Xela Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Couple of years back a guy got made redundant at our place... he was delighted, he knew it was coming and hated his job. Rumours are he got about £140k. There was a leaving collection as well! my response when the envelope came to me was "**** off!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 When you're driving on a main road and a car ahead in a side road keeps edging out so you have no alternative but to let them out otherwise you'll take the front of their car off. Pricks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Xela said: When you're driving on a main road and a car ahead in a side road keeps edging out so you have no alternative but to let them out otherwise you'll take the front of their car off. Pricks I tend to assume it's because the traffic on the main road is that heavy and no one has been kind enough to let them out that the only alternative to edging out is waiting for ages and ages and ages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I give nothing for leavers. They are dead to me. Particularly if they are going to a competitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Due to a team I was on disbanding, before my birthday, and me not getting anything out of the birthday club, and another team I was on forgetting my 30th Birthday, I've stopped giving to most collections. The exception is if someone I like is leaving, getting married, or having a baby. The rest can **** off. Oh, and I don't do secret Santa either. I moaned like hell, when I got a Lynx gift set one year, so guess what I got the next year?! No point doing it now, as I'm only ever going to get more Lynx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 1 minute ago, dAVe80 said: Due to a team I was on disbanding, before my birthday, and me not getting anything out of the birthday club, and another team I was on forgetting my 30th Birthday, I've stopped giving to most collections. The exception is if someone I like is leaving, getting married, or having a baby. The rest can **** off. Oh, and I don't do secret Santa either. I moaned like hell, when I got a Lynx gift set one year, so guess what I got the next year?! No point doing it now, as I'm only ever going to get more Lynx. What were you expecting? A new plasma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Ugh, that reminds me, it's secret santa soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I always worked on the assumption it was a bit of silly fun, I didn't mind getting total nonsense, although I'm more than happy for someone who resorts to alcohol. Absolutely fine by me, although in this case it is important prior to arranging secret santas, to ensure that one's taste is known ahead of any picks. Casually bringing up the joy's of red wine in an off hand manner prior to names being passed around is for example advisable, as is decrying the incalculable horror of certain generic lagers. But even then, if it's white or Carling, this then becomes a free contribution to a seasonal house gathering so it's not too bad. Although I do remember, for quite some time between some friends of ours that a particular bottle of unappealing white, became intentionally passed from home to party to home, perennially undrunk for at least 3-4 years, until my mate was moving house, and thus all non-essential drinks needed to be drunk to save on space. ( Apparently ). Oddly enough, it wasn't that bad, although it definitely found favour by contrast to the horrifying Lidl's white rum that had been abandoned very early on after it's purchase several years before, and the nastily cheap tequila. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 27, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 27, 2016 1 hour ago, dAVe80 said: Due to a team I was on disbanding, before my birthday, and me not getting anything out of the birthday club, and another team I was on forgetting my 30th Birthday, I've stopped giving to most collections. The exception is if someone I like is leaving, getting married, or having a baby. The rest can **** off. Oh, and I don't do secret Santa either. I moaned like hell, when I got a Lynx gift set one year, so guess what I got the next year?! No point doing it now, as I'm only ever going to get more Lynx. If you can't identify the smelly workmate, it might be you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 1 hour ago, rodders0223 said: What were you expecting? For them to put a bit of thought into it. Pretty much everyone else got something that made them laugh, or they genuinely liked. I just think it's a cop out to buy generic smellies, especially when I've not used Lynx since I was about 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 29 minutes ago, BOF said: If you can't identify the smelly workmate, it might be you. I thought they called me Pongo, because they knew I was such a massive Villa fan! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 We only did Secret Santa once, I got the fat ginger guy who used to get cold sores all the time so I got him some Just For Men hair dye and a tube of Zovirax. I got a book on playing the guitar which wasn't too shabby. Nowadays nobody really likes each other so we can't be arsed with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 The only secret Santa I've done was about 10 years ago. I bought a blues fan a Villa mug with his name on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I've only done a secret santa once, the guy I got was an Arsenal fan so I got him a little figurine of Adebayor in a Spurs kit. I got some lame cheap puzzle thing that took no thought whatsoever, I was thoroughly disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Last Christmas I got a Villa mug, its still taunting me to this day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 advert on the radio now for compenastion if you ever got food poisioning whilst on holiday boo hoo i had to poo 5 times during the day cuase i atre a dodgy prawn , that must be worth a few grand just **** off with this someone has to pay culture 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 6 hours ago, tonyh29 said: advert on the radio now for compenastion if you ever got food poisioning whilst on holiday boo hoo i had to poo 5 times during the day cuase i atre a dodgy prawn , that must be worth a few grand just **** off with this someone has to pay culture I dunno, I got campylobacter once and it was probably the worst week of my life. If it happened in a hotel I'd be fuming. What pissed me off today, they shut off a lane each way of the dual carriageway through town just to trim the bushes that run in between them. Traffic was shit as a result and who wants to look at a flower display on a dual carriageway anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Not sure how I did it but I caught my finger in the car door while closing it, still feckin hurts ....can bend it and shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 9 hours ago, tonyh29 said: advert on the radio now for compenastion if you ever got food poisioning whilst on holiday boo hoo i had to poo 5 times during the day cuase i atre a dodgy prawn , that must be worth a few grand just **** off with this someone has to pay culture And of course the voice over guy is... American, just for extra authenticity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Is someone royally **** up Birmingham's roads for a laugh?? Five Ways traffic lights. The queues now are longer than they ever were! In all directions! M42 J6 NB. Now the filter lane is for the airport only, meaning I have to go to the lights for brum, wtf?! It was absolutely fine as it was! The Sty Maccies roundabout. Now the traffic lights block up the roundabout so everyone's hustling to get in the outside lane for the Cov Road. And as for the bus lane on the Pershore Road, it's a complete no go in the morning now, it's just grid lock. I bet it's the same person that thought the (empty) 2+ lane past Fort/Star City would solve global warming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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