crazynazy

I am so fucking annoyed. I just wrote a huge long entry and lost it because I accidently clicked on the stupid ad to the right of this screen. WHY DO I BOTHER?!

Driving home from Health Worx (I really hate businesses that replace the 'ks' and 's' in their name with 'x' or 'z') contemplating a devastating loss at netball and my argument with the old fag hag in the carpark ("You can't park there... I'll call the council!") I was distracted as I slowed for the crossing boom and pulled up alongside a water bed shop. Water beds? Seriously, who buys water beds these days? Maybe it's the 80s revival, but I thought it was all about latex. As an avid watcher of Jenji Kohan's Weeds, I can't help but think the store front is a cover for some shady drug dealing / gun smuggling operation.

It's pretty weird to think that some of the top branded pet foods are owned by companies that condone and undertake animal testing.

Colgate-Palmolive have funded research by Columbia University in which guinea pigs were locked into small plastic tubes and a strong solution of surfactant was applied for four hours a day for three days, causing cracked and bleeding skin on the animals.
Colgate-Palmolive own veterinary and RSPCA supported brand Hill's Science Diet.

Mars have admitted that business unit Symbioscience, would undertake "limited forms of animal testing" when required to demonstrate the safety or efficacy of "pharmaceutical and therapeutic food products." The University of California, San Francisco, confirmed in a statement that it has conducted a Mars-funded study of the potential health benefits of cocoa flavanols involving testing on rats.
Mars partner Waltham, in collaboration with global scientific institutes, conducts research for Mars brands of pet products, which include Pedigree (PAL), Whiskas, My Dog, Dine, Kitekat, Optimum, Catsan, Trill, Exelpet and Advance Pet Nutrition. Yep, that's most of the products in the pet food aisle at your supermarket.

Proctor & Gamble has been involved in a range of unethical research across it's product spectrum, so much so that there is a whole website - P&G KILLS - dedicated to their bad behaviour.
Proctor & Gamble own pet brands Eukanuba and Iams.

This was written on the hand of a school girl on the bus today and reading it made me really sad. I saw it as she was pressing the next stop button. She wasn't overweight, but she wasn't model thin either. She was just a normal school girl. I wanted to hug her and tell her that school is just a phase that will be over soon and she's beautiful just how she is. I hope I never see that written on my 14-year-old sister's hand.

I needed somewhere online to post my 30th birthday present wish list! Apart from a ticket to Parklife Adelaide ($92-$102) I have posted an Amazon wishlist.

... I will actually write something interesting. Even if it is only interesting to me.