South African Politicians

What South Africans really think of Jacob Zuma:

Jacob Zuma - Jungle Book Spoof

GARBAGE IN YOUR MAKEUP

With reference to my earlier posting on Saccharin,  have you ever read what is in your moisturizers and make up?

Read the labels and you will never wear make up again:

For example:

Mineral oil is a waste product from refining gasoline. You’ll find it in thousands of products in the beauty aisle.

Toxic formaldehyde is used in embalming. It’s also used in many so-called beauty products.

BHA – a common ingredient in facial moisturizers and sunscreens – increases your skin’s sensitivity to the burning rays of the sun.

Ammonia is highly corrosive to your skin, but cosmetics companies use it in facial moisturizers. Hand creams are mostly made from aqueous cream which has a base of petrolatum which is vaseline. Ever wondered why you feel you must put lipstick on all the time? The reason is that the main ingredient of most lipsticks and lip glosses is Petrolatum.  Petrolatum is another name for Vaseline, petroleum jelly or mineral oil. Many years ago I worked as a laboratory technician in the pharmaceutical industry and part of my job was to test petrolatum.  While I was testing it I decided to do some research and was horrified at where it came from, and what other uses it could be put to. One example is to extract perfume from rose petals (or any petals for that matter) and one smears petrolatum on glass plates and stick the petals onto the vaseline.  You then put it in the sun so that the petrolatum heats up.  The perfume oils and colour is extracted from the petals and is transferred to the petrolatum.  You then take a solvent such as petroleum spirit, alcohol, acetone to wash the petrolatum into a beaker.  After much washing of the petrolatum  and drying off of the solvent you hopefully get an aromatic perfume which is then used to perfume soaps, etc. Petrolatum does the same thing to your skin, especially your lips.  It extracts the oils from your skin and because your skin feels dry you add more cream or lipstick and the cycle starts again.  Your lips dry and you add more. The solution to this is to use a beeswax or castor oil (ricinus) based lipstick. For hands and bodies, use glycerine or shea based hand creams.  Personally I use udder cream which is made to sooth cows udders during the milking process.  Udder cream or milking cream, however, does have lanolin in it. Other horrible additives to make up and cosmetics are the preservatives, such as E.D.T.A, (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid,) which is usually used to dissolve limescale. Limescale is that stuff that coats the inside of your kettle, pipes, iron or wherever water evaporates. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid

VERY APT !!!!

Sha

Home Remedies for Flatulence

Home Remedies for Flatulence

Remedy for Flatulence # 1: Fresh papaya and pineapple contain enzymes which help digestion and prevent flatulence.

Remedy for Flatulence # 2: Add a teaspoon ginger powder to cold water covering dry beans. Boil and allow to cool for an hour, strain, rinse and then cook beans with fresh water.

Remedy for Flatulence # 3: At each meal, sip diluted lemon juice or a mixture of two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and two of honey in a glass of water.

Remedy for flatulence # 4: Two mustard seeds with a glass of water before breakfast and then increase the amount of seeds daily to reach 12 per day before breakfast. Once the gases are under control, the number of seeds can be reduced gradually to take one or two a day.

Remedy for flatulence # 5: To relieve an attack of pain caused by gas, cover the abdomen with a hot water bottle.

Remedy for flatulence # 6: Apply a towel soaked in a mixture of brandy with hot water and a pinch of salt to the abdomen. This remedy also relieves stomach pain caused by flatulence.

Remedy for flatulence # 7: Herbal tea of cardamom, chamomile, cinnamon or cloves to stimulate digestion, will reduce the bacteria that cause putrefaction and improving intestinal mobility.

Remedy for flatulence # 8: Take, after dinner, a cup of tea made with a quart of boiling water and sugar, about 10 grams of fennel seeds.

Remedy for flatulence # 9: Place 1 teaspoon of oregano and lemon verbena in a cup of boiling water. Cover and let sit for about 6 minutes. Take after meals and there is no need to add sugar because the taste is very nice.

SD CARD PACKAGING REMOVAL

I sometimes wonder who has the delightful job of designing packaging to frustrate users.

Recently I bought a mini SD card from TDK.  As well packaged as this device was it required a box cutter to remove it from the packaging.  By the time I found a box cutter I had forgotten where I put the SD card.  When I eventually found the SD card I nearly sliced my fingers off trying to cut through the packaging.  AND then the box cutter slipped as I was trying to pry the mini SD card out of its plastic covering and the SD card went flying.  Finding that tiny itsy-bitsy little thing in the car took me nearly half an hour.  By the time I found the card I had mislaid my new phone.

There is a fair amount of danger here as people over 50 only really want SD cards for their cell phones and we shouldn't be handing sharp knives to old people or children under 10.

Is there a quick way to get the packaging off these SD cards?

Public sleeping competition - Hosted at the Budget Speech]

AND THIS IS WHAT WE PAY THE GOVERNMENT TO DO - SLEEP!  SOUTH AFRICA GET WIT H THE PROGRAMME.  GET RID OF THE TRASH.  YOU HAVE THE POWER. VOTE THEM AWAY.  THEY ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY!!

A statue of Zuma to be found in Florida, Roodepoort

YOU CAN MASH YOUR FENCING WITH THIS CONTRACTOR.

I wonder who Enoch got to do his signwriting.  DIAMOND MASH?  RAIZERWIRE? WYNBURG?  SPANISH BARS?  I wonder if you can pick up some good Spanish Wine in the Spanish Bars.

TO BE FOUND IN THE LOCAL SUPERMARKETS. PRONOUNCED HOW? BUMP-ITS OR BUM-PITS?

ONE STOP SHOPPING - SEX TOYS, CHEMIST, CHURCH, BUTCHERY......

THE "PERFECT" MICROSOFT SYSTEM CAUSES A CRASH AT ORTIA!!!!

WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD DO MEN HAVE SUCH COMPLEXES ABOUT THEIR DICKS.  MAYBE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IS SUCH A BIG DICK IN SOUTH AFRICA

TO BE FOUND AT WITS UNIVERSITY.  I DIDN'T HEAR A BOOM, BUT IT MUST MAKE THE BOMBERS HAPPY

TO BE FOUND NEAR CRESTA.  IT WOULD BE USEFUL IF THE CULPRITS COULD READ.

I AM SURE THE SATANISTS WOULD BE HAPPY TO DO THIS TO JC

ROSEBANK CLINIC

AUTHORISED PERSONAL? ONLY TO BE FOUND AT ROSEBANK CLINIC. JOHANNESBURG

SLOW CHILDREN

I wonder what the signs are for fast children 

DOOSAN? 

ONLY MICROSOFT CAN GENERATE AN ERROR SUCH AS THIS.  USEFUL AS A CHOCOLATE TEAPOT.

 In the next edition of Webster's Dictionary.....

MS Windows 7 (n) - A 64-bit extension of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit shell of an 8-bit  operating system for a 4-bit processor from a 2-bit company that can't  stand 1 bit of competition.

Only at Wits University could they put a handicapped parking behind a tree!!!