[Darkwatch]

Maia Irraz, on 06 November 2009 - 04:48 PM, said:

Well our Pres just cancelled our office Xmas party because of the alphanumeric flu (love that term, btw!). The irony is that no-one here has it yet but because most of us won't have been vaccinated by the time the party rolls around (thanks to an incompetent vaccination strategy) they aren't taking any chances.

I hadn't yet decided if I was going to go or not so I don't care that much but a lot of people in my office are now losing their collective minds. You'd think that they'd just announced that they were going to stop paying people, that's how much overreacting I'm hearing.

Really they're losing they're minds? Man office parties suck (ok the before last one didn't) in general anyway. At that point just invite the people you want over with a BYOB policy.

caladanbrood, on 06 November 2009 - 05:38 PM, said:

Canada seems to have gone way overboard with all this vaccination crap. Have any other countries even bothered? They realise it's not dangerous unless you're really old, really young, or pregnant, right?

Oh you have no idea how much fun the media is having fear mongering right now.
It's hilarious.
In Québec they managed to scare everyone by saying the vaccine was dangerous.
Then a bunch of little kids get sick.
Everyone runs for the vaccine scared shitless of the virus.
Now waiting lines are 10 hours long.

Mass Hysteria is funny, until it gets deadly.

[LadyMTL]

Darkwatch, on 06 November 2009 - 08:39 PM, said:

Maia Irraz, on 06 November 2009 - 04:48 PM, said:

Well our Pres just cancelled our office Xmas party because of the alphanumeric flu (love that term, btw!). The irony is that no-one here has it yet but because most of us won't have been vaccinated by the time the party rolls around (thanks to an incompetent vaccination strategy) they aren't taking any chances.

I hadn't yet decided if I was going to go or not so I don't care that much but a lot of people in my office are now losing their collective minds. You'd think that they'd just announced that they were going to stop paying people, that's how much overreacting I'm hearing.

Really they're losing they're minds? Man office parties suck (ok the before last one didn't) in general anyway. At that point just invite the people you want over with a BYOB policy.

caladanbrood, on 06 November 2009 - 05:38 PM, said:

Canada seems to have gone way overboard with all this vaccination crap. Have any other countries even bothered? They realise it's not dangerous unless you're really old, really young, or pregnant, right?

Oh you have no idea how much fun the media is having fear mongering right now.
It's hilarious.
In Québec they managed to scare everyone by saying the vaccine was dangerous.
Then a bunch of little kids get sick.
Everyone runs for the vaccine scared shitless of the virus.
Now waiting lines are 10 hours long.

Mass Hysteria is funny, until it gets deadly.

Heh...you're forgetting the fact that Quebec (where I live) changes their vaccination schedule like every 4 hours! At this rate it'd be my turn sometime in oh...January. Assuming I decide to get vaccinated in the first place.

And yes, these coworkers of mine are upset to the point that they're emailing Human Resources! Who knew that a Christmas party meant so much? I personally could care less but I have to admit that I'm baffled by the reaction.

[Mezla PigDog]

Stupid work. Going away for the weekend and have to take my laptop to work on the journey rather than immerse myself in DoD. All because some fucker has made something more difficult than it needs to be and is pressuring me to fix it. I hate the pecking order. One day I hope to not have to suck up to anybody. (never gonna happen!)

[Centzon Totochtin]

I'm working today too Mez It sucks.

[Darkwatch]

Maia Irraz, on 06 November 2009 - 09:31 PM, said:

Heh...you're forgetting the fact that Quebec (where I live) changes their vaccination schedule like every 4 hours! At this rate it'd be my turn sometime in oh...January. Assuming I decide to get vaccinated in the first place.

And yes, these coworkers of mine are upset to the point that they're emailing Human Resources! Who knew that a Christmas party meant so much? I personally could care less but I have to admit that I'm baffled by the reaction.

I know I live here to, and it's the headlines each day, everything gets changed around.
I still find it hilarious.

Man you have some bizarre coworkers. Maybe they want to get the CEO drunk or something.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Hot as hell in this house.

[Happy Cat]

Funny, cold in this house, this AM.

I would never survive in Canadaland.

[Anomander]

We had a snowstorm yesterday and some of said snow is still on the ground today.

[Aptorian]

Beer in my lap. Beer is supposed to be ingested not soaked up throuugh osmosis!

[Cougar]

I have a hangover the size of the First World War.

[Mezla PigDog]

I like The X Factor way way way waaaaaaaay too much. I was clinging to the hope that it was in an ironic way but no, I just love it. Terrance and Philip ftw.

[Tiste Simeon]

Happy Cat, on 07 November 2009 - 05:20 PM, said:

Funny, cold in this house, this AM.

I would never survive in Canadaland.

I would I flipping love the cold! In fact I am sat in my room without a top on and the window open and the heating off. Lovely stuff. -27 degrees up a mountain ftw!

As for stuff that is messing with my groove, I'm not quite sure what is, but something is...

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Cougar, on 08 November 2009 - 02:45 PM, said:

I have a hangover the size of the First World War.

Had the worst hangover in the known universe. First 24 hour hangover of my life. Was so bad I begin to worry about my liver and kidney function.

[Mezla PigDog]

24hours?! That's nothing. Wait until you have your first 72hour hangover where the third day is normal hangover and the preceding 2 days are full of sickness, mild organ failure and crushing depression!

[Cougar]

I'm sure you'll all be pleased to find out I drank through my hangoverand now feel like God's cock. That's the way I roll bitches.

X factor result was rather disappointing, I thought Lucie was pretty fit, for a lass 11 years younger than mw!

[Mezla PigDog]

Christmas songs on tv ads already. Bah humbug.

[Traveller]

....christmas stuff on shop shelves,* replacing the normal stuff you actually went in to buy. Which you now can't get, until that gap just after christmas before all the easter stuff appears.

Humbug seconded!

* Including all sorts of christmas food that has expiry dates of mid November

This post has been edited by Traveller: 09 November 2009 - 08:27 PM

[caladanbrood]

The only good thing about that is that you can get mincepies already. My opinion of mince pies is similar to Mezla's in respect to scotch eggs.

[Happy Cat]

Tiste Simeon, on 08 November 2009 - 09:41 PM, said:

Happy Cat, on 07 November 2009 - 05:20 PM, said:

Funny, cold in this house, this AM.

I would never survive in Canadaland.

I would I flipping love the cold! In fact I am sat in my room without a top on and the window open and the heating off. Lovely stuff. -27 degrees up a mountain ftw!

As for stuff that is messing with my groove, I'm not quite sure what is, but something is...

But I'm not a Yeti... or furry.


Spilled a full glass of milk in the living room this morning. It got under the couch, E-Z chair, soaked the carpet, etc. Started the day on a low note.


( Its' not lost on me that I whinning about spilt milk. )

[Jusentantaka]

my husband has teh dreaded porkuswine flu so he wont be coming home this week...

wait, wrong thread.