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  1. Re skinny jeans. I once tried on a pair by mistake......

     

    I'd been summoned to London last minute on a business trip and packed an overnight bag with the usual stuff and also some casual clothes for the evening.....

     

    Meetings in the day went well and decided to dash back to the hotel to get changed before having a few beers with old colleagues..... trouble was I'd picked up the OH's jeans..... they didn't even make it to my knees :lol:

     

    I'm almost a foot taller and double her weight, I have no idea how I made that mistake. Pints and food were carefully consumed that evening as I had to go out in a suit.

     

    Anyway after once going to Fuertaventura for a bit of winter sun and seeing a group of middle aged German naturalists I'd say I don't mind what someone wears as long as they're wearing it :surrender::lol:

  2. I play all games on Easy B)

    To be fair I always up the difficulty on most games out of the box now. They all seem far too easy to be able to complete compared to the games when I was growing up in the late 70's/early 80's.

     

    I've put this down to a mix of the modern kids attention span and the ability to make more money from DLC/Expanssion packs. It's defiantly not because I'm so awesome at games now because I feel I'm below average when playing MP games.

     

    I did find TLOU bucked this trend and I had to lower the difficulty as well as finding it frustrating at times..... I still went back for more though.

     

    On a side note, I stumbled on a trailer of 'days gone' the other day and it did interest me.

  3. I stole my jeans form the local charity shop, I win.

    Saves on washing.....

     

    I once suggested to a scruffy colleague he donates his suit to the local charity shop and buy it back a few days later because then at least it would've been dry cleaned and would be cheaper than taking it himself :lol:

     

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  4. It arrived, been a long time since I've bought something I enjoy this much. It's the little things.

     

    £1400 watch, still shops in Primark. Keeping it real.

    Don't forget treating his employees to lap dances too :lol:

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  5. @coldel that's been my attitude with regards to bonuses, I don't expect them and I certainly don't count on them.

     

    @stew I also work for a large American company and it's the first I've heard they don't do 'bonuses' and in fact I remember the first year I had a direct American manager he took a look at my salary and compensation package told me it wasn't good enough so gave me a fantastic bonus (~25% at the time) which I put towards my zed. I'm only mentioning it because from my experience bonuses are the done thing.

    I think your US manager is pocketing your bonus.

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  6. Ekona has it, I was just about to suggest a nice meal for them and their partner at somewhere nice but not pretentious.... obviously if they like pretentious that's fine but me I'd prefer good food over flashy table cloths.

  7. :lol: Chippendale night out then... I'm sure they won't mind watching you with them! :surrender:

     

    One thing I should have mentioned is there is one thing that' peeves me off something rotten is someone getting rewarded for doing their job.

     

    Recently I saw a group of people get recognised for fixing an audit issue they were fully aware of but didn't flag it as an issue. That tonne is disciplinary but these guys get kudos coming out of their ears.

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  8. Lap dances?

     

    Sorry flex i have a feeling that's the sort of thing you would post to someone else's thread :lol:

     

    On a serious not I like being acknowledged for doing a good job, cash is always good or time off but sometimes a verbal recognition goes a long way.

     

    Well done by the way for thinking of them :thumbs:

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  9. I've often said if I could have a beer with any royal it would have to be princes Phillip and Harry as I think they'd be a right laugh.

     

    I also think Stephen Fry would be interesting but probably too intellectual for me and for totty Holly Willabooby and Carrie Ann moss but as she was in the matrix not now..... goodness knows what time has done :lol:

  10. what?

    :lol:

    Yeah I sort of rambled. I regret not investing in an omega I could've bought at a very good price due to exchange rates.

     

    The Rado you've bought looks good too and I bet you can't wait.

     

    Also that Tudor which was Oates earlier is also quite nice.

     

    Edit: also just spotted the typos, not sure there's much call for chronic watches :lol:

  11. I like that Tudor.

     

    I'm kicking myself as I went to NYC in 2007, looked at Omega sea master/speedmastera d could have bought the sea master chronic full size for around £2k with local taxes. I couldn't afford it at the time but I really regret not just banging it on the credit card.

     

    If I was back there with my knowledge now I'd have bought but that said I actually now prefer the speedmasters.

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