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Superb.
Just tell him you've had a complete change of heart and you're now a Tottenham fan instead. That'll work, no problem.
Geofftech | 06.01.16 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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As you live alone and assuming your canteen provides a decent freshly cooked lunch, best to continue to eat there and not nip out for a sandwich. Saves you cooking in the evening or going out to eat after work.
Probably cheaper too, plus you get more time after work to gather material for, and write your blog, which we enjoy reading every day.
There is also "use it or lose it" to consider.
John | 06.01.16 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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Excellent.
Is Melon Asenal?
I have been thinking a lot about why I eat alone and have done for the 4 years at my office. I feel guilty but this sums up the reason I don't do it, who needs to talk repetitive nonsense with someone who you are not relaxed with.
I also hate the repetition of having to do the same thing every day when tied to a group lunch, I prefer going to do different places or just walking.
Tim | 06.01.16 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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Your Turnip, wife Carrot is Broccoli dead.
Nick | 06.01.16 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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Also, I make it 9,818 characters - not 10,000. Sorry.
Geofftech | 06.01.16 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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go for walk and get some daylight at lunchtime instead
dave | 06.01.16 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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When you work somewhere for a long time, there comes a point when you realize that everyone you knew has gone, and it won't be that long before you go too.
That's normally why so many take the early redundancy.
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Do something radical. Strike up an acquaintance with (W) and involve him in your lunchtime group. As you say, three allows chewing and listening time.
The new dynamic would introduce new topics and avoid the need to invoke the rudeness factor.
petras409 | 06.01.16 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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I like this post. I suspect DG may have fictionalised it somewhat, for his own reasons, but that may be wishful thinking on my part. I started out trying to figure out which fruit was football, but it turns out to be much more subtle than that.
If this post was entered in a short story competition, it should win. It's real literature, because it strikes up new thoughts in the reader's head.
Malcolm | 06.01.16 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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still funny.... everytime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjYGjSeLoE
Geofftech | 06.01.16 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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The second [Y] in the paragraph beginning "Often [X]" should be [X] rather than [Y].
dg writes: sorted, thanks.
DavidC | 06.01.16 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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Time to change either your eating time, place or company!
Can you nip out and do something different once in a while (I know you hate Inmidtown, but Ally Mir's walks are excellent, and you can eat a sandwich en route) or when it gets warmer, take lunch outside to eat?
Failing that, wait another month and tell him you've given up melon for Lent!
Cornish Cockney | 06.01.16 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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"you're never alone with a smartphone"
Ah, but are you an [Apple] or a [Blackberry] man?
Adrian | 06.01.16 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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Hmm. I wonder if [Z] figures as the unsuspecting "Colleague" in the recent Dynamo Zagreb match report?
Presumably [Melon] is a shade more interesting than [Apricot].
Is there a soap opera or two in there somewhere?
Andrew | 06.01.16 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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[Rhubarb], [rhubarb], [rhubarb].
HTFB | 06.01.16 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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6d. And on your behalf, too
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Why not dominate the conversation with whatever is happening re bus-stop M at the Bow Roundabout (otherwise known as 'kiwi fruit') and watch Z make excuses to avoid you? :)
Antipodean | 06.01.16 - 12:14 p.m. | #
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An interesting read,DG. I now have to adjourn to the kitchen,as I have an urge to make a large saucepan of vegetable soup,to be followed by a fruit salad!! 😉
Jo W | 06.01.16 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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Today's lunchtime conversation: Melon, work, Peach, Beetroot, Blackcurrant.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.01.16 - 1:56 p.m. | #
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Whatever you're smoking, can I have some, please?
:)
GrumpyOldFart | 06.01.16 - 3:26 p.m. | #
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Just tell ( z) to piss off.
Colininthailand | 06.01.16 - 4:37 p.m. | #
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I used to regularly settle for a sandwich at my desk because I'd look out the window as lunchtime approached and it always looked grey and overcast out on the streets below.
Took me a long time to realise that it was all just a trick of the light.
I'd bet that bodies like the IoD (Institute of Directors) just *love* offices with tinted glass windows, because they're just great for creating the illusion that it's much nicer inside the office... doing more work :(
RogerW | 06.01.16 - 4:50 p.m. | #
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Please dg go with geofftech's suggestion (and then feedback to us, of course)!
anon | 06.01.16 - 4:57 p.m. | #
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Erm... would [Pepper] happen to be about vegetarianism?
RogerW | 06.01.16 - 4:59 p.m. | #
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you're far too polite, DG ... dominate the conversation yourself, with cycle superhighways, dangleways, whatever
Caz | 06.01.16 - 6:09 p.m. | #
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I found that profoundly confusing.
Frank F | 06.01.16 - 8:22 p.m. | #
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c
dave | 06.01.16 - 9:41 p.m. | #
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Stay away from cycle superhighways. It's not the solution.
[x] | 06.01.16 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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What sort of fruit or vegetables are X, Y and Z anyway ?
kev | 07.01.16 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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