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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-expect-much-of-youth-so-thats-what-we-get/ In an interview discussing his increasing philanthropy late last year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg noted that “when you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.” Facebook, for Zuckerberg, has a role to play in power systems. It can be a political tool for leaders. And he’s right, but only conditionally; a number of other groups need to come to the party before we can consider social media a tool for good. I spent a recent weekend helping Year 11 students understand what it means to be a leader, and I can safely say that I don’t share the pessimism about our future that the majority of headlines concerning ‘young Australians’ seems to show. But nor can I say in good conscience that the future is all roses. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-expect-much-of-youth-so-thats-what-we-get/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-dont-expect-much-of-youth-so-thats-what-we-get/#item6965 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blades-to-the-head-cant-stop-old-people-from-being-badass/ Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blades-to-the-head-cant-stop-old-people-from-being-badass/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/blades-to-the-head-cant-stop-old-people-from-being-badass/#item6608 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gen-y-wanna-be-mates-with-you-not-just-mate-with-you/ Gen Y. We revel in a hook-up culture of “joyless, pitiless sex”. We treat people of the opposite sex (and the same sex) as objects for us to consume. We don’t just go out and have a few beers on a Friday night, we have ‘spit roast’ (the verb, not the noun) parties after hitting up the meat market. We brush our teeth with bottles of Jack Daniels, and personally, barely a day goes by where my phone isn’t avalanched by sext messages. Yeeeeesh. I wish. It’s no surprise to anyone of my generation that baby boomer commentators just don’t get Gen Y. But when we’re debating Gen Y, there’s something that everyone – Gen Y and pundits alike – seems to miss. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gen-y-wanna-be-mates-with-you-not-just-mate-with-you/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gen-y-wanna-be-mates-with-you-not-just-mate-with-you/#item6534 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/rudeness-is-personal-not-generational/ A friend recently told me of his horror when a colleague asked a co-worker why she only had one child. It was a dangerous question to ask a mere acquaintance in front of the rest of the office. What if the answer had been a heart-breaking miscarriage? Marital disharmony? A crippling amount of debt? Infertility? No doubt the 21-year-old woman’s thoughtless question left her older workmates clucking their tongues at Gen Y’s arrogance and lack of manners. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/rudeness-is-personal-not-generational/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/rudeness-is-personal-not-generational/#item5494 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/michael-clarke-is-a-victim-of-the-gen-y-haters/ Ricky Ponting had a lot to live up to when he took over as captain of Australia from Steve Waugh, but two more World Cup titles, a maiden Champions Trophy and equaling Waugh’s 16 test record winning streak cemented him as a leader to rival his predecessor. But if Ponting had big shoes to fill, his successor - Michael Clarke - will look like he’s stepping into Ronald McDonald’s boots. Fairfax journalist Roy Masters perfectly summed up up the feelings of the Australian public on the issue of Clarke as the next commander-in-chief of the Baggy Green brigade. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/michael-clarke-is-a-victim-of-the-gen-y-haters/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/michael-clarke-is-a-victim-of-the-gen-y-haters/#item5510 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/was-siimon-the-original-gen-yer/ For the last quarter of a century, it’s been something of a national pastime to bag ad man Siimon Reynolds for being a wanker. But if Gen Y – a group who know a little something about being pilloried as superficial, materialistic, self-obsessed fame whores – were old enough to know who he is, they might be tempted to claim the 46-year-old as one of their own and insist he be treated with more respect. Perhaps it’s time all of us — Yers, Xers and Boomers alike — rethought our attitude towards Reynolds. For a case can be made that he is not the pretentious tool of the popular imagination, but rather a prescient pioneer who intuited where society was heading and adapted to the economic and social changes being set in motion by Thatcher, Reagan and, in Australia, Hawke and Keating, at the time he was coming of age. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/was-siimon-the-original-gen-yer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/was-siimon-the-original-gen-yer/#item5038 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-says-at-least-i-can-use-an-allen-key/ Young Australians have often been labelled as lazy and lacking many crucial skills, leaving many older Australians to worry about the future of this country, left in the hands of those who lack the ability to look after themselves. A bunch of survey results released recently echo these fears, focusing on the loss of traditional knowledge in the younger generation. Simply put, women are not learning the skills that traditionally women once knew, and men are losing the manly abilities they once had. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-says-at-least-i-can-use-an-allen-key/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/he-says-at-least-i-can-use-an-allen-key/#item5020 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/tues-karalee-evans-on-womens-skills/ We don’t mind if you can’t sew. Just wear underwear. According to a survey, the vast majority of Generation Y females are losing their womanly ways. Traditional female skills such as sewing, ironing, cooking, homemaking and other ‘womanly’ traits are on the decline and instead women are driving automatic cars and contributing to a growing incidence of consumerism. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/tues-karalee-evans-on-womens-skills/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/tues-karalee-evans-on-womens-skills/#item5011 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-believe-gen-y-are-the-future/ Sometimes people just get it plain wrong. And that goes for me as well. Often we’ve thought that Generation Y are so preoccupied with themselves that they are not interested in the world around them. Or worse, they’re interested but not doing anything about it. The stereotype goes along these lines: locked up in their bedrooms, on Facebook 24 hours a day, playing computer games, comfortable in the world of anonymity. And no social responsibility. Well, it’s time to put all their prejudices back in their box. Because what has happened in Brisbane in the last few weeks is the total and comprehensive counterproof. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-believe-gen-y-are-the-future/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-believe-gen-y-are-the-future/#item4974 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-havent-lost-the-fire-in-our-bellies-we-never-had-it/ Quite frankly, I’m a little jealous. I can’t remember the last time I threw a brick at a shopfront, kicked a Royal Rolls Royce or even pulled a face at a grumpy copper. From memory, it was around the 14th of Never. While I’m not a huge fan of placing my face in the path of a moving police baton, I have to admit I’ve been getting a bit envious of those thronging British Gen Y masses on television. Now, I’m not in any way condoning the rock pelting, glass smashing and general widespread destruction- but I am condoning the protests. How exciting it must all be. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-havent-lost-the-fire-in-our-bellies-we-never-had-it/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-havent-lost-the-fire-in-our-bellies-we-never-had-it/#item4677 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Earlier this week, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher temporarily became my idol. The Arizona pensioner was reportedly enjoying a spot of gardening when a freak accident left a pair of garden shears lodged in his eye socket. That’s right, his eye socket. The handle went past his eye and through his neck, eventually resting on his external carotid artery, leaving him to walk around like some sort of Edward Scissor-Face. Luetscher, who is expected to make a full recovery, said he was “grateful to the doctors and staff” and left it at that. No blog. No finger-pointing. No attempt to use the incident to become a breakfast radio star or get a retweet from Snooki. The guy was all class and dignity. Elderly blokes like Luetscher make Jack “check out my one arm push-ups” Plance seem like no big deal.