Try this one on the boss.

[lizzie]

25 REASONS WHY ALCOHOL SHOULD BE SERVED AT WORK
1. It's an incentive to show up.
2. It reduces stress.
3. It leads to more honest communications.
4. It reduces complaints about low pay.
5. It cuts down on time off because you can work with a
hangover.
6. Employees tell management what they think, not what
management wants to hear.
7. It helps save on heating costs in the winter.
8. It encourages carpooling.
9. Increase job satisfaction because if you have a bad job,
you don't care.
10. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come
to work.
11. It makes fellow employees look better.
12. It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
13. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are
wasted.
14. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
15. Suddenly, burping during a meeting isn't so embarrassing.
16. Employees work later since there's no longer a need to
relax at the bar.
17. It makes everyone more open with their ideas.
18. Everyone agrees the work is better after they've had a
couple of drinks.
19. Eliminates the need for employees to get drunk on their
lunch break.
20. Increases the chance of seeing your boss naked.
21. It promotes foreign relations with the former Soviet Union.
22. The janitor's closet will finally have a use.
23. Employees no longer need coffee to sober up.
24. Sitting on the copy machine will no longer be seen as
"gross,"
25. Babbling and mumbling incoherently will be common
language.

[Allan]

At one of my jobs it always paid off to negotiate with the personnel manager after his liquid lunch, he would agree to anything then (almost)
Allan

[lizzie]

Where I used to work the team meetings were always held in a pub. The boss would insist on it.

And if anyone wanted to pull a flanker she insisted on knowing so that she could tell her bosses to bog off so she could join in the skive.

She was a great boss, respected her staff and helped them to climb that slippery ladder to the top.

[Ali]

and the connection to kitchen gardening is...... ?

Mr Potato head, could you please create an 'off topic' general chatter, and leave this one for that connected to the general area of kitchen gardening ?

I knew there was a good reason I didn't come here often any more...

Mutter mutter grumble grumble......

[richard p]

if you dont come to general chatter very often why do you feel you should dictate what the regular users chat about ?

[peterf]

ali your connection to kitchen garden is.....?

[Johnboy]

As I see it this is what General Chatter is designed to do. Sort the Strict Gardening Subjects out and leave this one for the less serious side of gardening.
Gardeners like a joke the same as everyboby else so Lizzie's posting has a perfect right to be here on the forum. Albeit it is a slight departure from what we have all been used to but remeber you only ever share jokes with friends.
We are all on tenter hooks awaiting the day when we can get the season started properly.
I would far sooner have a laugh, which I certainly have, than everybody being at loggerheads.
But I defend the right of Ali to voice her opinion openly on forum.
For those who do not know Ali she is a nutritionalist who has helped this forum an awful lot over the years and I for one have been exceedingly greatful for her advice.

[Allan]

If Ali is a nutritionalist let's have a thread for nutrition. I have already broached the subject and had it suggested that for a start it is done as a subsection under cookery, whether that would include raw foods such as salad ingerdients and fruit is rather questionable. I wasn't going to do it all on my own but how about it now?
(returns to washing the beansprouts)
p.s. my gardening year starts in September or October, the new year is too late to sow spring onions and cabbage, and carrots, the seed catalogues start in August! I'm on my second wave now.

[lizzie]

I agree with the idea of a nutrition section. Great idea especially as there is so much mis-information out there.

As for Ali's comment, so what? My dummys not on the floor. She can say as she pleases. I just believe that if you share one smile you get triple joy back.

[Mr Potato Head]

Hi folks,

As far as I'm concerned, the general chatter can be about anything you like. It's a virtual garden fence / potting shed. There are plenty of other areas for more serious / garden-specific questions.

Party on, I'm off for my morning meeting and G&T....

[The Grock in the Frock]

ha.ha.hi.hi ha ha ha ha ha.well that little posting gave me a great time ,tears still running down me face,MUST NOT FORGET to put me tener lady on next time when i laugh so much, soggy knickers NOT good, and well said Mr Potato Head.

[lizzie]

Do you mean you're actually wearing them Grock? Well, I never thought I'd see the day.

[The Grock in the Frock]

theres a first time for most things,but i must say,this g string does chaff a bit,and when i walk i feel like me bums avin a 3 course meal any way must go now ,off too me keep fat class,see ya ,see ya,would't wonna b ya.with big ugs in kisses mate!