Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022


Woman with a rake, Jean-François Millet, 1857

1,317 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022”

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  1. JC Avatar
    JC

    I ordered two starters on Saturday evening, Bear.

    I mentioned last night that restaurants are unable function because of staff shortages. No matter, I was told, go cook your own food. Interesting comment.

  2. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    I ordered two starters on Saturday evening, Bear.

    Well played.

  3. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    Re self-serve checkouts.

    Have a friend whose 30-ish daughter is very much a “bring down da Man” type.

    Her favourite trick is to go into Coles or Woolies when they’re very busy, and buy a kilo of smoked salmon or prawns or both from the deli. At the self-serve checkout, instead of scanning the barcode, she drops them on the scales and enters them as “carrots” or “potatoes”. She point blank refuses to concede she’s doing anything wrong.

  4. dover0beach Avatar

    Russians With Attitude
    @RWApodcast
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    FSB claims they’ve solved the assassination of Darya Dugina, here’s what they’re saying:

    That was quick.

  5. yackman Avatar
    yackman

    re Indi;
    the 2019 results were fairly close but not 2022.
    The area from Baranduda to Beechworth including Yackandandah & the Indigo Valley area are heavily into Green philosophy and becoming more so with growth of that demographic.
    It is highly probable that Bill Tilley will lose his seat of Benambra to another “Independent” who did well in 2018 and is standing again.

  6. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    She point blank refuses to concede she’s doing anything wrong.

    Bet she screams her tits off if she thinks she’s been “exploited.”

  7. Colonel Crispin Berka Avatar
    Colonel Crispin Berka

    Dot says: August 22, 2022 at 9:56 pm

    It’s not a skills shortage it is a problem of legalised racketeering manifesting as economic sabotage.

    Mercurio says: August 22, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Remember: more ‘training’ was Labor’s answer to the GFC in 2008.

    https://youtu.be/_l6trtH0kdk?t=89
    “The first priority needs to be to get our skills sector training people for the jobs that are there.” – Labor MP Mulino, 22 August 2022.

  8. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Bruce in WA – I think that was fairly common with avocados until changes in price moved the risk/reward ratio.

  9. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    It is highly probable that Bill Tilley will lose his seat of Benambra to another “Independent” who did well in 2018 and is standing again.

    You almost feel sorry for the Lieborals.

  10. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    JCsays:

    August 22, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    Keep it up and you can join JC and others in the box labelled ‘Do not read’.

    Stop lying sfw. Of course you do.

    I think I have been put on the “Do Not Read” list five times.
    Maybe six.

  11. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    Sarah, the immigration officer who refused to give her last name, informed Yemini that she came to the decision on her own after reading the story in The New Zealand Herald.

    NZ immigration is stupider than Australian immigration.
    Something I did not think was possible.

  12. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    Frank says: August 22, 2022 at 10:27 pm

    Isn’t skills shortage code for importing a bunch of Tamil programmers to suppress wages.

    Skills shortage is code for….. skills shortage.

  13. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    Mong Force

    Darth Mong

  14. Dot Avatar

    A solar powered NDIS childcare training technology company.

    It would be a perpetual motion machine of OPM, the corporate logo could be a “reverse ouroboros”, spinning forever like a wobbly 20 c piece … 🙂 .

  15. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    KD at 9:32.
    So.
    Ms Oldroyd didn’t identify as the Queen of Norway, then?

  16. Old Lefty Avatar
    Old Lefty

    The ABC is having a gloat about the judge’s ruling in Victoria that the father of the deceased choirboy can sue the Catholic Church – over an offence that, according to the High Court, could not have happened.

    No surprise that the judge in question turns out to have a union background:

    https://www.whiteandmason.com.au/leave-no-stone-unturned/

    And of course the timing of the case has nothing to do with the approach of Victorian election!

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