Now there’s an idea!

Morale at HM Revenue and Customs is low that their employees want punchbags, squeeze balls and aromatherapy!

The discussion site that revealed this, aptly named Disgruntled Lemmings has now been taken offline - but is available from Google’s Cache as the Conservative Party found one!

On the subject of stress balls, punchbags and other stress relief:

“A cheap idea, these could be placed on every desk within easy reach for people to squeeze away the tension after dealing with an awkward caller or a difficult piece of post.”

“A punchbag could be kept in a staff room/chillout area for those on breaks to take out their frustrations on.”

“<HMRC> could consider offering discounts for stress-relieving therapies such as Indian head massage, aromatherapy and reflexology”.

One other visitor pointed out a great fitness regime for staff:

“I like the idea of ExCom [executive committee]-modelled punchbags… Imagine how much fitter we’d all be!”

A US Judge has been suspended for jailing an entire courtroom - superb!

Robert Restaino was presiding over a domestic violence case in March 2005, when a mobile phone rang - nobody admitted responsibility, so he jailed the lot of them! Now if only someone would do that with ASBO’s!

“Every single person is going to jail in this courtroom unless I get that instrument now,” he told the courtroom’s audience, according to the commission.

“If anybody believes I’m kidding, ask some of the folks that have been here for a while. You are all going.”

When security failed to find the phone a brief recess was taken, as nobody came forward the judge ordered that the entire courtroom audience of 46 people be taken into custody and set bail at $1,500.

Hans-Juergen Bendt, 52, from Darmstadt, lodged a complaint about his dealer with police after he sold him seven ounces of “completely un-enjoyable” hash!

Bendt claims that the dealer refused to refund the £270 illegal purchase, and describes himself as a victim of fraud, involving drugs of mediocre quality. He was promptly ignored and charged with the illegal purchase and posession of narcotic substances.

Buggins says…
I strongly suspect that the esteemed law enforcement officers also picked up the dealer but on very different charges. However this does beg the question for this country - could you return it as “not fit for the purpose” - not Bendt you fool (although he should be returned to somewhere!!!), but the drugs?

Finally Mac Users can stop their utter tripe whinging that Mac’s have good security and we should all move to them! Personally I have no preference - Mac’s look nice, but I don’t particularly like the look of the OS - If you’re going to want linux underneath the hood then stop messing around on the fence and load linux!!!

Anyway……

Leap-A tries to spread itself via Apple’s iChat software, disguising itself as images of Apple’s forthcoming Operating System (Leopard) and sends it to everyone on an infected users Buddy List.

Buggins says…

For the Windows world - they disguise everything as Porn… They’re really appealing to the Mac user here disguising it as pictures of the newest OS!!!

No real threat is anticipiated as it’s unlikely to catch out many Apple users (particularly with the lack of Porn) and requires several steps to install the virus (you really would have to be stupid!), it travels with a single filename at the moment of latestpics.tgz

Buggins says…
Mac Users have got off lightly this time - level 1 on the Symantec scale, and more a piece of “malicious software” than a virus.. But it’s only a matter of time…….