Some more things that have caught my attention

Ok so here are a few random things that have caught my attention lately and I thought I would let you all know about them.

1. Jez and Kris Smith.
and by these two I mean the photographer and Australia's Next Top Model judge and Dannii Minogue's partner and Football Superstar host. Anyone else think that they're related?
I'm a little devastated because for once Wikipedia let me down.
Jez barely has a profile which has about 4 lines on it all about ANTM which I'm sure is great for the show but like I care about what portraits he's taken.
And Kris doesn't have one at all which surprises me because of his rather high social profile here in Australia, and let's not forget that he is a former rugby league star in the UK. Whatever, I'll figure it out somehow, I just wanted to know but if I can't...

2. Gold Coast bashing.
Now I like to partake in quite a bit of this myself every now and then but I think i'm allowed to coz I was born here and I actually live here and I don't just see it from the outside.
I've noticed that Gold Coast bashing is on the increase and I have to say that i don't think it's cool.
Yes I know that as a tourist town, and it is a town despite what people may say and think, that naturally we have a daggy label, but we're not country. God we have Prada and Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Burberry and Tiffany here so we can't be too bad.
I don't even think that what we're being portrayed as, ie country bumpkins and bogans, is even representative. Ok, bogans in Nerang and Palm Beach but not anywhere else. If anything we're more surfie drop out kind of.
And yes I know there is a tacky, wear all labels all day everyday tendency in the more "upmarket" suburbs but I think that's more from being a wanker rather than any thought of actually thinking it's fashionable.

3. Winter or lackthereof
Is anyone else noticing the distinct lack of winter that is going on around here lately? Or not even lately, just in general?
Now I know I spent last winter in Melbourne where it was quite on the cold side but seriously this is getting out of control, I haven't even really had to wear a jumper during the day when i go out, it's ridiculous. I think I can safely say I've been genuinely freezing 2 days this winter and they were when I was in Melbourne, ok so they don't really count but point made yeah?
And what's with the heat these past 2 days? 26, 25 degrees? This is not winter by any stretch of the imagination...
Oh and as for all those people i see walking around the shopping centres with scraves on, it's not even cold enough for a jumper let alone a scarf, yes I know they look cool, but on the Gold Coast you don't look cool, you look like an idiot and everyone is laughing at you...

4. Term deposit rates.
Can I say that as someone who doesn't owe any money to the banks, I really look forward to interest rate rises in the vain hope that the banks might lift their savings interest rates as well as their borrowing interest rates. Alas I hope in vain.
So i put some money on a term deposit in February, in that time we've had a few interest rate rises. The rate was i think 6.5% or something like that.
You want to know what you can get now for a term deposit of a simillar length, like 6.2, 6.3%.
Now if my maths is correct, and it is, if the interest rates are going up then shouldn't that rate also be going up, not down as is the case.
I think it's a disgrace to the banking industry that I can get more interest on a no-fee savings account with Virgin Money than I can through a long established bank on a term deposit where the money is theres for say 6 months whereas with Virgin it's on call.
So thank you Sir Richard, glad to see the title hasn't made you useless, from the bottom of my bank account I salute you Sir!!