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  1. 13-12-2010, 03:03 PM #1
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    Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    A: Go for a drive @ lunch time with the top down Wide awake now
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    A: Tom Tank???
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    Quote Originally Posted by MaddAussie View Post
    A: Go for a drive @ lunch time with the top down Wide awake now
    I'm not sure many companies would appreciate their employees flashing during the working day
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    I'm not sure many companies would appreciate their employees flashing during the working day
    As long as they've only got 'the top down' there's nothing to stop them...
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    As long as they've only got 'the top down' there's nothing to stop them...
    Assuming we're not talking about those without a Y chromosome
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    Quote Originally Posted by GheeTsar View Post
    Assuming we're not talking about those without a Y chromosome
    Despite the massively off-topic diversion we're going on:

    a) Women can't be charged with indecent exposure even if they're wandering around naked, so legally it's not a problem:

    b) if they're topless who's going to know where they work
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  8. 13-12-2010, 05:30 PM #7
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    so legally it's not a problem
    *wonders what on earth caused scaryjim to have to know the legal position on this....*
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    Re: Q: How to wake yourself up if sleepy at work?

    It's one of those things I read years and years ago and thought was so incredibly sexist it kind of stuck.

    Honest
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