I’ve got news about my parcel. Unfortunately it’s bad news. Yesterday Greg (who is the chap that is very kindly sending me this gift) got an email from the online store he bought it from.
Parts of the following message have been censored in concordance with the official secrets act.
—–Original Message—–
From mark@[censored].co.uk>
To: [censored]
Sent: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 4:39 am
Subject: Problem with your [censored] OrderHi
Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologise, as we have an issue with your order.
Due to a hefty malfunction in our back office system (during the Xmas rush – that’s timing for you, eh!?) our listing software pumped a lot of products online which were not available for us to ship. Unfortunately [censored] were one of the products affected.
The only [censored] we have available to ship are Pink, but your order was for (or contained) another choice of colour than pink. Obviously, we don’t expect you to just accept a pink [censored], so a full refund is on offer with no quibbles. However if you wish for us to send a pink [censored], then that’s also not a problem. Please let us know your preference as soon as humanly possible so we can sort out this colossal mess ASAP. As many of these are undoubtedly Xmas gifts, we obviously would like you to have the opportunity to find another within the next week or so.
Again, I apologise for this situation. I’m truly sorry that we’ve let you down with your order.
Kind Regards
Mark
While it’s tempting to accept a pink one, I worry that it will emasculate me in many people’s eyes. What do you think I should do? Hold out for the green one like originally promised or sacrifice my masculinity and get a pink one?
Why is life so hard?
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I think pink would emasculate you very very much..so go for the green one
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Get in touch with your feminine side – pink all the way!
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Pink used to be considered a Man’s colour – You should spearhead the fight to reclaim the colour from all us wossy girls ;)
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Go for the pink – you can handle it, I think.
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Definitely go for the pink.
It goes with your eyes.
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ain’t too masculine to be afeared o’ a little pink now is it?
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argh..no one’s with me to try and postpone the arrival of the package at Dan’s place ;)
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Craig – Quite probably. Pencil me in for a definite maybe.
Arjan – Thank you for sticking up for my masculitiy when all of these other buggers want to see me humiliated.
The rest of you – Pah!
We-ell, since I signed the official secrets act and have sworn on my life to uphold every secret ever bestowed on me I would like to have some of the censored stuff before passing opion.
For me t’would depend on the shade of pink. If it’s pastel and contains glittery bits then I would opt out. However, should the aforesaid article be like deep fuschia pink, that if held at a certain angle could to an untrained eye seem to be reddish then I would have to consider how much time the aforesaid article would be in public view.
Glad to be of assistance – is it a Barbie GI Jane set that comes in pink or green camouflage?
I don’t think pink would emasculate you, but it would make your butt look big.
On the other hand, you could carry this:
http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15—evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx
and send off lots of mixed signals.
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Just make sure whatever color you order doesn’t clash with your ginger-colored beard.
Rosa is also very nice and entmannt not.
my oldest wears a ‘real men wear pink’ shirt once in a while. he’s yet to have been beaten up at school. it’s all how you carry it i guess.
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