Archives for March 2015

How to Access Netflix Australia on Apple TV

Netflix_-_Watch_TV_Shows_Online__Watch_Movies_OnlineOk Aussie Apple TV users: Netflix’s Australian offering is available on Apple TV as of today.

Here’s how to get it:

1. Switch on Apple TV

2. Select the huge Netflix logo on the main menu

3. Confirm your email address (which will pre-load with your iTunes email)

4. Select the trial you want to choose (standard definition / HD etc)

5. Agree to the terms and conditions (read them for yourself but basically you get a month free then they start billing you via iTunes for whatever plan you selected)

That’s it. You can stop the auto-payment via iTunes if you don’t want to pay after your free month.

We Hate People Episode 2: Beware The Erudite Mincer

logo-withtagline-blogsize300x300As promised, we’ve bribed the hell out of someone to come in as guest co-host to make us look more erudite than we actually are. So a huge thank you to Redna for jumping in with us!

The Show Notes

– Shout out to BigPete009 and Jayconnell for their iTunes reviews
– Hate of the Week: Body odour on trains (with side trips to open caskets at funerals and minced homicide victims)
– Did you know?? segment and assorted travel monument anecdotes
– Marvel’s bridging comics to The Force Awakens
– Death of Terry Pratchett
– The Apple Watch – have they gone mental?

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Speech Palm Card Template for Microsoft Word

Screenshot_14_03_2015_11_35_amI’ve created a template to print your own speech palm card template for your kids’ school speeches or your own! In my case the school wanted palm cards of the size 10cm (100mm) by 7cm (70mm), so that’s the free template you can download in MS Word .docx format for free by clicking here.

If you need to create different sized speech cards than the template I’ve done, then just go into Microsoft Word’s Format > Document and navigate to the Page Setup window. In there you should see the ability to select different sizes, including the ability to ‘Manage Custom Sizes’. If you select that, you have the ability to create your own sized document (which is all I did to create the template you found here). Given the huge number of versions of MS Word I can’t really be more detailed than that I’m afraid.

Hope that takes one small piece of stress out of the speech creation experience!

Some funny aphorisms

Aphorism = “A short, pointed sentence that expresses a wise or clever observation or a general truth”

1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.

2. Money will buy a fine dog but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

3. If you don’t have a sense of humour you probably don’t have any sense at all.

4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.

5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.

6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

9. Stroke a cat and you will have a permanent job.

10. No one has more driving ambition than the teenage boy who wants to buy a car.

11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.

12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m – for example, it could be the right number.

13. No one ever says “It’s only a game” when their team is winning.

14. I’ve reached the age where ‘happy hour’ is a nap.

15. Be careful about reading the fine print – there’s no way you’re going to like it.

16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

17. Do you realize that, in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos?

18. Money can’t buy happiness but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Cadillac than in a Ford.

19. After 60, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you’re probably dead.

20. Always be yourself because the people that matter don’t mind and the ones that mind don’t matter.

21. Life isn’t tied with a bow but it’s still a gift.

And REMEMBER….

“POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS SHOULD BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON”

We Hate People Episode 1: The Ten Pound Bag of Waste

logo-withtagline-blogsize300x300The pilot went well enough that we’ve decided to inflict an actual first episode on you.

The Show Notes

– Thank you’s for the feedback on Episode 0
– We need you for a new segment: get a hate off your chest
– The Katering Show (link)
– DressGate (link)
– Vale Leonard Nimoy and Shatner cops flak (link)
– Deadpool dies (link)
– Darth Vader and Star Wars Comics (link)
– Valve’s VR Headset (link)
– Saudi Arabia gives award to cleric who stated George W Bush planned 9/11 (link)
– The Shaggs performing My Pal Foot Foot (link)

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Late Night Phone Call To The Vet

A dog lover, whose dog was a female and in heat, agreed to look after her
neighbours’ male dog while the neighbours were on vacation. She had a large
house and believed that she could keep the two dogs apart. However, as she
was drifting off to sleep she heard awful howling and moaning sounds, rushed
downstairs and found the dogs locked together, in obvious pain and unable to
disengage, as so frequently happens when dogs mate.

Unable to separate them, and perplexed as to what to do next, although it
was late, she called the vet, who answered in a very grumpy voice. Having
explained the problem to him, the vet said,

“Hang up the phone and place it down alongside the dogs. I will then call
you back and the noise of the ringing will make the male lose his erection
and he will be able to withdraw.”

“Do you think that will work?” she asked.

“It just worked for me!,” he replied.

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