07-05T10:37:45.040+10:002012-07-05T10:37:45.040+10:00Excellent question. Perhaps the didactic finger-wa...Excellent question. Perhaps the didactic finger-wagging is simply PR.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-4640663331153045572012-07-05T10:26:56.545+10:002012-07-05T10:26:56.545+10:00Fairfax Directors are certainly having a spending ...Fairfax Directors are certainly having a spending spree buying second hand trash.<br />ASX Announcements today reveal that there have been big moves on the FXJ register of late:-<br />Director Linda Bardo (Bardo??) NICHOLLS has increased her stake from 40,387 shares to 53,262 shares, buying in at $0.54/Share. This now takes her holding to 0.002% of Issued Capital<br />Director Sandra Veronica McPHEE has increased her stake from 40,220 shares to 53,376 shares, also buying in at a snip of $0.54/Share. She is also sitting on a stake of 0.002% of Issued Capital.<br /><br />And the purchases were made using after-tax Directors Fees<br />So the fee you get for trashing the share price you use to buy more shares at a lower price.<br />Talk about skin in the game!!!<br /><br />Now I think my arithmetic is correct here …. if owning 0.002% of the company is enough for a board seat, then Gina is entitled to about 8,400 board seats.<br /><br />The Irish LionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-7991161987059769502012-07-05T10:12:23.061+10:002012-07-05T10:12:23.061+10:00When I first saw the photo I thought she had an am...When I first saw the photo I thought she had an amputated arm. When I looked at the dress she made I realised she probably has.philby of christies beachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-76704333768105001202012-07-05T00:23:33.774+10:002012-07-05T00:23:33.774+10:00Sewing for FIT is so eighties(?). What is surprisi...Sewing for FIT is so eighties(?). What is surprising and suspicious is her use of red to alert us to her lack of talent or artifice. Even at the op shop she could have done heaps better than that.<br /><br />OMG proving I'm not a robot is getting so hard I'm starting to doubt myself.Pamela Arlousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-65705733266659899692012-07-04T23:34:35.341+10:002012-07-04T23:34:35.341+10:00Anon @4.52 you do realise those prices don't i...Anon @4.52 you do realise those prices don't include GST or postage, don't you?<br /><br />And a flat rate applies for postage, so your funky hipster bangle consisting of a gumleaf forever entombed in a donut of perspex will set you back $120.00 + GST of $12.00 plus postage and handling of $15.<br /><br />Wow. $147 for <a href="http://www.lmandme.com/bangles.html" rel="nofollow">that?</a><br /><br />And considering that she's trying to talk people out of spending so much money on consumer goods, why does she get these things custom made on order at great cost? What goes into the actual manufacture and is it a sustainable, green and friendly process?<br /><br />Probably not. I can smell the hypocrisy from here.Nilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872495050796257177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-68592002540120396542012-07-04T21:33:20.963+10:002012-07-04T21:33:20.963+10:00Jupes, if the 80s were the decade that taste forgo...Jupes, if the 80s were the decade that taste forgot, the 00s will be the dearth of smart decade.kaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819693069445947851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-76022630680392164022012-07-04T21:28:09.373+10:002012-07-04T21:28:09.373+10:00Looks like something the cat dragged in, after a d...Looks like something the cat dragged in, after a dumpster dive.kaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819693069445947851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-49892393765778871762012-07-04T20:57:37.592+10:002012-07-04T20:57:37.592+10:00My sympathies lie with Da Ape.
Not long after the ...My sympathies lie with Da Ape.<br />Not long after the nuptials were formalised and the Lion household was launched I had to explain to Mrs Lion that the number in the top right of the credit card statement was a LIMIT ….. not a TARGET.<br />Nigh on thirty years have passed and the same plea still falls on stony ground and cloth ears.<br /><br />The Irish Lion .... older, wiser, poorerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-24715338049517207762012-07-04T20:53:04.993+10:002012-07-04T20:53:04.993+10:00Now who else was advocating 'Buy Nothing' ...Now who else was advocating 'Buy Nothing' month? Yes! It was Sydney's own CLOVER MOORE, quite bizarrely urging people not to <a href="http://www.smartcompany.com.au/retail/050397-sydney-mayor-clover-moore-backs-buy-nothing-month-as-new-data-shows-retail-still-in-the-doldrums.html" rel="nofollow">bring any of their filthy money</a> into Sydney retailers: <br /><br /><i>The mayor of Sydney has come out in support of a campaign urging shoppers to buy fewer new products, to the horror of struggling retailers and the New South Wales premier.</i>TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.com