There has been some stiff competition in Australia’s Most Hated Man contest, but the recently departed Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce AC is leading the pack. Customer frustration over luggage being left behind – or going on its own little...

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Anyone who watches Westerns will have probably seen someone thrown through a saloon window. It’s long been a trope of the genre. Fortunately saloons are on the ground floor, so death is often avoided. But things are different when the window is...

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Walter Davis joined the British army in 1915 and was sent to the Western Front. In his diary, the corporal wrote fatalistically that “one of these days I shall get it, but I am more used to it now and I don’t care what comes. If I am to die...

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The theory was that any alien visitation should be kept secret to avoid unleashing chaos. It was believed that it would cause crises of faith and that mass panic would ensue. Those days of innocence must have passed because the news last week –...

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When Hollywood releases multiple blockbusters at the same time, public opinion is often divided, including the public within a household. Deciding which movie to see can cause arguments and outbreaks of sookiness. That could have been the case when...

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Bling has been a thing since prehistoric times. Flakes of mica embellished 30,000 year old cave paintings and prehistoric humans used powdered hematite as a sparkly cosmetic ingredient. We know all this because glitter is forever. If anyone in your...

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