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Are you sitting on public transport watching a stupid fucking video on full volume? Maybe you’re on a plane and you’re watching a two-hour movie without headphones? Or perhaps you’re on a packed train having a conversation with your daughter about her upcoming hysterectomy and you’ve got speaker phone on.
Whoops! Looks…

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Tickets purchased through Ticketmaster will now incur an additional $18.95 ‘fee handling fee’, which will be paid on top of the existing processing fee ($6.95), handling fee ($11.50), seat allocation fee ($7.95), because-we-fucking-can fee ($18.20), cost-of-listing-all-the-fees fee ($8.45), doing-our-fucking-job fee ($10.50), print-the-ticket-on-your-own-printer fee ($14.25) and executive-end-of-year-vacation-fee ($29.95).
Ticketmaster defended the new fee…

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Australian households will soon be able to enjoy the refreshing smell of yeast-extract throughout their homes, after cleaning brand Pine O Cleen announced an exciting new collaboration with Australia’s favourite spread.
A spokesperson for Pine O Cleen said the special wipes will leave a slight black residue on kitchen benchtops, tables and…

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Melbourne woman Laura Madson was today weighing up whether to wait for a pause in the conversation to declare that she could never go back to Coles and Woolies after shopping at Aldi, or to just interrupt the current discussion in order to get the important information out sooner.
“It’s always…

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A man who hasn’t read a book since he sounded out the words to The Hungry Caterpillar to his Mum, has compared his current situation to George Orwell’s 1984.
Having had his licence suspended for driving over the legal alcohol limit, Paul Eaglemont said the world was becoming increasingly Orwellian. “When you…

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Saying he was always thinking of others, housemate Tim Hickson has forgone the last millimetre of milk in the two-litre carton so someone else can enjoy it.
“I thought you might want some milk for one of your cornflakes,” he said when questioned about his selfless act. “I could’ve walked to the…

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