Heckler on Internet
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Internet scam had silver lining
Heckler Dozens of phone calls from thoughtful friends asking had I really been mugged in Manila? No, I had been hacked.
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No worries? Now there's some hot air
Heckler CHRISTMAS 2011, with a house full of family, guests and pets, and an expired vacuum cleaner, we enjoyed the domestic bliss of shopping for a new machine, and were delighted to purchase a super-duper,...
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Why call centres get my goat
Heckler I WRITE this on behalf of the 3 million Australians who, like me, are fed up trying to have our domestic problems solved by doubtless well-meaning, but culturally challenged, people sitting in small...
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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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Logging off the horror of online dating
Heckler BEING single and at times lonely for some male company, I made the mistake of joining a couple of online dating sites. I now call them ''non-dating sites'' because of recent experiences.
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Retail of woe: maybe it serves you right
Heckler READ the business pages. Watch the news. Listen to the radio. It's all about whiney, moaning retailers.
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All hail first letter to help put you on e-asy street
Heckler I WAS so pleased to see that bookshops are now categorising their books alphabetically.
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Insistence on title really ticks me off
Heckler IF COMPUTER programmers only do what analysts tell them to, then the analysts should be hung, drawn and quartered.
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Stores just sell same old story
Heckler RETAILERS of Australia: I give up. I don't care what Gerry Harvey says. You don't want my money so I'm taking it to the internet.
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Drag your knuckles, not your feet
Heckler WOMEN have been complaining about men for as long as the trees have stood, and for almost as long, men have been writing about it.
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Abstaining throws up tricky issues
Heckler THE Great Vomit of Y2K was the last time I ever drank champagne or wine. I threw up so violently I lost a contact lens.
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WikiLeaks? Hear it first on grapevine
Heckler ALL this hoo-ha about WikiLeaks is really quite irritating. Let me tell you about my mother.
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A quote for all occasions
Heckler ABC-TV news is to be congratulated for the conservation of taxpayer funds with its ARC (Anonymous Random Commentator) initiative.
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Sex, I'm sick of it
Heckler Have you ever seen one of those couples in a park on a Sunday afternoon rolling around on top of each other like it's no one's business? Except it is everyone's business because all the small...
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Boomer upsets the app-le cart
Heckler SO YET another Gen Y'er has a cheap shot at the fuddy-duddy baby boomers (''Generation Y bother'' - Heckler, July 7) who apparently have failed to grasp the significance of social media networks, the...
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Hands off, chests too
Heckler Whenever I see a member of Generation X sporting a T-shirt with an image of the great musical artists of my youth, such as the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin, I cackle, chuckle, chortle, then...
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U15s cricket will hardly get runs up
Heckler A FEW words of advice for those seeking employment regarding the much-vaunted topic of what will make your résumé stand out.
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Stop it or I will take the cereal toys
Heckler Recently there has been an encroachment of our working life into our private time, but I have observed a reverse trend: employees substituting the work kitchen for home, to consume their breakfasts**.
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It's a lark, ascending
Heckler The escalator shows us everything that is wrong with humanity. You're in your local Westfield, browsing through the latest consumables.
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Stop mewing, start chewing
Heckler Vegetarians - I have a bone to pick with you. It riles me when you explain yourselves by saying you want to be cruelty-free.
