It's one of those things everyone who doesn't have it wants, but when you actually do it's not that great if a positive at all.
It's one of those things everyone who doesn't have it wants, but when you actually do it's not that great if a positive at all.
I knew a lad the same, except his parents didn't make much of a fuss by all accounts. He was a bit of a prick but still in our friendship group. He was a massive stoner and weirdly homophobic, so one year we hatched a plan and on the day we had a party at my mate's (happened most years). We presented him with a wrapped box. He opened it, the box was a PS4 box. He was made up. Inside the box was not a PS4, it was a bong in the shape of a cock, throbbing veins lovingly scultped etc. He didn't appreciate the joke. Last I checked he was convicted for assualting a neighbour.
Edit: Oh yeah and cyber stalking a girl we know who turned down his sexual advances, sending her abusive messages from sock puppet accounts.
At least you didn't drive two hours to see them wearing a Libertines jacket, one of my mates did.
It wasn't too bad really, cus there was just about enough time in between. Only child (duh) and single parents, and with Xmas basically being for kids anyway I just got to have two days in 8 days that felt like magical Igor days, except with the latter I had to deal with my mad cunt Alzheimer's ridden Polski grandfather shouting about Jews and that.
As I've gotten older I actually like where my birthday is, it feels more like having my birthday during the festive period makes it extra class rather than Christmas encroaching on it. Id probably feel differently if it was any closer though.
Yeah Offy, you cunt.
I'm cool now, promise
Im off work until January now.
We had an invasion of women staff over the past year and we played secret Santa for the first time. I got a Yankee candle, and a pack of m&ms from a chick colleague. Better than I expected. I can use my gift. I got someone a hat shaped like a burger because they eat McDonald's every lunch.
The reviews are in.
moonhowlz - 13 years ago
amazing. excluding the depressing emo girl. god she looks horrible. the rest are awesome, though!!
Were you actually mates with the guy playing Gary or did you have to pay him?
I did wonder that myself
Just logged off until 4th January.
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that's ~ 15 years before
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here he is ~10 years later with @SincereTheRebel , he's given up drums and is bald now
My birthday is the 28th. Think my mum went to great lengths every year to make sure I had separate presents, which I really appreciated because as a kid after the 'Christmas comedown' it was fucking great to think there was only three more days until more presents.
Birthday parties were always in January though, which was shit. Loved going to the cinema but there was always cock-all on at that time, it's better now obvs. But I do think it's contributed to me not really giving a shit about birthdays (mine and others).
Also finished today until the 4th. Already dozed off on the sofa twice
Jammy cunts, I am going to have to work the weekend and then it looks like leave will be cancelled between Christmas and New Year to meet our deadline, perks of the 'manager' grade. Basically going to have to cane the next 7 days so I can get a fighting chance of enjoying the bank holidays without logging on - for work that has to be completed but in reality covid will make moot
Some don't finish until Tuesday, but think they had a two week October half term. But also, don't Scottish schools go back in August? It's a long old term.
Start half way through August with 2 weeks in October followed by 2 weeks at Christmas and Easter. Usually finish for Summer end of June and get 6 weeks for Summer.
Think they come off next Thursday at 12 for Christmas. Not sure it’s usually that close, mind.
I'm off until the 10th.
Landed in Thessaloniki this morning, mum's driving me back from the airport when I get a text from my mate who's house I spent last night in saying that he's tested positive. House is in meltdown.
Omicron exported to the med by TTH.
My girlfriend's just gone on family holiday to Israel (she's from there) and had a similar thing. Her whole family (her, her sister and the parents) had to test negative before getting on the flight, then they all got tested upon arrival. They spend the entire first day there together, go to bed (her and her sister sharing a bed), then around midnight she gets waken up by her parents telling her that her sister has tested positive.
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Now it's a clusterfuck because the other three are still negative but there's every chance they'll develop it within the next 5 days, so they're just kind of waiting around to start getting symptoms. What a holiday.
Had my booster this afternoon, didn't collapse. The nurse told me with some certainty that I wouldn't get side effects. I thought this was a bold call, but she's been right so far.
Yep, I'm feeling fine after my morning booster too. Them folks at Pfizer have done it again.
I forgot my wife's Christmas presents in the US.
Thankfully the French don't hold grudges.
Schoolboy error.
Worst part is that we are celebrating Christmas today, since I am leaving before the real one, so I don't even have time to go buy something around here. I'll just have to own up to it in front of her family.
The Mrs is doing the wrapping and has discovered one of my daughters presents has a part missing. I've now got to do a 40 mile round trip to the toy shop we got it from tonight.
A toy shop 3 days before Christmas? For fuck sake.
It is. Sadly, in this edition Dementor will be replaced by a legging clad woman called Shanice, that forgot to buy Taylor-Tyler a remote control Paw Patrol character and won't move her saggy cellulite arse from the till until they find one.
I didn't forget anything and my arse is a peach, tyvm.
Inb4 "your head is also a peach".
I went into town for cards today on the way home from work. Fucking bedlam.
The worst thing about Christmas in shops, and I'm going to be very specific about this, is old people looking at food. Not buying it. Not putting it in their trollies. Standing in aisles and looking at it. Take the cheese area, for example. In most British supermarkets there will be a cheddar wall, a rubbery Swiss cheese area, and an 'everything else' section. Normally some septuagenarian couple will have a trolley and their withered bodies straddling all three, just looking. I know what I want - Manchego - but I have to wait for them to go on this silent voyage of cheesy discovery before I can get it.
Eventually she will say to him 'Do we have cheddar at home?' and he will start dribbling and say 'Cheddar cheese, cheddar, cheddar cheese, cheese, cheddar cheese' until the sands of time have slipped sufficiently from their grasp that, pursued by the Reaper himself making a hasty dart from the household goods aisle, they will push the trolley away without taking any cheese at all. 'Chips,' he'll say, 'chips chips, fish and chips, fish, chips, fish and bread rolls chips, newspapers, the Daily Sun newspaper, do you want an ice cream for the grandkids?' and then the Milky Way has had time to merge with Andromeda before these cunts have even made it home. How long must it take them to unpack the shopping?
Whenever I go to the butchers I get stuck behind some fossil with a shopping bag asking about/buying the entire shop. What are they? Are they nice? How much are they? What about just four of them? Oh no I'll just... I walk out half the time. I hate queuing more than anything.
Finished work for Christmas. Only done three days this half term, but still felt good.
Beer is cooling in the fridge and Mexican food is getting delivered any second now.