Here em de news!  Here em de news!  Comments, thoughts and predictions from yesterday, today and tomorrow.

HAPPY  NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!   And this year is going to clean out the mess that has occurred over the past few years.   Why … it evens starts off with a clean slate.   Do you realise that the first day of the new year starts on the first day of the week – Monday the 1st of January, 2018! 

And now for the news from last month this month and next month along with some other equally inane rubbish.

Black Friday Sales!!!!

One more Americanism and we will probably wake up one day to find Donald Trump is our new president.  NB:  In case you missed the mass hype output by just about every major store and on-line shop in Australia at the end of November, it really doesn’t exist in Australia except in the devious minds of some advertising executives.   Officially ‘Black Friday’ (Sales) simply indicates the beginning of the U.S. Christmas season sales-wise.   Its name comes from the fact that it follows the public holiday of ‘Thanksgiving’ which is always held on the last Thursday of November … and as it leads the charge to Christmas it is expected to put retailers into the black – and out of the red.   It has been around in the U.S.A. since the late 19th century, so why Australia jumped on the bandwagon in 2017 (21st century) is anybody’s guess.  ps: semi-officially, it is classed as Boxing Day in advance by one Australian retail spokesman.

My question is, if they can’t keep prices down all year long, at least they could call the sales something quintessentially Australian and promote it as pre-christmas sales rather than associate it with something that is stuck in our minds as black cats or walking under ladders.   Or more importantly seeing it as day of luck, both bad and good.   Buying things on a black Friday almost guarantees problems with the purchase.

Warning!!!!  Warning!!!! Warning!!!!

Prince Charming accused of inappropriate behaviour.   A call for the banning of Sleeping Beauty’s autobiography as it is seen to give approval of the kiss that Prince Charming placed on her lips while she lay sound sleep.   Civil do-gooders have called for the ban due the kiss being given without her approval, and thus giving an inappropriate message to innocent young minds.

Better not let them see any LIFE SAVING programs either, lest they misread the results of the Kiss of Life.   Actually I can see the eventual possibility of somebody either laying charges or bringing on a law suit against the person who saved their life without their permission.   But then I do have an overactive imagination at times.

On the Buses:

 If you are thinking about getting a face lift and you regularly use public transport think twice before having a face reconstruction, or altering parts in that area because come 2019 (or perhaps earlier) Go Card will be activated by Photo Recognition.   God help your bank account if you have a doppelganger or two.

As I suspected:

There to greet me in their shiny cellophane wrappers, sitting proudly at the front entrance to a Coles supermarket store that I innocently wandered past in a local shopping centre today, the 30th of DECEMBER, 2017, was the very thing every shopper and child needed (not) to remind them of what was coming next now that Christmas had departed for another year.  

‘Australia Day?‘ some of you scream out loudly remembering it is less than a month away, as thoughts of flags and thongs and  b.b.q’s and beaches and cricket delightfully run through your imaginative minds.  

‘Valentine’s Day?‘ The romantics amongst you ask dreamily, their thoughts immediately turning to roses and chocolates and movies and sweet dinners – and full moon walks by the ocean and the rivers on the 14th of February.   “Ahhhh!, they collectively sighed, “a mere six weeks away, give or take a hug and a kiss.”

“We know!   We know!” Some extremely excited parents call out excitedly.   “School is back!   And it is only a month a way, give or take a teacher’s day”   But sadly their enthusiasm for their answer is quickly drowned out by the boos and jeers from the hundreds of school children they have foolishly brought to the shopping centre with them.   

However it matters not that they all got it wrong.

It was TRADITIONAL HOT CROSS BUNS for Easter that they had on display.  I would have thought they would have been a bit stale by Good Friday (30th of April), but who knows.

DID YOU SEE,

Where Mister Trump recently called for voter support to elect a senator in a by-election saying it was imperative that the Republican candidate was elected as he (Donald Trump) needed the candidate to keep the balance of power on his side in the senate – despite the fact that the candidate was being investigated for sexual in-discrepancies.  It appeared that while Mister Trump was able to push away the magnitude of the charges because he wasn’t interested in them or their subsequent outcomes, it seems that his constituents were – and for the first time in twenty five years traditional Republican voters voted for the Democrats.

Like I keep thinking, is turning on the past and righting wrongs.   Which means I should finally win Lotto (possibly on Monday night).

Well that’s enough ranting and raving for one year.

Once again I wish you all a new year and see you soon.

Regards,

Tony S