Category: Fun

Shave Day

16 March 2012 Nez 0 Comments

Well, the job is complete and my head has now been shaved. The whole experience has been a positive one and shown me that there are many caring people all over the globe. I more than achieved my goal, and at the time of writing this post I’ve raised $2595. Just wow.

before after Shave Day

I have a few people to thank for their generous support, but first, a small and frivolous video interlude:

And now on to the people I need to thank. First up, my wife for supporting me in doing this in the first place (I know, I only shaved my head, but it’s still nice to have her support) and my mum for taking time out of her day to do the shaving. Secondly, to all of the generous sponsors who made this such a successful experience for me and allowed me to raise the amount I did. It means a lot to know I had that kind of support. And lastly, to everyone who retweeted, liked, commented and just generally showed an interest over the last month or so. It’s been great fun and has been an interesting experiment in and of itself seeing the power of social media in action.

Best Door To Door Salesman Ever

14 November 2011 Nez 0 Comments

Now first up, I can’t take credit for this find, that honour goes to the wonderful Michelle MacPhearson. Today, Michelle posted a YouTube video on her Facebook page that really has to be seen to be believed and needs to be shared.

A guy by the name of Kenny Brooks was doing his door to door sales and the whole visit was luckily caught on video. Why should you be lucky to have this? Well, think of all the door to door sales people you’ve ever had knocking on your door. I guarantee you that none of them have ever been like Kenny, the guy is a master. He’s learning his trade and doing it the hard way. I’d love to see more of him in the future.

Reality Hits You Hard Bro

26 October 2011 Nez 0 Comments

Man, sometimes I just love the internet. Take five minutes and watch the two videos below. The first is a news story about a car accident. It’s funny all by itself. But where things really go to the next level is what the Songify This guys do with it. Prove positive that there are some very, very creative people out there. My new favourite music video.

The original news story:

Power Lines Fall on Crashed Vehicle, Driver Trapped: MyFoxPHOENIX.com

The Songify tribute:

Just awesome.

Will You Take The Lollipop?

19 October 2011 Nez 0 Comments

I often wonder why people get upset about privacy on Facebook. It’s a simple rule, if you don’t want personal information about yourself online, don’t put it there. My nephew pointed out to me today a brilliant site called Take This Lollipop If it doesn’t make you think twice about what you share online, nothing will.

Go on, I dare you. Take The Lollipop

lollipop 300x267 Will You Take The Lollipop?

I’ll write my follow up tomorrow…

Bad Movie Accents

20 June 2008 Nez 0 Comments

I apologise that this has nothing at all to do with the topic of this blog. But I’m a movie buff, a huge movie buff.

While in Beechworth, hanging out with a few likely lads, I believe it was Donal, Brent, Eugene, and Vince at the time, somehow the conversation got to movies and bad accents.

There’s some terrible, terrible ones over the years, many perpetrated by Australians making futlie attempts at American accents. The Australian twang is really something that’s hard to shake and part of the reason why I think Cate Blanchett is so talented. That woman is an accent machine. But I’ll come back to Australians.

Anyway, during our discussion in Beechworth, Donal quite rightly pointed out Tom Cruise’s effort at an Irish accent in Far and Away. Being an Irishman himself, who better to pick out a bad apple. We covered a lot of accents and had general agreement over dodgy ones over the years.

So, today a friend sent me an article at Entertainment Weekly that covered the 16 worst accents in movie history . I wasn’t surprised by most of the entries, Dick Van Dyke’s abysmal Cockney accent was of course in there, as was Kevin Costner’s turn as Robin Hood. To make Donal happy, Tom also made the cut with his attempt at an Irish accent.

But here’s the thing, I made 3 calls at beecworth that were all agreed upon unanimously, and they all starred Sean Connery. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Sean Connery. One of my all time favourite movies is The Man Who Would Be King. But let’s be honest, his thick Scottish brogue is not something he can shake.

I hereby submit these 3 examples of worst accents in movie history. Highlander – A spaniard that souds Scottish, The Untouchables – an Irish beat cop that sounds Scottish, and The Hunt For The Red October – a Russian submarine captain that sounds Scottish. You know I’m right, just picture in your head Sean Connery delivering his lines from any of those movies and you know I’m right. How any of those could be overlooked in a list featuring bad accents is beyond me.

The defense rests.

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