h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My team is decorating its workspace this Xmas

...Bah Humbug!!!

Exactly
They are going to have a in sleigh flying around above my head for the next 3 weeks and I'm supposed to help put him up
I intend to be grumpy and miserable about the whole thing
Will anyone notice?

You want to see our workplace, its been santas grotto for weeks now 'sigh' Flashing lights, dancing & singing snowmen, you name it, we've got it.....
I'm not a fan of christmas

Maybe you should get santa and his reindeers to answer the phones!

I wouldn't mind if it didn't go on so long
A weekend of it I could cope with but a month plus is a bit much
My flat will probably be an Xmas-free zone again this year

My flat is an xmas free zone Well almost i do put up the cards.
I'm not here over xmas, i'm at my daughters 2 days of stress, headaches, kids fighting over new toys and worst of all no e.mail or hootoo How will i cope!!

I might put up cards
I shall be staying over at my mums along with the rest of the clan from the evening of the 24th to the morning of the 27th but hopefully apart from my nephew we're old enough not to fight much and my mum has the internet

I'm glad its only once a year....though a full ban on xmas would be welcome by alot of folks.

Oooh you lucky I shall be cut off from all things for 2 days. Think i'll have to resort to actually having a

I'd be happy with a ban on Christmas commercialism.

Every year, same thing. Buy stuff for relatives whose taste you don't know, and put everything they give you into the charity collection bag in January.

Then spend three months paying off your credit card bill

The worst bit is that you're supposed to turn out in November to buy the stuff, then in January to get rid of it again.

It would seem that we are losing a whole month each year to this Christmas business...

Last year I bought everything in November, then the first week in December the sales started!



I learned a lesson.

Wait till the last few days. Then round like a headless

I feel like I've had a personality transplant, as I'm usually an organised person.

At a roundabout near me, a local lingerie store has put up its famous annual poster . Every year it causes minor accidents as male drivers are confronted with silk-wrapped femininity at eye level.

What is it about we men that a few scraps of lace have power to drive us wild? We are such simple creatures.

I like Christmas myself, in moderation. It helps that I have two children who are still heavily into the Santa myth, and another who has begun to recognise him as part of the Pantheon (which also includes Pooh Bear, Bob the Builder and Laa Laa).

*chuckles*

Perhaps you should sing Jingle Bells tonelessly, over and over and OVER again till they throw said decor at you....

At least the first verse, anyway...

Just read this in my children's primary school newsletter:

'It's that dreaded time of the year when the "C-word" is on everyone's lips' Errrr.....

I have my Christmas tree up

But then that's just because I didn't take it down after last Christmas

I thought I was lazy about getting round yo putting things away !

I should explain

Christmas 2002: Had my tree up
January 2003: A mate came to stay with me for a while, and took the tree down against my wishes

Christmas 2003: Had my tree up
2004: Decided to keep it up as a form of passive agression, just to annoy my mate any time he came around to visit.

Ok, it probably didn't bother him, but I felt better

good, I should hate to associate with a lazy untidy person

how are you today

Does that mean I shouldn't associate with you any more ???

I am well dear...a little disappointed though...I woke up this morning convinced it was Friday...and then I realised it wasn't

So, how goes it there ???