Xela Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Electric bills - wait, they should piss me off! Need a degree in quantum theory mathematics to understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 (edited) And I got Warsaw to Łódź (about 3 hours) for 27zł (around £4.50) God damn foreigners, coming over here and not taking our train prices... Edited November 25, 2014 by AVFCforever1991 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I'd rather mop my bathroom floor than listen / watch the Villa game tonight. How has it come to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Keep mopping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I'm listening / staring into darkness. It's an adequate replacement for Simon & Garfunkel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I'm listening / staring into darkness. It's an adequate replacement for Simon & Garfunkel. You talking with your old friend again? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 That's one way of putting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I bet he didn't get it but will claim he did get it and just didn't want to rise to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I just told my mom that I bought a samsung tablet yesterday, she's gone crazy at me, apparently I'm selfish because I didn't let her and my dad by it me for Christmas, also I did exactly the same thing last year when I bought myself a kindle, **** hell, I wanted one I bought one, I don't really expect nothing off me mom n dad for Christmas and it didn't even cross my mind to hold fire and let them buy one for me. Plus I wouldn't really want to ask for a £260 present from my parents when I'm 29 years old, all I want for Christmas is a big **** off dinner that will have me making tummy shames for days after 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I told my parents I wanted a selection box and a ten pound note - they went off on one about we might as well not bloody bother - apparently it's not a proper family christmas effort if it's less than £40 and didn't come from Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I told my parents I wanted a selection box and a ten pound note - they went off on one about we might as well not bloody bother - apparently it's not a proper family christmas effort if it's less than £40 and didn't come from Amazon. I don't think the present is the real issue. It is just an example of how the Christmas neurosis definitely kicked in over the weekend. I kept my head below the parapet but the neurosis was palpable, as anxieties about the duty to make a decent show of affection and the fear of failure emerged (as per effing usual). Same goes for Leemond. It always kicks off when people start telling each other that it is 'only four weeks 'til Chrismas'. Hang in there, oh my droogs; it's going to get worse before it gets better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That's most definitely the case with my mother (and therefore 'my parents'). Love is measured in 'effort' but effort can be transferred across to price. Personally, I'm a little more relaxed about the whole thing. If I've stood next to my dad at the football every other Saturday for months and we've taken it in turns to bring the chunky kit kats, I think it's safe to presume we're ok with each other these days. Chucking him the best watch Argos can deliver in 24 hours is a much less accurate measure of anything other than modern computerised warehousing and despatch techniques. I'm sure there's a line from a Larkin poem somewhere that has some relevance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That's most definitely the case with my mother (and therefore 'my parents'). Love is measured in 'effort' but effort can be transferred across to price. Personally, I'm a little more relaxed about the whole thing. If I've stood next to my dad at the football every other Saturday for months and we've taken it in turns to bring the chunky kit kats, I think it's safe to presume we're ok with each other these days. Chucking him the best watch Argos can deliver in 24 hours is a much less accurate measure of anything other than modern computerised warehousing and despatch techniques. I'm sure there's a line from a Larkin poem somewhere that has some relevance. I think you have to concede at some point that Christmas is unfixable and just accept that it is what it is. Even simplifying Christmas to the point where the Jehovah's Witnesses might approve, was futile. Because, as Dickens pointed out, no Christmas stands discretely alone, each one comes with more neurotic baggage than Santa could ever fit on his sleigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 we have got some **** 'fun, values day' at work today basically everyone on the team acts like idiots and takes part in 'team building activities and shit like that jesus christ this is the exact meaning of hell for me, I would prefer to just spend the day working...you know, what I am paid to do, I'll no doubt get in the shit for standing at the back and not participating, I should be really excited that they are getting pizza in for dinner for us, sorry but I would prefer to eat a ham sandwich at my desk rather than eat a single scabby cold slice of pizza. I just can't understand how everyone can get so buzzed about something as piddly as this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 we have got some **** 'fun, values day' at work today basically everyone on the team acts like idiots and takes part in 'team building activities and shit like that jesus christ this is the exact meaning of hell for me, I would prefer to just spend the day working...you know, what I am paid to do, I'll no doubt get in the shit for standing at the back and not participating, I should be really excited that they are getting pizza in for dinner for us, sorry but I would prefer to eat a ham sandwich at my desk rather than eat a single scabby cold slice of pizza. I just can't understand how everyone can get so buzzed about something as piddly as this You are absolutely right. These things are arranged by stupid managers who are vain enough to see themselves a benevolent and stupid enough to believe that their wasteful idea will make a difference. All that these things do is reveal management's megalomaniacal tendencies by giving them a chance to prove that they tell you when to work and when to play. If it wasn't so, then they would not have to conscript individuals into doing this crap against their wishes. Worst of all, is that they make absolutely no difference, because you can't change a workplace culture that easily. They should hire a bouncy castle and a big cake and leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 25, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2014 we have got some **** 'fun, values day' at work today basically everyone on the team acts like idiots and takes part in 'team building activities and shit like that jesus christ this is the exact meaning of hell for me, I would prefer to just spend the day working...you know, what I am paid to do, I'll no doubt get in the shit for standing at the back and not participating, I should be really excited that they are getting pizza in for dinner for us, sorry but I would prefer to eat a ham sandwich at my desk rather than eat a single scabby cold slice of pizza. I just can't understand how everyone can get so buzzed about something as piddly as this Another thing I'm glad to see the back of. I always used to refuse to take part in that crap. Or, if forced, sabotage it at every turn. Utter, utter bollocks, the lot of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 What's worse is tosser colleagues pretending to go along with it and 'seeing the value' in it in a transparent attempt at sucking up to the superiors and trying to make you look like the Grinch. **** hate away days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 agree with all of the above ^^^^^^ the David Brent like managers trying to be one of the lads is usually really annoying as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Never been on one of these so can't relate. Cracking episode though. Go and get the guitar... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I was on one of those team days and an activity was to make a rectangle out of a load of cut up shapes. "Teamwork." I felt like one of those chimps being tested in a lab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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