Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm sure I'll have no problem explaining that to my mum.

I'm sure she'll be invited.

They should probably meet before the wedding anyway

I'd rather elope, but Mr Dave would never forgive us.

Oh yeah. Forgot about him.

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I'm going to be on the island (I've spent about half my time there this year), dunno if I'll be able to get a proper Christmas dinner, and I'll be working (here), but should be good fun anyway. Gonna watch the Alan Partridge Christmas special (the one from the 90s, not a new one) I think.

Can confirm.
I live in constant fear that he’ll get more like his dad. We recently over came the struggle of stopping him saying burp while burping (something his dad does) - which was replaced by “I didn’t say burp!”.
It gets weird when they’re together, his dad is definitely more annoying but he has had more years to practice.

Hi Sal!

In 1.5 hours I finish for 20 days of holiday.

Hello, lovely. I’ve been lurking since the cottage, got to avoid that one extra drink during the Beex drinking game for not having an account!

Is his sister weird as well, or is this affliction common only to the male line?

Seems to only be the males, his uncle is actually kind of cool so the annoying-ness must come directly from his dad. Either that or it only occurs in one sibling.

Same old same old in the Warhead Household. Birthday Buffet on Christmas Eve for my daughter with a few of her friends around, and we'll no doubt end up playing 'Who's In The Bag' at some point, along with as-yet-unspecified other games. Mrs. W has probably bought a new game for us to play, so we'll spend a considerable amount of time working out how to play it, as I'm not allowed to open it in advance to study The Rulez.

Christmas Day will involve our granddaughter being here at some stage , possibly for Christmas Dinner, along with Mrs W's sister for dinner and supper.

I'll be the designated driver, so no drinking for me on the Eve or the Day and, as always, that suits me just fine.

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Hey! What the fuck happened there?

That's the single player version. We don't play that.

This just makes me want to meet his dad.

Yeah.

No.

You've already met him.

Indeed

I've just downloaded nVidia drivers for the first time in ages; why in the shitting hell are they 440 fucking MB?

You're updating your drivers wrong.

Well I'm certainly posting in the wrong thread, that's for sure.

I thought maybe a vodka drivers were some kind of propulsion system for your sleigh.

Yeah, vodka drivers. That’ll do.

What’s happened to autocorrect to recently? It keeps force capitalising random words, too. Not as soon as I’ve typed them, but three or four words on. I assume it’s contextual, but it’s annoying as I forget to read through what I’ve typed. Not now... because I’m writing about it and therefore thinking about it.

If the phrases "updating drivers" and "first time in ages" are in the same sentence, you're doing it wrong.

Yeah, I know, it's just something I never remember to do very often. It's the sort of thing it would be nice if they'd integrate into Windows Update so it was all just handled.

Oops.

That's a fir size

Brains Brewery have a Christmas beer called 'Fir King Good Ale'. Went to order one at the Turf on Friday and, inevitably, the barlady didn't quite hear me, looked a bit stunned, and asked me to repeat what I'd said.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Hahaha Christ

Excellent stuff.

Looking forward to reading it at the dentist's next summer.

God, that's depressing.

So is my bedroom. Currently looks like an Amazon distribution centre. I normally make an effort to get at least half my presents from independent retailers but that went truly out of the window this year.

We sort of already had christmas on 25 November before leaving. For actual christmas we're breaking a habit of a lifetime and eating out. As we're in Singapore we're eating at Jamie's Kitchen

Did anyone here break up for Christmas today? If so, HAPPY HOLIDAY TIME!!

I broke up ages ago... Technically.

Anyway, we're having Christmas at home. We've invited both sets of parents for dinner but my dad is too ill to make it so it'll just be the in laws coming round.

I can't wait for the awkwardness. My wife has just got off the phone to her mom who reckons is being 'betrayed' because we're going to visit my wife's Grandad next week. There's a silly family argument over absolutely nothing but the only one who seems to be arguing is my mother in law. So yeah good times!

I assume all in-laws are completely bonkers, but then I see someone on the internet posting that their in-laws are the best and nicest people in the world, so I assume those people posting are the ones who have the weirdo parents.

Does that mean I win because I broke up at the end of June?

This is me! MERRY FECKING CHRISTMAS!

Huzzah!! Russell is in until next Friday, but it seems close now. I’ll be happy for the break and company and time to relax and have fun.

Joan's is doing practice runs. This is 'boxing day'.

We have Sam coming over this week, then Christmas starts with a trip to the cinema to see Jumanji and Star Wars. He will stay until boxing day When Darryl comes over with Chloe and we have Christmas #2 followed two days later by her birthday, then back home the next day on her real birthday. Then four days of just me and Joan's which will involve packing and playing Lego games.

One week to go !

(No pressure)

I finish this Wednesday. Work will be a doss as it's our Bad Santa and buffet during the 2 hour lunch then we'll all get to leave earlier to get ready for our Christmas do.

Is that the Secret Santa variant where you either open a new present or steal someone else's?

Or is it someone in a Father Christmas suit trying to be hip?

I finish on Wednesday too. Can't wait.

Yep. It's the highlight of the work year. The "ladies" bitchiness really comes out

I have lovely, lovely in-laws. Gaz's family are all so nice and normal.

I make up for this by having an extra fucked up family.

But then Gaz. Odd how that happens.

I think it’s extra special to have supportive and loving in-laws. Russell’s grandparents welcomed me into the family with open arms. Russell’s Grandad and I have a daily chat conversation. It’s magic. It’s great to know you have that support network, Jem x