

The words in the blog are fairly random with an emphasis on mocking people, places, things and Bon Jovi. Like most blogs, it’s set up for you to leave comments, stories, rantings or whatever comes to mind so please do.
Scurvy Jane is a fan of free things. It doesn’t really natter what it is, if it’s free, she’ll take it and say thanks. Not too long ago, she faced a choice – borrow 300k from the bank to buy a new place to live or remain living in her own imagination which costs nothing. She chose the free option.
Recently she acquired a squirrel in a wheelchair. To make matters even better, she got a free bonus and that just made her as happy as a baby in a topless bar.
Staying on the animal theme, her next acquisition was of the canine variety. Again she was over the moon but there was something about this one that made me nervous. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but I had a vague notion that dogs and cats are not too fond of each other. This coupled with the fact that she had just been given a free kitten sent alarm bells ringing in my head.
Because she got this stuff free, she didn’t mind spending $15,000 on a second hand product:
Today a young lady stopped me and asked if I knew where “the car shop” was.
There’s a few things you should know about the collective at It’s good to mock. We crave situations which allow us to talk nonsense, we’re incapable of giving a straight answer to a question and we don’t know where “the car shop” is. I toyed with sending her on a wild goose chase but there were no wild geese in the vicinity so I decided to give her a break and told her I didn’t know where the shop was. I did however tell her that I knew how magnets work, how 3D glasses work and why we have earwax:
We rarely mind our own business at It's good to mock because minding your own business is boring. Armed with this philosophy, Jill Y and I have been carefully influencing Little Dill Y’s musical taste. It’s important to us that he makes up his own mind about things but we were bored so we thought we would try a little experiment. When he woke up this morning, I was wearing my ‘Bon Jovi are to music what Ryanair is to customer service’ t-shirt. The screensaver on his laptop exclaimed “I, Bon Jovi’s hair apologise for the irreparable damage I done to the ozone layer in the 80’s”. A mysterious new dartboard appeared with the faces of the members of Bon Jovi and the little guy had great fun throwing darts at the talentless faces. We then offered him the choice of listening to two pieces of music. One was Bon Jovi and one was not. He chose the correct piece of music though I told Jill Y that his choice may well lead to some underlining issues that need to be addressed:
As long as Little Dill Y expresses himself in a creative way, his mother and I will continue be happy. He’s 5 now and the other day he came and told us he wanted a Mac. He gave us many of the reasons why a Mac is better than a PC. When those 6 hours were up, we applauded him for making such a compelling case and we both agreed that Apple make far superior computers than Microsoft or any other company. We also told him that Apple products are more expensive and that we’re as broke as the country that borders Bulgaria, Albania and Turkey. Next of all we hear “but Uncle Thirsty Dave uses an Apple and Aunt Scurvy Jane uses an Apple and I’ll never figure out how magnets work on my PC”. We told him that that was nonsense and he could continue his studying of magnets on his PC. He sulked for ages and then, all of a sudden his expression changed. He went to the kitchen, returned a few moments later and told us in no uncertain terms, that he wanted a Mac. Because he expressed himself so well, we decided we would get him a MacBook for his next birthday: