Marketing failure 1: An online ad campaign encouraging New Zealanders to take The Death Quiz and "find out the date you will die". I did the quiz and was asked for my mobile number so they could text me the date of my death. Reading the small print tells me I am signing on to a stupid text based service for "Healthy tips to live longer for only NZ$9 per week". Anyone who has signed up can text "Stop Games" to 2212.
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Marketing failure 2: "JetStar considered a skateboard a security risk. Wouldn't allow as carry on, charged $80." (Via Twitter)
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CNN Money reports on companies which are great to work for. One company, a brewery, gives employees free beer and company ownership. "After one year of work, each employee receives an ownership stake in the company and a free custom bicycle. After five years every employee enjoys an all-expenses-paid trip to Belgium - the country whose centuries-old beer tradition serves as a model for the Fort Collins, Colorado, brewery. And employees get two free six-packs of beer a week."
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A group of pensioners have been banned from holding a coffee morning at a public library in case they spill hot drinks on children. The seven over-50s have met at Eye Library in Eye, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, every Tuesday for the past four years without incident. But council officials have axed the meetings, claiming that toddlers from a nursery, who use the library at the same time, could be injured if hot coffee spilled on them. (Source: Telegraph.co.uk)
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Fifteen-year-old Max arrived in Pukekohe 15 minutes before his appointment to sit his restricted drivers licence. Having trawled the area adjacent to the testing office, which was the recommended parking area, and been unable to find parking, he parked the car about 300m from the testing office ... only to have an instant failure because the car was parked too far away.
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Milo may be a household name for New Zealand youngsters, but it falls into the category of exotic foreign foodstuff for British shoppers. Kiwi expatriate Helen made the joyous discovery while browsing through the Polish section of her supermarket in Swansea, Wales.
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A witness writes: "To the owner of the grey Mazda 6 parked opposite the Ponsonby police station on Jervois Rd, 6pm Friday. You would have noticed the nice dent on your right front corner. Thank bus No 835 for that. It annoys me what these bus drivers get away with so thought I'd share."
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View today's Herald cartoon
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Today's Webpick: Tennis lady grunting is the talk of Wimbledon. Is it really that bad? Watch it here.
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