CHARLIE CONDOU CONFIDENTIAL: CHARLIE CONDOU

A HUMMUS INTEREST STORY

Charliecondou: Don't have children. They will think nothing of wiping hummus on your brand new Air Max

KeaneJohn69: @Charliecondou hugs... you so love them though..

fantasystarboy: @Charliecondou replace 'hummus' with 'anything' and replace 'Air Max' with 'anything' and it's even more accurate lol

jqedwards: @Charliecondou don't feed your children hummus!

JoeDocherty: @jqedwards @Charliecondou Don't feed your children Nike Air Max...

Charliecondou: @jqedwards I'm middle class and live in islington! What do you expect me to feed them??

jqedwards: @Charliecondou I stand corrected. (Edamame beans don't stain) x

Smaylors: @Charliecondou This is all the advice I shall ever need.

Charliecondou: @Smaylors you're welcome

simonkaston: @Charliecondou but do they pick their noses in cafes??

'MARC-KISS'

Coronation Street's Charlie Condou: 'Todd tries to kiss Marcus'

By Daniel Kilkelly

Coronation Street's Todd Grimshaw will make a move on Marcus Dent in the New Year.

Todd (Bruno Langley) is encouraged to make a play for his new friend after he notices Marcus watching when he strips off to try on a new shirt at the Bistro. Although the pair are interrupted before anything can happen between them, Marcus is soon left questioning what this means for his relationship with Maria Connor (Samia Ghadie). Charlie Condou, who plays Marcus, told All About Soap: "Todd knows that stripping off in the Bistro has had an effect on Marcus. He follows Marcus outside and says to him that he did it for his benefit, then asks him if he liked what he saw. Todd's very flirtatious and really comes on to Marcus - and Marcus is clearly uncomfortable with it all. "Todd leans in for a kiss, at which point Eileen interrupts them. It's hard to know if Marcus would have responded to the kiss or not." He continued: "If there wasn't anything in it, he would have told Maria that Todd tried to kiss him. But he doesn't - and that's suspicious. He's unsure of how he's feeling and that's why he doesn't say." Condou recently announced that he will be leaving Coronation Street next year. He will bow out after Marcus's storyline with Todd and Maria comes to a head in the summer.

DISNEY ON ICE - NOT A STORY ABOUT CRYOGENICS!

chrisgolds: Yeah... It's Disney on Ice. Don't be jel.

Charliecondou: @chrisgolds I'm totally going to that tomorrow!

chrisgolds: @Charliecondou It's amazing!!

cristo_radio: @Charliecondou @chrisgolds I can't out-gay this conversation. Even tho I'm wearing a salmon coloured jacket

chrisgolds: @cristo_radio @Charliecondou Hahaha! I have a wand.

Charliecondou: @cristo_radio @chrisgolds I'm taking my kids obviously (I'd go without them)

chrisgolds: @Charliecondou @cristo_radio I'm with four other adults - with no children. No shame. Hehe.

ALAN MATHISON TURING

1912-1954

Above: Alan's headstone plaque.
One of the most influential men of his time has been relegated to the back pages of history for long enough. Just his groundbreaking work on code breaking, which helped the allies win World War Two, would have seen lesser men offered heroship similar to other British war heroes eg. Nelson but, because Alan was gay, his value to society was swept away with the prejudices of his era.

There are several current petitions nominating for a statue of Alan to be placed on the fourth unused plinth at Trafalgar Square. And there are several petitions to keep the top of the plinth free for cultural displays - and to have the plinth renamed the "Alan Turing Plinth."
I don't mind either, as both have merit.

Are the small blue plate on his lodgings and a seat in a park going to be his only public memorials?
I sincerely hope not - Tom.

Please click and support one of these current petitions:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29811

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35604

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35351

THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT

JRyanNYC: @Confidential_CC y'all seem to be a day ahead of me and I hate it! Y'all know what my future has in store for me ;-) he he xx

Confidential_CC: @JRyanNYC future is mostly good Hun. We have hover cars and robots that do everything...

JRyanNYC: @Confidential_CC damn Oz! Ugh... xx

DANIEL CRAIG

alanhalsall: Apparently someone was on Facebook as me again?? So I've relaunched my account not sure how much I'll use it... But it is me #genuine

streetworker01: @alanhalsall I think I'm going to start using Daniel Craig as my profile pic! The one where he comes out of the sea...

alanhalsall: @streetworker01 very similar !! X

Confidential_CC: @alanhalsall @streetworker01 obviously he means this Daniel Craig!!!

NEW OZ LAWS START IN JANUARY 2014

WIDER SWEEP IN OZ BULLY LAWS

Even customers can be fined in bully laws

By MICHAELA WHITBOURN

GRUMPY customers who give their barista a serve over a lousy cup of coffee beware – delivering a serve of your own to the employee could soon land you in court. From January 2014. workplace bullies can be ordered to curb their bad behaviour or face a $10,200 fine – and lawyers warn the new rules extend beyond bad bosses and co-workers to people on the other side of the counter. ‘‘You do have a lot of workplaces where the public come in and out, such as restaurants and shops,’’ said Drew Pearson, a partner at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. ‘‘Customers probably don’t have a full appreciation of the impact of their behaviour and the fact that it’s caught by this law.’’ The former Gillard government overhauled workplace bullying laws in June 2013 to allow workers to apply to the Fair Work Commission for an order to stop the bullying where the behaviour is repeated, unreasonable and a risk to their health and safety. If a customer’s browbeating and diva-like demands persist, workers can go to the Federal Court to enforce the order. It can impose a fine of up to $10,200. Mr Pearson said the government had intended the laws to have a broad application to different types of workers, including contractors and work-experience students, but it was unclear whether they ‘‘fully appreciated the extent’’ of their reach to different types of perpetrators. He said it was possible that not ‘‘as much attention was given’’ to the effect of the laws in workplaces that were more accessible to the public. ‘‘A lot of industrial law is obviously prepared with more typical or traditional workplaces in mind, such as factories or mines, where it’s a more confined space,’’ he said. Insurance brokers, financial advisers, lawyers and others dealing with abusive clients were also potential beneficiaries of the laws, he said, although the bad behaviour would have to take place on a number of occasions to be defined as bullying. The new laws should have more than bad customers shaking in their boots. The Fair Work Commission could order bosses to monitor customers’ behaviour or to stop any bullying. A breach of that order would allow the Federal Court to impose a fine of up to $51,000 on a company. John Hart, the chief executive of industry association Restaurant and Catering Australia, said applying the laws to customers was ‘‘a bit of a stretch’’ but there was an obvious lack of clarity about how they would apply. ‘‘If you can extrapolate a law that’s designed to cover the obligations of an employer to cover customers then I think we’re demonstrating quite clearly that the laws have gone too far,’’ Mr Hart said. ‘‘If we have to wait for landmark decisions and interpretations by the Fair Work Commission it’s going to make it very difficult for us to implement those requirements with any sort of certainty for employers. That is one of our real concerns.’’

urban: I have a child who works in the fast food industry - the amount of abuse these kids cop for things that aren't their fault is disgusting. My lovely child has had vile 'humans' use the most foul language simply because precious little them couldn't get what they wanted when they wanted it - it's not the person behind the counters fault if YOU change your mind a dozen times or if the people cooking the food are behind, and if, as happens, there is a mistake - then maybe consider treating them the same way YOU would like to be treated when YOU make a mistake. Some of these people need to spend a week in third world countries where it takes a lot longer than 10 minutes to get yourself a feed! Something needs to be done to protect these kids from the gluttonous sods who frequent these fast food venues - maybe if they were refused service, they'd think twice before carrying on like a 3 year old. But of course, the fast food owners don't give two hoots about their staff - they just want the money... so I doubt anything will change any time soon.

Steve Hass: I always thought the customer was always right? give them nothing to whine about and your doing your Job. This is just telling me that now we have to put up with sub standard Service? or we`re (the general public) are the bad guys? The fast food, Utiliies, and Supermarket companies must be just laughing there heads off. Here comes more waiting in Ques, more computer generated phone services, and more of those silly "self serve" places. and if ya whinge about it We`ll see you in court.

Harden up ya soft,spongy,cream fill Cupcakes!