LOSING THEIR LOCKS FOR LEUKAEMIA
TEMPT THE TASTEBUDS
Chilli con carne with sweet potato dippers 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 red onion, finely chopped 1 red capsicum 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh coriander roots and stems 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tablespoon ground cumin 3 teaspoons smoked paprika 2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander 1/2-3/4 teaspoons ground chilli Brave Mount Gambier High School staff and students shaved their heads for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave earlier this month. Ten students and four staff members participated, raising money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Every day, 35 Australians are diagnosed with blood cancers such as Leukaemia, Lymphoma, or Myeloma, and they turn to the Leukaemia Foundation for help. The World’s Greatest Shave allows the Leukaemia Foundation to give families the support they need along
with funding vital research to help more people survive. Hosted by retiring senior school assistant principal Tim Dyer, Mount Gambier High School was able to raise more than $500 on the day bringing the total funds raised to more than $1500 thanks to the individual efforts of the students participating. Tafe SA’s Lorraine Stevens and Darren Bowyer and Jacinta Morton, from Hair Envy, and Hayley Bartolo, from Hair and Beauty by Hayley, volunteered their services on the day.
Above top left (from left) - Students Dylan Muller, Tom Winkley & Will Vickery Above bottom left (from left) - Students Will Vickery, Dylan Muller & Tom Winkley Above right (top and bottom from left) - Teachers Thomas Sutterby, Matt Crowden & Yoo Young Kim
500g beef mince 2 x 410g cans tinned tomatoes 2/3 cup water 400g can kidney beans 1/3 cup chopped fresh coriander, plus extra whole leaves, to serve 800g small sweet potatoes Grated cheddar, to serve Sour cream, to serve Guacamole, to serve
Method Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook onion and capsicum, stirring, for 5 minutes or until softened. Add coriander root and stem, and garlic. Cook until aromatic. Add cumin, paprika, oregano, ground coriander and chilli. Cook, stirring, until aromatic. Increase heat to mediumhigh. Add 1 tablespoon oil and mince. Stir for 5 minutes or until browned. Stir in tomato and water. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer, stirring often, for 30 minutes. Stir in beans. Simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Season. Stir in chopped coriander. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 210C/190C fan forced. Place sweet potato on a lined baking tray. Drizzle with remaining oil. Season. Toss to coat. Cook, turning halfway, for 40-45 minutes or until caramelised. Serve chilli con carne with dippers, cheese, sour cream, guacamole and extra coriander.
COLLECTED STUPIDITY - LET’S PLAY A GUESSING GAME... By ROBBIE TANSEL You may have read last week that I had found an unusual sticker attached to a cafe toilet in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. For those who didn’t read my article, the sticker gave unnecessarily complicated details as to how to clean the toilet. Imagine my surprise when I found another unusual sticker while on holiday in Geelong recently. See if you can guess what this sticker was attached to. Pardon the written expression, but I’ve quoted it exactly as it was written on the sticker. When you using this cover, please pay attention to this proceeding: 1. The buffer configuration of this cover including left buffer axis and right buffer axis. When you installing it, couldn’t exchange. 2. When you open it, the angle must more than 90 degrees. So then it can store energy, or the the buffer is not clear or no efficiency. 3. When you close it, the cover can fall slowly when the angle is less than 60 degrees. 4. When you install the cover, please read the install instruction carefully. If you guessed that this sticker was once again attached to a toilet you are correct. What on earth is going
on with toilet manufacturers that they feel they need to attach bizarre stickers to the porcelain? I didn’t miss an announcement from the National Toilet Maker Association that they were running some sort of crazy national competition to see who could come up with the weirdest sticker, did I? Have a look at the information on this sticker. Now let’s ignore the fact that it obviously lost something in translation. I’m not really sure if the sticker is advising on the installation of the toilet seat, or whether it is some sort of safety information to ensure that you don’t lose an arm (or something more important) while using the toilet seat. Let’s assume it is some sort of safety information. We do live in a particularly litigious society where people feel they need to give an extraordinary amount of safety information to ensure stupid people won’t sue them for doing something that they should have been able to figure out for themselves. Warning labels on coffee cups informing people that the contents are hot is a classic example. I’ve always been of the opinion that people should counter sue with their argument being that the person they served the hot coffee to didn’t have a tattoo on their forehead
declaring they were stupid and had no common sense. In days gone by, these stupid people would have gone to a waterhole and been eaten by a crocodile. And the world would be a better, smarter, more sensible place. I think once again toilet manufacturers are getting a bit ahead of themselves making their products seem more than what they are. The left and right buffer axes? Store energy? I’m pretty sure they’re actually writing a question for this year’s physics exam. “If a toilet seat is released at an eighty degree angle, how much more stored energy will it release from it’s buffer zone than a toilet released at sixty degrees?” It’s a toilet, people! The basic lifestyle1.net | 30
design really hasn’t changed at all since it was created. Sure, we’ve transitioned from chain flush to button flush. There was the earth shattering revelation of the half flush in the 90s to add to the full flush. But it’s a toilet. Having said that, I’m surprised we haven’t seen some innovation. Considering how much butt sizes have changed over the last couple of decades, you would think we’d be seeing some changes to toilet sizes. Quite possibly houses should be legislated to have a couple of toilets of varying sizes. You need the big ones so obese people aren’t hanging over the sides, and then probably tiny ones so that all these anorexic gym junkies don’t fall in when
they go to sit down. The more I thought about this issue though, the more I wondered what was going on. It seemed like someone may be behind the scenes pulling the strings on this sticker scam for their own personal gain. Who had something to profit on this weird toilet business? Was it bigger than just the bathroom product industry? And then it came to me: the sticker making industry. They’re making a killing attaching warning stickers to perfectly safe products. My advice would be get some shares in sticker making because people are getting stupider. If you think I’m spending too much time in the toilet, email me at robbietansel@gmail.com. Or if you’re a physics teacher and you think you’ve solved my problem let me know. My physics problem smart alec, not any of the many other problems I have. You physics teachers all think you’re so clever.