Moderate Political Figure Recognized as Mate of the Month

The guerilla editing that resulted in the removal of a Ben Roberts-Smith image by persons unknown from Sue Lyall’s Herald (C8) could’ve been worse, reckons Peter Miniutti of Ashbury: “Instead of opening your paper and finding something removed, you could’ve found an inserted centrefold of Barnaby Joyce. Talk about a page being re(a)d.”

“Like Peter Hayes (C8) I’m tired of the ubiquitous use of ‘influencers’,” says John Lees of Castlecrag. “My suggestion for an alternative description is ‘inflatulancers’ bearing in mind that all we hear from them is a load of hot air!” Paul Koff of Glenhaven finds himself on a similar path: “Because of the trite garbage most of them peddle, we’ve taken to calling them ‘effluencers’.”

“Our Irish chums have a very accurate way to describe influencers,” advises John Elder of South Brisbane (Qld). “Gobshites.”

“Stand aside ‘shevelled’ and ‘gruntled’ (C8),” declares Greg Phillipson of Aranda (ACT). “My wife sends me out in search of ‘gorm’ whenever I accompany her to the shops.”

Philip Aspden of Miranda is currently conducting “experimental English classes at the Dawu Experimental School in Hubei Province, China, with the Herald for company and reading about all the strife in the world, I’m happy to remain ‘mented’.”