Ramadan - We've been asked not to eat at our desks...

[waxapple]

We're not allowed to eat at our desks because some people are not careful enough to avoid the keyboard whilst eating sandwiches over it, so it gets in the gaps between the keys.

That's even more annoying, at least with your offices reasoning it's only for a month and it's a kindness thing, you'd be grateful too I guess if you were starving, yet were fasting and people weren't eating in front of you.

I guess you guys have a canteen to go to or something?

Though I kind of sympathise with you, having to move because someone can't use a plate bugs me!

 

[wordy]

actually, have an image of brown pants doing the david brent office dance with a burger in each hand....

That would bring *** funneh

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

Make a stand my having a private chef do a carvery for you and your work mates

If only

 

[Diesel]

The whole fasting thing seems like too much effort to me.

 

[bandit]

The whole fasting thing seems like too much effort to me.

it is a lot of effort, but not too much. if you really believe something the no eating/drinking is ok, its the behaviour thats harder (lies, arguing etc).

in know heavy smokers, 20 or 20 a day to give up for the time of fasts, only to smoke 10 in the night, and after the month go back to 20 or 30...

 

[jumpy]

we are muslims, not muhammadan , and wheres ayatollah land?

Hehe Yes, I know it was a play on words (though a valid term as describes a 'follower of muhamed') coupled with a generalisation in the same spirit.
Bahrain was the particular land in question, where I was a resident for more than six years.

 

[badbob]

Not at least drinking water during fasting is stupid, blooming dangerous...

 

[bandit]

Hehe Yes, I know it was a play on words (though a valid term as describes a 'follower of muhamed') coupled with a generalisation in the same spirit.
Bahrain was the particular land in question, where I was a resident for more than six years.

yeah i know, its just following muhammad and following the teachings of muhammad are very different things....

bahrain, hot was it

Not at least drinking water during fasting is stupid, blooming dangerous...

yeah it can be, the idea is not to kill yourself though

 

[jumpy]

^^
yes it was, scorchingly so. so hot the tar sealer on our roof used to melt all over the place.
Trouble is back here in the UK it rarely gets hot for long enough to acclimatise properly, which makes me a grumpy lad when the sun has been out too long.
Coming from there to here in the middle of an english summer, we'd all be wearing coats and woolly things to stave off the chill english weather; used to get some strange looks off the locals in our village here

 

[colinuk]

Fasting? lol, give me a break, got a few mates who follow this religion... here is what they tell me, maybe true, may not be.

1) you cant eat in DAYLIGHT hours, but boy do they make up for ti at NIGHT!
2) if you crumble under the presure and do eat something, or just plain forget, no worries, just add the day onto the end of the month and fast on that day.

Seems silly to me to do this to one self, but hey, im not a belever and if someone forced me to not eat at my desk, you can be sure id be eating more at my desk just to push the point across. If you want to fast, great, dont expect me to follow suit with a set of rules that you want to follow as you cant make up your own mind what is right and what is wrong, pfft..

/rant over. off to eat some more food

Colin

 

[daz]

Tell them there is plenty of countries where they will find it easy to practice their beliefs, for example Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe.

Wait, what?

 

[platypus]

I eat 7/8 times a day and am still hungry. I could not fast.

 

[bandit]

Fasting? lol, give me a break, got a few mates who follow this religion... here is what they tell me, maybe true, may not be.

1) you cant eat in DAYLIGHT hours, but boy do they make up for ti at NIGHT!
2) if you crumble under the presure and do eat something, or just plain forget, no worries, just add the day onto the end of the month and fast on that day.

/rant over. off to eat some more food

Colin

wrong wrong wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawm#Breaking_oaths_and_the_consequences

the penalties for breaking a fast intentionally (i.e. knowingly and in your control) are very harsh

you will find that most people that fast end up not being able to eat that much, in fact last night i ended up eating less then i would normally, and forgetting to wake up in the morning means i have not eaten or drank since say 11:30 yesterday...

the internet is your friend, please do some ersearch before making a fool of yourself

 

[Dave M]

Tell them there is plenty of countries where they will find it easy to practice their beliefs, for example Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe. Here we have food to keep us going throughout the day to make us productive

Wait, what?

No food.

 

[colinuk]

wrong wrong wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawm#Breaking_oaths_and_the_consequences

the penalties for breaking a fast intentionally (i.e. knowingly and in your control) are very harsh

you will find that most people that fast end up not being able to eat that much, in fact last night i ended up eating less then i would normally, and forgetting to wake up in the morning means i have not eaten or drank since say 11:30 yesterday...

the internet is your friend, please do some ersearch before making a fool of yourself

Fair enough, was half right just didnt know about the +60 days added on to the end lol.

But i do know my mates eat like mad at night, seen them do it and im not going 1/3rds again with them next time we go out lol!

* the internet is your friend, please do some ersearch before making a fool of yourself * i think saying what my mates ahve told me and thinking they have spoken the truth is not making a fool of one self. Believing everything google tells you is though

Colin

 

[platypus]

* Fasting for an extra 60 consecutive days, if he/she couldn't then;
* Feeding and clothing 60 people in need, if he/she couldn't then;
* Freeing a slave.

What a ridiculous thing to ask someone to do.

 

[bandit]

What a ridiculous thing to ask someone to do.

no its saying if you make the intention to fast, keep it. fasting and making the intention to fast is like making a promise and should be considered with the respect it deserves.

this covers intentional breaking, if you eat something by accident it does not break your fast, if your sick or hurt yourself its ok, you can make it up later. if you really cant keep the fast then fine, but you know in your heart whether you could have or not, thats the measure...

people who fast know the consquences and know that they reflect the importance of the fasts and of keeping them

 

[Greenlizard0]

Yeah others shouldn't. I agree with that, but I just find it abit pish taking. Put yourself in the positon, how would you feel?

I'd feel fine if they continued their habits as normal. If I was fasting then it's my choice - I wouldn't be affected by what other people are eating.

However that'd of course be different if e.g. there were some jokers ordering pizza to the work place for no good reason hehe.

 

[jumpy]

All this reminds me of a sort of local tradition over in Bahrain during the month of ramadan:

At various points on the island the BDF (bahrain defence force) would set up a circular cordon with a 25lb artillery gun in the middle of it. A couple of chaps in a range rover would be on hand all day, mooching about and talking over their radios. At dawn and dusk (though especially dusk) these cordons dotted about the countryside would attract a goodly number of the locals, who would then gather around the barrier, leaving whatever passed for transport parked a little ways off.
Accompanied by much checking of watches nervous glances at the horizon, the tension would rise, almost palpable on the humid evening breeze. The two army bods would load the artillery piece with a blank shell then stand back, saluting and stamping their heels together.
Finally the order would come in over the radios and the guys would fire the gun, simultaneously and in conjunction with several others at key places on the island.

The first time I saw this I was quite bemused as to what was going on, but as soon as the gun was fired, all of the spectators raced to their vehicles/donkey carts/bicycles and hammered it away across the desert to the far points of the compass to spend the rest of the night stuffing themselves silly with food and drink. Often their haste to break their fast led to near collisions and lots of shouting and gesticulating, usually by car drivers demanding that the donkey and cart, bells and ribbons and all, get off the road and let them by.

Also with the new mood as the trigger for ramadan (and a national holiday day) we never knew if everywhere would be shut the next day, exciting times

So very different here, ain't it?

 

[GSXRMovistar]

I’d politely escalate the issue to senior management asking then for more information in regards to the company’s equality policy and how imposing the beliefs of one group onto everyone else fits in with said policy this.

Absolutely ridiculous to be quite honest.