Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I'm from the Commonwealth Bank and I'm here to help myself.
ONLINE auction site eBay has withdrawn the Snowtown Bank from sale less than 24 hours after real estate agent Nigel Christie listed it.
In emails and conversations with the Hales Real Estate director, eBay said the item was removed because the site deemed it "inappropriate or insensitive to victims of disasters or tragedies".
And in other banking news ...
THE Commonwealth Bank is celebrating its home-loan selling success with a "pirate party", days after raising interest rates on customers to protect mega-profits. The bank is flying 200 of its "mobile bankers and mortgage innovators" from throughout the country to Lorne for a gala dinner on a "treasure island".CBA staff are ordered to come dressed as a "pirate, wench, rascal, scoundrel or villain", with those refusing to join in the fun ordered to "walk the plank".
Spokeperson for the Uncommonly Wealthy Bank, Mr. Shylock Homes, said that media reports that the orginal choice of venue for the party was the Snowtown bank with invitees ordered to come dressed as mass murderers was misleading in the extreme, as were the reports that there was to be a BBQ involving the spit roasting of defaulting mortgagees' first born children.
Labels: Sad but true - and getting truer by the day.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
What a sadly pathetic old broadshite newspaper.
No! Not just like old times. Back in those old times The Age was a serious, if stodgy at times, journal of record, not a mongrel dog of a publication fathered by a rabid tabloid and mothered by an O week or Prosh week spoof newspaper.
Labels: Sad but true - and getting truer by the day.
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