My local IGA didn’t install self service checkouts -the owners said providing jobs for the young people of the town was more important.

Ignore it. It’s just a marketing gimmick to suggest they reary reary care.

Self checkout, FMD. I will never use self checkout unless I get paid the casual rate for shop staff with a 4 hour minimum.
I was in Kmart one day and they had no checkout staff, a nice employee said she would help me, I left my trolley where it was and went to another shop.

This dog is smarter than a quite a few commenters here.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1560263956135944192

Yes. Unlikely to put the Christmas prawn heads in your bin.

Not to mention some very stimulating conversation around the BBQ.

The Stinking Morning Herald?

Aka The “Sydney Moaning Hemorrhoid” on the Cat.

Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid

I was sitting at a work presentation today, and realised within a very short timeframe all the workers in my field will be female, and this in a field that services farmers. Not one of the recruits in beef extension were male.
I started wondering where the boys will find work, and realised they will all have to be tradies.

Husband and I have been discussing this very issue. The so-called “gender equality” is destroying the concept and value of “capability.” We see so many women who are unsuited for the work they are doing, yet it is clear that the gender card has been their special card in the pack.

Just another fictional claim to equality which is degrading real excellence.

Add to that the fact that many are now ‘card only’

That has pretty much stopped me using them.
I’m strictly cash.
Where I shop & how much I spent is not the business of; a bank, the govt, any cop with a warrant, anyone going through my rubbish & reading old statements, & so on.

Mirabella was the victim of a very cunning campaign, she held a ministry which naturally came with broad responsibilities and was therefore accused of neglecting her electorate, obviously in some eyes, local members are only there for the pork barrelling.
Not putting up with rudeness and harassment from locals? More opportunities for slurs from left-wing gossips.

Well I just had a bottle of Greenook Creek Four Cuttings Shiraz.

I have a little game I like to play where I guess the alcohol content of wine.

It is not a ‘taste’ thing, you understand. You look at the wines’…legs.

Tilt the glass, let the wine run up against it, right the glass again and look at how distinct the edges of wine running back down the sides. The more distinct, the higher the alcohol content.

I am probably 60% accurate within 0.25% – being able to distinguish 13% from 13.5%.

But this one got me. I thought 14% – maybe – just maybe -14.5%.

15%.

And I’m full as a goog.

Fun reading:

Betty Friedan (yes, that one): The Coming Ice Age (Harper’s, Sept 1958)

But she did gift us that legendary incident when she recoiled in horror at the Sheikh having a “medical moment” on Q&ALPBC.

Too much soy.

Sophie Mirabella

nee Panapolous
FIFY.

Yep, ladies of Greek heritage haven’t done themselves proud at all in the past few years in Oz politics.

All very well sfw but I have several family members who live in Indi, a couple who got actively involved in campaigning for McGowan (absolutely no surprise as they lean heavily left) and others who stuck with Mirabella, I heard plenty.
I also thought she was a decent shadow minister who given the opportunity might have gone places. She served 12 years but it was only in 2013 as a shadow minister the whispering campaign started.
McGowan even had Van Badham writing for her iirc.

As for being on your scroll list, tell someone who cares.
(And there was the Voices twitter account that suddenly got deleted when questions regarding electoral fraud started being asked.)
‘nofibs’ tells the Indi story “The 12 of us would go to as many sessions as we could to explain ourselves; the more of us who turned up the more legitimate the project seemed”

In particular; the smears about her relationship with her former lecturer.

Sorry BBS.

I was having a go at the generic fallback of ‘white supremacy’.

Not your playful take on Calli’s post.

I am a big fan of playful.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing pressure to address the dire skills shortage in Australia

As I see it, Elbow has no choice in light of this issue other than to accuse Morrison of wearing a merkin as a toupee.

Photographic treasures tell rare story of one man’s war

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Jacquelin Magnay
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6:28PM August 22, 2022
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Two rare photographs of the only surviving World War I German tank, the Mephisto, which was “recovered’’ by Australians and sent to Brisbane, have been uncovered in France.

Raoul Berthele, a French chemical engineer attached to the medical unit of the French 16th Army Corp stationed in the war as a supply administrator for the ambulance unit, took 3000 images during the time of the Great War as he moved about the French countryside with the medical unit.

When French history teacher Louis Teyssedou, 40, was researching an Amiens 19th-century linen and textile factory that was used as a war hospital he uncovered the photo collection that had been donated by Berthele’s sister Beatrix to the town hall ­archives in Toulouse.

The Mephisto survived the war without being turned into scrap metal, pilfered by Australians under the noses of the Germans and is the prized war trophy on display in the Anzac Legacy Gallery at the Queensland ­Museum in Brisbane.

Over a century ago, Queenslanders had to fend off attempts by the British and Melburnians to claim the war prize for themselves.

“Raoul was attracted by mechanics and innovations,’’ Teyssedou said of Berthele, born in 1886, who had been using his chemistry skills in a Swiss perfume company when war broke out.

“These photographs, which are technically perfect, are a ­vision of his war. It is a treasure, a personal collection which gives a sense of the man and he had a deep instinct for photography.’’

Teyssedou, wrote a book, ­Lautre Guerre, about Berthele’s photographs and believes the picture of the Mephisto tank was taken in September 1918 on a road between Poulainville and Vaux-en-Amienois, north of Amiens.

Also of interest to Australians are photos Berthele took of Corbie, a town on the Western Front where many Australians convalesced from their injuries.

Mr Berthele often used a stereoscopic camera and produced his own images on verascope plates, photographing his many female friends, as well as fascinating images of planes, factories and the work of his medical unit.

The first German tanks were Sturmpanzerwagen A7 tanks, of which only 20 were built. Made with Daimler motors, and with Krupp and Roechling metalwork, they were named after various evil characters. Number 506 was Mephisto, a devil in German folklore.

With its white skull-and-crossbones on the front armour plating underneath a fearsome gun, the Mephisto terrorised the allies at St Quentin on March 21, 1918, and then at Monument Wood near Villers-Bretonneux on April 24, 1918. But on that April day the Mephisto was one of three tanks abandoned by the Germans. It had got stuck in a shell hole.

Several months later Lieutenant Colonel James Alexander Robinson who commanded the 26th Australian Infantry Battalion wanted to souvenir the 60 tonne tank, then situated in no-man’s land. On the night of July 23, under the cover of low-flying planes, two tank crews of Australians and British soldiers attached steel cables and towed the Mephisto 4km behind the frontlines.

Robinson told the Brisbane Telegraph 20 years after the war that the Germans were so displeased they had launched a gas attack against his raiders. He said the 26th Battalion, veterans of Gallipoli, Egypt, and some of the Western Front’s most vicious battles in Pozieres, Bullecourt as well as Menin Road during the Third Battle of Ypres, had come into the Villers-Bretonneux area only days earlier to straighten out the offensive line in preparation for a big attack that was launched on August 8, 1918.

The 26th chalked their name on the Mephisto alongside the 5th Tank Brigade and the 1st Gun Carrier Company, and a rising sun. A British lion was also painted, with a paw resting on a tank.

It appears that just before Berthele took the pictures, the regiment transporting the Mephisto, the 1/13th London Regiment, 56th Infantry Division, added its motto to the side, and various names of soldiers from the 46th Battalion were also graffitied.

After the war the Mephisto was taken to England and there was a verbal battle about its final destination.

Queensland agent-general in London, Sir Thomas Robinson, successfully argued that Australian units be allowed to keep their own captures and they were to be returned to the state from where the units originated.

The 26th, having been raised in Enoggera, Queensland, ensured their prize went to Brisbane, where the tank was moved into position off a steamship using steamrollers in 1919.

Berthele survived the war, but died of the Spanish Flu days ­before Christmas 1918.

Teyssedou said Berthele’s little sister kept the photographs all her life before donating them to the Toulouse authorities.

“She always talked about her big brother, whom she never saw again after he went off to the war,’’ he said.

Teyssedou has held an exhibition of Berthele’s photos in Amiens and is planning further exhibitions in Paris and Belgium.

To speed things up, and minimise revenue leakage, Wesfarmers shareholders would prefer you were already micro-chipped

Excellent idea – speaking as a Wesfarmers shareholder.

Australia would be getting Tamil programmers if they could get petrol.

Gus

Go find a chef or cook.

Go find a chef or cook.

JC is still waiting for his mains.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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