People in the office who've been wearing an oh-so-wacky santa hat or reindeer antlers for weeks now: C or D?

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I know I'm probably a miserable bastard, but it really fucking irritates me. It's bad enough we have to sit here for 8 hours a day, but why would people want to wear a silly hat for every hour of the day, 5 days a week, since the end of November. Give it a frigging rest.

It doesn't make me feel very festive.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

On the other hand, it can be a useful arsehole-detector.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

DUD.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh you miserable wee cunt! Don't you realise he's trying to hopskitschkoss get a life?

― Gordon (Gordon), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Gordon, didn't quite get that one. I am a miserable cunt though.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I refused even to wear the paper hat from the cracker at our work Xmas meal. Expressing jollity at the expense of your dignity = dud.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

A lady at work is wearing a red cardigan with green Christmas trees on it. I have never had a conversation with her, although I say hello when she comes in. She left a present on my desk this morning. We have Nat King Cole playing from my coworker's computer at the moment too. As if trawling round crowded shops to the same old soundtrack isn't bad enough...

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

awww! i find this very awww. am i a sap?
i want the cardigan also. i love cardigans.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ohmygod Madchen you have to get out of there! They'll break out the novelty Christmas earings next, after that there's no going back....

Greg, you would willingly wear a Christmas cardigan? In public?!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

It is one of those big, baggy older women's cardigans. Not a cute little one. You don't want it, really. Now we are listening to Cliff.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Now Margaret has asked Fiona to turn up Aled Jones.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Are they singing along? Please tell me they are, it will complete my mental picture of Christmas hell.....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody Cliff. Is that the one that goes: "Chreeeest-mas ti-ime/Drink driving fi-ine/Children singing/Gies five Wood-bi-ine?"

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

That's the one. No singing along, thankfully, although Margaret has been known to do the Cheeky Girls. Things have improved slightly with Wham.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Things have improved slightly with Wham

how is this possible?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Cliff to Wham = improvement. Cliff to virtually anything = improvement, non?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I made a stand yesterday by putting on the fab anti-Christmas stylings of Cassetteboy, though today have only got as far as the XFM Xmas effort.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

For once I appreciate my colleagues for being miserable antisocial b*stards! We've got a 1970's style cardboard nativity scene and a few of those hideous foil decorations, other than that it's misery as usual.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone has to take their top off ond show us yer tits! Either that or make a photocopy of their bottom.

― Gordon (Gordon), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

So, I'm the only one who has installed that program which puts twinkly little festive fairy lights around the edge of the computer screen then?

You are all so BAH HUMBUG!!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Greg, you would willingly wear a Christmas cardigan? In public?!

I have a cardigan thing. so yes. but in public? no. i don't do 'in public'.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

That's OK then, privacy of yer own home and all that....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i just like all cardigans, i can't help it...

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

As long as you don't subject others to them it's allowed. If you ever get the urge to wear one in public though, that's when you have to worry.....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

*worries*

i do wear cardigans in public, just not christmassy ones....

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

hopskitschkoss was my family name in the Old Country before we anglicised.

I don't like Chrimble decorations. Our house has none (though we have a handful of cards up in case someone visits. I tried to get our office Xmas tree taken down / away on health & safety grounds, but no dice.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cardigans in public. Oh no! No that, anything but that!

This should be on the "utterations of sheer terror" thread.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

it's so long since I wore a cardigan. I think I last owned one when I was about nine years old.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

aw no, do i suck?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

If toasters are against the H&S rules, which I think they are, because of fire risk, surely tree lights can be considered similarly.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah! You wanna break it to Margaret and Fiona?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but no NAKED FLAME (or heating element) involved in fairy lights. And they're preeeety. This is where I rhapsodise about my new iridescent fibre-optic Christmas twee. It's so cute I'm going to use it as a lamp all year round. Still, not nearly as nauseating as it could be, given that I feel it toes (or roots, if you won't) the fine line between tacky and minimalist.

There are no decorations up in the office, thank goodness. I despair when people get into corporate cheer, even if everyone is very nice around here. Not even a token strand of tinsel in reception, which is were I'm covering at the moment. Marvellous.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

our receptionist was told not to have a Christmas tree. The reason given was that the office closes down on Christmas Eve forever and there's more important things to worry about like crates to pack. She got all rebellious tho and brought a miniature artificial tree in from home ANYWAY.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah! stick it to the man with yr tiny tree. that's the stuff.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't realise people wore the hats and antlers for weeks on end. That's kind of brilliant.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Wh'about bands that wear Burger King hats?-I feel the same way about his (exception-Buckethead!).

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember someone in an office I workd in donning a set of antlers in the middle of summer! It was just for one day and was in response to the person sitting next to them wearing a particularly disgusting tie.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Margaret: Do you know what? I'm going to bring in that Eva whatserface CD tomorrow
Fiona: Oh please God no, not Eva Cassidy
Margaret: She's dead, you know

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm gonnae bring in Eva Cassidy tomorrow."

"Hello, is that the Health and Safety Executive?"

― Obvious Kneejerk Response, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a xmas desktop display - but it's a christmas kittens photo from the thread I started, so that's cool, RIGHT???

I think it's funny that as soon as the office folk get back from Thanksgiving break, they start wearing xmas sweatshirts all the time. You know, these really stupid el cheapo sweatshirts decorated with fake xmas lights and big puffy snowmen and all kinds of crap. We have a very professional office - no casual Friday even! So I don't see why it's ok for them to wear xmas sweatshirts. They could probably just come to work dressed as santa if they wanted (or Jesus?? no, probably not Jesus...). Not that I ever ever wear sweatshirts... but anyway. I think I should be allowed to wear jeans to celebrate xmas or something.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been forced to wear a santa hat for the last two weeks at work (and yes it "really fucking irritates me".) Our office manager installed an Xmas screensaver on her computer and it screwed up her color palettes HAHA (gosh I'm bitter...) We also have lights up in the shop windows, I like those though!

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

forced to wear one. Poor you! I find I can only wear the silly paper hat you get in crackers for a few minutes and then it starts to really irritate me and I feel compelled to remove it. At our Christmas meal there seemed to be an inverse proportion between the length of time the hats stayed on and the wearer's seniority.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Basically if you wear any form of Christmas headgear in the workplace YOU ARE A NING and might as well start planning to wed your sibling NOW.

On Sunday Ed and I drove to a little village in Derbyshire that had a great pub for lunches. Fantastic food, but all of the women there were wearing flashing red antennae hence suspicion on my part that Royston Vasey mothership parked nearby.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 09:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Be fair, Suzy, nearly all of them are probably wearing Xmas headgear under duress because some 22-year-old boss-eyed corporate nitwit/Brent wannabe decided it was a good idea for office morale/getting in the punters, whereas, as Euan Ferguson rightly said in the Observer a couple of Sundays ago, it usually tends to drive punters away. Or in my case, I end up feeling really sorry for them and wanting to give them a big hug. Was the pub you went to part of a chain?

Yeah I know there are Colin Hunt bathe-in-baked-beans-for-Comic-Relief types all over the place, but surely they must be in the minority?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Marcello it was a very tight-knit FAMILY-RUN place (the landlord, their dad, wasn't having any of this deelybobber/Santa-hat nonsense) about as far away from corporate life as is possible to get. Ed told me the village had byelaws in place to stop incomers buying up houses and pricing locals out of the market.

When I worked at the Body Shop in college we used to have to wear 'seasonal' sweatshirts which weren't too gimmicky. I didn't mind; it wasn't mandatory HEADGEAR for the 'you don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps' crowd.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Village refuses incomers = the antlers were probably their own

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i had to wear a santa hat at one of the big department stores i worked at. it was big and fluffy and i felt like the biggest fucking dork. i mean, what was the point? it didn't make me resemble santa even REMOTELY, and it just kept slipping and made the store feel even hotter from the christmas crowd zoo.

― sand.y, Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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