I never understood why people have family pics at work.
I always think that I'll remember what they look like during the course of the day, if needed.

Am I just cold?
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:13, 5 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I like the seinfeld joke about that
the guy is leaving the office going "Right, lets score some crack and get some hookers", then notices the photos and goes "Oh shit, I've got a wife and family, I'd better just go home"
(Bazongaloid, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:14, Reply)

Work is sickeningly shit
It's most welcome to have a reminder now and then that it's keeping me away from both sick and shit.
( Captain V, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:21, Reply)

No, it made me laugh.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:30, Reply)

my office manager has a picture of her baby as her desktop background
I have a cartoon saying "I HATE YOU" because people keep stealing my PC when I'm out of the office.

I might put one of my rabid rat up instead.

EDIT: please note, genuine ratty rat, not my fadge.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:31, Reply)

Too early for such crudeness
Shame on you Kitty.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:37, Reply)

It was pre-emptive!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)

your gutted rabbit, you say?
I have a version of the Kitchener posters as wallpaper, saying "BRITONS - YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU to stop being so utterly pathetic about absolutely everything"

My second screen wallpaper for lecturing projectors is an upside down baby seal with "You're doing it wrong" written on it. I'm not sure any student has worked out the implicit criticism yet.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:43, Reply)

I have pictures of my cats
and that's it.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Oh dear.
There was a woman who used to work in my office who had pictures of her cats. All the stories she told were about her cats. Usually complete with kitty cat impressions.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:42, Reply)

Fuck you
I love my cats. They're better than most people.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:47, Reply)

no.
no they aren't.

at least not for any conventional sense of the word "better"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:49, Reply)

They're better to hug, better to stroke,
smell nicer, and cost less to feed.

What's not better about that?
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)

people who love their cats more than people
are massively lame. I agree that a lot of people suck, but if you're one of those people who has pictures of their cats at work and talks about them all the time, you are one of the people who suck.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:53, Reply)

None of those things
are criteria upon which you should be assessing people, unless you are very disturbing.

So not in any sense better. Different.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)