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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I told my bosses that I was giving up using Microsoft products for Lent so I would need a few weeks holiday until easter as it renders everything I do here impossible. They said NO and told me to get back to work. Stifling my religious freedom like that, it's disgraceful. Do you think I could sue? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
 Nice try, Weber! | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
Well I Carried out a human sacrifice at work (in the name of the dark lord Campbell) and that didn't go down too well, some people are just so intolerant.  | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
One of the things I'd dread most about going back to an office would be using Outlook for email again. I used to love it, but Gmail's so much better. Oh, and then there would be the hassle of explaining why I use the Dvorak layout... And my god, wearing shoes for the entire day again. My toes are curling at the thought. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>And my god, wearing shoes for the entire day again. My toes are curling at the thought.<< That's one of the benefits of working freelance from home - you can spend all day in your pyjamas in front of the computer and nobody knows nor cares. Oh heck, maybe I shouldn't have said that. You might be wondering what I'm dressed like as I sit here at my computer ...  | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.167.138 |
No, Caroline, just imagining with great relish...  | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.28.126 |
I sometimes pop into the Church of St. Barker The Crusader for a fast communion wafer. I've also been known to attend prayer meetings down at the Rev. Johnny Mains' Mission Hut.Thankfully,I can report no religious discrimination thus far. I'm thinking of converting to Ramseyism. I realise that this faith has many proselytizers,but I'm concerned about its central tenet of martyrdom. I mean,even at baptism I fear my head may be dipped into a font of sulphuric acid by some maniacal shaman. Praise the Lord in the hope that words of comfort from established worshippers will be forthcoming - and gratefully received. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.109.188.43 |
On the lenten note, I'm actually giving up booze for lent, which will mean that I will be entirely sober at Word Horror. That's going to be an interesting experience at times I'm sure. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
You're so right, Caroline. There's the downside, though - I remember an article in one of the papers last year about people who work at home being oddly-dressed and half-mad through social isolation... And let's not talk about that Mitchell and Webb sketch..! I'm planning to not drink at FantasyCon this year. At last year's AGM I had a terrible time trying to answer difficult questions while my brain felt like cotton wool and my mouth was so dry I could barely speak... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
"have you got over the wanking stage yet?" One of the funniest lines they've ever done... Yes, let's talk about that M&W sketch | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 89.240.242.200 |
For Lent, I genuinely give up being grumpy - have done for the last two years, and for 28 days I become a nicer person! I like 'let off Sundays', though, where I can shout! I'll be mostly sober on the Friday of WHC, given the amount of signings I have to do and the fact that I have a reading that night at 9, but for the rest of the weekend, all bets are off! S | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Lent is 40 days. Finishes on Easter Sunday... Looks like you owe a few months worth of niceness to make up for the 12 days you've been missing out each year. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
A month. 4 weeks even. my brain isn't switched on yet. read the 2 as 22. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I'm so angelic I don't have anything I COULD give up for Lent! *lies through gritted teeth* Oh, wait a minute! Maybe I should give up lying? BTW I don't know that Mitchell and Webb sketch you're talking about. Is it on YouTube? Today, I'm dressed in a purple fleece top, grey jog pants, pink fluffy bed socks and blue slippers. I never had much dress sense or colour coordination.  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 92.27.179.2 |
Don't tell me I've got it wrong! You'll make me grumpy! I'll have to shout! S | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
That would be breaking your lenten pledge only 3 days in. | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 92.27.179.2 |
Not an unknown occurrence... S | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.226 |
You should give up absolutely everything for Lent - including all aspects of decency and common humanity. Become the very devils that the Catholic Church is on the watch against. A period of demonic bacchanalia - of crossing over into the dark side completely. The perilous thrill-ride of it is, to see if by the time it's over, you are able to cross back into the light; it all builds up to a fever-pitch of desperate, terrible madness - and then, on the verge of plunging down eternally, you step back, from the brink... wash yourself clean... dress in the lily-innocence of white (sic), and go back to church on Easter morning, like spotless lambs.... "When I go to confession I don't offer God small sins, petty squabbles, jealousies... I offer him sins worth forgiving!" - Christopher Lee, RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONK | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk<< Thank, Weber - I needed that!  |