Small talk, strangers, sausage rolls: December can be a long haul for the introvert. Celebrity guests Olivia Colman, Jarvis Cocker, James Corden, Piers Morgan and others reveal their top tips for being the life and soul
• How to have an office party for one
Parties – how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. There’s the dressing up for them. There’s the getting to them. There’s the being at them. The getting back from them. The meeting of strangers. Or people you know. There’s the not being at home. There are an awful lot of things.
When I receive an invitation to a party, I feel like the Irishman being asked for directions in the old joke. “Well,” I think to myself, looking at my unshaved legs, wardrobe full of unsuitable clothes, drawer full of tangled, laddered tights, lack of car, lack of cash on hand for cabs and all the rest of it, “I wouldn’t start from here.”
*Jarvis Cocker, singer*
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• How to have an office party for one
Parties – how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. There’s the dressing up for them. There’s the getting to them. There’s the being at them. The getting back from them. The meeting of strangers. Or people you know. There’s the not being at home. There are an awful lot of things.
When I receive an invitation to a party, I feel like the Irishman being asked for directions in the old joke. “Well,” I think to myself, looking at my unshaved legs, wardrobe full of unsuitable clothes, drawer full of tangled, laddered tights, lack of car, lack of cash on hand for cabs and all the rest of it, “I wouldn’t start from here.”
*Jarvis Cocker, singer*
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 14 hours ago.