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I know i'm bitter but can they do this????
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I had a boss that told me to do that while I was travelling for business. He said "Just pull into a motorway service station, like I do, and kip in the car".""
i hope you told him where to go ......
i worked for a company that had regular london meetings and staff from bristol, manchester, cardiff and glasgow had to go - they held the 2 hourly meetings at 9,30am !!! we were told to go up the night before to London and sleep on the floor - i told em where they could shove their mattress on the floor0 -
This thread is getting surreal.
Mattresses and carveries. Brilliant.0 -
eating a carvery sunday lunch while sitting on a mattress on the floor is very difficult indeed - the gravy ends up in your keks !!!0
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Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where you're supposed to stun a passing pigeon with your briefcase and fry it on the trouser press rather than claim meal expenses...They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato0
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Am I the only one that cannot stand stacked high piles of food? I can eat as much as the rest of you but I get an adverse psycological reaction to carveries where you can only go up once and hence produce the piled high stacks you all describe. I like those you can go back to asmany times as you wish. Much more civilised IMO.
I also have a dislike of gravy beyond the necessary smallamount to half cover meat.So,you can imagine my face when the piled high stacks then get a half pint poured over! I virtually need sectioning.
I'm sure I have some sort of undiagnosed syndrome.0 -
dontcha just hate those "eat as much as you like " places that that give you the smallest dinner plate known to man ????0
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dontcha just hate those "eat as much as you like " places that that give you the smallest dinner plate known to man ????
As long as I can go back a few times, it doesn't really bother me. I love the look on the owners faces when I go in to these places though, they know they aren't going to make a profit that night.0 -
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I had a boss that told me to do that while I was travelling for business. He said "Just pull into a motorway service station, like I do, and kip in the car".""
i hope you told him where to go ......
i worked for a company that had regular london meetings and staff from bristol, manchester, cardiff and glasgow had to go - they held the 2 hourly meetings at 9,30am !!! we were told to go up the night before to London and sleep on the floor - i told em where they could shove their mattress on the floor
But a job's a job ("take any job") and it really looks poo on your CV if you keep finding bad employers, like I have a habit of doing.0 -
Am I the only one that cannot stand stacked high piles of food? I can eat as much as the rest of you but I get an adverse psycological reaction to carveries where you can only go up once and hence produce the piled high stacks you all describe. I like those you can go back to asmany times as you wish. Much more civilised IMO.I also have a dislike of gravy beyond the necessary smallamount to half cover meat.So,you can imagine my face when the piled high stacks then get a half pint poured over! I virtually need sectioning.
I'm sure I have some sort of undiagnosed syndrome.
2] Sounds like some ocd in there. Being annoyed at people that do something is one thing, but you're over the line if you virtually need sectioning over it. I'm like that about ... oooh ... about 1000 things really. OK, everything.
Welcome to the Oddball Club of Perverse Annoyances.0 -
According to Breakfast on BBC 1 this morning, if you get a great belly full of fatty nosh down your gizzard first thing, you loose weight quicker than someone who skips brekky (probably because it'll make you vom come lunch time) so...I suggest we all get along to our nearest Hungry Horse where you can eat as much fatty fried crap for £1 at 09.00 and we'll all be sylph like come November!
Off to buy a new mattress now and !!!!! about people who don't do anything wrong for no reason.The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. (Oscar Wilde);)0
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