Lost in translation

It seems English really must be a tricky language to learn. A  T-shirt in class yesterday…

Poor kid. I know, I’m evil.

Great blog found

In the process of shooshing some shouty (try saying that one quickly) ecotard moonbats over at Blair’s, I stumbled upon the soon-to-be latest addition to the Tizona blogroll.

It’s called Not PC. As a teaser, I’ll post a vid he linked to regarding where all the money ($2 billion)* the Fed has blown recently has gone. Answer: no one seems to know!

Check it out. I’ll give you a money-back guarantee that if you’re a Righty, you’ll love it, and in turn, if you’re a Lefty, you, er, probably won’t (more commas please, Mr Quartermaster!).

*UPDATE

Oops, that’s $9 trillion that’s gone walkabout, not a measley $2 billion. There’s a $1 trillion number in there and a $2 trillion number in there also. As they say on the other side of the fence; crikey!

In which my missus has her flabber gasted…

The big town up the road from me, Kalgoorlie, is well known here in Oz for being a little rough. Being mainly a mining town, that’s not surprising.

Kalgoorlie sprung up as a gold mining town, and still has a working super pit on the edge of the town.

It also has the famous/infamous Hay Street brothel strip, a set of about six brothels lining one street, ranging from the “starting stalls” through to full rub and tug luxury joints.

Club 181.

Outside a starting stall.

Not surprisingly, the two industries tend to use each other quite a bit, despite moves in recent years to try and make the town more family friendly. After all, there’s not many places you can knock off work, knock back a few coldies while having a perv at a skimpy barmaid, then knock one off at a knocker shop…

Skimpies.

Pub show.

For a long time, the town and coppers just pretended they weren’t there until they finally went legal. One of the more enterprising madams found a new way to milk a few dollars from tourists by offering brothel tours. Another became one of the local counselors.

So as you can imagine it takes a bit to drop the jaw of a local.

Last week saw that happen… more below the fold.

Eco-Tards Would Have Us All Drive “Insightfully”

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson drives the new Honda Insight.

“Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days.

So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place.

So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.”

Oh, Jeremy’s just warming up.

“The Honda’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone else’s crying baby on an airliner. It’s worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open. Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.”

Now he’s in full song.

“Because the Honda has two motors, one that runs on petrol and one that runs on batteries, it is more expensive to make than a car that has one. But since the whole point of this car is that it could be sold for less than Toyota’s Smugmobile, the engineers have plainly peeled the suspension components to the bone. The result is a ride that beggars belief.

There’s more. Normally, Hondas feel as though they have been screwed together by eye surgeons. This one, however, feels as if it’s been made from steel so thin, you could read through it. And the seats, finished in pleblon, are designed specifically, it seems, to ruin your skeleton. This is hairy-shirted eco-ism at its very worst.”

Every paragraph is quotable, so you should read the whole enchilada. This is the pain eco-tards want us all to feel.

Another Clarkson classic.

Yes, this is the future of Obamanation Government Motors.

H/T Prof Bainbrigde, which you should also read.

Bank error in your favour

Finally, not just when playing Monopoly.

A couple has skipped town after a bank accidentally loaned them $10 million instead of $10,000.

Well, good luck to them. With Interpol and a PI on the tail, they’ll need it. I don’t know, maybe it’s the rebel in me, but it was actually good to hear about a bank error going in the customer’s favour for once.

As for where to go, Tahiti might be an option if the person from the link is correct. Maybe Brazil, too? I had a quick surf (lunch hour dwindling) and even went here but buggers me which countries are ‘safe’ for a Kiwi. Anyone know? Wiki only has a list for Australia and the US.

UPDATE

Hong Kong. Why the hell would they’ve gone to Hong Kong?1 That’s just plain stupid.