Heckler on Beer
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Hoping to hear silent night this Christmas
Heckler CHRISTMAS has a distinct resonance in our house. In other homes, the festive season might be accompanied by the sound of Jingle Bells or the comforting noise of cooking from the kitchen.
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Slow slide to insensible senescence
Heckler WHEN I was a teenager, a common refrain among my friends was that it would be our worst nightmare to become like our parents.
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Language ladies did themselves a disservice
Heckler I called into a pub the other afternoon (not my usual local) for a refreshing ale.
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Another fine mess - but no regrets
Heckler I SAW a bloke the other day drop an empty cardboard coffee cup in the street in the CBD. This annoyed me, as I detest litter, but what really annoyed me was that he dropped it within a metre of a...
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Super what? No fun in fund for this contributor
Heckler I OPENED my superannuation statement today and was rendered speechless, something which, as people who know me could attest, has not happened since the incident concerning the inadvisable quantity of...
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Time to stomp on litter bug infestation
Heckler I DETEST litter. I am hostile to the lack of civic virtue displayed by those who drop it and am becoming a zealot in the cause of municipal housekeeping.
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Taking trivial matters to the extreme
Heckler WHY DO some people take things so seriously? I'm not talking about taking things seriously that should be taken seriously, like crime, health, education and family.
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Right spirit but spare the paper bags
Heckler DROPPING into the bottle shop of a local pub, I bought a bottle of wine. I paid and the young man serving reached for a paper bag in which to place my purchase.
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Wrong diagnosis was gout of the blue
The Heckler I WAS recently diagnosed with gout. The foot felt sore on Christmas Eve. It wasn't better by December 29 so off I hobbled to the medical centre. The doctor took one look at my foot.
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Take bread off circuses to spend in real world
Heckler AROUND 72AD, canny Roman politicians came up with the idea of ''bread and circuses'' as a way of quelling murmurings, and knocked together the Colosseum.
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Honey in hair, bee in bonnet
Heckler I BELIEVE city driving should be banned. And brass plaques listing the names of dead aldermen … and bathrooms without steam extractors … and formalin-tasting gelato made with saccharin...
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Mulch ado about grubs of this world
Heckler When did cigarette butts become de facto mulch? When did beer bottles, car batteries and pizza boxes become garden ornaments?
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Pardonnez moi, please excuse my English
Heckler I've just read Harriet Veitch's Heckler column ''Mon dieu! It's a nightmare'' (October 4). I am French, but I fully agree that French is hard to learn as a second language.
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Plug, play, and then lose a day
Heckler I have just spent an entire day (Saturday, of course) stuffing up my computer, panicking, doing serious damage to my blood pressure, panicking, having a nervous breakdown, and finally weaseling...
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Refuge and refuse in the gutter
Heckler THAT curse the kerb. It is a haven, we are told. The sensible place. Sometimes it even has a little bicycle painted on it. Sensible, safe, perfect.
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No Cruise in my cocktail
Heckler PUT aside Sydney's problems with alcohol-related violence for the moment. I'm as upset at this behaviour and its social cost as most citizens.
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This is how to complain properly
Heckler LOOK, I have to be honest here. I think that a growing number of Hecklers have failed to meet the brief.
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Many happy returns in SA
Heckler IN SOUTH Australia the 10-cent return on each bottle seems to have perilously changed the economy of littering.
