Author Topic: WHAT'S MAKING NEWS TODAY? 2012 edition (Read 399832 times)

CAPE TOWN: South African leaders issued assurances about the health of Nelson Mandela on Sunday after the 94 year-old was airlifted to hospital having reportedly stopped speaking.

The former president spent a second day at the Pretoria hospital after being flown from his rural home in the Eastern Cape.

He is said to be undergoing tests following a "troubling" deterioration in his health. A source close to the family of the former president said: "He has not been talking . . . he is not looking good. It's clear that something is troubling him."

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/mandela-reported-to-have-stopped-speaking-20121210-2b47n.html#ixzz2EavDrPI4

Hairs · « **Reply #492 on:** December 11, 2012, 09:31:02 AM »

More Farm land bought up
Swedish funds buy the farm

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"We want to buy the farm equivalent to the best office building on Madison Avenue."

Bird · « **Reply #493 on:** December 11, 2012, 03:13:45 PM »

WTF?
April 1st?

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Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has questioned whether the author of a memo banning workers on Chevron's Gorgon liquefied gas project from sitting down on the job was seated when he wrote it.

The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday morning broke the news that staff on the $US52 billion project in Western Australia have been banned from using chairs and told not to sit down during their shifts.

The directive was a bid to improve productivity on Australia's biggest resources development.

Asked about the story this morning, Mr Shorten said that in his experience of Australian workplaces, most employees work hard. "And they don't need advice about whether they should sit down or stand
up," he said.

"Presumably the person that typed up that communications document was sitting down when they [wrote] it," Mr Shorten said. "I am sure that this [memo] must have been put out by some mid level person with more time on their hands than productivity goals that they have got to set."

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/political-news/shorten-questions-if-standing-order-was-written-sitting-down-20121211-2b6to.html#ixzz2EiX1fduU

Bird · « **Reply #494 on:** December 11, 2012, 03:55:09 PM »

I struggled through the 2nd line, but couldnt get past the second word on line 3...
The Freeloader... Hardcore?? Hard as Nails? WTF??

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"Does a hardcore luxury offroader still have a future?"

The Canadian wilderness, with its snow, mud and icy rivers, is the ideal place to launch a serious offroader like the Land Rover Freelander 2.

The hard-as-nails 4WD
http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-reviews/first-drive-land-rover-freelander-20121211-2b7bn.html

Kit_e_kat9 · « **Reply #495 on:** December 11, 2012, 03:58:03 PM »

Well this is absolutely the BIGGEST NEWS of the CENTURY ... MY BOSS ... let us turn on a radio this morning and it's been broadcasting through the office ALL DAY! Admittedly it's a Shitty station, but hey, after nearly 7 years of complete musical silence, not one complaint.

She must be seriously ill or there is a personator in the building.

Kit_e

Mace · « **Reply #496 on:** December 12, 2012, 10:08:12 AM »

47 Crazy Japanese Inventions.

Says it all, really:

http://www.thevine.com.au/life/thoughts/47-crazy-japanese-inventions/gallery/0?utm_source=FD&utm_medium=rainbow&utm_campaign=japaneseinventions

Mandrake, do you stock Number 35?

Top.ender · « **Reply #497 on:** December 12, 2012, 07:54:50 PM »

Quote from: Lost on December 11, 2012, 03:13:45 PM

WTF?
April 1st?

we all had a good laugh at that 1...hope it doesnt bite us in the backside become fact..

Hairs · « **Reply #498 on:** December 12, 2012, 08:23:00 PM »

Health workers told not to use 'mate'

The world has gone mad.

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Health workers on the New South Wales north coast are being told they cannot call colleagues or patients "mate".

Do you want to run that by me again.

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"This type of language should not be used across any level of the organisation such as employee to employee or employee to client."

So in NSW you have been warned not to use the word Mate

My thoughts on this.
The world is going mad

Edit; And it gets better.
No more sledging at the cricket or name calling under proposed laws

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"Apart from bagging our enemies, we Australians have all probably bagged our mates even more. What bloke hasn't said to his best friend: 'You dopey bastard'… in future (the mate) will be able to sue for a) disparaging his intelligence level and b) calling the legitimacy of his birth into question."

Are they for real?

So swaggers, you've been warned, you can't hang crap on anyone anymore, they might take offense to it and sue you.

Bird · « **Reply #499 on:** December 12, 2012, 09:28:18 PM »

Quote from: Hairs

The world has gone mad.Do you want to run that by me again.

that is news to you?
Do you realise if a girl at work walked past your PC and you were looking at this photo, thats sexual harassment... its been months, and I still cant work it out.. nor how these people survive in the outside world... - Trust me, I have the written warning here.

and the chick that complained is arranging the xmas party - she wonders why only 2 people are going. her and the boss.

News:

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