Tradie fights back on cashies
"I'm a tradie and I really need to get this off my chest," writes a reader. "These ads that appear on the radio from time to time about tradies doing cashies are really getting under my hard-working tradie skin. I work my ass off to pay thousands upon thousands of dollars every year in taxes. Here's why am I so angry: I go and take $50 out of an ATM. I drive to various bakery, dairy, takeaways, liquor stores and other outlets (I even had this happen at a gas station) and I take note of what happens when you hand over cash - the amount that gets run up on the till, or if the till even gets opened. I was in a bakery and I was 5th in line and all of us paid in cash. It was roughly $53 cash spent in 15 minutes and not once did I see an amount rung up on the till! So Mr Taxman mate, add up how many millions of dollars these places are costing the country every year in unpaid taxes. And how about you ease up on us tradies and start looking where it's really costing the country."
Hair-raising nuke warning
The recent threats from North Korea prompted Guam's Office of Civil Defence to issue guidelines on what people should do in the event of a nuclear emergency. It included the advice that you should wash your hair with shampoo or soap, but you shouldn't use conditioner "because it will bind radioactive material to your hair".
