Issue 58

I’m personally not convinced that vitamin supplements are a vital adjunct to modern living and I decided to give up taking vitamins more than twenty years ago with no noticeable ill effects – which didn’t entirely surprise me as they’d had no noticeable positive effects over the period I took them either. That’s not to…

..a television for a week we had no idea what it meant. My French is adequate enough to cause confusion, invite strangers to go roller skating or to admire the buttocks of my neighbour’s goat, but collapses entirely when the speed goes above the very slow and deliberate pace which one uses when addressing the…

..as my Latin teacher for the last two excruciating years of Latin – and so I found it expedient, if not absolutely necessary to become a conniving plagiarist rather than bear the brunt of Harry’s ire or, God help me, actually do some serious study. It was in my last year of Latin when I…

.. but realised that he is a New Zealander so the sunburnt country will have to make do with Clive Palmer. Tentatively I might say that we have better gun laws but the similarities between the two countries are far greater than any differences. While we don’t have a George Bush in the closet we…

..some sadistic minion of the state. Even given the intermittently risible state of our politicians it is still worth voting as your vote does count. The opportunity to vote early and often for the highest bidder is no longer an option – we have long traded $2 and all the beer you can drink for…

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