Well, for clarification, I'm not coming down on any woman or man or child, whatever, who claims to like chocolate. I'm only agreeing with Jordan that there's something freakish and annoying about the behaviour he described. I worked an office job a while back and they used to give us cookies from time to time. I ate them a couple of times and then got over it, like most folks did. But yeah, there were some folks there who acted every time like it was a big deal. While the group I remember had some men in it as well, they all had one thing in common, being they were folks who talked all the time about weight loss, dieting, counting carbs, etc. One gal said this thing though that I think summarised it well, "It's not a treat if you have it all the time." That was her justification for never eating them, and good for her, I guess.
I'm not grouping women together, only these gals Jordan's describing. They're all exhibiting classic fake on-a-diet behaviour. You see that all the time, gals (and the occasional guy) eating something and making some comment about how their diet starts up again tomorrow, or how this is a "little break," or whatever. Big deal, whatever, let em do it, but agreed it's silly and a bit annoying.
My bet is there are gals in Jordan's office who don't partake, and so never make a big deal, but the others are so distracting he hasn't noticed.
PS: Jordan, where you working these days? I sure could use some freeeeeee chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Edit: How about we don't use so many exclamation points that the entire page requires three extra horizontal monitor lengths to view your post?
Edit: OK.
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 09 February 2007 - 03:21 AM
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