Wry & Dry

Last words...

"Those moves [increasing interest rates on certain investment loans] have nothing to do with property prices.   They are to do primarily with staying within regulatory benchmarks.'

- Ian Narev, CBA Chief Executive Officer, quoted in the AFR.

...and fooling nobody, except possibly the journalist who wrote the article.   W&D ventures that the reason that CBA raised its interest rates was to protect its profits.

PS.  CBA's profit result: much ado about very little.  Even a $1 increase on a previous record profit is... a record profit.  But, honestly, lads, Earnings Per Share increasing by 0.25%.  Join the dots.

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Some lightly salted absurdities from all over...

At the extreme left-hand of the bell curve

A so-far-unidentified suspect pointing a gun attempted a robbery at a laundromat in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in February.

The official reason for not identifying him was that, though detained, he had not yet been booked; less likely, perhaps, police might have been trying to spare him embarrassment in that the laundromat's overnight clerk, a woman named Naou Mor Khantha, had simply taken his gun away from him and shot him three times. He was hospitalised in serious condition.

(Delaware County Daily Times)

Robbing a ...laundromat? 

Unclear on the concept

Late last year, Oxford University professor Joshua Silver accused Britain's Home Secretary of a "hate" crime merely because the Secretary had made a speech urging that unemployed Britons be given preference for jobs over people recruited from overseas.

Silver denounced this "discrimination" against "foreigners" and made a formal complaint to West Midlands police, which, after evaluation, absolved Secretary Amber Rudd.

(BBC)

Bonus: But the police acknowledged that, under the law, they were required to record the Secretary's unemployment speech as a "non-crime hate incident."

And good to see that the West Midlands police don't have to worry about street crime, drug-trafficking, etc and can focus on these important issues.

Undignified 

A 37-year-old Saanich, British Columbia, man nearly bled to death before being heroically rescued following his parking-rage blunder.

Angered that another driver had parked too close to his own car, he grabbed a knife and stabbed a tyre on the other vehicle with such force that he wound up slashing the main artery in his leg.

(Global News BC)

Have a wry and dry weekend

Anthony