i am so fucking bored
fuck this day is dragging

that is all...

alt q - did you get a bonus or salary raise this year? Are you happy with it?
( zulu eh?, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:39, 101 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Alt: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
No I did not. Nor did I last year. The previous year I threatened to resign and got a 5k raise. I may well have to do this again in the next year or so.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:43, Reply)

it does seem thats the way to get a decent one
though if they call your bluff...
( zulu eh?, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:46, Reply)

The last time there was no bluff.
I explained that if I was unable to pay the mortgage on a 1-bed hovel in the East End and support one child on what I was getting, then there was absolutely no point in my coming to work.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:58, Reply)

Yeah standard performance related pay increase
Wage freeze on everything else.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:44, Reply)

Bonus and salary increase last year
Will get the same this.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:50, Reply)

Same, but at least I get to go home at 5:15 today
Alt Q: Neither, but I have hopes for the new year. Then again, I now have a second job, so could that be considered a bonus?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:50, Reply)

technically I'm in a pay freeze
but since I got made permanent, I actually get paid lots more than I did last year
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Aint you the nosey cunt
Never discuss money in polite or any other form of company
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:58, Reply)

You are so right.
It's incredibly vulgar.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:59, Reply)

I've been at dinner parties with self satisfied smug cunts droning on about the 'killing' they've made on their hovel
I've wanted to claw my eyes out in despair
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:04, Reply)

this is a fair response

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:05, Reply)

Justifiable to do some 'killling' of your own in such instances.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:10, Reply)

Who the fuck would invite you to a dinner party?
Or did the washing up need doing?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:13, Reply)

which I reckon means you are either a rich
capitalist bastard or a tramp who accidentally got internet access
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:00, Reply)

top up the special brew s.v.p.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:05, Reply)

So so bored...I could almost do some work
Alt: Yep, bonus of 14% of salary plus pay rise of about 7%. So not too bad really.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 16:59, Reply)

Mind your own business.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:00, Reply)

You tell the gyppo bastard

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:00, Reply)

Can't be arsed to give the nosey sod any vitriol
So I am going to the pub instead.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:03, Reply)

By the way
thank you for your email the other day. I was terribly rude and didn't reply, but it was appreciated.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:07, Reply)

What's for supper, bumcloths?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:03, Reply)

Chilli con carne for me.
I made on Sunday so it should be spot on now.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:03, Reply)

steak and bernaise sauce, garlic roast potatoes and brollocii
plus either beer or wine, i have decided.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:04, Reply)

I cooked steaks on Saturday, they were jolly good.
I am ashamed to admit that the technique I have settled upon comes originally from Gordon Ramsay. It involves frying them in an alarmingly large amount of butter, with crushed garlic cloves and rosemary in the butter. It's better than any other method I've tried inc griddling.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:06, Reply)

Butter makes everything better
I will try this ce soir, but i may still use my ten ton griddle pan, cos I like too.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:09, Reply)

Soup
on dentist's orders.

*sadfaces*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:05, Reply)

Just had fillings?
I have never had one.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:07, Reply)

Broke two teeth this afternoon.
This is not a good turn of events.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:08, Reply)

What do you say to a woman with two broken teeth?
Nothing you already told her twice lol
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:09, Reply)

how did you manage that cooking brownies?!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:10, Reply)

she forgot to take them out of the tin before trying them.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:11, Reply)

got so stoned she fell into the bin

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:11, Reply)

I broke them on one of the very hard Lebkuchen that came with the gingerbread house kit I made for the kids.
There will be no toffee in our xmas sweetie tin.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:17, Reply)

bloody hell
2 teeth on ginger bread?! That's quite impressive
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

They were fairly weak already.
I tend to grind my teeth a lot without realising. The two teeth I broke were largely filling anyway.
I've decided I have far too much stress in my life.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:22, Reply)

less stress
more puréed cabbage
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:23, Reply)

Well next time don't talk during 'Wogan'.
You've been warned.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:12, Reply)

chips
fishcakes
mushy peas
bitterness
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:05, Reply)

I think I might make myself a kebab.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:06, Reply)

Snot and misery
I have a cold.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:06, Reply)

Put your dressing gown on then, you 'trekkie' homo.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:07, Reply)

I would if I had one.
I want engineering red though, and they don't make one. Very, very upset about that.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:08, Reply)

Don't the red people always die/

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:09, Reply)

I was mistaken, they do.
Very exciting! I'm a techie, so it's red for me
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:11, Reply)

keep a screwdriver in the pocket

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:11, Reply)

he's just pleased to see you/any girl on the "engineering deck"*


*his bunk bed
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:12, Reply)

*his bunk bed his sweaty, delusional imagination
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:15, Reply)

I pity you

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:12, Reply)

It's fucking cool.

( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:13, Reply)

No it's not, it's really, really not
EDIT: Actually i take that back, this guy is the definition of cool - www.i4gotyourbirthday.co.uk/images/Star-Trek-Mens-Dressing-Gown.jpg
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:14, Reply)

I'm normal-looking enough that my being a terrible geek is endearing
rather than pitiful. Don't you worry about me, Apey.

I know, right? I shall be striking that pose all the time when I get mine.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:16, Reply)

If you say so
*wedgies*
*steals lunch money*
*nuggies*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:16, Reply)

*cries into warp engine reactor control panel**
*pillow
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

hahahaha

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

hahahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:20, Reply)

GIVE 'IM A FACKIN' BOGWASH

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:19, Reply)

I don't usually go for the older man
but I'd do him
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:16, Reply)

the delicate touch with which you manipulate the English langage is a delight to behold

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

I am totally a fucking poet, cuntface

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:19, Reply)

Poor old Norman Cook.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:20, Reply)

That man looks terrifyingly like my uncle
I really do mean terrifyingly like him.
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:28, Reply)

I never thought I'd be saying this but
listen to Nakers. He is right.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

look, at least being so pitiful
might get him a pity fuck.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:19, Reply)

I keep all this shit under wraps until it's too late
and then, like a funnelweb spider, I pounce.

Before you know it, they're on away missions to distant planets* in my shuttlecraft**

*Sainsbury's
**car
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:22, Reply)

hot

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:23, Reply)

*attempts to fix the massive hole that just ripped in space and time*
*fails and is sucked into Kroney's "holodeck"**

**washing basket
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:20, Reply)

Hahahaha
You've made some top-drawer posts today.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:21, Reply)

This is an excellent subthread.
And it has sealed the fundamental awesomeness of Star Trek dressing gowns.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:24, Reply)

I think you may have scaled new heights of lame
well done.
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:29, Reply)

I'm still climbing, old girl
I ain't even out of breath yet.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:30, Reply)

Good grief.

(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:34, Reply)

Well, it has made me want one.
Not sure if this helps your cause. sadly I have 1 too many dressing gown's already, so not going to get one.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:35, Reply)

The final portion of my curry, methinks
Then, I'm going to make a massive portion of sweet chilli chicken stir fry tomorrow.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:13, Reply)

Only so I can *smug*
Alt: Yes, I just did, that should cover a new bed and, with a little luck a new sofa in the new year *happy dance*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:18, Reply)

and then you can wipe your arse on £50 notes?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:22, Reply)

Not quite.
But I shall be able to actually spend it on something this year, in previous years it's been used to dig me out ogf the massive finantial hole I've managed to dig throughout the year. This year, I have been financially prudent The £8k pay rise earlier in the year may have helped.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:25, Reply)

I got a fairly significant pay increase when I changed jobs
sadly the commute that it involves has chewed that raise away to pretty much nothing. Sigh.
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:23, Reply)

Get a proper bike
and cycle the whole way, problem solved.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:25, Reply)

Fuck off, it's 40 miles!

EDIT - 49 miles, actually, and you can't cycle down the motorway so it'd be even further.
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:25, Reply)

You should be able to do that in 3 hours
Nice fit young thing like you, stop being a wuss, just think of all the exercise and all the cake you can eat to offset the exercise.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:28, Reply)

It is flat, I suppose
but I resent having to get up at 7am, having to leave the house by 5:30am would really rather piss me off. Not to mention not getting home til 8:30pm...
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:29, Reply)

There is this.
Think of the thigh muscles though...
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

My thigh muscles are already pretty good thanks
although I've just discovered my season ticket is going up by £15 a month next year, so cycling may yet have to be an option. *weeps*
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:34, Reply)

Why don't you man up and buy a car?
You know, like a grown up?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:35, Reply)

Because cars are evil m'kay?
Also while you can but one for peanuts the tax and insurance is stupidlyu expensive. This is one of the things that keeps me on a bike.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:36, Reply)

Nobody asked you, crusty.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

I own a car, thank you
it would cost me significantly more to drive 90 miles a day and park than it does to get the train.
(berk, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

I can vouch for this
I drove 64 miles a day, just to and from work. 77 pounds a month insurance, 300 pounds a month on fuel. Plus several worn parts and garage bills.
( Kroney, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

Oh yes, I'd forgotten petrol.
*jumps on to Smug-Bike^tm and rides off home*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

Considering the price the rail companies charge
do they occasionally get you there on time?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:39, Reply)

I like how mushy peas come out of the tin
and are still tin shaped. I need more foods which do this in my life.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:27, Reply)

Corned beef is good for this

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:29, Reply)

i don't think I like corned beef
although corned beef pasties are OK so perhaps I do like it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:29, Reply)

I remember that dog food in the seventies used to do this
according to teh TV adverts...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:30, Reply)

Payrise?
The fucking Jobcentre still haven't pulled their useless fingers out of their equally useless arses and paid me what I'm owed yet. Eight weeks. Eight fucking weeks! Despite being told last week, and again yesterday, that an emergency payment would be issued there's still no bloody sign of it. Just rang them again to be informed it hasn't been processed yet.

Wouldn't have happened in my day, we'd have been hauled over the fucking coals for incompetence.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:31, Reply)

Turn up in the office tomorrow with an overnight bag
and inform them that you will have to spend xmas with one of them, as you can't afford to have it in your own home.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:36, Reply)

He should bring the family and pets for extra emphasis.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

and the dalek.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

I sign on tomorrow anyway.
I'm also supposed to be getting a phone call before lunchtime confirming my payment. If this doesn't happen I shall raise merry hell, as obviously the calm and rational approach isn't fucking working.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

Remember to mention your years of service in the civil service
and anyone important you may know.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:40, Reply)

Feel free to mention that you know me.
I would imagine that will help.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 17:47, Reply)