Heckler on Technology
Heckler
Youngsters are clueless about life for oldsters
Heckler AT 64 I have read that a group of 40-year-olds working for a think tank recommend raising the knackery level to 70. Oh, the aches and pains now.
Heckler
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.
Heckler
Quiet please, while I make some noise
Heckler IT'S more than six months since the quiet railway carriage concept was trialled, and later implemented on all the intercity lines - enough time to assess its performance.
Heckler
Living in the 70s, a good time's been had
Heckler AT 64, I've read that a group of 40-year-olds working for a think tank recommend raising the knackery level to 70. Oh, the aches and pains now.
Heckler
Missing the lost grand slam
Heckler GONE are the days when, having escalated an argument to its zenith, you could render someone speechless with a dramatic exit by propelling the door towards its trembling jamb as you depart to a...
Heckler
There has to be a cure for credulity
Heckler ''AMERICAN doctors are testing microwave technology developed for a space-based missile defence system to shrink breast tumours before surgery.''
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.
Heckler
Give me a non- automatic brake
Heckler MY CAR'S headlights turn on by themselves and stay on when I stop and get out. I did not ask them to do that. When I drive off, all the doors lock. I did not ask them to do that, either.
Heckler
Gloves could lend a hand
Heckler It used to be that some people lacked a filter between their brain and their mouth, but a new strain of this disease is now affecting fingers, and it's getting worse.
Heckler
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...
Heckler
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...
Heckler
Mosman is way out in front
Heckler Yes, we who live in Mosman know the rest of you in Sydney don't like us. We know you think we are silver-tailed, toffee-nosed, chardonnay-sipping folk who iron creases into our jeans and T-shirts.
Heckler
Less ink, less stink
Heckler FORGET the government's NAPLAN basic skills tests, enforce pen licences.
Heckler
We'll all be a lot safer if cars are not
Heckler HAVING been almost run over twice in the last week, I have had an epiphany. Modern vehicles are just too damn safe.
Heckler
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.
Heckler
It's all in the name
Heckler When naming its natural and man-made heritage, no nation has failed to capture the imagination quite like Australia.
