Sideswiped: Jesus was a ginger?
Vote ACT to grow your meth business,an idea for our most lucrative duopoly, a guillotiners regret and Winston - we don't need his policies, but sure as hell need his charisma.
Hugh Barlow spotted this work of art at Percy's Mart, Masterton, and posted it on the Terrible Art in Charity Shops Facebook page.“It's titled "Jesus" - which is what I said when I saw the price - $80.” Others thought it had a more of a Barry Gibb or Chuck Norris vibe.
Boost for Meth business
The Act Party is promising to allow over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine again, reversing a near-decade ban on the sinus unblocking amphetamine.
The announcement was good news for Karl Druglord, who owns a franchise of Meth Laboratories throughout New Zealand and is a member of a not-for-profit organisation of motorcycle enthusiasts.
Figures show the meth business currently makes $4.3 million for New Zealand a week and that’s likely to grow once pseudoephedrine is back on the shelves. It might also make chemists the next big thing for young ram raiding entrepreneurs.
Not only that, but the weekly cost of social harm, currently at $13.5 million will also go up.
Rotorua Police boss Herby Ngawhika reckons meth is “easier to get than green” already. And social agencies in the area say girls as young as 13 are prostituting themselves to feed their habit.
That’s just the economy working, says Act leader David Seymour.
Food for thought
Here’s an idea NZ supermarket duopoly. Dynamic pricing on perishables.
Stay with me.
A shoppers POV: You see a slightly flaccid Chinese cabbage … you’re using it in a stir-fry tonight, so it’ll do. But woah, not at that price. You walk away and cabbage gets chucked. If it was cheaper, it’d probably get sold.
Dynamic pricing — changing prices depending on demand and supply — has helped companies cut waste and save money. Uber does it with its surge pricing. Airlines are pros at it, adjusting prices according to demand, seasonality, and flight times.
Sure there’s Reduced to Clear with their end of lines, old packaging, cancelled export orders, and short-dated stock and their really weird unpopular snacks.
But why can’t supermarkets do the same, on a grander scale?
Our supermarkets don’t like to say how many tons of perishables they waste — mandatory reporting of food waste should be a priority for our new Grocery Grandmaster — some goes to landfill, some is donated to food rescue outfits like FairFood.
Think of the goodwill if it some of it went to the consumer?
Sing it with me: West Vagina, mountain mama
Tough on crime
The job of a high executioner was grim. Particularly for Charles-Henri Sanson who guillotined more than 50 “conspirators” in 28 minutes on June 17, 1794. This included an 18-year-old girl. That night he wrote in his diary:
Terrible day. The guillotine devoured 54. My strength went, my heart failed me. That evening, sitting down to dinner, I told my wife that I could see spots of blood on my napkin. … I don’t lay claim to any sensibility I don’t possess: I have seen too often and too close up the sufferings and death of my fellow human beings to be easily affected. If what I feel is not pity it must be caused by an attack of nerves; perhaps it is the hand of God punishing my cowardly pliancy to what so little resembles that justice which I was born to serve.
(Via Severed – A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson)
The Comeback King
Three years ago Winston Peters was voted out of parliament - he could only charm his way into 2.7 percent of the vote. Last night the Reid Research Poll had him at 5.2 percent. While we don’t need his policies, we do need his charisma.I made this fond look back on his 42 years in parliament for The Project, it’s funny as.
I like your idea of surge pricing for cottages. We’ve already got it for houses.