The New Cool Thing to Do

Do you enjoy rubbing every inane moment of your life in other people's faces via social media but struggle to take a good selfie because your arms are the same length as those of a T-Rex?
At the same time, is your crippling shyness rendering you utterly incapable of asking literally any member of the public to take your photo?...

Congratulations. You're friends with a person whose occupation was this year ranked number 42 in a list of the 50 most trusted professions in Australia, pipping the likes of sex workers and politicians. Being friends with a journalist, however, is something...

Dear Sir/Madam,
Lately I've been thinking about what I enjoy most about getting cabs around Brisbane.
At times I consider it might be the delightful customer service from drivers who gruffly ask "where to" before spending the duration of the trip whispering on a hands free phone kit like some kind of sneaky teenager who's staying up past their bedtime...

I don't know what it is about that moment when the Bureau of Meteorology flicks off a severe weather warning, but it causes some people to absolutely lose their shit.
Terms like "damaging winds" and "possible flash flooding" do little to calm their growing paranoia, and once they look at the radar and see the weather system might move across their region, they're hyperventilating through a wave of mild hysteria. It...