Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

There are a lot of attacks from Labor this election…

March 10, 2012Matt No Comments »

This years state election for QLD seems to have an awful lot more personal attacks at the LNP candidate, Campbell Newman, than I’ve seen in any of my limited voting years for any election. It leaves me wondering how Anna Bligh can actually put her name on these campaigns. I wouldn’t want to be associated [...]

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Connors Clothing

July 23, 2011Matt No Comments »

I bought 4 items of clothing from Connors in November last year that all looked absolutely great. At that time I was planning on going back to get more next time I needed some new clothes, but now that I’ve had them for 8 months I have to say, their life-span is underwhelming. I bought [...]

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Bank of Queensland ATM Fees

June 26, 2010Matt No Comments »

I was down in Lismore recently with my girlfriend for a friends birthday dinner. Anyway, it turned out that we couldn’t pay separately, so needed to get cash out. Fortunately, I already had cash, and there was a Bank of Queensland ATM in the Bullbar restaurant where we were having dinner (in fact there is [...]

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Something Fishy Happened At My Last Car Service

June 5, 2010Matt No Comments »

In August last year when my car’s rego check was due, I also had to get all 4 tyres changed, so they were all brand new in August. This was done in NSW. In October, while I was in QLD I took it in to Keema at Mt Gravatt for the 90,000km service. I’ve had [...]

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Some more on the BOQ and the Greater – Credit Cards

June 3, 2010Matt No Comments »

Just some more notes on my previous blog posts about the Bank of Queensland and the Greater Building Society here and here. I still haven’t actually had any indication from the Bank of Queensland that anyone there has noticed anything I’ve said online. I still don’t expect to either. Since my last blog, I have [...]

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What Service!

May 21, 2010Matt 1 Comment »

I’ve been meaning to write this blog for about a week now, finally found time to do it! A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog on the Bank of Queensland after I was extremely unimpressed with some fees I was charged. I drew some comparisons with my other bank, the Greater Building Society. [...]

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The Bank of Queensland – Are they Australia’s most expensive bank in 2010?

May 7, 2010Matt 4 Comments »

I’m not sure what the big 4 banks are doing, or any of the 2nd tier banks besides the Bank of Queensland whom I hold a Reverse Charges student account with, but I do know, that this financial year, I have paid more fees on this student account than I have on my business account [...]

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Who’s Watching?

May 29, 2009Matt 1 Comment »

I noticed an article on IT News Australia this morning about talk of the “Australia Card” identification card/system coming up again. This got me to thinking a bit today, and also trends I’ve noticed previously and things that people have pointed out to me and that sort of thing. Who really is watching? Think about [...]

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Home Schooling Or Public/Private Schooling?

June 30, 2008Matt 4 Comments »

I was just reading a response Tim over at SpyJournal had written to a Herald Sun columnist, Cheryl Critchley about her article on home schooling and the benefits it may or may not have for kids. I realise I’m a little bit late with this, but I’ve been busy and only just read it so [...]

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Electric Car and Fuel Thoughts

May 28, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have noticed over the past month or so that there have begun to be some more obvious changes in transport in response to the increasing fuel costs. Over the past year there has been an increase in Camry’s/Aurion’s as taxi’s and police vehicles in place of some of Falcon’s and Commodore’s, and over the [...]

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