Settled in

We live in one of those boxes you mention & by **** there are some utter
cunts around & about this estate. One of them had a go at me for driving
a Range Rover, a car he knew utterly **** all about. I used to tow a
trailer, a caravan, pile it up to the roof with work stuff, take it
proper off roading & carry passengers. I told him to go **** his mother
& mind his own business. Next fucking month he had one outside his
house, always clean & polished, never even seen a grass verge ffs.

You always find the aspirational types are the biggest snobs, makes me
laugh like a drain every time he casts a sneer at my utterly filthy car
& unkept hedge

Our next doors are just like us thank ****, no snobbery at all.

No superiority complex here

 

Get editing then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Sunday

I actually don't GAF which day it is, I'm not planning on working either
of them - and I agree opening shops is wrong. It wasn't until recently
that I heard about the definition being the first working day after
Christmas.

 

"if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday"

Got a more relevant article?

 

"Boxing Day is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen's
Day, the day after Christmas Day.[2][3] Unlike St. Stephen's Day, Boxing
Day is a secular holiday but is always on 26 December: the public
holiday is generally moved to the following Monday if 26 December is a
Saturday. If 25 December is a Saturday or Sunday then both the Monday
and Tuesday may be public holidays."

Ibid.

 

You mean it's not Friday today? Balls. I'm expected to know what day of
the week it is now? I've been off since the 18th.

 

In the countries that observe this holiday, 26 December is commonly
referred to both as Boxing Day and as St. Stephen's Day, no matter what
day of the week it occurs.[4] However, in some countries, holidays
falling on Saturday or Sunday are observed on the next weekday. Boxing
Day cannot be on a Sunday, that day being the officially recognised day
of worship, so traditionally it was the next working day of the week
following Christmas Day, (i.e. any day from Monday to Saturday).

In recent times this tradition has been either forgotten or ignored.
Most people consider 26 December to be Boxing Day even when it falls on
a Sunday. The last year 26 December was called Christmas Sunday in the
United Kingdom and Canada was 1993. The last time the date fell on a
Sunday (1999), it was known as Boxing Day.

Ibid.

 

pfft details.

Next time the day after Christmas is a Sunday, I'm going to call it
Christmas Sunday. So ner.

 

handy.

 

Sadly, I'd have to change employer.

 

Funny, that. The only Range Rover owner in our street once muttered
something to me about "Your bloody motorbikes".

 

I was remarkably diplomatic, actually.

 

(The Older Gentleman) spewed forth:

A good, solid kick in the spuds?

 

Get one of those Lidl radio controlled clocks that displays time, day, date,
temperature and moon phase.

 

I've recently returned from a full day at work which started at 'first
knockings' (I was the first train from Cockfosters to the Airport at
0751 and bloody packed it was too.

I'll be working on Bank Holiday Monday too and would rather do that and
have some decent time off in the future than fight the crowds.