Post #202,740
4/10/05 6:38:37 PM
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The Office - season 2
May be the best comedy ever. I don't think I laughed once, but it's great.
(Question to Peter: is British office really such a free place? I know all about American puritanism (and if I did not, we have people here to enligten me), but giving co-worker a dildo for birthday - it's a bit too robust for me. Is it normal over there?)
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Post #202,781
4/11/05 12:39:26 AM
4/11/05 12:41:06 AM
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yes
We once presented a leaver with a chocolate willy, amongst other things. He was most amused.
From what I can gather, UK office workers enjoy an environment that is somewhat more relaxed than the one experienced by our orking brethren across the pond.
Peter
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Edited by pwhysall
April 11, 2005, 12:41:06 AM EDT
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Post #202,797
4/11/05 1:55:15 AM
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For good reason
That particular present if it offended someone could be grounds for a lawsuit here. Seriously.
I know that I've received friendly warnings along that line for far less provocative stuff.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #202,798
4/11/05 1:57:01 AM
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The United States Of Litigation, eh?
Peter
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Post #202,800
4/11/05 1:59:19 AM
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Pretty much
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #202,822
4/11/05 8:56:44 AM
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When I left my last job as a crisis therapist
I was given a dildo and some herbal supplement that increases libido. I, too, was most amused.
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Post #202,835
4/11/05 9:51:58 AM
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sorry, you are being paid to work, not get laid
I think that personal stays away from work. dont crap where you sleep is a lesson worth heeding.
thanx,
bill
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Post #202,864
4/11/05 12:01:25 PM
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You've never worked in the mental health field
There are no boundries. Everything is fair game.
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Post #202,871
4/11/05 12:43:48 PM
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And there's the difference
The chocolate willy was nothing whatsoever to do with getting laid.
Different cultural mindset, see. Work to us is a necessary evil that we will alleviate in any way possible, usually by ritual moaning about it and by having a good laugh about it all the time - this often also takes the form of moaning and it takes a perceptive person to tell the difference between the two expressions of disdain at having to work.
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Post #202,961
4/12/05 3:07:47 AM
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Sounds like mental health to me.
As opposed to 'sublimating' the awful time-anchor, practicing.. imagining that the Work is rilly important and that.. You DO Like Being There (which is so clearly an aberration, probably with an official polysyllabic name, too).
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Post #202,965
4/12/05 5:10:47 AM
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Book choice:
"Watching The English", by Kate Fox.
It'll help you a lot in understanding why we are the way we are.
Peter
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Post #202,985
4/12/05 8:27:02 AM
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I'm not sure
Which came first?
The combination of bad food and good beer?
Or the attitude that without drink there is nothing to live for?
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #202,990
4/12/05 9:26:39 AM
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So what IS there to live for, without drink?
Peter
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Post #202,993
4/12/05 9:47:57 AM
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pron?
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Post #202,996
4/12/05 9:55:05 AM
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Pie?
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Post #203,000
4/12/05 10:03:00 AM
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Pie is better with beer.
Peter
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Post #203,054
4/12/05 3:59:17 PM
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I'd explain but...
you're British so you wouldn't understand.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #203,057
4/12/05 4:01:36 PM
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That's true.
We don't understand much over here.
Peter
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Post #203,058
4/12/05 4:04:05 PM
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e.g. Chuck and Cammy. Q.E.D.
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:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #202,986
4/12/05 8:27:05 AM
4/12/05 8:27:22 AM
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dup
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Edited by ben_tilly
April 12, 2005, 08:27:22 AM EDT
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Post #202,873
4/11/05 1:04:20 PM
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Don't dip your pen in the company ink
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Post #202,879
4/11/05 1:41:45 PM
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Don't get laid where you get paid.
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