I wanted to share this great piece of civil engineering (pictured above) - the parking bays next to the former Kitchen House and near the Repco, behind the Manukau Supacenta, writes a reader. "Maybe it's 4WD only parking?"
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Atlanta recently reorganised its bus routes using easily recognisable
colour coding. Sounds like a good idea to distinguish different routes, but choosing to call the route into a largely Asian area the "Yellow Line" seems ill advised, says weirduniverse.net. "I don't think they would have got by with calling the route into an African-American neighbourhood the black line, but they seem to think the Yellow Line is acceptable."
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Restaurants not accepting Eftpos 1: "Restaurants are simply the oldest cash businesses in the world. Any business that takes cash is able to put it directly into their pockets. It is very easy for them to say to the taxman: "Hardly anyone came in that night and we had to throw all the food away next morning." This is the oldest and most basic tax trick in the book. Next time you pay cash for something, ask for a GST receipt and watch owners' faces wilt ... Key and his cronies really need to wake up; this evasion is happening all over NZ."
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Restaurants not accepting Eftpos 2: "I am an accountant who prior to Eftpos used to do the books for a small restaurant in Auckland - a typical case of just breaking even and not having to pay very much tax at all. This changed with the introduction of Eftpos, as owners could no longer hide sales, paying more in both GST and income tax. I had a very unhappy client who could not understand why his tax bill had grown so much. I suspect in tough times owners are doing it again."
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A reader writes: "Think I can take a wild stab (pardon pun) at why knives are packaged up so carefully. Firstly, so shoppers cannot cut themselves while perusing them and secondly, to make them more difficult to shoplift. All in conjunction with the new proposal generated in South Auckland to make it an offence to carry a knife in public. Jolly good idea."
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TVNZ did a good job of blurring out the Facebook statements on the 6pm news about Burnside's new principal, says a reader. "But not such a great job five minutes earlier when it did a preview. I could quite clearly see that someone had called him the "c" word."
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Can Viv Wilson, owner of the 35-year-old Fisher & Paykel washing machine, please email SideSwipe.
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See today's Herald cartoon.
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Today's Webpick: Three great videos: Cult TV pro-wrestling On The Mat, safety video goes wrong and Mike Tyson on Italy's Dancing with the
Stars. Go here to watch.
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