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I manged a number of servos in NZ and one of the security sayings was 80% are honest, 10% are dishonest, and 10% are just waiting for the opportunity For the people compaing about security chewcks, this is the unfortunate "price" one pays for the other 20% And in one big store I trained in a...

In the US someone decided that Veruca was a nice name for girls without knowing what a veruca was. But 1st names can be very much related to local customs. In the Pacific Islands children can be named after events that have recently happened, and in Africa too, and some will use the English...

Yes you can difficult for a very young person Anyone wishing to change names in Australia must lodge a legal name change application with Births, Deaths and Marriages. Once approved you receive either a legal name change certificate, or if your birth was registered in the state you get an...

plus the book of logarithms, squres cubes, sin tan tables etc

When you get a call from your "bank" I have just received a call, recorded message, from a mobile no purporting to be from my bank which told me about a transaction of $xxx.xx and depending on my "reaction to press a certain no, or to call the number given. NO NO NO I never ever do anything...

Nothing new here about checkout placement. Many years ago servos moved the checkouts from the door to at the furtherest away they could . all theses layouts are the work of the marketing brains trust. The classic woukld be new servo layouts in NZ I managed - a canopy over the pump area but no...

Spellchecker? Yeah right 🤣 and is a person checking gluten free breads a Speltchecker? 🤣🤣

Eating Properly So, the dietician asked me , as I am old and on my own, if I was eating properly. I replied: "Most times" "What do you mean, most times?" "Well I usually use a knife and fork but sometimes I do use my fingers, and lick my plate" 🤣🤣

This afternoon I was chatting to the farmer where I am camped and he said he had tried to call ATO was told "All our lines are busy" and they hung up. Not even an offer to wait.

Re the Aldi bug zapper - for a while now I have had one of the conical shaped blue light ones. A couple of pretend entymoligists tried to tell me bugs, mozzies aren't attracted to light only smells. I reckon they need to go to a bug seance and talk to the departed - or make a pudding out the...

Oh, sometimes I don't check before posting and spell check doesn't always work since the mispelled word is already in the spellcheck dickshunery :) And I usually use humour when I pick others mispelling especially duel for dual. - a like " who won the fight, what sort of weapons? " using of and...

in the 60s as a teenager I mixed SAjax (powder) and bleach and thought i was going to die - gasping desperatley for breathe. Obviously i didn't because I'm now 75 but never did that again But at primary school I also did "blow" myself watching too closely as I ignited gunpowder in our...

NZ was no different. I wore the same outfit to work for many years. Even the Marketing Mgr,of NZ's leading housing company wore it too in the summer. Oh, and I even had a houndstooth crimplene safari suit well in to the 80s.

NZ was no different. I wore the same outfit to work for many years. Even the Marketing Mgr,of NZ's leading housing company wore it too in the summer. Oh, and I even had a hoindstooth crimplene safari suit well in to the 80s.

I have had both, currently nearly out of Nutella but that was because there wasn't an Aldi within cooee at the time and it was on a great special. But there's now an a Aldi nearby so I'll get a jar - I do eat it by the spoonfull ratrher than a spread as it substitutes when I haven't got...

I love it now that with smartphoens we get to see the action and not just still images or just read about the action. Mind you, unacceptable when there is an accident or somesuch and people will film it all or worse not even step in to help. The railway station scene in A Man Called Otto is a...

geez - don't go to Kingaroy. A local identity there would go to the mall barefoot and a sarong.

I put the tip of a table knife under the lid in the gap between the lid and jar a gently prise it until I hear the lid pop

My local Aldi at the time was closing down for refurbishmenyt so there were lots of bargains, but some items people di not appear interested in - Like Luv a confit duck confit breasts and legs so I just hung around on the last day and snavelled them all up at about 1/4 price or less. A few...

And ideal in the kitchen I use these scrapers in the kitchen, not just for cleaning my small amount of bench before wiping down but also as a spreader for butter, jam, etc etc. I use metal ones for my pressed steel pan to clean any burnt bits off...