February 1, 2012 1 Comment
Woolworths has been left red-faced by the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) ruling on Wednesday that found it had wilfully contravened advertising standards by plagiarising aspects of Frankie’s Olde Soft Drink Company.
The ASA has ordered Woolworths to withdraw its packaging immediately.
More here.
January 18, 2012 2 Comments
There are a lot of things you can take away from me, but coffee is not one of them!
So to my delight, I noted that a local supermarket was advertising: Starbucks Coffee!
I have no idea how the stuff tastes but it’s from America (!) and it seems that anyone who blogs (particularly the Biblical folk) even half decently has, at some point, posted something while sitting in Starbucks on a Saturday morning over a cup of coffee. We have no Starbucks in South Africa so buying the coffee seemed to be the next best thing. You can but imagine my disappointment when I got to the nearest Checkers only to find that they have none in stock here in the Western Cape!?
Oh well… Patience will be required… and a cup of almost faithful Nescafé Ricoffy.
January 9, 2012 Leave a comment
How the communion wafer arrived in the capitalist marketplace.
The ethos of the altar bread industry changed profoundly, which is precisely what the Sisters of St. Clare found so unjust:
And they had the audacity to send samples and a price list to every parish in the United States! We were doomed. Priests started calling to say they preferred the “other” breads. Orders dropped. Our spirits drooped. We held a community meeting and prayed for Divine guidance. Obviously we were no longer physically able to bake breads. Obviously, our breads were no longer wanted, anyway. But even more obvious to us was our need and our desire to keep supplying the churches with breads. Need, because this was our only stable source of income. Desire, because this was our connection with the churches. These were our churches, and packing the altar breads was like a litany: Sacred Heart…San Francisco…San Jose…St James…St John…St Joseph…St Mary…St Paul…St Peter….
Give it a read here.
December 8, 2011 3 Comments
What Amazon looks like behind the Internet:
HT: 22 words
November 25, 2011 Leave a comment
The question is not if people will be trampled and crushed in the crazy stampede to buy things today, but rather, how many?
Just look at what one idiot did outside a Wal-Mart.
With each passing year, the madness on Black Friday gets even worse.
September 10, 2011 1 Comment
I love coffee. Very much. You can take a lot of things away from me, but coffee is not one of them! So earlier today I bought a 750 gram tin of Nescafé Ricoffy from a Pick n Pay store for R 54.99 ($ 7.60 / £ 4.77)
Getting home and wanting to finish off my preparations for Sunday Mass, a cup was is order. So you can imagine my total surprise when I opened up the tin and saw just how much coffee was actually missing:
Now I wasn’t expecting it to be full, but not that much gone either. I have no scale handy, but if I was to measure the granules, there is just no way that this is 750 g. It is the emptiest just opened tin that I have ever seen – and plenty I have been through before.
Look, I know that we have all fallen on hard times, but this is just plain ridiculous. Look at the tin (above)! Come on. And unlike the bottles of coffee, you cannot see inside the tin before you get home and open the thing.
Oh well, perhaps it’s simply time to change my brand…
September 1, 2011 Leave a comment
Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God could be described as major faith multinational.
With a business-like structure, and branches all over the world, it exports a Brazilian brand of neo-Pentecostalism based on theology of prosperity.
Madness! Mayhem.
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