medals
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Coventry UK
Opposite me is a rather nice looking yummy mummy and behind me is a window looking out onto a little wood which sometimes resembles a country life advert. I'm quite lucky
At the desk opposite mine
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GaryA
Subversive Sage
- Location
- High Shields
Does this fascination, exhibited in childhood by the desire to poke a dog turd with a stick, and continued into adulthood with a irrational interest in 'the plebs' have a name i wonder? 
Tetedelacourse
New Member
- Location
- Rosyth
Gary Askwith said:Does this fascination, exhibited in childhood by the desire to poke a dog turd with a stick, and continued into adulthood with a irrational interest in 'the plebs' have a name i wonder?
I wouldn't call it an interest, although there is a degree of fascination in just how moronic a 43 year old woman can be. I'm forced to sit opposite the moron at work. In the interests of my own sanity I feel that sharing her moronic ways gives me at least some respite. I haven't done it here until now, now that I know that NickM is faced with a similar situation.
My moron informed me a few weeks back that she first tasted pineapple on a pizza.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Anti crease, shine a light, you lucky buggar.....
I'm in my own office with a view over some grass and trees, with lots of students walking past, making loads of noise, but it's better than the open plan portacabbin I used to work in, with barred windows, and steel storage containers next to the windows, so you hardly saw any daylight !
I'm in my own office with a view over some grass and trees, with lots of students walking past, making loads of noise, but it's better than the open plan portacabbin I used to work in, with barred windows, and steel storage containers next to the windows, so you hardly saw any daylight !
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NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
Tetedelacourse said:
But you're jolly lucky if you only have to cope with one - like Gary's, mine are everywhere. It's like cowering in a covered wagon, waiting for the burning arrows of inanity from the ululating redskins...
Actually, I'm not sure that I would characterise the woman sat opposite me as stupid, exactly; it's just that the world she inhabits seems to be so limited that her experience of it must be entirely different from mine of the world I inhabit.
It's a bit like trying to imagine what the world as seen by another species looks like. Or would be, if I wanted to do it.
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NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
You know, the main reason that retirement is so longingly to be desired is that from the day you retire you get to choose who you associate with*.
No whining students/customers/users. No uppity "managers". No dullard "colleagues". Just worthwhile people who share an interest, be it cycling or whatever.
Wouldn't that be loverly?
*I've already eradicated unsatisfactory relatives from my life
No whining students/customers/users. No uppity "managers". No dullard "colleagues". Just worthwhile people who share an interest, be it cycling or whatever.
Wouldn't that be loverly?
*I've already eradicated unsatisfactory relatives from my life
laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
the pigeons have gone today
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
My colleagues appear to have no sense of humour/irony/the absurd. Someone emailed to find out about a Health & Safety booklet we're meant to be passing around. I sent one back (to mail group) saying I tripped over it and banged my head. Now people are mailing me to ask if I'm OK, and the boss wants to know if i need any treatment...
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Fnaar said:My colleagues appear to have no sense of humour/irony/the absurd. Someone emailed to find out about a Health & Safety booklet we're meant to be passing around. I sent one back (to mail group) saying I tripped over it and banged my head. Now people are mailing me to ask if I'm OK, and the boss wants to know if i need any treatment...
Surely, with Christmas approaching, a well-earned period of awl (absent with leave) is due. After all, your colleagues did receive your mail informing them of your most unfortunate accident. Or have you already let the cat out of the bag?
Get well soon!
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Fnaar said:My colleagues appear to have no sense of humour/irony/the absurd. Someone emailed to find out about a Health & Safety booklet we're meant to be passing around. I sent one back (to mail group) saying I tripped over it and banged my head. Now people are mailing me to ask if I'm OK, and the boss wants to know if i need any treatment...
In the furtherance of the Health and Safety Policy that you mention, could you please give warnings about such hilarlously funny posts, I nearly choked on my cheese and onion sandwich and nearly fell off my chair laughing.
Your comments need a risk assessment. thank you
Tetedelacourse
New Member
- Location
- Rosyth
We got an email a while back, advising those of us who weren't familiar with "stairs" to practice using "stairs" now and again so that, in the event of a fire, we will be more efficient in evacuating the building.
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Fnaar said:My colleagues appear to have no sense of humour/irony/the absurd. Someone emailed to find out about a Health & Safety booklet we're meant to be passing around. I sent one back (to mail group) saying I tripped over it and banged my head. Now people are mailing me to ask if I'm OK, and the boss wants to know if i need any treatment...
was there a passage on tripping hazhards? If not it could be a serious oversight or an opportunity....
