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    Retail workers share some of the MOST “DISGUSTING” acts that shoppers do in store while shopping — “Please stop doing this”

    People are so,so lazy, selfish, uncaring, no civic conscience. Shame on them. Quote, unqote. In a store the other day I found an opened partially consumed pack of good chocolate just left behind. Apart from anythging else that is stealing, theft, purloining call it what you will. The...
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    ALDI customer gets scrutinised on social media after lashing out at “rude” staff for not opening a checkout just for her, gets called “entitled”

    As a mere male I don't often do the shopping and when I am in our local Aldi store the staff there are always helpful. I've said before in these columns that if a fully loaded trolley is in the process of being uploaded on to the belt and check out has NOT started then I will ask the person if...
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    Lottery winner MAD because his wife wanted to give her parents a cut on the money: “I married her, not her parents!”

    The lottery win is his. He paid for the ticket. So what he does with it is up to him. Sharing between his wife and his children would be what is expected in a family. What they do with it is up to them. The giver by giving has no rights as to where it ends up. If he wants to share with his...
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    The Diet

    Behave yourself ... and listen!!
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    Oops

    Perhaps a double dose is required to be developed ... in laughing juice!!
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    Uh-oh! Restaurant owner SLAMS Australian Food Influencers ‘looking for free stuff’

    Two pretty girls. Showing their bits on Instagram. Do it properly on the proper site or go and get a job. It will be a new experience and you MIGHT learn something ... like that not all people are mugs.
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    Banks across the country are now going digital – are physical branches and ATMs obsolete?

    Be modern. Go digital. WHY? Less personal bank contacts and reduced trust. Giving access to the possibility of hackers getting at your money. No customer care. You are just a number and because you come into the bank you are a pest. Phone up and you eventually get the response "We are...
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    The life-changing cling-wrap HACK everyone should know

    When cling film, glad wrap or whatever you want to call it came out originally someone put on TV. (the equivalent then of YouTube etc) a hack that worked. Use clingfilm on single glazed windows as it acts as the secondary glass pane and is quite effective in colder climes than Melbourne.
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    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s statement on the Ukraine-Russia conflict stirs controversy on social media — “What a joke!”

    Prince Harry and his wife are, from their own choice, private citizens. They voluntarily put their royalty aside to be able to assist others in their own way. Which they do. If the communication had come from Mr and Mrs J Doe what would have been said? I suggest the comments would be along...
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    Joke Irish mail order catalogue

    Do you know why Irish jokes are so stupid? It is so that the English can undersatnd them. (I'm a Scot)
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    Teen sues Woolworths Group for negligence resulting in injury

    There is no such thing as a bad child but the world is overpopulated with bad parents. Where the heck was the father during this and why wasn't he taking care of his child? The items were not set up as an example of a home gym. They were not there as a sponsored gym for wayward kids to try...
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    Aldi shopper complains about Aldi’s trolley return system

    If you don't like something don't use it. In this cynical age we live in no-one really cares, whatever they say on the phone. It is a stock answer that you know they will not necessarily follow up and if they actually do then you will be the very last to hear abouut it.
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    Great-grandmother’s secret to dealing with fussy toddlers: Doctor approved!

    I recall a visit to Tesco stores in Deptford, Kent, UK when mother was doing the shopping and father was looking after a possibly 4 year old boy. 4 year old boy wanted something off the shelf in the areas dads and boys go when mother is shopping in peace. Father said no so 4 year old threw a...
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    Rental-friendly decor hacks that completely transform your living spaces – and they are landlord-friendly!

    I am a rental provider (the new name for landlords apparently) and I have been fortunate in that my first tenant in my investment property stayed for 2 months short of 20 years. I told them early on in the piece that it was their home and they could do what they liked as long as they didn't...
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