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Post by Mister Buch on Dec 26, 2014 20:49:25 GMT 1
Too much food here.
Too many drinks.
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Post by jklinders on Dec 27, 2014 11:11:32 GMT 1
It's a bit of a rough time getting a restaurant back up and running after being shut down for even one day. I actually wish I had a camera yesterday so i could post a pic of the empty fridges I had to fill in only 3 hours. Thankfully everyone still had a belly full of turkey and the party of 14 that was supposed to come in right at open was a no show. Even our GM was calling those folks losers and he is the one who is usually cranky if we have lower sales.
Boxing Day sales will be in full force today and it's going to be little short of terrifying. Our sous chef is trying to shanghai me into working a second double in a row and I don't think my knees can take it. Promises of being first man out don't mean anything when it still means being on my feet for more than 12 hours. Thank God I have Monday off at least.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Dec 27, 2014 12:16:07 GMT 1
Why does everyone love boxing day?!
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Post by Mister Buch on Dec 27, 2014 17:08:19 GMT 1
I don't think anyone really loves Boxing Day Gorvillus. There are no major boxing day traditions, just sales in the shops.
For me, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day are just 'extra Christmas' - you know, three days to celebrate instead of one!
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Post by jklinders on Dec 27, 2014 23:06:58 GMT 1
The origins of boxing Day are muddled as well. There is some notion it may have have started as a feudal thing where a lord gave his serfs a box of essential tools every year on the same day as part of a feudal obligation which may have mutated post renaissance to a master giving servants small gifts in boxes after Christmas. But it's all speculation. We love it now because (most) people get an extra day off after Christmas for it. Unless you work in the food service industry.
Speaking of sales in the shops it was a fucking madhouse at work today. Four more shifts and I am past the worst of it.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Dec 28, 2014 2:44:03 GMT 1
I always thought it was because after the saccharine phoniness of Christmas, families of yore would go to watch some old fashioned bare knuckle boxers smash the shit out of each other. Maybe that's what I hoped, anyway.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Dec 28, 2014 3:31:53 GMT 1
Seriously, there's gonna be a Taken 3? How many times are Liam Neeson's family members gonna be taken? You'd think the lowlifes of the Taken universe would learn after two films that if you kidnap Neeson's family, you get royally fucked up.
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Post by Mister Buch on Dec 28, 2014 3:41:44 GMT 1
As I understand it this time the baddies actually kill his wife rather than taking anything. It's like even they don't care anymore.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Dec 28, 2014 4:59:09 GMT 1
Hopefully Tak3n is about Neeson just going Bad Cop on some mothers.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Dec 28, 2014 6:29:35 GMT 1
1 was awesome. 2 was lame. Here's hoping 3 restores the mojo.
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Post by jklinders on Dec 28, 2014 11:54:12 GMT 1
I don't know. After a fashion the Taken franchise is somewhat similar to Weekend at Bernie's. One was good to watch on a lark, preferably drunk or stoned. 2 makes you wonder how they are not caught and arrested for lugging a corpse around and playing marionette with it.
Hollywood needs some new writers and a few fresh ideas.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Dec 28, 2014 14:38:10 GMT 1
I don't know. After a fashion the Taken franchise is somewhat similar to Weekend at Bernie's. One was good to watch on a lark, preferably drunk or stoned. 2 makes you wonder how they are not caught and arrested for lugging a corpse around and playing marionette with it. Hollywood needs some new writers and a few fresh ideas. Why, Linders, I was not aware you'd seen any of the Takens? I saw the first one, because when it was in theaters I was intrigued because I like (some) action movies, and I love Liam Neeson as an actor - and it was a decent movie, but I could not get over how annoying I found his daughter to be before the kidnapping. So childish, and spoiled, and whiny if she didn't get her way. I didn't bother watching the second one, because I felt it would be more of the same - "Hello. My name is Liam Neeson. You hurt my family. Prepare to die." (Imagine that last phrase being spoken in Mandy Patinkin's voice from The Princess Bride) I was not aware there was going to be a third one, and at this point before I do any serious reading up on it, I have to agree with Mr Glow - how many times can one man's family be targeted? And how many different ways can Liam Neeson go all "Bad mutha-fucka" on the bad guys' arses? But I reserve any real judgement until I get a chance to read up on it.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Dec 29, 2014 20:26:55 GMT 1
I just had to carry eight cans of beer back from the shop in a single carrier bag, so naturally my palms are fucked.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jan 1, 2015 0:55:02 GMT 1
So I get to cap off the 2014 Pet Hates thread? Badass, I always knew I was the best whiner on this site.
I just ordered a pizza from a spot that isn't my usual place. It cost a few pound extra, and was thin as shit. Disgraceful.
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