truth bombs

wonder how many times I've used 'whilst' on ILX

― veneer timber (imago), Monday, November 25, 2013 4:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna guess >100

― veneer timber (imago), Monday, November 25, 2013 4:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you agreeing with or disagreeing with me, it's not clear

katie perry used to be xian singer right? you can ever erase that weird thing, that kind of "off-brand pop star" feeling that xian singers or bands give you...they are doomed to walk this planet as mr. pibbs and not dr. peppers

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 November 2013 20:41 (8 minutes ago) Permalink

This is one of those things that makes me ashamed to be American.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:24 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe u were never really proud to be American if something like this makes u ashamed so easily. #reallymakesyouthink

― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:31 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ppl who get excited about cake bum me out

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, November 7, 2013 4:40 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. people getting excited about cake is as much a part of being in the office as like, photocopying, or sitting in a meeting.

I just can't remember the last time I got excited about cake. Birthday parties when I was a kid, I guess the whole candle thing was okay but the prospect of eating party-bag cake after it had been in the fridge for a few days was just enough to turn my stomach. Office cake sales and office birthday cake too, just who cares?

I like cake as much as the next man, or perhaps a tiny bit less, but it is like a religion to some people. I also feel like it's become more of a thing for some reason in the UK, like people baking, British Bakeoff, and this guilt/obsession/ohgivemeanotherpiecethen!! hysteria that comes with cake, and cake in offices.

I know offices are awful but I don't think cake is the solution.

It's like part of the cycle at work where people talk about going to the gym, or being on a diet, or they eat or bake cake. I mean, we're animals.

I know offices are awful but I don't think cake is the solution.

― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, November 29, 2013 12:31 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ultimate t-bomb

Cake is not a complete solution but it's a small step in the right direction. I know there's a lot of showing off involved sometimes but it's nice to remind the people you spend most of your day with that you care enough to make them something. The imported obsession with sickly cupcakes and the twee British gin-and-teacups thing are both awful, obviously, but office + cake is better than office - cake.

We used to get cake every time it was someone's birthday which does get a bit ridiculous sometimes, as there are clusters of birthdays together at certain times of year. This mostly stopped when someone complained they couldn't eat the cake because they have a lactose intolerance, the directors were like fuck it then nobody gets cake now. I think on balance some cake beats no cake.

I've kind of stopped getting up to go and get some cos I'm so unhealthy from all the cake cos I just fear for the health impact. I eat chocolate now and again but I find it would be too easy to just have unhealthy crap every day at work, I generally manage to abstain most of the time.

I guess I agree with you SV, better an office where people try even if it does get a bit twee, I've worked places where nobody ever talked to each other, but I feel like it can seem forced.

Or that maybe I like my co-workers well enough to work with and not much more than that, and I suspect that's how everyone feels, and we prob should all just be okay with that.

We have a collection envelope and card sent round every time it's somebody's birthday. In a large office you can imagine it gets ridiculous as birthdays do tend to clump together and you can be asked to put-in up to three times a day some weeks. Always seems to come around the day before pay day too. I'd opt out and ask people not to bother come my birthday, but how else am I going to recoup what I've put in over the year? I guess it's like a savings scheme.

I like cake as much as the next man, or perhaps a tiny bit less

― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, 29 November 2013 12:31 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

no, cake is a legit gross food.

made worse by consumption in the middle of the day

yeah, i'm not gonna kill cake as a category but i find not eating a time-inappropriate, bad-for-you food in front of people i'm supposed to have a professional relationship with to be the easiest thing in the world.

i get excited about cake

then again i work from home so if somebody shows up at my door with a cake, its a pretty big deal

gr8080tm

Nothing time inappropriate about a slice of cake with mid morning coffee.

cake is awesome sugar is awesome

I prefer the sugar in wine.

I prefer the alcohol in wine.

And the little bits of cork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAcOjQKz_Zc

Cake on its own is fine but I find it most successful as a vehicle for excellent whipped cream

my office has a cake club. I JUST JOINED!!!
It's good because it keeps the cake for those who want to bake/eat it. Everyone else just has an average level of cake hysteria.

good cake is good, bad cake is sickly and pointless. such a range between the two tho, can't really umbrella it all as just "cake"

basically that sponge and butter icing shit that shop-bought kids' birthday cakes almost inevitably consist of is v. wrong, but you can't fuck with a decent coffee and walnut for example

http://i.imgur.com/zTeykNp.jpg

eggsactly
xp the fuck is that

Cake

caek

They order cake at my job every month. It's arrival in the afternoon is always announced over the p.a.by one of the senior editors who says it in this funny voice that makes everyone laugh.

Half of the office rises from their desk, walks down the hallway, and sings happy birthday, usually to the cake itself apparently since any birthday members with their name on the cake wouldn't be caught dead in front of that crowd. Then the cake is cut apart and segmented on to paper plates.

I usually get up from my desk about 20 minutes after the announcement is made and get my piece. Unlike in Office Space, it doesn't get eaten fast, so there's always plenty left. Last time, I went straight for the middle edge where the chocolate meets the vanilla part and got a flower in the process. Hey, it was my birthday after all and someone had already eaten my name.

i love cake and you're all a bunch of boringheads

Half of the office rises from their desk, walks down the hallway, and sings happy birthday, usually to the cake itself

lol

i'd prefer pizza

^

i like pretty much all the deserts and also pizza

people want to bring me cool food, im with it

especially since the food i bring myself tends to be healthy and not that exciting

someone should start a shop called pizza boss where they make amazing edible pizza sculptures

what about a pizza cake

Sauce sourced from Sauce Boss

cheese boss, but then the bosses go to war

why do people hate cake

true story my parents arranged an incredible TMNT themed party for my 10th or 11th birthday which included a family friend coming to the door dressed as a pizza delivery guy and handing me a pizza box that when opened revealed a cake decorated to look like a pizza

prob the last time i ever enjoyed cake

a lot of cakes are gloopy diabetogenic crap but to hate the work of a talented professional patissier is something else