Today
I present to you a collage of photographs I have taken over the past 10 days,
and list the reasons as to why I find them interesting.
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1: Placenta soap.
I
misunderstood and thought that if I used this product, it would give my
placenta (and the baby) a good clean out.
Wrong!
The
soap CONTAINS placenta extract which apparently gets rid of wrinkles and
blemishes. It also whitens skin.
Perhaps
I’ll save my placenta, post-birth, boil it up with some pig fat, mix in some orange oil
essence and sell bars of it at the local craft markets?
I
reckon it would go for at least $15 a bar as a speciality product.
More if I wrap a white satin ribbon around it and press some dried lavender onto the front.
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2: Lamb tongues.
I
can’t imagine opening a can to find a pile of tongues poking out at me, and thinking 'Mmm that would delicious between two pieces of white bread with some tomato sauce!'
I suppose there are farmers out there living the dream. They have a paddock full of mute sheep that don't complain. Now all we need is someone to can cock's voiceboxes.
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3: Bottle shop children’s parties.
Hosting
a party for children in the local bottle shop is a little unusual. What games
do they play? Pin the ring-pull on the tinnie of Jim Beam and coke? Pass the keg?
I
can imagine having my 30th birthday in a bottle shop though. I
always run short of fridge space when I have a party at home, so this would be
ideal. And catering would be a breeze - chips and beer nuts all round! (Watch for incoming traffic though!)
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4: Warning sign.
Why
is the local supermarket carrying a warning sign in dual languages when nobody
speaks the second language? Perhaps
they got the sign cheap from the Internet?
I
had to google the words 'piso mojado' to see what language this was. I got
confused and thought it was an advertisement for Pina Colada’s.
Apparently
it’s Spanish for ‘wet floor’.
What a useless sign in an area with a high
Italian and Bulgarian population. In fact, I am going so far as to say I have never even met one person in
this capital city who claims to be Spanish. I call shenanigans!
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5*: The Catholic school uniform shop next door to the Freemasons Foundation shop
front.
Why is this funny? Because there has been long standing friction between the Freemasons and the Catholic Church.
Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that exists in different
forms all over the world but which share moral and metaphysical ideals, some of
which conflict with Christian and Catholic beliefs.
Freemasonry promotes indifferentism, the heretical (to Christians) belief that all religions are equally legitimate attempts to explain the truth about God but that this truth will never be explained. This is incompatible with Christian faith because Christians believe that God has definitively revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, and desires that all men come to the knowledge of this truth.
Freemasonry promotes indifferentism, the heretical (to Christians) belief that all religions are equally legitimate attempts to explain the truth about God but that this truth will never be explained. This is incompatible with Christian faith because Christians believe that God has definitively revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, and desires that all men come to the knowledge of this truth.
* NB : I'm not presenting an argument either way, I am just explaining the irony of these two shops co-existing peacefully.
I have never heard of placenta cream!! Does it really whiten the skin? I may have to get some to wash away some freckles :D
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