The Christmas decorations have just gone up in my office and they're so crap it's actually depressing. The whole thing consists of a Christmas tree that has some kind of wasting disease, 3 normal baubles, 6 scary baubles (the kind of things used in Victorian times to frighten children), 4 lengths of tatty tinsel, some 'festive' window stickers and some fir cones and cotton wool glued to a plate. The only high point is the effigy of my boss I made last year, that ironically has the top of the tree shoved up his arse.
Anyone else got crap decorations at work, or have I got to suffer this alone?
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work to me is a british expats club out in singapore so we tend to go over the top.
several huge trees, lights that you can see from the space shuttle, and christmas songs coming out of every speaker in sight.
add a regular set of carol singers for every party we accomadate and there you go.
but it could be worse you know. you could be working in a toy store this december. now thats got to be worse then your office.
We've got a tree (a pretty good one, well decorated) in reception. Nothing in the office though.
Nope, nothing in this office, thank Grud. Nothing at home either. Waste of time, money, trees, paper, plastic etc etc.
Strontium 'Bah Humbug' Doug
pah , you grinches, just yous wait til i get my work zone dec'd, you'll feel the drain on the grid...but i'm having trouble persuading the deer to stay still on the roof wearing their hats, they seem to prefer leaping in front of cars late at night. Now how to make them glow in the dark...mmm?
strontium 90???
Way to go Doug!
Christmas is stress, loneliness, debt, broken relationships, a twisted parody of itself brought about by consumerism.
Never mind the decorations, what about getting forced to take holidays at the coldest, darkest, shitty-est time of year. Rub it in whydontcha.
There, I feel better already.
True theres lots of things I hate about X-mas, but having a holiday isn't one of them, yes it is a shitty cold time of year but thats one of the reasons why I think we choose to celebrate at this point of the year. Imagine how even more depressing Winter would be without it, to me January is by far and away the arse end of the year- nothing to look forward to except two months of shit weather and miserable people praying for Spring (myself included). At least at X-mas we have our giant sized progs to look forward to :)
I just added DHTML snow to our office intranet.
Novelty carols on mobile phones. Aaaarggghhhh.
W@nkers.
Cheers
Paul
Well as I work in a house we tend to have quite nice decorations, if you like that kind of thing.
dbeebie happily remembers the time a row broke out on x-mas day and the tree got thrown. It was a 6 footer.
Uncharacteristically, your evil King enjoys Christmas.
His tree is the epitome of festive tat, covered with miniature elves, Santas, reindeer, gifts, lights, tinsel and Spiderman.
And C3PO.
And animal print baubles.
It's all part of my evil plan to horrify everyone who comes to my house.
But we've no decorations at work.
- Trout
First year we had our last cat Tizer (RIP*) he couldn't understand why we had a tree in the lounge.
It must be for cats to climb he thought.
It fell over.
Since then Dad's always tied it to the wall.
* Please note that his death in the summer was a completely tree-free incident, and involved old age & a tail-operation that he was unable to cope with.
yes we too have had cat n tree falling incidents, hooks to ceilings helps....later in the week i shall have the annual very entertaining tree stealing in dark forest story...but for now theres the year we lacked a fairy for the top, so borrowed a pink barbie tu-tu & put it on a plastic terminator. Arnie looked very happy sitting up there i can tell you.
'tree stealing in dark forest story'
Annual tradition at university that... and then plonk it in our block's stairwell with absolutly no decoration whatsoever
"Novelty carols on mobile phones"
These people have no regard for the suffering of there fellow humans and should be summarily executed with a cannon loaded with their own shit.
And people wonder why I don't like Christmas..
Miserable shop assistants..
... like you really thought it would be 'an exciting time' did you?
"...a cannon loaded with their own shit."
Death by gunshit? Sounds almost too good for them. Almost, but not quite...
Nigel