Xann Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 8 hours ago, Davkaus said: This is what this year's Toblerone looks like. Mondelez, destroyers of Cadbury and Terry's strike again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 31, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2016 9 hours ago, V01 said: The night might not be a total loss, noticed the CCTV computer has power. A quick nose around and I find an extension cable that has power and two spare plugs. Laptop back on and The internet is working too, whoever wired this place deserves a medal. My plans to read have been nixed but at least I can watch some TV shows and play some FM. On the downside I can't use the kettle so I'm cut off from having any coffee. Oh and the front door is on a sensor so I can't leave the building except by a fire exit which would allow the pikey scum entry or by one of two doors that have a keypad lock but are both right next to the caravans. This starting to sound like a zombie apocalypse movie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 It was grim, emergency lighting died around midnight so I ended up sitting in the dark. The power is down on the whole site. That means no concrete, asphalt or aggregates for the road crews, no one can even get into the lab/technical office and we weren't sure if we'd be able to get back into the main building once we came out this morning. There is a door with an orthodox lock but it seems some superglue has found it's way into lock over the weekend. It's not my problem until Thursday night now, I guess that's the equivalent of popping down the Winchester for a pint while it all blows over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 This "Does anyone still hand wash dishes? Share if you do" post that's popping up on Facebook lately. Yeah, the vast majority of the population still does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted November 1, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2016 Sitting in the car on a closed off road. Apperantly the pope is on his way to the airport and the entire Malmo region had to be shut down. word removed clearing in the woods 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted November 1, 2016 Administrator Share Posted November 1, 2016 2 minutes ago, Tegis said: Sitting in the car on a closed off road. Apperantly the pope is on his way to the airport and the entire Malmo region had to be shut down. word removed clearing in the woods Not arresting the pope when he's the the head of a criminal organisation. That pisses me off. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 So a Tory (Heseltine) puts his face by a German Shepherd dog, the dog can smell it on him and bites him. He kills the dog. Fine, well done. You can do 1. Lets see how he does with 3 or 4 dogs, (Brothers would be good). The great British face off the word removed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Midfielder Posted November 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2016 THE "ONE WHO INSISTS THAT THEY ARE ALPHA" (but f---s everything up) Was part of a group of six taking part in "Escape From A Room" (Bristol) on Sunday, colleagues who i get on with. Now, the objective is to solve clues and get 4 keys to padlocks so you can get out in an hour, all a bit Crystal Mazey... and not anywhere as simple as just turfing stuff out either, all problem solving etcetc. clues padlocked all around the room and you have to work out the codes etc. So, teamwork needed and all that. Had one drop out, so one of their cousins fills in, fair enough. Couldnt hurt could it? Sure it f'g did. So this woman who only one of us knew, a solicitor, is this cousin. Started to get weird signals from her before it started, when we all met up in Brissull... she had got there she had got there an hour early. Clearly says to get there fifteen min before, not an hour stood in the street outside it! Anyway, so when we're in the room she immediately takes the instruction brief and reads it, out loud, not left on the table for all to read together simultaneously. You can guess how the rest plays out, her insistence on what to do , where to look, what code to try, barked a lot of orders and totally held us back. Hands flailing, really animated woman. A whole hour of BS verbal commentary on her line of thought, the amount of "oh my gods" and time updates from her, was driving us all nuts. She didnt even notice our mutiny or the fact we discovered a secret room through the wardrobe, while again, kept reading out different briefs as if we were listening, when we were off "doing". As a team, her aside, we almost got there, one key short, but all agreed were held back by this woman, a total stress head who in her deliberate "i'm alpha, i'm in charge" suffered an eventual mutiny and because of her cost us time. We were "locked in" but luckily werent the only group to that same time slot. But this example is my rant. At any team even or group setting, there are alpha people or natural leaders ok? But my rant is the one who steps up like that, and totally f--ks it up. This woman, was hyped up at the beginning, talking the talk, but when it came to walking the walk she caved in and panicked. My memory of this Locked In a Room, is a woman, stood in the middle of a room with both fists clenched, saying a lot of "oh my god" and "were f----d" every couple of mins instead of doing a damn thing group related. I'm quite into social dynamics and psychology but that display was something else. It was like a social experiment at first that led to four people wanting to kill this woman, her own cousin near-abandoning her, and this faux-alpha b---h having a near meltdown at the end when the 00:00 shown on the timer. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 1, 2016 Moderator Share Posted November 1, 2016 I would find it quite difficult not to say something to her. Why did no-one else stand up and tell her to lay off if she was being such a b*tch? She may have been pretending to be alpha, but it sounds like you were all quite comfortable being betas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 (edited) 11 minutes ago, BOF said: I would find it quite difficult not to say something to her. Why did no-one else stand up and tell her to lay off if she was being such a b*tch? She may have been pretending to be alpha, but it sounds like you were all quite comfortable being betas We all did shortly after working out how it was playing out, I mean we had all paid for this exercise and none of us live there anyway... didnt want it wrecked by her. Overall, i would say yes, it was actually wrecked by her, having sort of mini emotional breakdowns in this damned room. She didnt even notice us progressing, but was quick to take the key to "get it ready in the padlock". As for us betas , i'd probably concede we were initially as she did come across as spookily unstable as soon as we went in the room. Someone so used to working to a clock too, she spent half the time looking at the damn screen with the timer. Good experience / day out though. although accidental spoiler in the message above. There is a life lesson learned here, if somethings booked for a group and someone drops out, ---- the stranger!!!! in that sorta metaphorical local place for local people way... or they will wreck it for you!!! you will see! Edited November 1, 2016 by Midfielder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted November 1, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2016 The lesson to be learned is: HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SUCH UTTER BULLSHIT 'GAMES'. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Designer1 Posted November 1, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2016 Team bonding...urgh. Just get everyone together and **** off down the boozer 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 1, 2016 Moderator Share Posted November 1, 2016 13 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Team bonding...urgh. Just get everyone together and **** off down the boozer Hear hear! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 (edited) 1 minute ago, BOF said: Hear hear! a couple of loops of viewing on that, and I am fixated on the pint and thirsty. edit, yep, that is one very hypnotic pint. i'm still looking at it Edited November 1, 2016 by Midfielder 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 1, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2016 50 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Team bonding...urgh. Just get everyone together and **** off down the boozer Exactly that. I once led a mutiny at such a session. Four of us went down the pub and stayed there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 To be fair, some of the escape room games are excellent. I'd not bother unless I knew everyone though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I don't think it hurts to do something other than go to the pub once in a while. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 The last 'team bonding' session I had was run by convicted sex pest Stuart Hall on a playing field in Witton I won't mention the quiz night compered by Jonathan King prior. We don't do team bonding anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 1 hour ago, Xela said: The last 'team bonding' session I had was run by convicted sex pest Stuart Hall on a playing field in Witton I won't mention the quiz night compered by Jonathan King prior. We don't do team bonding anymore The thing I was discussing up a few posts about day out was more a rare informal thing for "us" non-Oxford / Cambridge alumni shall we say, rather than team bonding, just a laugh, which, turned out to be laughless due to the crazy b' that came. We luckily have zero team bonding exercises which is also good as I am completely and utterly incompatible with most of the Oxbridge people I work with. As for Mr Xela above, you had a lucky escape there fella, Messrs Hall and King. Two lucky escapes even. In fact, this reminds me. The closest I got was a letter from Rolf Harris. I always knew there was something up with that ----. True story this. As a kid, I was the class dreamer, spent half the lessons drawing on the desks, exercise books, textbooks (yeah those were MY masterpieces in the biology textbooks, THAT page you'd instantly look for, you know which one) and so back in the day, I thought I would unleash my artistic output upon Rolf's Cartoon Club, the accompanying thing to the program. I think it cost £12 a year at the time and you had more chance of getting your drawings shown. Week after week, month after month, I would tune in, nope. Nothing. Oh that picture of a tree done in crayon by Jimmy age 7, that got on. Oh, that drawing of a sunflower by Jenny aged 12, that got shown. None of my stuff. Innocent stuff by me, all pretty good i might add, well for a young kid. Nada, still. So with a few months of membership remaining and my mum still happily posting my sealed envelopes, I stepped it up. My art, evolved onto Rolferoos. We're talking Rolferoos in states of torture, or deathly encounters such as a missile strike on his head or of a Rolferoo being fed through a mincing machine, you get the picture. I still tuned in, just in case but not after a letter came addressed to my house, not to me, asking me to refrain from sending anything in in future, signed by Rolf himself who delivered his "sh-- sandwich" with something to the tune of 'whilst I find them entertaining', blah blah distasteful, 'good luck with your drawing' or whatever. Art, was over for me at that point but the irony is, the last one I ever sent (and got returned to my parents) featured a Rolferoo being led away to a Police car and a number of children at the side rejoicing but with band-aids on their arses. A bit random then, but a nostalgic "thing that pissed me off" is the £12 wasted on that crap that could have gone toward more worthy causes such as Predator Boots or Streetfighter 2. I called it though, back in the early 90s. But like Xela above, I'm classing that as a close-call. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rugeley Villa Posted November 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2016 (edited) What is it with piss and me. Woke up last night about 3 ish and needed a piss. Was completely rock hard per usual, but thought it might go down once I sat on the loo. It never went down so I had to push the bugger down into the toilet so I could piss. It seemed to take forever for it to come out but I got there in the end. Anyway I pull my pj bottoms up once I'm done to find that I'd pissed through the gap between the actual toilet and the seat into my bottoms. Weren't a dribble either, they were soaked. So there I was trying to get my penis to stay down and pissing In my pj bottoms. Had to faff about cleaning myself up. Edited November 1, 2016 by Rugeley Villa 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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