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My birthday limbo could become hell

Heckler BEING born four days before Christmas is a truly inconvenient event in the lives of a population which is focused on shopping, pudding, and holidays.

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Fast food war is hell

Heckler ASIDE from the trust fund babies out there, most of us have worked in a job that didn't quite make our dreams come true.

Heckler

Have I told you about my knee?

Heckler I HATE it when you ask ''How are you?'', politely inquiring about someone's health without the slightest interest in their reply, and they tell you.

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Fresh breath of life for the anti-semantic movement

Heckler I JUST want to talk off the cusp to you for a moment. The matter of the inadvertent misuse of words has recently been raised in Column 8, and I'd like to now go off on a slightly different tact.

Heckler

Education cuts score a fail now and for the future

Heckler I HAVE drafted this missive many times, each time trying to form my anger into some kind of coherent shape. I have tried to be witty; I have tried to be even-handed; I have tried to be analytical.

Heckler

Gambling with one's life in car city casino

Heckler WHAT the hell is going on in Sydney?

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This is our space, so give it back

Heckler ABOUT a year ago, I started to notice the ''temporary'' functions marquee at the north-east corner of the Opera House forecourt wasn't temporary any more.

Heckler

Pests need to be shown the door

Heckler NOBODY likes a door-to-door salesperson knocking on their door, so what's with the increase in this irritating activity? Door-to-door selling is illegal on Sundays, yet they still knock, catching...

Heckler

The serves, volleys and big shots

Heckler I find the studied camera-concentration on various celebrities at grand sporting events, such as Wimbledon, a bit of a challenge.

Heckler

A Kindling affection for not doing it by the book

Heckler I'VE had it with the Kindle haters.

Heckler

Loyalty points to nowhere

Heckler IN THE competitive markets we live in, imagine the following frustrating scenario ...

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Absence of street names ranks lower than lumbago

Heckler Sign, sign, everywhere a sign - except when you need one!

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Time to pull the pin on Swans din

Heckler ARE sponsored folded cardboard clappers issued free at sporting events the vuvuzelas of Australian sport?

Heckler

Oh, the skills I had in the days before Facebook

Heckler I'M ''RAMPING ON'' at present - that's the new jargon for looking for a job after not having had one for a while.

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Shopping at the maul

Heckler SYDNEY'S CBD is a pedestrian nightmare of dawdlers, strollers and, as our American friends say, plain old jaywalkers.

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Welcome to town? Just the reverse

Heckler HERE we go again. We've just survived the influx of capital-T Tourists during the spring school holidays and the wine festival. And now the summer holidays are imminent.

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Madness of the machine

Heckler I HAVE just received another phone call from my bank. Or at least I think it was from my bank. I'm not sure. It was the fifth call I've had from NAB in three days.

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Crushed by life without my raspberry

Heckler My lipstick has been discontinued. Yes, okay, sorry chaps, I know that many of you aren't interested in this but just shut up and go away, would you?

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Getting on my nerves

Heckler YOU'VE probably never met your sciatic nerves. At least, not if you're lucky.

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English for dummies

Heckler Living abroad for more than a decade, I have observed with voyeuristic fascination the creeping bastardisation of the English language in Australia.