Be Excellent To Each Other

Ouch, sounds dire. We had ours last friday - a pub christmas lunch with gratis wine, and most people stayed on drinking and playing pool (and smoking cigars, wtf?) until chucking out time.

I'm out near Oxford Street tonight - where are you going?

Hawksmoor then City. I have a team of notorious flakes so I'll give you a shout if they bail early.

Do it.

I just found my cat sheltering from the storm, hiding inside a blown-over wheelie bin.

(Apart from smoking cigars of course... what's wrong with that? )

That sounds bloody terrible, Mark. Reminds me of shitty, boring places I've worked at in the past. What is it with some people, have they never heard "work hard, play hard?"

I used to enjoy being as outrageous as possible during such times. Once, we got a snooty dictat from my MD at the time that we must wear a tie, just to go to some incredibly shitty provincial Chinese restaurant (Set Menu "A" o'clock ), the kind of place I wouldn't even trust for a take-out these days, let alone a sit down meal, and then some ropey, tumbleweed pub afterwards for a dusty, eggy pint of bitter. So naturally, I went to the joke shop for a clown's outfit, complete with spinning bow tie, and sat in this garb all night, having "pre-loaded" substantively beforehand for Dutch Courage, and ending up down to my pants in a nightclub.

Funnily enough, I felt a job change was the order of the day that January.

We've got our 'do' tomorrow night. Woe betide anyone who even so much as alludes to anything work-related, even once - they'll be strongarmed into the dreaded 'Sambucca Challenge of Doom' that very instant.

Happy Mimi day!

Is it Mimi's birthday? Happy birthday, Mimi!

Another Sagittarius! Loads of Saggies on this board, which is a good thing obv. (Same birthsign as Lady R )

BRITISH GAS CAN FUCK RIGHT FUCKING OFF. x 2

Cancelled, again, even though 'there was a note on the account not to cancel. But don't worry, they'll put the same note on the new one and mark it as a priority appointment. ARGHGHHDfdj;skghk;sa hfikdshgflhs.

Up until about amonth ago, I found Amazon's recommendations really quite useful. Now it is just full of Pippa Fucking Funnell's Pony Novels.

Well they weren't to know you already bought them somewhere else.

Happy Mimimas.

Happy birthday Mimi! Is today your last day at work? If so, what a great day for your birthday

Happy Birthday Meems.

You can remove the things that are causing the spurious recommendations: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/custome ... d=15891441

Ooh, HapMimiDay!

Happy birthday mimi!

Happy Birthday Mimi !

And I was just about to come on here and check to see if Chinny was on and ok - lots of flooding and problems in Hampshire

Small village near where I live is currently being evacuated and the roads were flooding this morning when i left - latest here :

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1011975 ... es/?ref=nt

https://twitter.com/EnvAgencySE

Gangnam style is just short of getting 1 billion views on you tube:

In 1503, Nostradamus wrote:

“From the calm morning, the end will come
When of the dancing horse
the number of circles will be 9.”

Korea known as land of the morning calm in some translations
Dancing horse is obvious
Nine circles = 1 billion

I'm so pleased I haven't bought any christmas presents yet, then. IN YOUR FACE!

Those Mayans surely know their stuff!

As soon as I saw it, I knew that this Gangnam style would be the end of us all.

He was remarkably literate for a two week old child

Don't forget Confucius said in 470 BC

Genuine LOL!! My boss is sitting opposite me too... Nice work.

(if only because it winds her up to conflate birthday and christmas in any way )

Thanks, all.

Sadly not my last day of work today (that will be Monday) but there is a disco in the office (lights and music) and I have had some coffee cake with a few folks.

Also, some wine and chocolate and a Minnie Mouse mug

I got some bath products and perfume, yarn and, best of all, a beer brewing kit because I have always wanted to try brewing beer. All come around for a pint in about a month.

Happy Birthday Mimi! Your office sounds like a fun place to work.. If you like that kind of thing. Actually now I come to think of it, I don't think I'd like it. But anyway, fair play to you. Happy Birthday.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IM SO FUCKING BUSY

What's the matter with this place?!



Happy birthday Mimi x

Currently I'm listening to the head of department's karaoke rendition of Every Step You Take.

... Whilst trying not to bugger up these stock figures.

It's almost like you work in a heavily seasonal industry or something.

In the secret Santa I recieved: NSPA Rich cocoa bean daily refresh shower scrub, rich cocoa bean juicy lip butter, rich cocoa bean rich body butter, fresh sweet raspberry smooth and silky body lotion and fresh sweet raspberry shower and bath gel.

Conversely, I'm fairly quiet.

This is another reason why I don't bother with secret Santas (Apart from the Beex one that is)

Is fine, I can wrap it up and give it to Mummy Afterthought.

I got a bottle of Hobgoblin, a machine washable tie, and some Family Guy socks.

Sounds like someone was confused by your love of romcoms.

AHA! Thanks for reminding me.

I think we got our landline number from a now defunct business or something as we've had a number of calls thinking we're them. This morning some guy called asking about the dishwasher's job.

In fact, that IS what happened, I've just found the place on Toronto.com. It's only a few blocks away, I might go and visit them and see what's up.

Back when I lived here before, our number was one digit away from the 24 hour Emergency Dental Clinic (also only a few blocks away) and we used to get bizarre calls at all times of the day and night from pained people who'd just lost a filling or something.

It was odd. All the presents were wrapped in the middle then we took a turn. We could take a present and open it, or take it and exchange it with someone else's already opened present.

That sounds horrendous. I don't like forced interaction in the work place.

It was quite enjoyable.

Beats working I guess?

I cleared the two major events last week. I'm on tidy ups now. Mostly writing documentation. I've got three emails to answer tomorrow then done.

An unusually good match for a Secret Santa, then.

Just paid the place a visit... the old sandwich place has been gone for almost ten years, the current occupants (still sandwiches, but a different name) say they went out of business and so probably just packed up and left, not bothering to inform anyone. I dread to think how many websites our number is listed on, I might just change it rather than try to find and contact them all...

Who uses a landline anyway? There's rarely a handset plugged into mine.

And guess what industry I freelance for?



but £££ so

Have you re-uploaded those?

I hope I look like that tonight at my crimbo-do.