Work colleagues

[MEADOWXI]

16 hours ago, milton75 said:

There's a guy at my work who I have long suspected may be the most boring man I have ever met. Today he told me that he likes going to airshows.
It's nice to have long-standing prejudices confirmed.

He went on, holding court at the next bank of desks to where I was sitting, to complain at length about how much it is to get in, and to compare in detail how much it has gone up in various years since he was a young man. He then expanded on this with a diatribe on how shocking it is that there's also a £5 charge for car parking.

"I mean once you're in you'll be spending money on all sorts anyway.

Food...

A beer... or a coke of course.

A snack...

Maybe a programme if you fancy...

I mean, there's a lot of choice..."

I got up and left the room in a rage.

I take your airshows and raise you medieval battle re-enactments (apartly 14th century is more fun than 15th),

can also tell you the price of a suit of armour, what they actually wore (every fucking layer), how to sword fight and the lack of visibility when wearing a visored helmet. And I give not a f**k about any of these things but work with a bloke that does.

[velo army]

Some of you lads need to learn boundaries.

Battle re-enactments sound super though. I met a boy on a night out and he was obsessed. He was very much on the spectrum so didn't really care about reading the room, but I was fascinated tbh. 

 

[tamthebam]

Proper mediaeval enactments would go like this. 

SCOTS (on top of a hill, good position): Get it up ye, English arseholes

ENGLISH: I say, you Jockos are too afraid to fight us man to man

SCOTS: Aye, right pal (charge down hill)

ENGLISH: Right you taffs, unloose some arrows

WELSH ARCHERS: OK Boyo, take that Scots!

Final Casuality Score: Scotland 2000 killed,
                                         English and Welsh: One taff with a skelf in his pinkie

signed, 

A qualified Mediaeval historian

[GordonD]

2 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:

I take your airshows and raise you medieval battle re-enactments (apartly 14th century is more fun than 15th),

can also tell you the price of a suit of armour, what they actually wore (every fucking layer), how to sword fight and the lack of visibility when wearing a visored helmet. And I give not a f**k about any of these things but work with a bloke that does.

On the other hand, when this woman was on Pointless she said she'd spend the jackpot on new leather armour if she won. (She didn't.)

[RH33]

1 hour ago, GordonD said:

On the other hand, when this woman was on Pointless she said she'd spend the jackpot on new leather armour if she won. (She didn't.)

@PWL

[Jacksgranda]

4 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:

I take your airshows and raise you medieval battle re-enactments (apartly 14th century is more fun than 15th),

can also tell you the price of a suit of armour, what they actually wore (every fucking layer), how to sword fight and the lack of visibility when wearing a visored helmet. And I give not a f**k about any of these things but work with a bloke that does.

I think one of my former work mates was into that. But as he was a hateful c**t and none of us liked him, we didn't get regaled with blow by blow accounts as nobody talked him.

Although I might be getting that mixed up with him collecting miniature Star Wars characters.

[JamesP_81]

2 hours ago, GordonD said:

On the other hand, when this woman was on Pointless she said she'd spend the jackpot on new leather armour if she won. (She didn't.)

Paused for 42 minutes huh ....

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, GordonD said:

On the other hand, when this woman was on Pointless she said she'd spend the jackpot on new leather armour if she won. (She didn't.)

I’m sure there’s a joke about leathering a helmet in there but won’t be the one to make it.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Just now, JamesP_81 said:

Paused for 42 minutes huh ....

 

Just now, Melanius Mullarkay said:

I’m sure there’s a joke about leathering a helmet in there but won’t be the one to make it.

Ah.

[101]

17 minutes ago, JamesP_81 said:

Paused for 42 minutes huh ....

Fair play if you have rip the head of it for 42 minutes to a random face pic.

[TxRover]

2 hours ago, tamthebam said:

Proper mediaeval enactments would go like this. 

SCOTS (on top of a hill, good position): Get it up ye, English arseholes

ENGLISH: I say, you Jockos are too afraid to fight us man to man

SCOTS: Aye, right pal (charge down hill)

ENGLISH: Right you taffs, unloose some arrows

WELSH ARCHERS: OK Boyo, take that Scots!

Final Casuality Score: Scotland 2000 killed,
                                         English and Welsh: One taff with a skelf in his pinkie

signed, 

A qualified Mediaeval historian

With some minor adjustment, works for Romans vs Picts and Normans vs Saxons (and more recently, Ukrainians vs Russians near Kyiv)...the more things change, eh. 

[Swarley]

8 hours ago, JamesP_81 said:

Paused for 42 minutes huh ....

41 minutes 50 seconds taken to find the box of tissues...

[DA Baracus]

Is it just me that understands that it wasn't paused for 41 minutes but rather paused at the 41st minute?

You luddites.

[philpy]

We've got a guy that's been with us for a couple of months, travels up from Melrose to east lothian every day,  and he always rocks up just after we start. He always complains about getting stuck behind certain traffic in the morning, but yet he doesn't do the sensible thing and leave a bit earlier. He also thinks everyone is against him or talking about him behind his back if he rightfully gets pulled up for making a mistake or damaging something. Getting the grasp of basic instructions seems like an alien concept as well,  you'll tell him to do something and he'll forget before he's even started.

[GordonD]

1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:

Is it just me that understands that it wasn't paused for 41 minutes but rather paused at the 41st minute?

You luddites.

I thought that was so obvious I didn't bother replying to it.

[DA Baracus]

5 minutes ago, GordonD said:

I thought that was so obvious I didn't bother replying to it.

Evidently not that obvious for some reason!

[Guest]

4 hours ago, philpy said:

We've got a guy that's been with us for a couple of months, travels up from Melrose to east lothian every day,  and he always rocks up just after we start. He always complains about getting stuck behind certain traffic in the morning, but yet he doesn't do the sensible thing and leave a bit earlier. He also thinks everyone is against him or talking about him behind his back if he rightfully gets pulled up for making a mistake or damaging something. Getting the grasp of basic instructions seems like an alien concept as well,  you'll tell him to do something and he'll forget before he's even started.

But you are talking about him behind his back, maybe this guy is on to something. 

[Buzz Killington]

I work in an open plan office. Is it normal to sit at your desk at lunchtime and make personal phone calls?  Especially when there two empty meeting rooms they could sit in and do it.

In the last 20 mins I have overheard one colleague phoning the doctor and discussing in great detail their daughter's illness. Another one has just been phoning various companies to change their address. I recon I have heard enough to start opening bank accounts in her name. 

Arehole behaviour. 

 

[Swarley]

5 minutes ago, Buzz Killington said:

I work in an open plan office. Is it normal to sit at your desk at lunchtime and make personal phone calls?  Especially when there two empty meeting rooms they could sit in and do it.

In the last 20 mins I have overheard one colleague phoning the doctor and discussing in great detail their daughter's illness. Another one has just been phoning various companies to change their address. I recon I have heard enough to start opening bank accounts in her name. 

Arehole behaviour. 

 

I'd say most normal people would find somewhere private but yes that sounds fairly standard as offices are full of ârseholes. The ill daughter one will be hoping someone overheard and will now talk about it. 

[GordonD]

13 minutes ago, Buzz Killington said:

I work in an open plan office. Is it normal to sit at your desk at lunchtime and make personal phone calls?  Especially when there two empty meeting rooms they could sit in and do it.

Guy in the office I used to work in once phoned his mate and described in minute detail the porno movie he'd watched the night before - much to the embarrassment of the middle-aged woman at the desk opposite.;

A few weeks later we had our Christmas night out and when the woman's husband came to pick her up, the guy asked if he could scrounge a lift. Good on her, she told him no and they drove off leaving him behind.