Be careful what you leave lying around

Staff at a job centre in Birkenhead are now in trouble after one unemployed man visiting the centre happened to see a copy of an alternative version of the 12 days of Christmas that staff had circulated amongst themselves. The alternative gifts are as follows;

Twelve hunting rifles
Eleven spotty youths
Ten fleas a-leaping
Nine screaming babies
Eight P45s
Seven recovering alcoholics
Six DMAs
Five direct payments
Four Fresh Starts
Three crisis loans
Two missed EVs
And a scally in a hoodie

Apparently the man was told that the ‘joke’ was helping staff morale. Although I get the feeling after the witch hunt ends that’s not the only thing it will be doing to the staff. .

In science news it appears that men are more responsive to Caffeine then Women as a study of 668 volunteers showed that an espresso pepped up men after just 10 minutes. Women also become more alert but less so. However they also said that some of this effect might by psychological because decaffeinated coffee also worked to some extent. So what they seem to be saying is that Caffiene may affect men more but it may not but if they think it does it will even though it actually doesn’t. Well money obviously well spent on that study with such a clear and precise set of results.

Work was once again quiet today although over Lunchtime we took the opportunity to play a couple of games. The first was a board game that somebody picked up for a £5, which has a battery powered swamp monster who if awakes travels across the board and can drag players back to the start. You can see the monster in this pic here.

The second was a game called consequences. Everybody sits in a circle and has a piece of paper. You first write down a name of a famous man then fold the paper over. You then write met and pass it onto the person next to you. You then write a Famous womans name down then fold the paper over, then write “ at the” and pass the paper on. You then write a location and fold the paper before writing he said, you pass on and write a phrase, then you fold and write she said before passing on, you then write a phrase that she said, fold then write “ then they” and pass on and finally write a end to the story. Or to put it another way;

Famour man met Famous woman at a location. He said, then she said and then they.

If that's any clearer.

You then pass on the papers one last time and then open and read out to everybody the funny story that has resulted. We all ended up laughing so hard it hurt as the stories turned out to be very funny!

So only one more day to go before its Christmas which does mean only two more sleeps to Christmas. Yaah!! But this does mean I now have some serious wrapping of presents to do as I couldn’t do any at the weekend as no matter how hard I searched I could not find a pair of scissors. We usually have plenty of pairs around but the time comes when I actually need a pair. There are none to be found! It’s good to see that my old friend irony is still up to his old tricks.

Anyway,

Later folks!