Work... work... work.....

God, we spend half our life there - either working or studying or looking after the family and home, but we never really show what it's like. Time to change all that!

Yes, l I think it's about time we were all witness to our respective daily grinds, and you are just about to find out what terrible conditions we Brits have to work in. Slog, slog, slog, day in and day out and what a place to have to work. Time to lift the can on the place of daily graft.

I'm gonna show you mine to start with and then I'd like you to come and show us yours. Once we have enough evidence, we can all appreciate how good it feels and how lucky we all are to have the sanctuary of the Cellar...

Just look at the state of the place - could you find anywhere worse? I mean a late 19th century lodge house for gods sake, and with outdoor furniture and gas barbecue - I mean, how could they. And I even have to cycle to work!

... and just wait until you see the inside and the people I have to work with. Can it get any worse? These three guys in the first picture, for instance - you'd think they owned the place - trouble is two of them do! And all they do all day is talk on the phone about ships and vegetable oils and molasses and chemicals - I mean it's just not human is it

Then there's the other guy - do you see that - he makes himself a cup of coffee - and he does it regularly as well! Sometimes three times in one day!

Then there's our ladies, have to be nice to the first one because she does the salaries each month. While teh second one - well, she may look all right but she's a bit of a Hungarian Vickie Pollard, I'll have you know...

OK, you've seen through me and my false words. They're a great bunch of people to work with and they make work fun. We have a great time and all get along really well. I think I would find it hard to find a better bunch of people to work with. The others to agree except, they say, if it wasn't for this bloke...

Dude...do *not* make me fly over there and slap you silly.

Looks like an altogether serene and cool work environment.

That sucks! I can't post pictures of my workplace...i'm sure i would get in trouble for that too...i get in trouble for just about everything!! I'm so loved!!

BTW...and I have to say this because, well...I have no class:

The lovely in the pink top who obviously made sure to thrust her ample bosom outwards provocatively - she actually works someplace where she deals in bulk vegetable oils? I almost swoon from the imagining!

This is the view of my office from my desk... Minus the kids. This was taken on bring your kids to work day a short while ago.

Munchkin wrote:

This is the view of my office from my desk... Minus the kids. This was taken on bring your kids to work day a short while ago.

Looks like another hot-air environment.

Brought to my mind a children's party I once participated in as an organiser. About 150 children, all so well-behaved we thought we were dreaming and were regularly pinching ourselves during the party meal. Then we let the balloons out.....

I have never to this day witnessed such a change in character - completely uncontrollable mayhem. Balloons have a lot to answer for!

duuuh, dat dont look like no office i've ever seen

Cyclefrance wrote:

Just look at the state of the place - could you find anywhere worse? I mean a late 19th century lodge house for gods sake, and with outdoor furniture and gas barbecue - I mean, how could they. And I even have to cycle to work!

Who are you kidding. That ain't a house, that's a movie set....I can see the crane lifting lugs on the peak. :smack:

Cyclefrance wrote:

Looks like another hot-air environment.

Brought to my mind a children's party I once participated in as an organiser. About 150 children, all so well-behaved we thought we were dreaming and were regularly pinching ourselves during the party meal. Then we let the balloons out.....

I have never to this day witnessed such a change in character - completely uncontrollable mayhem. Balloons have a lot to answer for!

Yes.. wow... same thing happened here. Balloons came into play and all of a sudden they got crazy. Started fighting over balloons when there were tons of the same exact thing all over the place ... Luckily, they were well behaved for the most part.

The place I work though, very very relaxed. Tvs in the office. Lots of witty banter... throwing of things at eachother (soft stuff usually)... When we have a deadline we are all hard at work, but we have a lot of fun...and yet... I wanna change jobs hehehe

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Who are you kidding. That ain't a house, that's a movie set....I can see the crane lifting lugs on the peak. :smack:

No, that's the zipper so we can get into the roof space easy...

Kagen4o4 wrote:

duuuh, dat dont look like no office i've ever seen

Yeah, it's grim, isn't it - not even a lift (elevator for my TA friends)

Oh POOR POOR CF !!!! :(

all work and no play make CF a dullard...

and I s'pose this place is just down the street?

barefoot serpent wrote:

all work and no play make CF a dullard...

and I s'pose this place is just down the street?

Now that place does look terrible - I'll have to get a pic of the place we have to go - it's bad enough but not as bad as that one.....

Cyclefrance wrote:

No, that's the zipper so we can get into the roof space easy...

Touche.:D

CF--any of your male co-workers single and looking for a good time? :D

barefoot serpent wrote:

all work and no play make CF a dullard...

and I s'pose this place is just down the street?

prolly this place ;)

Well done FOOT !!!!!

thanks zippy.
I still owe you a review of the brewskis. they were all great. I found a place near me (an hour away) that has turbodogs and other abita beers.

rathergood used to have a version of the immigrant song by led zep that was hilarious. they took it down. I have it somewhere, if you are interested.

nice one foot^3

footfootfoot wrote:

thanks zippy.
rathergood used to have a version of the immigrant song by led zep that was hilarious. they took it down. I have it somewhere, if you are interested.

The Viking ship with the lightning? :confused:

Why Hell yes !!!

Also New Belgin has a new seasonal beer out called Skinny dip , Goood stuff !!!

http://www.newbelgium.com/beers_skinnydip.php

Want some ??

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

The Viking ship with the lightning? :confused:

yeah! "the hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands..."

now I'm looking for the vid. found it, but can't find my memory stick to get it off the imac and onto the new 'puter. rats

footfootfoot wrote:

prolly this place ;)

Excellent Foot! I'll be playing that all day!
Those cats are really cool!

Don't have enough entertainment pubs close by - my younger son does the odd stand-up, and has to travel well away from leafy Surrey countryside around here to get to the pubs that offer live acts of any sort.

Cyclefrance wrote:

Excellent Foot! I'll be playing that all day!
Those cats are really cool!

Don't have enough entertainment pubs close by - my younger son does the odd stand-up, and has to travel well away from leafy Surrey countryside around here to get to the pubs that offer live acts of any sort.

Those cats are catchy, I'm sorry to say.

yeah cf, maybe the Sholin Monks can work 24/7 but I sure can't.

Of course if I had to go to work in a nice house like that I would feel very fortunate.

I agree with CycleFrance that the working conditions of the average Brit are appalling. This is where I have to work ... views from the office ...

View from "goods inward" department, and door of cowshed where I work ...

OK it sucks to be you. Where should we send donations?

I guess heels at work are out.

We sell stuff in the cowshed ... but heels would be tricky as the floor is very uneven :D .

Did you click the link? I thought you might like those shoes. I have a pair myself. (judging by all the sheep outside the office.

Ya know what I think? I think the Brits WANT us to invade! Damn their blissful hides!*


*Kidding, you sweet, pastie-eating race. I love ya!

limey wrote:

I agree with CycleFrance that the working conditions of the average Brit are appalling. This is where I have to work ... views from the office ...

Are the sheep there for wool or entertainment?:sheep:

Ok, so I'm a little jealouse...of the view, not the proximity to sheep.:p

It's probably too late to ask for a discount now.

It's lover-ly, with the view of the perks and all, but you'd be shut down in a heartbeat here.
That concrete ramp with ankle twisting drop offs on both sides wouldn't be allowed by the permit people or insurance company. ;)

footfootfoot wrote:

Did you click the link? I thought you might like those shoes. I have a pair myself. (judging by all the sheep outside the office.

So you've erm tested the boots for sheep-holding strength, then ... ?

limey wrote:

I agree with CycleFrance that the working conditions of the average Brit are appalling. This is where I have to work ... views from the office ...

beautiful, We're all jealous.


@ Bruce. You'll give us Americans a bad name. :P I'd take the ankle breaking drop offs anyday to be out in the country.

limey wrote:

So you've erm tested the boots for sheep-holding strength, then ... ?

I have the clogs, which may explain the sheep escaping so easily.:redface:

I'd love to work in an environment like that - and did at one point. Here is where I work now.

dar512 wrote:

I'd love to work in an environment like that - and did at one point. Here is where I work now.

eek!:eek:

dar512 wrote:

I'd love to work in an environment like that - and did at one point. Here is where I work now.

Do you take a parachute to work in your briefcase? :eek:

I'm safe enough. At least I hope so. Too low for airplanes, too high for van bombs.

Very purdy. You are one lucky limey.:)

Griff, we had a bunch of people in today who said "purdy" and "wayull", it was amazing to here the Southern States drawull in real life.

footfootfoot wrote:

yeah! "the hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands..."

now I'm looking for the vid. found it, but can't find my memory stick to get it off the imac and onto the new 'puter. rats

www.vikingkittens.com

thanks Iggy, I love that one.
The memory stick wasn't lost, it was just in the wash. Works fine.

limey wrote:

Griff, we had a bunch of people in today who said "purdy" and "wayull", it was amazing to here the Southern States drawull in real life.

Don't let them leave until you hear them successfully use the word "yonder".

Kitsune wrote:

Don't let them leave until you hear them successfully use the word "yonder".

And "Bless his / her heart".

Y'all are forgetting the *signature* expression of the Southern Dialect.

Kitsune wrote:

Don't let them leave until you hear them successfully use the word "yonder".

Or fixin'ta

And of course, they must describe a small child as "cute as a bug" and some adult of questionable intelligence as "a real piece of work."

Happy to see your real work life.

You know what vikingkittens reminds me of...
...a banana phone.

Brianna wrote:

You know what vikingkittens reminds me of...
...a banana phone.

You mean like "ding dong ding dong, danana phone"? That song?

Wow, Garden furniture....I feel your pain Cyclefrance. Might I enquire as to which region of our fair isles, forces you into such a working environment?

footfootfoot wrote:

You mean like "ding dong ding dong, danana phone"? That song?

Almost, it's more like, Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone.

footfootfoot wrote:

You mean like "ding dong ding dong, danana phone"? That song?

All I had to do was read your post and that darn song was stuck in my head all day. :nuts:


Now, thanks to xoB, I'll have it stuck in there all weekend too!:thankyou: :bonk:

Now, I pay you back.

Double.

Nice try but compared to Badger and Bananaphone, those suck. :p

Badger is the clear winner. Takes a round or two of the Chicken Dance to unstick it.

I thought I posted a note to check cmep2 for a version of b'phone. Am I losing it?

That's strange 3foot, I seem to remember seeing it, although I didn't check it out?
UT changed some stuff in vBulletin so maybe it got wiped....was it a link?:confused:

no, I uploaded a tu, err file.

DanaC wrote:

Wow, Garden furniture....I feel your pain Cyclefrance. Might I enquire as to which region of our fair isles, forces you into such a working environment?

The impoverished backwaters of Cobham, Surrey, where stockbrokers with wringing hands and furrowed brows weather the perils of a volatile share market - for many the million pound bonuses of recent years seem now a distant memory....

They are naturally distraught and ravaged - not for them a new DB9 or Bentley Continental - these now are but dreams and fantasies (well, so they say - there seem to be enough of them down Cobham High Street, for all that and despite all their moaning!)

Man, Raffi's original Bananaphone beats that sped-up version by a lot. The verses dropped from the badgephone version are the best ones in the song!

...MAN, I'm pathetic.

OK dude, just wait until your kids are out of diapers before you reference Raffi again. It'll all be cool.
;)

Then show them this and this.:evil2: