Mortein Naturgard

Sounds like a pretty cool product, right? Killing all of those disgusting bugs that we hate so much and without using all of those nasty chemicals that we also hate so much.

But it did get me to wondering how Mortein managed to create such a magical product using mostly nature. I mean, if they managed to can such an efficient and natural bug killer in a compressed gas form, why are there still so many bugs around annoying us and dirtying up our nice clean homes?

But then I noticed this:

Now, I don't know what plant based actives are. And after trying a few google searches, I can only assume that these plant based actives is in fact a typo, and what they really mean is "No plant based activities. Although, I don't really know what plant based activities has to do with killing those pesky insects or how Mortein would manage to can that in compressed gas form (which is probably where there's no plant based actives/activities.

Still, I thought that maybe the Mortein website could help me with this ... and it did help; Apparently the little disclaimer about the "No plant based actives" is accurate.

There's only one plant based active: pyrethrins, which comes from the pyrethrum flowers (thank you, google).

But apparently it's not all that, because right next to this statement is a ** disclaiming that there's also synthetic ingredients as well.

So apparently, there's no magical, natural ingredient/s that can just kill those annoying insects without the aid of those nasty synthetic ingredients. But then, anyone who's constantly complaining about insects would probably be aware of this, and wouldn't be foolish enough to buy this product.

After all, if there was there'd be no need to buy it.





http://www.mortein.com.au/product_nat_auto_ind_insect.php

Old Ladies and Pink

I don't know if it's an old lady thing, or if it's just an old lady of Ballarat thing, but today at work about a quarter of the people I spoke to were little old ladies wearing pink ... and all of them had moustaches!

Ok, admittedly some of the other old ladies I spoke to also had moustaches.

But every single old lady wearing pink today had a moustache. A couple even had a very light beard.

That right there is reason enough to fear old age.

What woman wants to turn into a mustachioed, and quite possibly beard, woman? With all of the old age related ailments plaguing the elderly, the moustache and possible beard just seems a little much.

Just because a woman is old doesn't mean that she has lost her vanity!

You'd think that Mother Nature or God or whoever would know this ... and as nature can easily show us, vanity is a natural part of life for any animal.

But instead women get to look forward to turning into mustachioed, possibly bearded, scabby (a couple of the oldies I spoke to today had scabs) old ladies who will most likely always wear pink.

Fair's Fair

Everyone who is banging on about climate change and how we're ruining the planet through it need to stop and think for a second.

Just remember that Mother Nature started this little fight!

Climate change is simply us retaliating ... and (best of all) it's totally justifiable!

Just think about this before you condemn climate change and those who continue to enable climate change;

How many times has the weather suddenly changed from amazingly clear and sunny day to horrible, Londonesque rainy day as soon as you've put a load or two of freshly cleaned laundary on the clothes line?

How many times has a nice family day out at the park, or wherever, been ruined by a last minute weather change?

You know the change I'm talking about; just like the laundary question, the weather appears to be all nice and sunny and the perfect day for a day outside, you get ready and leave only to arrive at your destination and suddenly have the weather change for the worse moments after arrival.

How many big and/or important events been ruined by bad weather when up until the change, all signs pointed to fantastic weather?

I could keep going on, but really, my point has been made; Mother Nature is being a little bitch with us, and has been like this for as long back as we (as a species) can remember.

It was only a matter of time before we (again, as a species) got sick of Mother Nature's shenanigans and retaliated. If Mother Nature can't handle it, then maybe Mother Nature should stop screwing us around so much with the weather and ruining all of our best laid plans.