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Unpaid tradesmen
Posted: 10 Mar 10 |
I knew they were free fodder for building firms and banks, but I was not aware of the vulnerability of tradesmen to householders and other small clients who simply refuse to pay.
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Shaving legs
Posted: 09 Mar 10 |
Choosing an excuse for shaving legs is not the only challenge for a cyclist. There's also the question of how far up. And whether to apply a bottle tan.
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Footballers' loyalties
Posted: 08 Mar 10 |
If police make out their case against Wicks and Houston, it will appear that the club has not countered the tolerance or blind eye that was obvious when Andrew Johns admitted in 2007 that he'd been using drugs for a long time.
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Other people die
Posted: 05 Mar 10 |
My survival is proof that death happens only to other people, and so I am as untroubled by the RTA's roadside warnings SPEED KILLS as I used to be by cigarette packets' SMOKING KILLS.
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Youthful confrontation
Posted: 04 Mar 10 |
Piercings have expired as a statement, underwear has retreated to where it belongs below the belt, outrageous hairstyles are now admired, loaded-nappy jeans are worn only by dregs and young women are tucking in their wobbling belly jelly.
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Communication overload
Posted: 03 Mar 10 |
Personal communications must have multiplied 100 times in 20 years, meaning that for every phone call or letter (or telegram) I received 20 years ago I receive 100 text messages, mobile calls and emails today.
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Phoney doctors
Posted: 26 Feb 10 |
The board has failed to set standards for the use of the medical terms doctor, surgeon and physician, and health practitioners who've long been coveting or improperly using the title Dr have jumped in to claim it.
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Live-alone rejects
Posted: 25 Feb 10 |
We who are embraced by the political mantra of "working families" and the marketers' ideal of "happy families" regard live-alone men of certain ages with suspicion and live-alone women above a certain age and with no obvious reason for their aloneness as failures, rejects, unfortunates.
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Health cover injustice
Posted: 24 Feb 10 |
The Federal Government has its Lifetime Health Cover program encouraging young people to take private insurance for life, yet it does nothing to help retiring people maintain their cover for the rest of their life.
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Undesignated nudity
Posted: 23 Feb 10 |
Nudists like to tell us that getting their gear off is unburdening, that jumping around naked with a beach ball is freedom, that line dancing in the nude makes sense, but I reckon there's something else going on.
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Recycling garbage
Posted: 22 Feb 10 |
I have no doubt that most people will transfer much of their garbage into the recycling bin when the small bins arrive next January.
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DNA privacy
Posted: 22 Feb 10 |
An insurer can, and often does, require prospective customers to undergo a medical examination, which delves into many issues of the utmost privacy, so why should it not be free to require a DNA test?
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Citizen's arrest
Posted: 18 Feb 10 |
Maybe it's the solution to crime, all of us law-abiding citizens going about each day ever ready to make a citizen's arrest.
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Criminal parents
Posted: 17 Feb 10 |
It is likely that these derelict parents have been breeding for the baby bonus since it was introduced six years ago and that we have tribes of their urchins just a few years off unleashing themselves on us. Wouldn't it be wonderful if a parents' court could order sterilisations!
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Aussie accents
Posted: 16 Feb 10 |
There are fewer Australians speaking broad or ocker Australian and fewer speaking the plummy cultivated Australian, the linguists' explanation for the latter decline being that "it was no longer socially advantageous in the later part of the 20th century". The plum was always a comical fraud!
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Labor dinosaurs
Posted: 15 Feb 10 |
No need to worry about quality when the Labor candidate is a cert, and I doubt that many local party members could make a reasonable assessment of a candidate's quality anyway.
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Five-star falseness
Posted: 12 Feb 10 |
There are no laughs, no fun, no uncontrived rapport to be found in the five stars of my travels, and I am always intrigued that few are willing to speak at a level that breaks the churning white noise of these establishments.
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Ode to the f-word
Posted: 11 Feb 10 |
English has no other word as useful as the f-word so as it expires we need to invent another one and floorking soon.
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Inconsiderate amputees
Posted: 09 Feb 10 |
Occasionally we're caught off guard by one leg of shorts or a pinned-up trouser leg flapping eerily empty as a fellow leaps along on crutches, but to present a metal contraption growing out of a human body is brutal.
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Fernleigh fallacies
Posted: 08 Feb 10 |
Fernleigh Track linking Newcastle and Lake Macquarie is a shared path for cyclists and walkers, but walkers who break the rules don't like that.
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