Newsy crap

I see on the online news that Elizabeth Taylor has died. Very sad but I guess not unexpected with all the health problems she has had over the years. She was 79.

It’s sad that Whitcoulls is in trouble but as an avid reader who likes both books and money, I don’t reckon it should come as any surprise. I make an effort to support local businesses where possible, even if they are a squidge more expensive, which is why Play It Again gets my music-buying custom.

Model Gisele has stirred things up again, this time with the comment that sunscreen is poison. She was speaking to media at the launch of her organic skincare line, Sejaa. Because, apparently, she protects her skin from the sun’s harmful rays by never going out in the sun after 8am. That might be possible for someone

I’m not a huge fan of tennis, although I do class it as a sport (unlike cricket). However, on the rare occasion I do manage to show enough interest to peer at the TV screen when a tennis ball is being chucked around, I always end up pissed off by all those silly bints who

I have never been a fan of Slingshot’s method of marketing but I’m even less inclined to think kindly of them after the recent news that they were regularly breaching Telecom’s security to gain an edge in the poaching of customers. Sales staff for Slingshot say they would use Telecom’s Wireline database sometimes thousands of times