[Closed] Football apartheid

Can't you just leave early and go riding?

As you're just too thick to pretend you're going to watch the game - so yes, it would be right.

go for a ride?

im with you hora. do NOT get it.

You've not really played a blinder there. I'm leaving the office on the pretext of watching the football, but am going to do something else with the valuable skive-time thereby created. Well done me. 🙂

I probably won't be sticking pencils up my urethra, but it's an idea...

I've said **** off Im going out riding! Its not bloody fair- people get the afternoon off IF they watch a game. I wouldnt make them watch a Test match etc!

Is that right? no.... to stick pencils down your uretha they would have to go through your mouth and down to the bladder that way, I think you meant up your uretha.

I'd rather stick pencils [b]down[/b] my uretha so I have to stay in the office....

Does that mean you're stiff? 😉

I got in super early so I can leave early and watch the game.

I'd rather stick pencils down my uretha so I have to stay in the office....

Rather than have an afternoon off work drinking with your mates 😯

Rather than have an afternoon off work drinking with your mates

In a relatively open-air and artificial enclosure with a big screen and 10,000 Manc's and overpriced beer in plastic cups?

Am I being unreasonable by saying no?

a relatively open-air and artificial enclosure with a big screen and 10,000 Manc's and overpriced beer in plastic cups

Is there going to be a massive fight with lots of drunk, angry scotsmen and riot police and all that stuff again? wikid awsum blud.

Oh for God's sake, have you nothing better to complain about? FFS, stop moaning and just get on with your life.

Think yourself lucky - we just got a memo from management saying that all employees are expected to stick pencils down their urethras from 16:00 GMT onwards.

In a relatively open-air and artificial enclosure with a big screen and 10,000 Manc's and overpriced beer in plastic cups?

Ahh, didn't realize you had to go there - luckily our office if just shutting in 30mins for us to go off whereever we want 😀

Rather than have an afternoon off work drinking with your mates

Do you have ANY idea how ****ing boring and unpleasant it is to be forced to sit through a game of a sport you dislike with people talking continously about it and not including you because you don't enjoy it? For me football matches and their pub showings are no-go zones, can't stand them, can't stand peoples devotion to it. I'd not get the day off "for free" if I wanted to watch the kitesurfing champs or head up to a MTB race.

Ha! I went down the pub last Friday to go drinking. I didn't know there was a match on, and the atmosphere was pretty ugly in the last 10 minutes. Even I wanted them to bang a goal in to reduce the likelihood of a riot...

There does seem to be a lot of double-standardism going off. Take the afternoon off if you want to watch the game, or stay and work if you don't.

I think all workplaces should go bah humbug, no football for anybody

Kitesurfing....so thats a sport then is it?

So having to watch football equates to apartheid?

You're such a tool sometimes Hora.

It's a group game therefore if you want to watch it book time off or make other arrangements. FFS, it's not like England have done anything to warrant the additional attention.

Jamie

Oooo check her! 😆

Coyote - Member
It's a group game therefore if you want to watch it book time off or make other arrangements. FFS, it's not like England have done anything to warrant the additional attention.

Well actually they have. Unfortunately it is that they have sucked so hard they 'have' to win today. So essentially it is the knockout stage a bit early 😉

hora - Member
Jamie
Oooo check her

Incoming.

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p.s my point still stands tho.

i'm gonna resist and watch Wimbledon!

[i]Is there going to be a massive fight with lots of drunk, angry scotsmen and riot police and all that stuff again? wikid awsum blud. [/i]

yeah, that was funny wasn't it?

These pictures always made me laugh.
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It's pretty ****ing childish though isn't it, whining that it's not fair that collegues who do like football get to go and watch the national team but those that don't err dont.

It's like my 9 and 6 year old arguing about one of them getting a bit more cake or 30 seconds longer on the computer.

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It's pretty ****ing childish though isn't it, whining that it's not fair that collegues who do like football get to go and watch the national team but those that don't err dont.

Yes, I bet they're a right laugh in work 😐

These pictures always made me laugh.

That was mildly amusing at 7am on the morning of the match when I was stopped by a few polite Rangers fans asking me where they could buy wine from at that time in the morning...as the day progressed it became annoying.

Opps read Yoshi's post as 'you're a right laugh at work' not 'the're a right laugh at work'.

Are you all going to have a 'Henman style-Hill' to watch your beloved jobbying England team? 😆

Afterall, lets face it. England is the football team version of Henman.

I was working by Canal Street 😉 until 5pm, getting out of the city that night was a nightmare, especially since some Rangers fans had decided to start throwing bottles off bridges onto Mancunian Way.

brilliant pics - hopefully he will leave a memo to himself not to attack a policeman accompanied by a big doggy.
Or 1 of those viscious looking rabbits !!

It's pretty ****ing childish though isn't it, whining that it's not fair that collegues who do like football get to go and watch the national team but those that don't err dont.

No, not at all. Considering how companies usually keep track of your work hours by the hour, sometimes to the 15 mins and pay you by that, I think it's entirely fair that they complain (or get to do whatever the hell they like with the same amount of time).

Kitesurfing....so thats a sport then is it?

Last time I checked, yes? What bizzarrro definitions do you live your life by?

So the OP works in a company that rigidly enforces working times?

I don't think he's a fast learner gnasher. IIRC that chap is a convicted murderer, I think the Sun dug some dirt up on him when he complained that everyone in Britain was laughing at him for having a go at a copper and then crying like a girl when the dog decided to sort him out.

At our place, they're showing the games on the projector right behind my desk. So for the last week the average IQ of the office has dropped ten points, people are eating their lunch at my desk and leaving the place a sh1t-tip, the knuckle-draggers are coming in from other departments shouting at the screen whilst I'm talking on the phone with customers, and today they've let everyone come in wearing football shirts.

Needless to say, I'm working from home today. When's it all over?

the knuckle-draggers are coming in from other departments

Putting you off your avocado and salmon wraps eh?

I can't believe people are upset about being allowed to leave work early to watch their national team in the world cup

So the OP works in a company that rigidly enforces working times?

I've no idea, but it's a fair assumption of most workplaces in the UK.

As above, if you want it off to see a game, book it off and leave work for it, simple, everyone happy.

I can't believe people are upset about being allowed to leave work early to watch their national team in the world cup

I think you're missing the point really, its not the people being allowed to leave to do something they want that are complaining, it's the ones who don't want to watch it but almost undoubtedly won't be able to take a half-day break at a time of their choosing without comments being made?

Afterall, lets face it. England is the football team version of Henman.

Er, Henman was pretty damned handy - at his height he was ranked 4th in the world.

When was the last time the England football team was that good? Oh yes, 1990, when they should have won the bl--dy thing..!

[i] shouting at the screen whilst I'm [s]talking on the phone[/s] busily typing furiously into STW [/i]

fixed it for you 🙂

As above, if you want it off to see a game, book it off and leave work for it, simple, everyone happy.

why do that if your company has decided to let you go and watch the game or brought a tv in for the day? oh because its just not fair!

hillarious!

anyway, I'm off to watch the game 🙂

To be fair coffeeking, if you asked me for the day off to watch kitesurfing I'd assume you were making it up