Kristin Savage

I’ve been getting increasingly impatient with my mobile phone. I’m sick of having it in my pocket. It’s become a must-carry and i’m sick of it. Bob Jones asks here about their actual worth in a business setting.

From a safety perspective, yesterday driving home from work, I saw a kid sailing along in the right-hand lane listening to his ipod via headphone, with his mobile in his hand texting. I thought that was dangerous and tooted so he awoke from his technological trance. I didn’t go as far as this guy.

It’s funny how loud cellphone use has become almost acceptable. Let’s start a revolution, where if someone nearby in public is yelling into a phone, tap them on the shoulder and give them a silent index finger to mouth ‘Sshhhhh’.

Here’s an interesting thread on the Bob Jones cellphone incident from Kiwiblog.

The folks at ICBE are having a laugh explaining everything ‘bathroom etiquette’. It’s an interesting angle taken to generate Google Ads revenue.

Good on them!

I’m amazed at the scope they’ve covered on their site. Everything from ‘urinal’ etiquette to ‘at home’ bathroom etiquette. They even cover the age-old bowl up/down issue?

Check it out, pretty funny!

This looks interesting: Sleep FM.

Anyone think they’ll try it?

The anti-smoking legislation came into effect more than 4 years ago. It seems an age since bars and workplaces began to inadvertently treat our clothes (and lungs) better, smoker or non smoker.

The legislation is better for the majority of punters, but what about retail store owners? It is spelled out clearly;“Under the law, individual owners and companies who “fail to take all reasonably practicable steps” to prevent workplace smoking face a fine of up to $4000″.

What I believe makes it a big issue are the staff puffing at the frontage. As you walk around the CBD of any major city in NZ, count the seconds between being greeted by the smoke clouds of this breed exercising their legal right to a drug-fix break.

The sight of staff members puffing away on their death sticks outside the shops entrance is a sure kick in the pants for the owner of these retail businesses. If ever there was an excuse to create a cigar room next to your lunchroom, it would be this. But that wouldn’t happen we know. It seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Even owning a shop next to a bar would be pretty frustrating.

Walking through a cloud of smoke before entering a shop, let alone passing by, is no thing to expect of a customer (prospective or otherwise). What a terrible welcome.

Finally, here are some pretty interesting statistics about smoking!

An obscure question… Why is it that the normal adult dosage is 2 Panadol tablets? Why not one …one big one twice the size of the current size?

Maybe from a marketing perspective it’s seen as ‘better’ to promote a packet of 20 smaller tablets than 10 bigger tablets, or 10 smaller tablets than 5 bigger tablets? A pack of 20 sounds better than a pack of 10.

Or it may be that kids only take one, and so instead of cutting a bigger tablet in half, we’re simply told to take two.

Anyone know the answer to this?

It’s the Anaethetist’s attention to detail in copying the melody that makes this “total eclipse of the heart” take-off even funnier.

Much respect to Anaethetists. They do an amazing job!

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growin a Mo. That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about men’s health and the fight against prostate cancer. Why…

• Every year in New Zealand 2,656 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 600 die of the disease, making prostate cancer the second largest cause of male cancer deaths, after lung cancer.
• The average life expectancy of a man in New Zealand is 4 years less than a woman.

To sponsor my Mo please go to http://www.movember.com/nz/donate, enter my registration number which is 183171 and your credit card details. Or you can sponsor me by cheque made payable to the “Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand” clearly marking the donation as being for my Registration Number: 183171. Please mail cheques to: Movember, PO Box 87 150, Meadowbank 1742, Auckland. All donations over $5 are tax deductible.

All donations are made directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand who will use the funds to create awareness, increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer, fund research and scholarship programs.

For those that have supported Movember in previous years you can be very proud of the impact it has had and can check out the detail at: Fundraising Outcomes.

Movember culminates at the end of the month at the Gala Partés. These glamorous and groomed events will see Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title. If you would like to be part of this great night you’ll need to purchase a Gala Parté ticket.

Thanks for your support

Kristin

More info is available at www.movember.com.

Movember a proud partner of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand.