That's exactly it
The girl on the other side of the office said that she can almost hear my fury in my silence. She often bursts out laughing at my attempts to ignore this woman or dismiss her with a disinterested response. Then Bore Woman asks her what she's laughing at, because she's a nosey bitch and she wants us to be as interested in her life as she is in everybody else's. She said that her son's girlfriend had 'state-of-the-art' clothes. We're assuming she means 'top-of-the-range', unless the girlfriend has those tracksuits with central heating, like I saw on Tomorrow's World once.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Nov 2009, 13:52, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

she might mean an invisibility coat

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Nov 2009, 13:59, Reply)

Or striped t-shirts
Like the lad in Flight of the Navigator
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:01, Reply)

Hahaha bless
'State-of-the-art' clothes, I love that! :)

Thankfully most of the people where I work now actually work and don't annoy me too much, at my first proper office job everyone there was over 50 and going through the menopause at the same time, it was horrific!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:00, Reply)

Oh the windows are always open in here
My window is not, and I have my fan heater on.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:03, Reply)

Hahaha what is that all about
They did used to sit there saying 'I'm so hot, its so hot in here' all the bloody time. I used to answer the phones in my coat and offer to make cups of tea so I could heat my hands on the kettle!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:06, Reply)