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Hundreds of employees have been sacked or disciplined for spending too much time on social networking sites at work, according to new research. It found that more than 1,700 people working for 65 public institutions have been dismissed or reprimanded for internet or email misuse in the past three years. The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that bosses are increasingly taking a hard line against staff who abuse the internet during office hours. Common offences include excessive internet use, viewing inappropriate material online such as pornography and forwarding offensive emails to friends. Government departments emerged as some of the most unforgiving places to work. But the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has criticised employers who have imposed blanket bans, saying that staff should be allowed to use the internet during lunch breaks. It's unreasonable for employers to try to stop their staff from having a life outside work just because they can’t get the...

Here is an excerpt from my favourite news paper 'The Sydney Daily Telegraph. An insult to their great sacrifice -->An insult to their great sacrifice 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks Permalink Anita Quigley Blog Anita QuigleyWednesday, November 14, 2007 at 07:22am THE Ode of Apathy:They shall grow very old, as we that are left don’t care;Age shall not endear them, nor the years be kind.At the going down of the sun and in the morning,We will just forget them. This was the ode adhered to in shopping centres across the country last Sunday.Consumers too busy in their little materialistic worlds couldn’t give a minute of their time to acknowledge the men and women who sacrificed their lives, their health and their futures so that we could benefit from the freedom and democracy in which we are fortunate enough to live.Not even the loudspeaker announcing that it was time to observe Remembrance Day distracted some customers at Chatswood Chase from their buying frenzy.While many decent Austra...

THE QUEEN will join veterans this Sunday laying wreaths at the Cenotaph in London, in memory of those who lost their lives fighting for this country. On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, a two minute silence will be observed to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War. What does Remembrance Day mean to you? Will you be thinking more of the sacrifices made by those who fought in the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam or of recent conflicts such as Northern Ireland, Iraq or Afghanistan? For me it means an England long gone and which I fear will never come back again. A lost time of life, a lost character of a country which was once proud and brave and fearless but has been brought to its knees, not only by foreign religious infiltration, but saddest of all by our own home grown leftist Marxist politically correct socialists. Although domiciled in Australia , I remember the old country and I mourn for it. I remember those who died for it and f...

..... Started at around 0005 when I retired to bed, followed by a lot of snoring grunting and a can't remember dream session. I then awoke about 7-30 am and trotted off to the dunny for my pre breakfast ablutions. Breakfast consisted of 500mls of filtered and boiled water originally from the tap water, plus one clean apple followed by cereal. During breakfast I scanned my favorite newspaper; the Sydney Daily Telegraph; , promising myself to return after checking my inbox and replying to comments. So herewith is a short resume in response to your request for me to post on WUB. It had poured with rain overnight and the ground smelt fresh as I walked into the garden, it is Spring here in my part of Australia and some of the Hobby garden vegetables are now ready for the table. My family staple diet besides meat and fish and two serves of fruit daily include a mix of a minimum 7-8 different vegetables each day , these are varied every day from a list of about twenty possibles. This does...

If None of the Wallabies Smoke, Why would they need a FAG to revive them.

I recall the post Oct 18 the visiting Moggie, (Cat). We removed the cats collar and then replaced it when it returned, then removed it on the next visit. This has happened seven times. the owner has replaced the collar twice and these collars have gone through the same routine, in all about eleven switches, when the cat returns the current collar will be swapped and the one with my blogsite details etched on it sent home with the cat, if the owner gripes or fails to see the funny side of this, the owner will be sent a Cat food bill.

Another crackpot sect of the faith Industry uses unsubstantiated guildlines from passages in the Christian bible to deny a dying mother the right to live. Will this bunch of complete idiots be allowed to flaunt the law of self preservation, basic human rights and continue to abide by their wishy washy witch craft beliefs instead of the authorities drawing them into line as we other law abiding citizens are expected to do. A Jehovah’s witness died shortly after giving birth to twins because her faith prevented her from having a blood transfusion. Emma Gough, 22, began haemorrhaging but because her beliefs did not allow her to receive blood she slipped into unconsciousness and died. As she suffered severe blood loss and her life ebbed away, medical staff urged her husband, Anthony, and her parents, all of whom follow the same faith, to overrule her decision and allow a transfusion which could have saved her, but they refused. She gave birth naturally and all appeared well as she cuddled ...

THE five men who orchestrated the Rape and Horror Mutilation Murder of Anita Cobby in Feb 1986 probably rubbed shoulders with me while a customer at the Sportsman Hotel( formerly the 'Comb and Cutter' ) at Blacktown , NSW. Anita Cobby, the daughter of Grace and Garry Lynch, was a former Miss N S W and a nurse who worked in Sydney, was abducted from off the street while walking to her home in Sullivan Street, she had no option as it was late and there were no cabs available after she left the train and the public phones were out of order, also it was a Sunday. Her body was discovered two days later. The intense hatred portrayed by the public towards the perpetrators of this meaningless atrocity, was something I had never seen before, ever. John Travers, Michael Murdock and brothers Michael, Gary and Leslie Murphy, the gang of five were eventually convicted, and have been imprisoned for life(Never to be released) In stark contrast to his siblings, I met by arrangement the younger...

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons ...... Australia has suffered its first death by "water rage" as the country confronts its seventh year of crippling drought. Although this info is now front page news in Sydney Australia, it will hardly affect the outcome of our problem. Like most families we are still able to shower once or twice per day, but it is the time spent under the shower which is most important, water saving shower heads to me are a waste of time, more than water saving, seems to me the restricted shower heads take more than twice as long to remove the suds and leave you with that incomplete feeling, whereas a strong jet of water cleans far quicker notably in less than half of the time the trickler uses plus it leaves one with a satisfying fresh feeling. The grey water from our family washing machine is used to water the garden and lawns. Occasionly the final rins...

Tomorrow is Election Day in Australia, Could it be erection time?  maybe if you are oriental or It could be the little man you call uncle next door, your friendly priest, your milkman or geezers like this little prick pictured left. This sleasy slime bag who our very lives depended on back a bit, is caught out perving on some nifty nipples while his right hand is tickling her bot. So it seems even the most highly respected can turn into the disrespectful. did you vote for this bum pinching Chicken Hawk in the last election, too bad he lost his seat and the election, and took his mate Costello with him otherwise we may be having the Govt run by Abbott & Costello, provided the Mad Monk Tony Abbott becomes the PM, but hopefully not. Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. But no person has the right to rain on your dreams, Use your Vote  tomorrow for the good of all, not your own selfish needs. Ves...

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures. 100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed. The human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000. After they reach their peak around the year 3000 humans will begin to regress. These humans will be between 6ft and 7ft tall and they will live up to 120 years. "Physical features will be driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility that men and women have evolved to look for in potential mates," suggesting that advances in cosmetic surgery and other body modifying techniques will effectively homogenise our appearance. Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, That will make a few of you want to live longer. Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts. Raci...

EXPOSED: 10-year-old UNPAID workers who help clothing giants make billions GAP slave kids CHILDREN as young as TEN are being sold into slavery by poverty-stricken parents — to churn out cheap, embroidered clothes for fashion chain Gap. An investigation uncovered the scandal of sweatshop kids who work for NOTHING in India's capital, New Delhi. After talking to frightened youngsters as they laboured to produce goods in time for the lucrative Christmas season, we can reveal they are: FORCED to work without pay for up to 19 hours a day in the stifling heat. BEATEN with a rubber pipe if they cry or protest. KEPT in stinking, poorly-lit sweatshops running with raw sewage and BRANDED with tattoos which bond them to their greedy bosses. When we confronted horrified Gap chiefs with our findings, they immediately vowed to WITHDRAW tens of thousands of their embroidered children's smock tops produced by sweatshop labour before they even reach the stores. But the news will bring little com...

Muslim prisoners may sue over ham Muslim prisoners are considering suing the authorities for £2 million after they were offered ham sandwiches to eat during the holy month of Ramadan. The inmates at HMP Leeds, a category B local prison, claim that their human rights have been breached as a result. However, the Prison Service, which yesterday confirmed the incident, said it was a mistake which was "corrected immediately". It said Muslim prisoners had been given "inappropriate" menu cards for their packed lunches but denied that any had actually been given ham sandwiches. A spokesman said: "Guidelines state that prisoners must have a diet which meets the requirements of their religion." Islam forbids Muslims to eat ham and pork, and prisoners reportedly said the incident was made worse because it happened during Ramadan, which took place between Sept 13 and Oct 12. Leeds Prison holds more than 1,200 male prisoners, of which more than 200 are Muslim. ...... A...

SURBITON, Surrey, England, A wealthy gent from Pakistan has had the temerity to invade this sanctuary of the stock broker community, by using a proxy to purchase a rather posh residence, Mr Iqbal Mustavafag his wife and brood of nine children are now the neighbours of Colonel Richard E and Mrs Agrippina, Firkinhead, distant relo's of a former right wing MP for Smethwick in Birmingham. Mr (Send the sods back) Enoch Powel. To stir the can or put the cat among the pigeons so to speak the Mustavafags called on the Colonel and the Colonel told them to "Shove off" because he explained he was more superior in the order of things than a Pakistani . When asked why, the Colonel explained , although our houses are identical my gardens are better and I own a brand new Daimler Car also we employ a chauffeur a cook and housekeeper and I have 5 million pounds in the bank. "Thank you for the Info stated the Pakistani I'll be back later"," don't hurry said the Colon...

Teacher lined up pupils by skin colour for photo. A head teacher admitted "an error of judgment" was made after children were made to line up according to their skin colour for a class portrait. Actually it was nothing less than a total cock up. Children burst into tears when they were split into rows according to their race, with white children at the front, and black at the back, leading to complaints from parents. The head teacher of Sandhurst Junior School in Lewisham, south-east London will be writing to every parent to apologise, after dozens complained. And so she bloody well should. The incident last week involved more than 100 children aged seven to 11. Nine-year-old Cameron Amoah said he spoke out when he was segregated from his white classmates and was told to "get to the back" with the other darker-skinned children. "We were told: 'all the white kids come to the front, mixed race in the middle, and dark-skinned at the back.' "One...

ENTER THE PAMIRS: We woke up this morning (last friday) pissed off at our driver for being incompetent and ready to bolt in general. Instead we haggled him down to a pittance for continued travel costs, and decided to spend the day going into the pamirs, the huge mountain range in eastern tajikistan which supplied the USSR with all of its moutains worth boasting about, which still include Peak Lenin and Peak Karl-Marxa. we were bound for a pass at 4000 km where we thought there'd be some good views.a note about pamiri people: they are all ismailis, which is the minority branch of shiism which produced the assassins, built cairo, once stole the black rock from the Ka'aba and presented it to a messianic zoroastrian priest, and were generally the coolest heretics in world history. they were also pretty much wiped out by the Horde in the 1250s when Hulegu reduced Alamut. the survivors fled to remote regions, most notably lebanon, yemen, kashmir, and the pamirs. these people mixe...

21 October 2007 A place to question everything...and everybody. (1) What's the most memorable thing you did when you were a teenager that you didn't tell your parents about? Would you tell them now? (2) Rules you had to follow. What rules did your mother and father have that you thought were crazy when you were growing up? Do you still think they are crazy? (3) A successful relationship Do you feel that you've ever had a truly successful relationship? What makes a relationship successful? (4) Swearing on the job. Recent research shows swearing at work boosts workplace morale and strengthen team spirit. Do you agree? How do you feel about swearing? (5) If you could live anywhere other than the country you live in now, where would it be and why? (6) Your Most Prized Possession? What is your most prized possession? Why is it so important to you? (7) Your favourite way to communicate What is your preferred method of communication ? (i.e. email, in person) and why? (8) Which are...

Recently nearest and dearest in her wisdom purchased a new birdcage for my sons birthday present. The old cage which housed 'Lucky' was considered too yukky for what was our pet Cockatiel until our son stole the (Female)birds affection. For six and a half years lucky has been incarcerated within a cage with a surface area of 450 sq ins, but the new cage is only 315 sq ins plus it has less height. I just have that feeling that the bird would have been much happier in its old shack - larger and more familiar than the new pristine white cage with less lateral movement. I feel we humans have little idea when it comes to imagining the plight and stress of the upheaval it places on the bird. Ok so it wasn't a pretty cage, but the bird probably didn't give a hoot and I'll lay odds lucky isn't too happy in his new expensive abode, did I hear her squawk "Squeezy squeezy". Lucky whenever possible is allowed to fly around the interior of the house usua...

Suicidal over clothes shopping SHOPPING for clothing can be depressing for those not happy with their weight, but some women admit the task leaves them feeling suicidal. A survey of Hong Kong women found that four per cent have contemplated suicide because they cannot find clothes to fit. In Australia, the average size hovers around 12 and finding large sizes can be difficult in many shops. The survey comes as Australian Fashion Week organisers announced they will not put a ban on using models that are "too skinny", despite the deaths of two international models in recent months. Almost half of the women questioned in the Hong Kong survey confessed that they were often too big for shop sizes in their country, despite being a medium size. Of these, about seven out of 10 blamed limited sizes in shops, which often used ultra-thin models and displayed only extra-small sizes. The survey conducted by the Eating Disorder Association questioned 600 women aged above 16 in the city of ...

A 72-year-old man will become the genetic father of his own grandchild after agreeing to donate sperm to his daughter-in-law in London to allow her to conceive. The unnamed man became a donor after his son and daughter-in-law could not conceive a child through IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) because his son's sperm was not of high quality. His son will become the father of his genetic half-brother. The sperm is being screened at a London Women's Clinic, which is treating the couple who are in their 30s and who have requested anonymity. The clinic's co-medical director, told the daily he had never seen such a case before, but some people are now willing to consider all kinds of options with progress in fertility treatment. "Obviously the wife's mother-in-law also had to be included in all the conversations but she has no objections," he was quoted as saying. Society has also changed its perceptions of what is and what is not acceptable. In this ...