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Box of chocolates from the chocolate shop next to the office. For the last batch of presents (Xmas, Birthday) I went off piste a bit and bought her things like Phoenix Wright for the DS, and some books I thought she would like. I'm not really sure that when down very well, so I'm playing it straight down the line this year.
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Yeah, mo-day is definitely a chocolates and flowers sort of celebration isn't it? Originality is neither expected nor appreciated. I guess I'll drop a tenner at Hotel Chocolat and pick up some blooms from Marks's.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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Mine got knitting books so she can provide clothes for her granddaughter (at her request.) This'll be my first year as a mo-day recipient, so am interested to see what the childe will come up with. Chocs and flowers are not going to cut it.
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i didnt buy my mum anything. i sent her a card. i thought it was very funny- two little girls having a teaparty, you know, reto- ey type thing, and one of thems saying 'so i said to mummy, if my lunchbox isnt completely organic by monday im calling social services'. and the other ones saying 'well quite frankly sophie if you dont, i will'. inside i wrote a little message saying 'thankyou for feeding us bernard matthews mini kievs not mungbeans and for being a lovely mother in many other ways'. anyway my mum said she thought the card was 'very humorous' and that my message was an implied criticism of her child- rearing skills. i was like, 'NO! I REALLY LIKED BERNARD MATTHEWS MINI KIEVS! I HATE MUNGBEANS! I WAS BEING SINCERE!'. cant do right for doing wrong.
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Got my mum bendicks bittermints and a card that had a mother and childe penguin on it. Got Kate a card and nothing else. Two mothers sorted for about £8.
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It feels wrong, doesn't it, when you buy a mother's day card for your mother and partner at the same time. Part of your brain starts twitching.
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I didn't mind too much as we have a pot of money that people gave for a savings account for Amelie for when she was born so I just went to take £2 out of that to pay for her card, but there was nothing smaller than a twenty so I decided to just use that and keep the change as her nappies say they will keep her dry for up to 12 hours or something but quite often she soils herself well before that time is up and so I have to use another one so really because she has chosen to do that she has forced me to use another nappy unnecessarily which means that money should come out of her pocket.
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I fucking hate the fact that when I buy a cup of coffee from our vending machine, at the end of the process, it flashes up a message saying "Product is ready".
The entire thing is digital, you select which drink you want whether it is coffee, tea, espressochoc, viennese coffee (whatever that is) etc. So it clearly has stored in it a digital version of what you are ordering, so why at the end of the process can it not say "Coffee is ready"?
This might not be the most important thing in the world, but I hate the word "product" which is unfortunate given my job title but why does everything have to be a "product"?
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Viennese coffee is a rich and decadent combination of coffee, cream and chocolate, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon -- perfect for a lazy weekend morning or an afternoon treat. Not for dieters, this special drink is a wonderful way to relax and indulge yourself.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Viennese coffee is a rich and decadent combination of coffee, cream and chocolate, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon -- perfect for a lazy weekend morning or an afternoon treat. Not for dieters, this special drink is a wonderful way to relax and indulge yourself.
I suspect that for 10p from our vending machine it is going to be almost nothing like that description.
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you know theres no reason why an indulgent viennese coffee shouldnt be an integral part of a healthy, well- balanced weight- loss programme. but so many 'dieters' have set up a connection in their sub-conscious mind which says 'healthful food' = 'deprivation', and youve really got to work on unpacking messages like that if youre going to commit to achieving your Full Nutritional Potential. myself, at the end of a week of gently disciplining my appetite (but still eating meals as varied and delicious as mushroom and seaweed eggwhite fritatta, smoked tofu served on a bed of beetroot quinoa with a four- leaf salad, goji berry and carob soymilk 'yumshake' etc), i like nothing better than to curl up in my gowner on the sofa, with a copy of grazia, and to enjoy a really decadent beverage. sometimes i even have a cupcake with it if ive been particularly on point with the healthy weight- loss programme, or have been on one of my bikram yoga retreats; sometimes i will roast an almond and shave it onto the coffee for extra treatiness (and also almonds are extremely efficient at lowering LDL cholesterol, so its a very healthy sort of treatiness! ). i do this because i love myself, and care about myself, and treat myself like a precious parcel of worthiness. creamy coffee drinks are a core message to myself about what i deserve in life.
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: i do this because i love myself, and care about myself, and treat myself like a precious parcel of worthiness. creamy coffee drinks are a core message to myself about what i deserve in life.
^^ This is great. Unless you're being sincere, in which case it's ghastly.
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Some guy just walked by wearing a batman t-shirt, two batman fingerless gloves and he had a tattoo of batman on his arm. He must really like batman.
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[benway]LOL! CiH meant whether the man likes batman more than kovacs likes batman! But you pretended he meant 'does he like batman more than he likes kovacs' Hilarious! Hilarious isn't it Thorn! Your stupid obvious jokes! Loser! Wanker![/benway]
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you just have to learn to be more responsible with your 'jokes'. I'm not saying that every time you make a joke you are inviting me to be mean, but there are obvious patterns that you could change that would minimise the risk. It's common sense.
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That's true. Just like I wouldn't leave my car in a rough neighbourhood, unlocked with the keys in the ignition and "I Hate Women" scrawled across the windscreen in pink lipstick.
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I have been away from this forum for so long because I have been on Facebook a lot like so many others from here. Facebook certainly is addictive and also a fantastic way of finding old long lost friends and relatives too. Much better than the old FriendsReunited site.
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I've never heard of this "Face Book". Is it just pictures of lots of people's faces displayed in a book? How can you find old friends like that? I guess you could just flick through until you see someone you recognise, but some of my school friends i haven't seen for 20 years or so, so I may not recognise them now.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I've never heard of this "Face Book". Is it just pictures of lots of people's faces displayed in a book?
It's more like a series of photos and updates of people you used to know. The object of the exercise is to go through their holiday/ party/ family photos and analyse the quality of their homes, the attractiveness of their friends and spouses, how expensive their clothes are, and how closely their holiday destinations resemble glossy brochures from expensive travel companies, and from there judge whether or not they are beating you at life.
At the same time, you have to go through your own pictures and updates and carefully select the ones that best represent the lifestyle you want people to think you lead. This means, for example, that if you're at a party and there's an attractive girl there, you fling your arm round her shoulders, gawp into the camera and stick it up as your profile pic, as though you and this girl are the best of friends. Do this a few times. Then make sure none of the photos of you curled up in a foetal position, sobbing into a bottle of creme de menthe are tagged with your name. Hey presto! You look like the Hugh Hefner of Broadstone.
If you've got kids, make sure you only add pics of them looking angelic, dressed in the most expensive clothes they own, and maybe pointing and gurgling delightedly at something off camera, while the other parent smiles adoringly down at them. Obviously don't post any pics of them grabbing handfuls of cowshit during a nature walk, while it pisses it down with rain and your partner storms off back to the car until you "bloody learn to control the little c**t". Also don't post any pics of the time they managed to get into the roll of barbed wire n the shed because you were busy in the loft, surfing for porn. Although, hopefully your first reaction on that occasion wasn't to grab the camera and take pictures.
Status updates... as with any communications campaign, you need to know what message you want to put out. Stressed!LOL is a popular one, so make sure you let everyone know when you've had less sleep than you feel you needed, or if you're Working Late... Again! Treat the status update as though people actually give a fuck. As though there's some cosmic Pity Bucket that you're gradually filling up, and that one day the universe will knock on your door and go "Wow! You've had it really rough!"
Alternatively, post up nebulous comments about forthcoming/ past activities that are going to be AMMMAAAAZINGGGG!!!! Perhaps you're going to Thailand, in which case you should start a countdown that goes THAILAND!!! 33 days and counting!! Or just post Looking forward to a big weekend - you know who you are ;o). This way people will look at your page and get jealous of the amazing hedonistic life you lead.
Ultimately you have to remember that Facebook isn't a tool for communication, or reviving old friendships. It's there for you to create a better 'you' and to be able to place that 'you' in a hierarchy of people that you grew up with, went to university with, or met through work. Good luck!
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I would agree with that, and as a result, I don't put any photos or status updates onto facebook. I suppose that the clue is in the phrase 'status update' really.
It's the reason why I prefer twitter. The dynamic is much less intrusive, and lends itself well to the task of maintaining weak ties. I plugged friendfeed into facebook for a while, which is like an aggregator for web activity (things I've favourited, things I've bookmarked, etc) but it confused the fuck out of everybody.
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