A few alternatives to for when aftershave might not be available. For me, shaving rash seems to be caused by bacterial infections in irritated/cut skin, so something that kills the bugs seems to work well.

• Alcohol hand rub, or waterless hand sanitizer. A lot more common these days
• Tea Tree oil
• Chlorhexidene surgical prepwash as a shaving gel. not exactly aftershave, but it will definitely kill any bug that goes near your face. Not all that common, unless you’re in hospital.

When I say in exasperation “it’s always in the last place you look”, before saying “well you aren’t going to keep looking once you’ve found it, haw haw haw”, please consider the following.

What I mean by this, is that an exhaustive search was conducted over the space of all possible plausible locations, and that upon completing the last term of this exhaustive search, the item was found. This means that it was in fact “in the last place i looked”, since I had exhausted all other search options prior to this.

So, if you wish to avoid being stabbed in the face, please do no make such a comment.

A man was recently charged with careless driving, after he cut off the acting police minister, while talking on his mobile. Good-o, I say, this is the sort of thing that needs to be enforced.

However, here I sit, four months after being hit by a car performing an illegal u-turn, with probably at least another three months before I go back to work, wondering why it is that a driver who was 100% at fault and caused serious injury, gets a slap on the wrist, in the form of an infringement for performing an illegal u-turn (the same as if you did a dodgy u-turn at a set of traffic lights and didn’t cause an accident). Not even “failing to give way while performing a u-turn”, let alone Dangerous Driving Causing Grievous Bodily Harm, which is the charge that fits.

What this goes to show me is that if you piss off a police officer, you are fucked. But if you do something wrong that is a bit hard to prove (or you do it to a minority group that the police assume are guilty until proven innocent – such as motorcyclists) then you get off scott free.

Is it any wonder that Traffic Police are hated, let alone not respected?

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/01/2806594.htm

Nermin Hodzic leaves Brisbane’s Magistrates Court after being fined $500. (ABC News: Jason Rawlins)
A man has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged over a traffic incident involving one of Queensland’s most senior police officers.

The court heard Nermin Hodzic, 22, from Calamvale on Brisbane’s southside, was driving north on the Gateway Motorway early last month when he weaved in and out of traffic while talking on a mobile phone.

Hodzic narrowly missed a car driven by Acting Police Commissioner Kathy Rynders who was off duty at the time.

She was forced to break heavily to avoid a collision, which in turn forced motorists behind her to also break hard.

After several attempts she managed to intercept Hodzic and he was charged with careless driving and using a mobile phone whilst driving.

Hodzic was fined $500 and convictions were recorded.