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Pub Toilet Graffiti and the Art of Avoiding Sectarian Violence

Graffiti’s not new. When they weren’t out subjugating barbarians, the Romans festooned their walls with phalluses....

Baz McAlister
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Shaking my chakra

Despite being born under the sign of Aquarius I’m not a new-age kind of girl. I don’t meditate, I'm not vegetarian and incense makes me sneeze....

Genevieve Frew
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Drunk challenges, just say no.

I have drunk many times over the years. I've probably drunk all the drinks, or snorted or one time after watching Kevin n Perry I took vodka in the eye after being challenged....

Paul McDougall
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Hola!

I want to understand what the Mexicans are saying and for them to understand what I’m saying. The phrase book with the CD is too basic....

Helen Townsend
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My Life Before Arriving in Australia

I was born on 1st March 1941 in Yugoslavia. I lost my parents very early on in my childhood. I grew up on my own....

Mick Skrijel
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Scraping The Bottom Of The Bottle

Returning home drunk one night, I fell over out the front of my house at 2am and smashed through a table and a landed on half a pot glass....

Tom Middlebrook
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