“Why are Christians, who celebrate the renovation of their souls through the rise of a carpenter on Easter Sunday, so selfish as to deny the MacMansionites access to the Sacred Temple of Bunnings, that they may also worship their god(s) and raise a little carpentry in an act of renovation (“No Easter Bunnings”, March 26)?
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Peter Fyfe of Erskineville doesn’t see why Bunnings should have to close on Easter Sunday.
“In Sydney CBD, people can be quite charming,” says ‘etiquette consultant’ Anna Musson. “In the CBD here (Brisbane), people are not at their best. It can be a big turn-off for clients. People don’t know some of the basic etiquette.”
Also quoted in this fine example of a non-story is Elvis Soiza, chief concierge at the Sofitel Brisbane Hotel and president of the concierge society Les Clefs D’Or Australia.
“Some of the young people don’t even say please any more, it’s ‘Get me that’, or ‘Do this’,” he says. “Everyone is in a hurry and the pleases and thank-yous get forgotten. Opening doors for people, shaking hands, knowing how to talk to people, giving up your seat on a bus or a train, it’s being forgotten.”
Three responses to the failure of the government’s alcopops tax bill:
“Maybe Family First should change its name to Teenage Thirst.”
Brendan Humphreys of Crows Nest
“I see Senator Fielding now represents Family Thirst.”
James Wood of Wagga, NSW
“It’s great to see the Liberal Party standing up for values it believes in. No child should live without cheap alcohol by 2009.”
Alan Marel North Curl Curl
“Competitors in a swimming race around Shark Island at the weekend were bothered by a shark (“Shark near swimmers”, March 16). What were they expecting? Gold Coast meter maids?”
Paul Duncan, Leura, letter to the Sydney Morning Herald.
“We understand that there is a social problem (with divorce), but now we’re seeing there is also environmental impact as well on the footprint.”
Family First senator Steve Fielding says divorce leads to inefficient single lifestyles and contributes to global warming.
Two responses in the Sydney Morning Herald to bureau of statistics classification of baby boomers as anyone from the age of 40 upwards:
I object to the bureau of statistics branding me a baby boomer. Born in 1969 and believing I was part of generation X, I have faithfully practised cynicism and sloth all these years. By the definitions of the bureau, Kurt Cobain, once considered the “spokesman of generation X” would also be a baby boomer.
Darren Whitaker Surry Hills
Forty years old and lumped in with the baby boomers. It’s enough to give me grey hair.
Sarah Robertson East Lindfield
