I don't remember the Love Is comic being so sexist, says Penny Ashton.
Bus card glitch leaves boy stranded in storm
A reader writes: "My 14-year-old son wasn't allowed on his bus home from music after school because his card was blocked. Auckland Transport tried an auto top-up (set to top
up $10 when it goes below $10) when his account was at $20.28 and it declined (why it tried they cannot tell me). So he's stuck in the storm on Tuesday night unable to get on a bus, couldn't get me because I was working, couldn't get the $1.10 he needed for the bus from a dairy nearby as they don't give cash out. So he walked home 6km in 100km/h winds. He's in bed, ill now. Why would a bus driver turn away a 14-year-old kid in the dark in a storm?"
Now it's stay-home Fridays ...
This from a satirical UK website on a new way to boost workplace morale - not turning up for work: "Previously we've tried 'dress down Fridays', 'cupcake Wednesdays' and 'pizza Thursdays', but 'not turn up Fridays' has improved staff morale no end," said Trevor Doven, manager of the marketing company in Halesowen, West Midlands. "In fact our employees love it so much they are now asking if it can be rolled out for the rest of the week. Not turning up for work is so much better for our team building skills than the times we went ten-pin bowling or go-kart racing," said one employee. "It's all about the work/life balance - professionally I feel so much happier when I don't have to go to the office." (Source: The Poke)
Modelling identical legs
"I am a fan of a shopping website Boohoo.com," writes Charlotte Mead. "On Friday they posted seven photos of models in items of clothes that required the images to show their full bodies. I looked a bit closer. The photos all had the exact same legs! They had been Photoshopped on to each of the bodies. As a teenage girl, I was very offended by this. Did they think that fans would not notice seven pairs of identical legs?"
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