WHAT'S MAKING NEWS TODAY? 2012 edition

[Bird]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/horror-smash-leaves-five-dead-20121208-2b1u7.html

how does someone drive 20klms on the wrong side of the road?

Thats one ****ed WRX


RIP

[Black Diamond]

Black diamond cooks a spit, all swaggers invited

[D4D]

Yum, you're looking trimmer than when I last saw you, must be all that manual labour

[Bird]

Black diamond cooks a spit, all swaggers invited

if it wasnt cammo's birthday today I'd join you...
after being stuck for 2+ hours at that gymnatics thing yesterday

[GGV8Cruza]

Looking good BD, smoking out the neighbours, what's the hammer for?

GG

[Black Diamond]

Yum, you're looking trimmer than when I last saw you, must be all that manual labour

Its the angle

[Black Diamond]

if it wasnt cammo's birthday today I'd join you...
after being stuck for 2+ hours at that gymnatics thing yesterday

haha you suck glad it wasn't me. Things we do

[Black Diamond]

Looking good BD, smoking out the neighbours, what's the hammer for?

GG

Adjusting the height, toooo hot

[Hairs]

what's the hammer for?

You mean the fine adjustor, which goes by the technical name of  the tappometer 

[mattz]

Yum, you're looking trimmer than when I last saw you, must be all that manual labour

It's a special lens. 

[cruisindub]

Spit looks damn good.

I'll invite myself,it is an open invitation.

Keep it hot, leaving now, I'll be round soon................

[GGV8Cruza]

Adjusting the height, toooo hot

I thought it might of been a tenderiser

GG

[xcvator]

Any left ?

[Vk3bq]

Australia won the champions trophy field hockey this afternoon. Yay

[Black Diamond]

Any left ?

Plenty of meat and green cans left Keith

[krisandkev]

Australia won the champions trophy field hockey this afternoon. Yay

Well done....   

[Bird]

What and amazing man and life...
Hope he pulls thru, but at 94, things go downhill fast.

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]

More Farm land bought up
Swedish funds buy the farm

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

[Bird]

WTF?
April 1st?

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]

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

"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]

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]

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]

WTF?
April 1st?

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

[Hairs]

Health workers told not to use 'mate'
The world has gone mad.

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.

"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

"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]

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.