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Mar. 18th, 2010 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tammaiya* So yesterday, I finally decided to trade in my tax legislation. Basically I'm doing Income Tax this semester, and at the beginning of the semester the bookstore had mistakenly stacked the shelves with many, many copies of last year's legislation. It is not unreasonable to think that 2009 tax laws may actually be the most up to date in February 2010, and usually they only have heaps in stock of the assigned textbooks, so I bought it. As it so turned out, they just hadn't got the new one in stock yet. When I went yesterday, there were a bunch of 2010 tax books, but none of them were quite the equivalent of the 2009 one I had. Except there were some boxes of tax books up on top of the shelves... and they were the right publisher, and when I got up on a chair to pull one out of the box, it LOOKED right...
After I'd spent ages at the checkout while the girl at the counter tried to figure out the price, it turned out that she couldn't price it becauase it wasn't an individual textbook. The textbook I was looking for (which they'd got in, and then ran out of and are ordering AGAIN; fail, Co-op) was the fundamental provisions. Tax's Best Hits, if you like. The book I'd pulled out of the box was part of the full set of tax legislation.
Yes, that's right: Australia has a FULL CARDBOARD BOX OF TAX LAWS. I knew we had a lot of tax legislation, but that is TERRIFYING.
* Anyway, after failing to exchange my textbook, I drove from uni to the Canberra Centre to see about getting a new adapter for my memory stick. On the way, I got caught by five sets of traffic lights in a row. These traffic lights are like, less than 50 metres apart each. Two pairs of those traffic lights were on straight roads. What is WRONG with those lights?
* In a moment of WTF hilarity, when I went into Big W in my futile search for handheld accessories, I heard an ad over the loudspeakers. An ad talking about people on your gift list. Hm, thought I, while I didn't think most people outside of my family gave presents for Easter, perhaps it is more widespread than I thought? A second later, the loudspeakers are referring to Christmas. Usually when the shops bring in Christmas far too early it makes me roll my eyes in disgust, but then you get to this point and I just have to crack the hell up. It's March, so it's too late for them to have just forgotten to take it down... and yet, it's MARCH, so it's way too early for them to start touting Christmas shopping. Maybe somebody made a mistake and started playing the Christmas ad instead of the Easter one? XD;
* When I lived in Japan I bought a thing for my DS stylus which screws around it to turn it into a full-size pen. It was 600 yen, which is cheap. Unfortunately it now has a crack in it so sometimes unscrews at inconvenient moments. I was going to get a replacement while I was there in December, but forgot. And the crack got worse recently, so today while I was looking for the PSP memory stick card reader, I also looked for something like that for my DS stylus. It DIDN'T EXIST. Aside from one or two "full size" styluses which were only sold in expensive packs and tended to have Donkey Kong on them and unnecessary ball-pen like pen caps and stuff which would get irritating while gaming, nada. It's such a simple, effective idea! Why do we not have this?!
* On a semi-related note, why is Japan's stationary inherently superior? I get it with things like electronics, but EVERYWHERE makes stationary. Everywhere NEEDS stationary. So how come our erasers are inferior? Why do I have to think sad thoughts about the day that my erasable highlighter runs out? ... why do both of these example involve erasing things...?
After I'd spent ages at the checkout while the girl at the counter tried to figure out the price, it turned out that she couldn't price it becauase it wasn't an individual textbook. The textbook I was looking for (which they'd got in, and then ran out of and are ordering AGAIN; fail, Co-op) was the fundamental provisions. Tax's Best Hits, if you like. The book I'd pulled out of the box was part of the full set of tax legislation.
Yes, that's right: Australia has a FULL CARDBOARD BOX OF TAX LAWS. I knew we had a lot of tax legislation, but that is TERRIFYING.
* Anyway, after failing to exchange my textbook, I drove from uni to the Canberra Centre to see about getting a new adapter for my memory stick. On the way, I got caught by five sets of traffic lights in a row. These traffic lights are like, less than 50 metres apart each. Two pairs of those traffic lights were on straight roads. What is WRONG with those lights?
* In a moment of WTF hilarity, when I went into Big W in my futile search for handheld accessories, I heard an ad over the loudspeakers. An ad talking about people on your gift list. Hm, thought I, while I didn't think most people outside of my family gave presents for Easter, perhaps it is more widespread than I thought? A second later, the loudspeakers are referring to Christmas. Usually when the shops bring in Christmas far too early it makes me roll my eyes in disgust, but then you get to this point and I just have to crack the hell up. It's March, so it's too late for them to have just forgotten to take it down... and yet, it's MARCH, so it's way too early for them to start touting Christmas shopping. Maybe somebody made a mistake and started playing the Christmas ad instead of the Easter one? XD;
* When I lived in Japan I bought a thing for my DS stylus which screws around it to turn it into a full-size pen. It was 600 yen, which is cheap. Unfortunately it now has a crack in it so sometimes unscrews at inconvenient moments. I was going to get a replacement while I was there in December, but forgot. And the crack got worse recently, so today while I was looking for the PSP memory stick card reader, I also looked for something like that for my DS stylus. It DIDN'T EXIST. Aside from one or two "full size" styluses which were only sold in expensive packs and tended to have Donkey Kong on them and unnecessary ball-pen like pen caps and stuff which would get irritating while gaming, nada. It's such a simple, effective idea! Why do we not have this?!
* On a semi-related note, why is Japan's stationary inherently superior? I get it with things like electronics, but EVERYWHERE makes stationary. Everywhere NEEDS stationary. So how come our erasers are inferior? Why do I have to think sad thoughts about the day that my erasable highlighter runs out? ... why do both of these example involve erasing things...?
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Date: 2010-03-18 01:07 pm (UTC)