Posts by giovanni tiso
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But one meta-bitch I've had about reporting of the economy is that there tends to be an echo chamber effect where everything gets viewed through the filter of middle-class, home-owning white collar Boomers with reasonably clean credit records -- which is fair enough, as far as it goes. But very far from the whole picture.
Somewhere in Wellington, Joanne Black just felt a disturbance in the Force.
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Every few months westpac offers us a gold visa, I check out the fees and discover that we would have to pay double the fees for gold and I really can't work out what we'd get in return.
For us it's the free travel insurance. I go back to Italy a lot and it saves me a small fortune.
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So you're Golden, Giovanni.
I've been waiting so long to hear you say that...
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It wouldn't be far fetched to see credit cards going subprime, the main difference is we'd be seeing repo men instead of foreclosure signs...
Totally unsolicited, the National Bank sent us a pre-approved form for a shiny new pair of Visa Platinum cards (motto: "the world is your concierge"). The copy, the font screaming "prestige!" and the accompanying pictures are all to die for. A gloved hand holds a door open for us: finally I'll get the respect I deserve! And for every dollar spent, we get two platinum points*, redeemable for rewards that at this stage are totally mysterious. (Whereas currently we get a humble but dependable 0.1% cashback).
I should add, given you're probably not familiar with the financial situation of my household, that this amounts to a SPECTACULAR lowering of the standards for platinum status.
*Notice the genius of the marketing: you get two points for every dollar spent, but it's not as if there's any other way to get these points, so the ratio is in fact completely arbitrary. It could be a million points per dollar, it'd really make no difference. But it looks like you're going to get your rewards twice as fast this way.
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If only we can agree that Falcao was the absolute cats pyjamas.
The eighth king of Rome? You'll get absolutely no argument from me there.
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Thanks David, that's a relief. And lovely post, as per usual.
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The story about the trampled Wal-Mart worker made me desperately sad when I first came across it. And what about the shoppers who complained when management decided to close down for the day?
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"I just know I'm going to be into cute eighteen-year-olds when I'm forty," she says.
Okay, I heard this one like a month ago. Is it included in some sort of book of pick-up-lines for babies? Disturbing. Very disturbing.
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Et tu, Brute?
Well, that was my original vote. It's not as if I pretended to switch factions while secretly plotting to restore the republic.
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__I watched the game again recently, and was struck by how much better than Brazil we played__
I'd quite like to see the game again actually
First time you're in Wellington and with a couple of hours to kill, it's a date.