Heckler on Exercise
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Going back to school will never be the same
Heckler ''DROP off your school list and we will pack it for you to pick up later.'' This is the offer from a big office supplies chain. I can't imagine anything worse.
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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies
Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.
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Knowing the times tables obviously so yesterday
Heckler I GO to a gym for my daily constitutional. I love it – lots of mature women like me, trying to compensate for years of now-abandoned bad habits taken up when young and seemingly invincible.
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Self-worship is fine, just not in my lift
Heckler They primp … they pose … they preen. The disciples of Narcissus who can't ignore the mirrors in office lifts, are everywhere.
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Graceful ageing tells a story nip and tuck cannot
Heckler WHEN I was 18, a great-aunt helpfully told me that at 20 we have the face we were born with, and at 50 we have the face we deserve.
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Defence of substance cuts no ice
Heckler CAN we please get rid of the defence of ''I've been on drugs since I was 15 and it's affected my mind''?
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It's a jungle in men's gym change room
Heckler RECENTLY I've conceded the need to go to the gym. I know it's meant to be good for me but every visit has become a traumatic experience, one I anticipate with dread.
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I want out of Generation I
Heckler TODAY'S teenagers are shaped by a multitude of weighty issues - high levels of teenage obesity, a heavy binge drinking culture and a social media landscape with hefty consequences.
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A bogan name is a life sentence
Heckler BOGAN names, I'm sure you've heard a few. Perhaps you've been guilty of a bogan name christening? Or you have a bogan name?
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Weighty question of the free gym pass
Heckler On my lunchtime stroll I have recently noticed a new kind of spruiker.
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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?
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Onward chocolate soldiers
Heckler WE WAVED them off at the doorstep. It was a Dickensian moment as the weather suddenly turned to autumn.
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Don't flaunt it if you just ain't got it
Heckler HERE'S a novel idea: people should stop committing themselves to things they can't afford.
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Don't dump on my kerb
Heckler As I walk the streets, there is nothing quite like spring in Sydney. Jasmine lazily breathes its mystic scent over the garden walls. Jacarandas hint at their promise of purple joy.
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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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Aced by shoe choice
Heckler I AM quite sure, were I to produce my old Dunlop Volley sandshoes, I'd be a laughing stock. Has anybody else been amazed at the variety of (I must remember NOT to call them sandshoes) runners that...
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And they think I'm rude ...
Heckler Here's the proposition. The most selfish people in your neighbourhood are those who come and look, buy a house, knock it down and build their dream house in what was your dream neighbourhood.
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Those kilos that kill conversation
Heckler ARE people on diets the most boring people in the world?
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Birthdays gone up, up and away
Heckler A ''POSTAGE PAID'' printed on a letter usually spells something business-y and boring. Last week I got a letter from my regional health department with a NSW Health logo and a hospital address on it.
