With western world interest rates now tantamount to free money, unsurprisingly common sense has gone out the window. The Uber float raising US$8 billion, epitomised this.
Described subsequently as a terrible flop because the issue price lost 8% on the first day, the reduced share price still valued the company at US$76 billion. For that reason I’d have called it an astonishing success.
My God the sex drive can veer off in strange directions as our newspapers report seemingly daily. Take a week ago with a 30 year old Hawkes Bay company manager, finally nailed for his compulsion (and compulsion it is, thus incurable) to grasp women joggers’ fannies from behind.
A few years ago we had a similar case in Wellington with a cyclist pedalling furiously through the Botanical gardens each lunch-time, doing the same thing to women strollers. Despite the wide-spread publicity, such was his compulsion he persisted and was duly nabbed. Lo and behold he turned out to be a professional firm partner and family man.
News that a Finnish town Joensuu, is to stage the world’s first ever Heavy Metal Knitting championship caused some mirth in Britain. Contestants knit while listening to this rubbish for one minute, the winner being the most productive knitter. Apparently the entry list is lengthy which probably explains the one minute limit.
After almost eight decades I confess it’s hard to be truly surprised by any human activity, particularly when it comes to bad taste or amazing behaviour.
Probably the stand-out shock in my life-time was being woken by a mate calling from England about 4am and barking at me to turn my television on. If you haven’t guessed, that was “September 11th”, as it’s now colloquially known.
Appro’ the below item a letter just in from Alan Duff bewildered after seeing an item on Facebook this morning showing my photo and quoting me, “Get in now before banks blank this”. Alan’s bewilderment stemmed from disbelief, he knowing me too well to believe I would promote such rubbish.
Let me make one thing very clear.
