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Helliday
Two weeks of unpleasantness to make the rest of the year seem better | |
Most people spend 50 weeks a year looking forward to their 2 weeks of holiday. For two weeks, they live the live they think they would like to lead for the other 50 and they spend the other 50 feeling miserable that they can't do so.
Instead, I propose people spend 2 weeks a year in some miserable,
flea-bitten hell hole so that they can spend the other 50 weeks feeling good about themselves...
A bit baked
http://www.cnn.com/...8/britain.homeless/
I don't know if this company is still running [dare99, Jul 29 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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The beach is closed due to red tide and/or medical waste washing ashore.... |
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Frankly, if you're miserable 50 weeks out of 52, you might want to change a thing or two about your life. Maybe that's how you should spend your vacation. |
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Simply get a better job. Nj2K International has a few openings for writers and/or web developers - just one more employee would double my company size. Think about it, won't you. *flashes card* |
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Wow, Nick. Can I have another look? |
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So would a pair of glasses. |
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what does knocking a policeman's helmet off his head fetch these days? people don't do that any more do they? it used to be a national pastime. |
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The first 2 weeks of my latest job that I spent in training. |
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Odd logic. Appreciate your crappy life more by doing something even more crappy. |
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Yep. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of shittiness. |
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Now we did this for about 15 years. We called it "holidays with the kids". No more, aaah. |
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Hasn't this been baked by various Indian 'Holy Men'? You know, the ones that persuade gullible westerners that if they hand over all their worldly goods then life will all be a lot better and then after two weeks of eating millet, living in an open sewer and wearing clothes made from coconut matting they suddenly realise that it won't. |
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Yeah, or there's people who spend a week's holiday cleaning canals or learning to drive. Will the fun never begin? |
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So should I donate my guitar collection to a child in Sudan? |
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One could also go for a vacation with an extremely unpleasant person, the better to appreciate the unpleasant person they normally spend their time with. This might be a job opening for some people, too. |
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cleaning canals? learning to drive? I spent a week in 1995 in a group clearing overgrown trees from Norfolk fenland, for a 'holiday' price of 30 pounds - that included village hall floor accommodation. It was great. Adversity is a real aphrodisiac sometimes; just think of the idiots who wanted to be imprisoned on TV for most of the summer (Big Brother). If that wasn't the baking of this idea, I don't know what was. |
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I am a child in Sudan in want of a guitar, kapiche? |
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Can those 2 weeks be spent being dead, or, rather, undead? I have heard some things have to be lost before one can really appreciate them. Things to do in Denver when you're dead.... |
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