Assuming that you're giving up 20 minutes of productive work time, rather than 20 minutes of ass-sitting couch potato time

Well there is one obvious side effect. They've lost their balls.

I'd heard of them, but I don't recall seeing an actual store - whereas right now, I'm in short walking distance of 3 EB stores. (And 2 JB-HiFi's). Hardly a 'major' chain.

I follow the local railway service on Twitter, and find it very useful for real time info - expected delays and so on. The tweets (twits?) arrive generally quicker than the same info through the SMS service. Outside of that though, no, not much interest in Ashton Kutchers turds. It does have it's uses, but it seems more banal, idiotic uses than meaningful.

Oh yeah...I actually dug my C64 out weekend just gone and gave my son a hiding in International Karate + :). Mind you, I bought that 64 when I was about his age...

Boxed, with the leads, manuals, tapes. Also still have my Vic-20, boxed, and C64 & 1541 - also all boxed, but they aren't particularly uncommon.

poltiical sense

I see what you did there!

No, but they still need to work out how to breed tiny tiny sharks with tiny tiny frickin' laser beams on their heads to inject into your bloodstream as well

That really looks like you are making the threat to report the company to the app store

I'd say that depends greatly on the companies culture and your relationship with your superiors and their attitudes towards staff. In this situation, I could quite comfortably approach my boss and point that out, without it looking like a threat, and I'm confident he would take it seriously and investigate it.

Death from crushed pelvis type controlled?