Am I the only one reaching for the brake pedal this year? All pennies saved will be firmly held onto.
Am I the only one reaching for the brake pedal this year? All pennies saved will be firmly held onto.
The pandemic has fried my neighbours brains and they're all putting christmas cards through the doors despite it never happening previously or us ever speaking to them.
I am resisting the peer pressure but the wife might crack.
Luckily we've had other things going on. My sister's scared of meeting people in the pandemic, my parents are moving and I've never been that arsed with Christmas. What I would like to do is sort out a family holiday at some point. If I can get my parents on a plane, it'd make my day.
Agreed. I'd never really had savings prior to all this and I've no interest in going back to that.Originally Posted by Manc
Just what you need during a global pandemic of a highly contagious disease.
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I've done loads of savings throughout the year thankfully and cleared off most of my credit card debts. No long haul wedding like last year has helped as well (or any travel).
Putting the Group on furlough must have been a lifesaver as well.
Except GS as he's group accountant.
Shame the travel ban stopped you coming to the mooch though.
I had never heard of yomping before Sean used it.
That feeling you get when, at an early Christmas celebration one of your relatives firebombs the main thing Father Christmas is buying one of your children by (unknowingly) buying it for the lot of them to share. Happy days.
Also, why the fuck have McDonald's done what they've done to Forever Young? It's off-tempo enough in its original form. I await next year's pared back festive version of Pennyroyal Tea.
What was it?
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Tonie box.
Always nice for an Amazon driver to leave a parcel in a puddle (the rest of the paving was dry) and as such ruin a book that was inside.
It was six miles on mostly gravel and that fanny was kitted out like Bear Grylls.
Did he have walking poles?
I'll join you next time. I'm going to grab my walking boots in Scotland so that I can take the Extreme walking challenge on.
@Giggles
I'd have a pair in all my cities tbf.
So he should the lowlife.
The Grinch that killed ISIS.
Let the record state, I only have one pair and that's in the place that actually has an outdoors and isn't a city.
My Sister asked me to buy some stuff from Pandora for gifts.
A necklace, 3 pairs of earrings and a free bangle.
Order came today and clearly whoever packed it didn't realise it said "3" under the earrings and as such only sent 1 pair out...
Does anyone remember the name of that newish animated film they play at Christmas a lot that is about the husband and wifes entire relationship. they go through the blitz at one point. I think it might be a spin off of something else?
No
Happy birthday.
I'm not sure about the Blitz bit, but it sounds like Up.
Thanks mate ^__^
Do you want that funny bacon shower gel or shall I just give you a fiver towards your Die Hard Christmas jumper?
Found it.
Incredible film.
A Marvel-style post-credits scene of a family of nine moving into the street, and when it zooms out you briefly see a brown hand.
I never knew The Snowman was anime.
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Working from home at Christmas is great. Imagine actually booking this time off. The only downside is the lack of Christmas films on TV (aside from Channel 5, but they're dreadful) but I've got 2.4kg of Celebrations in the post to make up for it.
In my last job (Korea) you literally weren't allowed to take the Christmas days off - you had to come in - and here, I am forced to take it as three of my annual 20 days, so in reality I have 17. Having the choice sounds like some weird fantasy. This year, I wouldn't mind working them to be honest.
We get three days specifically to use around Christmas and New Year but they're on top of our contractual allowance.
Being left with effectively 17 days is bullshit.
The last two jobs I had we got the time in between off on top, which I thought was bonkers, but jamming the insert button on my laptop so Teams doesn't show as away is even better.
My work has given us half of Christmas Eve off along with all of the time between Christmas and New Year. Pretty swish.
Those silence vids on youtube are good for this.
My missus has this. She has to take the days off the 25th to 31st mandatory so it takes her yearly allowance to 20 (or maybe the same as you).
I would love to have taken some more days off now but basically we're short staffed so I'm going to work through then take weeks off in Jan, Feb and March.
I’ve a spreadsheet that moves down a cell then back up, every few seconds, complete with a start and stop button if anyone wants it?
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In my last job I had an exe that did that and stopped the screen locking and then after about 18 months I suddenly got a very grumpy email from corporate IT security or whatever their name was demanding its immediate removal.
I make staff take 3 days off over christmas. I don't think it's unreasonable, and I've never had complaints
About to start our remote Xmas party. God help me.
What did you organise for it in the end?
Food and drink delivered, online escape room, quiz hosted by me with the grand prize being Xmas Eve off, and then playing Among Us.
I'm off from today until early January
Same. Although I'm not too sure what to do with myself as I feel like I've binge-watched everything I want to see this year already.I'm off from today until early January
Tactical annual leave choices have given me nine days of freedom. Superb.
I'm praying every dirty infidel fucks offso I can finally get some work done in the next couple of weeks without being disturbed by Karens who want to have calls because they like the sound of their own voice and have no technical aptitude
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