In this part of my coverage of my trip through Italy and Switzerland, I’ll go through some of the cultural quirks and things that I came across. In some cases it’s funny, in a few others, sad. Mostly amusing.

I’ve finally drummed up the effort to post up my thoughts regarding my recent european trip. I’ve been ever so slack of late, this has been in the works since I got back a few weeks ago but I’ve just not gotten around to it. Actually doing work while at work hasn’t helped at all either.

That’s what I’ve got left before I head on off on my overseas trip. I detailed my accounts of my trip to Penang last time I went and I plan on doing the same this time around. I’ll be gone for a week longer this time and it will be a hell of a lot colder too.

I have often thought that if, instead of the tone they play before making announcements over a loud speaker the announcer should just pipe up, “Penis vagina, penis vagina. The 5:40pm flight to Melbourne on Virgin Blue…blah blah, Thank you.”. I think it would get people’s attention considerably before laying down the reason why you’ve arrested their minds with your opener.

That comment could be directed at a few places, be taken personally or just be directed at some faceless corporate giant who’s neglected something, someone or whatever. No, in this specific case, that comment is directed squarely at the manufacturers of the fortunes that go into the fortune cookies we all enjoy (I know you all do, everyone does) when we eat chinese food. Pick up your fucking game.

It’s that time of triennium when we, the people, decide who will govern us for the next three years. I’m normally a tad apathetic about political campaigns as they invariably begin to shit me after a couple of days and I find it best not to give them the satisfaction of thinking they may have [...]

Well this is it, the new site has been bedded in, I’ve listened to everyone who’s fed my glorious ego with praise for it to feed on and keep it warm at night and ignored those who’ve had even the slightest hint of criticism toward it. To those philistines I have this to say: lalalalalalalalala!

It’s nice doing this once a week again, there’s nothing like being demoralised by one of Bill’s comments about something I’ve said which isn’t quite up to his high standards. I tell you, sometimes I cry myself to sleep just thinking about his words, cutting a rivene of pain in my heart.

Yes, you read correctly. I chose to devote my first post back from hiatus and the first post of the brand spanking new layout to the wonderous Fray Bentos. It’s a pie in a can, just like baked beans, beetroot and 3 bean mix, this bad boy has to have a can-opener applied to it so the general public can get to its bounty. I wouldn’t put it in the microwave to warm it up though, this is strictly oven only.

Greetings, people. First time writer, long time reader. In the humbling footsteps of the internationally known Kizza and Grum, I’d like to present a rant, regardless of whether you want to hear it, because I wasn’t asking. Before I begin, I’d like to say that I’ve never considered myself to be a tree-hugger (and I [...]