tincan.co.nz

Well, I was just today telling my legend mate big AC about how there is no help for entrepreneurs in this country.  If you go down the welfare office because you have no money to buy food they tell you to go away and close your company (even if it’s making no money), sell everything that you slaved your guts out for….. gosh let’s not go there further, that’s another MASSIVE chapter (I’ll edit this more shortly), but in brief, if you go through the process, you’ll be waiting weeks for a lousy $150 a week.

Yesterday I am checking the P O Box and when I get back to the car, this young guy at the adjacent bus stop says to me, “excuse me sir, are you going to Newmarket” – I tell him “no” and slam the door and drive away.

100 metres down the road I am thinking what a wanker (me that is), it’s 2k’s away and maybe he needed a ride to a job interview or something or maybe he was trying to save the $1.80 fare or just maybe he was being cheeky – so what if he was…  I didn’t need to be a prat.  Maybe he is an entrepreneur too perhaps and just needed a bit of a helping hand perhaps.  He’ll certainly not get any help from the current Government.

Now I have regret and have thought a lot about how that young man must have felt when been told bluntly to get lost.

I should be punished and the price by applying for a job at WINZ – I’d fit the mold perfectly.

Gosh, it’s bad enough when you walk down the street and you spot a couple that look exactly the same.  The last 20 years of marriage eating the same food everyday – you are what you eat as the saying goes.  How is it possible that two people can eventually start to look like twins?

Then you have these people that look like their dogs.  Now what’s all that about, are they making meatloaf from the dog roll or what?

What’s even more disturbing are these small dogs that are becoming all the rage, these small ugly things, like a ‘Bichon Frise’ – I am shocked that I even know how to spell it.  What sort of man with any self respect would own one of these, that’s just not right – simple!!!

One of my dodgy mates was telling me the other day about a bunch of hot ‘chicks’ at his Church.  A bit taken back I said, “I never knew you went to church”.  His prompt reply was, “it’s only for the woman”.  Now that made a lot of sense.  Anyway, he’s picking me up this afternoon and off we’ll go to the afternoon mass.  Stay tuned…

“A picture speaks a thousand words” as the saying goes…

A man can’t even take a leak in their toliets without the self promotion.  Where’s the picture that says, hey, haven’t you been here long enough and it’s time to go home to your kids.

These pricks at Auckland Sky City Casino take the punters money after they’ve had a few beers/wines – as they do – oh I mean the GOVT allows it to happen – read between the lines here…

Let’s think about it, we have laws against selling to intoxicated people, let alone people that have had one too many before gambling (nope we don’t, do we?) – but the GOVT doesn’t really care.  Take a peek inside the Casino at any given night – what do you see? – PEOPLE THAT CAN’T AFFORD TO BE THERE – and  – PEOPLE THAT ARE ON WELFARE!!!!

Back to the DUTY OF CARE aspect as the title suggests – The casino has a gazillion camera’s watching you, yet, 1) they allow you to gamble when you shouldn’t really; and 2) when you hit the car park after they have tucked you of all your hard earned $$$ – they aren’t anywhere to be seen – the cameras that is, and lets face they have a BIG car park.

After you drive out of there – again ‘DRIVE’ – because you’ve got no money left to get a cab….. Do these wankers care that you might get nabbed by the revenue cops?

Let’ not even digress here NOW about the money laundering from drug trafficking that goes on because the Sky City Casino doesn’t inform the Revenue Police.  It’s not until the Revenue Police notify them and suggest they want to monitor yet ‘another’ of one of their regulars.

When is this GOVT going to start punishing Sky City.  This company is clearly the biggest money launder assisting outfit in the country!!!!!

NOPE!!!! Can’t seeing it happening in the short term future – lets just keep reading about it in the papers, year on year on how another drug dealing scum bag has cleaned a pile of money – a few million normally – through Auckland Sky City Casino.

Well, if I am ever fortunate enough to sort this country out, one of the first things I will put into law is the confiscation of all Church Lands and Buildings.  In fact over time I’ll probably outlaw religion totally.

One drives around Auckland and they’re everywhere – church’s that is. Normally they’re closed, not even open for a homeless person.

The question has to be asked – how did they acquire the land and the buildings in the first place?

Some are very old indeed, so one can only imagine that the Bishop of the time said to the invaders can we have a bit of that and a bit of that and a bit of that over there. Then a bunch of people who had a fear of dying built the glorious buildings from their time/labour and materials that they donated.

As we evolve it is now surprisingly that only recently McDonalds became the largest property owner in the world, surpassing the Catholic Church.

We could solve all the Maori land grievences by giving them half the confiscated properties.  The rest could be used by community groups and the like.

That’s right, directly opposite the North Shore City Council – this is fucking hilarious or what.

One of my pals owed me a favour and he says, “I’m taking you to a special place mate because you’re such a good bastard”.  Anyway, we arrive, haha, it’s a handshake shop just over the road on “The Strand” from the North Shore City Council in Takapuna, less than 100 metres away.

The trouble was on the day the talent was a bit shabby so I took a rain-check.

Handshake Shop opposite North Shore City Council in Takapuna

“X” marks the spot, it’s down a little bit of a driveway off “The Strand”.  What if all the swanky people in Takapuna knew this was here?  There would be a few toffee noses out of joint for sure.

I personally think these shops are the best thing since sliced bread, I especially love the part when the little cutie says “can you please turn over” and she then spends a couple of minutes trying to work out how to broach the subject of a hand-job for an extra $20.  My usual reply is “what!!! I can do it myself for FREE”.  Of course, the downside is when you’ve got about nine grubby mates like I have who frequent them often and who make comments along the lines…… “mate, if my wife asks, I was with you yesterday afternoon”. It makes me wonder why I am frowned on by these women (the wives that is), well at the very least not invited over for the occasional  big dinner.

Recalling  – a recent trip to China and in the flash restaurant, my young mate Todd, I think he’s only about 25 said to me right in front of the money sucking witch I was dating at the time – “eh, Tincan, is it true that 17% of all Asian girls who go to NZ to study work in prostitution?”  – well $&*# me, I almost chocked on my ham and pineapple gourmet pizza.  I asked him why he thought that, and he reckoned it was published in the main paper up there one day.

So you send your pretty little daughter half way round the world to study and not give her enough pocket money and she’ll then have a one in five chance of shaking hands with a very large selection of willing customers.

What’s even more thought provoking is that this is probably true….  Take a drive around any Auckland suburb these days and look for the signs “MASSAGE”, “TRADITIONAL” etc….  They’re EVERYWHERE.

What!!! do we live in Japan you dork!

Where oh where is it written that we needed to adopt the Asian custom of taking off ones shoes?  Actually whose custom is it anyway?  All I know is I clean my floors and vacuum the carpets on a regular basis like a normal person.  What is it with these mutants who want us to take off our shoes?

Q) Oh Mr Tincan, why is it you never visit us anymore?

A) Is your house a fucking security area in an airport?

A) I don’t see any sushi in there

A) What, no massage and no fucking extras

Please remove your shoes

Well the biggest bunch of turkeys do it again.  I forget to pay my bill and the new one arrives with this highly inflated extra called a Late Payment Fee – EXTORTION a better term.

Loyal customer for years and they pull this stunt, another word – WANKERS.  They obviously need this fee to top up their corporate taxi account.

These are the same WANKERS who when you ring up to do a one off payment on your c/card to your account they charge you an extra fee and read a script as follows “The credit card company charges you this fee not us” – WTF, again, WANKERS.

On another note check out this AWESOME Telcom ad on YouTube.

The muesli bar was yummy, but one would have thought it would be made in NZ from NZ ingredients.  Gosh, get it together…

These dorks should be paying me to be in charge of marketing, I’ll do it for half the salary package too.

Air NZ and imported ingredients

Gosh do these guys have the perfect business model for customer service or what.  Call us on our 0900 number at $1.99+gst per minute to get nothing resolved.

Of course you can send them a message for free but then you’ll get a reply that ignores your inquiry and you then think about making that call.

Below is a reply we received when querying the cost of listing domains on their site.

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Dear Vivien,

Thanks for contacting us.

Thanks for contacting us with your feedback about our recent price increases.

Like any other business we may adjust our prices from time to time. I understand that price increases are never going to be something that our customers are happy about, however I hope that you’ll still find Trade Me to be a great value for the money and that your listing will receive a lot of visibility on our site.

I’m happy to pass along your feedback about these price increases so our product team is aware of how you feel about this. Thanks very much for taking the time to write to us.

If you have further questions regarding this issue please reply and we will answer your email as soon as possible.

Regards,

Trade Me Support

http://www.trademe.co.nz

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Our conversation so far:

Reality check….. There are many people like us with 100’s of domain names.  But at $19 to list them it’s just not worth it.  If you made it say half this, we’d list more and the section over time would become more popular.  Food for thought.  At current pricing and the fact you people do not market the domain section at all we will not be spending anymore in this area.  Thank you.

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