Trade fair: the chance to flog stuff

The trade fair is part of uni o week, and is a chance to attempt to obtain stuff while business try to get you to care about what their business does.

Commonweath
Not as good as last year where a bandit fm voucher enabled me to score a free album; but still noteworthy.





To ensure I have a caffiene induced breakdown.




Perhaps useful when I'm having breakdown above. However, I don't rate it.

Syrup


Card with apparent que skipping advantages; among others. If I turn up once every 8 weeks.




The t-shirt I will wear because my friend Amy doesn't think I will. Advertises one of those notorious alcopops; with caffiene , so I don't know how drunk I am.



A handy bag where I can show the drink I want when far too drunk to verbalise it.


A lanyard to put my mobile phone in prime position when I chuck up.

Health promotion



Like Dutch biscoties. A bit dry to have alone, but with cheese, they show promise.

Vodafone
Went for a sporty theme. I got a wrist band, but what I really needed was a drink bottle.




Other than that it was medicore pens, a few lollies and an onion that was for display, not to keep.

They walk in, in a trickle

"It's good for us, pastorally, to be reminded of the way the mustard seed grows."

This comment reminded on Mikey's blog me of some thing that has been on my mind (along with lots of other ideas to share on my blog).

At my old church, there was an idea of planting 100 churches, a plan for lots of people to come to christ. I as an inexperienced young person, found the growth very slow. I know reality, but I also know God's power. I wanted things to happen, with loads of people to come.

In my new church, I guess as well as in a number of circles, there is this idea that Australia will have revival ie there will be a movement where a lot of people become christians. I am told that Australia is the only continent that has not had a revival, also there is this idea that it will be lead by young people. My views on this is one of very cautious optimism (a bit of a contradicition, I know).

I also remember a evangelist say how if alot of people were going to come to christ, there would need to be a lot of leaders to help them to become disciples. In light of this idea, my previous church in putting a lot of emphasis in training up leaders at this stage would be wise.

Also to get back to the comment up above, perhaps these things happen at a slower pace than I realise.

The contrast of magazines

Here is a interesting comment about the differences of magazines and how it simply would not work

Women's mags peddle food as porn, men's mags just peddle porn. If you believe these publications, women aspire to domesticity and happiness and to live happily ever after, while men aspire to debauchery with no responsibility and a happy ending. They make women feel they'll never be good enough and men feel they're not only good enough, they're better than most.

funny anon quote

In discussion about some guys wearing girls jeans

"but it would smell like girl, girls have a smell"

as a christian I must hate the easter bunny

and Father Christmas. This is a Christian culture thing because of the detractions to the 'real' event. I think this argument holds some weight. But what about the marshill policy of not throwing stones at the culture but making it a link. Apparently hot cross buns use to be used in pagan festivals.

it only takes 10 billion dollars to solve the water issue

it seems quite doable if lots of people in the western world got together

blog spammers are annoying

My last post on the angle of health advertising got a blog spam that had nothing to do with the post.

 

Its just irritating, no one will buy your stuff.

 

I could turn off the anon function to prevent this but I have decided not to do this unless it becomes a big serial problem

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Health promotion ads should be positive and possibly sexy

A lot of ads that the government or government organisations put out are actually quite negative when it comes to health. This is probaly because the general picture of health outcomes unless major interventions take place is not that pretty. The government wishes to warn people of the bad effects of smoking and being over weight. I think this is a good thing

However with it came to the ad of eating 5+ vegetables although the message got across with some methods to do so it wasn't made to be very attractive idea. What they probaly should do is pull out the marketing tricks and advertise it as a really positive thing - as something that will make you 'feel good' but unlike liver cleansing diet pills actually has some scientific evidence to back it up. And sexiness - well doesn't that 'always sell' (used in approiate way!) it can be another outcome as a result of making healthier choices.

Camera's should have bluetooth and or wifi

My mate dav tells me when I pull out my phone, camera and ipod or any of the two that one day I have all of these functions in the one. I know that will adventurely that will happen I could probaly get something now however either the camera will be really crap or it will just be really expensive - I have to wait for the price to come down.

There is however one thing that I think should happen had the manufacturers are missing it. Implimenting wifi or bluetooth into cameras - so that I can transfer the photos into my computer with ease without having to take the memory card out then forgetting that I have done so - so I take it next time I need it with very little internal memory it has. Or connecting it via cord which is just more messy in todays world.