As I write this, I am struggling to breathe through my nose. My sinuses do weird things when I stand up too quickly and my throat is giving my voice a particular quality which would be more appropriate on the end of a 1800 phone call. As you may have guessed, I have the flu….
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There are things it is definitely not okay to do in public. Such as: be naked for no good reason, have overly emotive and loud conversations, stare at strangers for prolonged periods of time, and vigorously use dental floss. I have only ever been guilty of one of these things. However a recent encounter involving…
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In past times of discontent I have been guilty of the occasional door slam, walking louder than necessary, making oblique comments with thinly veiled double meanings, and aggressively playing songs that I know get on the nerves of my at-that-moment-enemy. It doesn’t matter that they are in their own house many kilometres away, and I…
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I’ve often observed that despite my meagre 26 years, my values, ideals and perception of what is polite and what are bad manners would, according to my more stereotypically Gen-Y comrades, classify me as being rather prehistoric and stuffy. For those of you who don’t know me, this statement alone is probably enough to conjure…
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