Modern Guru
How do you give money for Christmas in an increasingly cashless society?
For family members who no longer rejoice at the sight of dollar notes, here’s a new way to incorporate a sense of ceremony into that digital transfer.
- Danny Katz
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How to avoid having dinner with the most boring man in Sydney?
Starting point, says Modern Guru: don’t reply to the email. But if you bump into him, use this strategy...
- Danny Katz
Should I tell a fellow bus passenger she has grass in her ponytail?
You can assume she’d want to know that her head looked like it had a nest of bush rats living on it, counsels our Modern Guru.
- Danny Katz
Help! Gathering mail for neighbours in the holidays is driving me postal
Modern Guru understands the weight of the responsibility of this role – but it also confers a certain status.
- Danny Katz
What to bring to a living wake?
If you’ve been invited, you need to make the not-dead-yet person feel as loved as possible, recommends our Modern Guru.
- Danny Katz
Is it OK to return my neighbour’s cigarette butts to his side of the fence?
Getting into an ongoing, back-and-forth game of tossed-butt fence-tennis could have consequences, warns our Modern Guru.
- Danny Katz
Is it OK to turn up the TV on subtitled Scandi thrillers?
Pumping up the volume has distinct advantages – at least, according to Modern Guru’s wife.
- Danny Katz
A taxi copped a fine after I said I was late. Should I pay up?
Drivers make the house rules, says our Modern Guru – unless you went full Jason Statham.
- Danny Katz
The etiquette of sketching strangers: Where do I draw the line?
No need for artists to ask permission when discreetly pencilling portraits of strangers, advises our Modern Guru. Just don’t rest the easel on their foot.
- Danny Katz
Why don’t strangers smile back at me while I’m out walking around my ’hood?
They may be shy, preoccupied or worn down by life, counsels our Modern Guru – or perhaps they simply can’t bear the sight of a perky, jaunty face.
- Danny Katz
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