Three Litre
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 7, 2019 20:55:59 GMT
Web pages of the likes of the Daily Mail.
You click on a link to read a news item and there is that many stupid pop ups and over guff it doesn't load for about 10 mins!
There is always some bloody video pop up.
Go away! I just want to read the one item, not about someones breast enlargement go wrong.
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Post by Cartman on Dec 7, 2019 21:54:34 GMT
Web pages of the likes of the Daily Mail. You click on a link to read a news item and there is that many stupid pop ups and over guff it doesn't load for about 10 mins! There is always some bloody video pop up. Go away! I just want to read the one item, not about someones breast enlargement go wrong. The Daily Mail is a permanent fixture in my room 101. The only difference between it and Der Sturmer is that one of them was written in German.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 8, 2019 7:10:00 GMT
The Daily Heil as some call it
("Hurrah for the Blackshirts" - Jan 1934)
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Post by Cartman on Dec 8, 2019 11:19:40 GMT
Yes, at one time the Heil was quite enthusiastic about the idea of a large European super state, but one based in Berlin, rather than Brussels. It had to do a rapid U turn over its support for its favourite European leader in late 1939.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 9, 2019 7:14:09 GMT
Web pages of the likes of the Daily Mail. You click on a link to read a news item and there is that many stupid pop ups and over guff it doesn't load for about 10 mins! There is always some bloody video pop up. Go away! I just want to read the one item, not about someones breast enlargement go wrong. Some badly made video pop up I must add....
I will also include the "so and so LIVE" newspaper pages (DerbyshireLIVE, NottinghamLIVE, BirminghamLIVE etc) A majority of local papers were taken over by some "group" and all the local papers re-branded.
The emphasis on all papers seems to be just what is going in the local Magistrates Courts, and "what the police were doing in town yesterday", totally f*****g dreadful inaccurate reporting, sometimes accompanied by a dreadfully made video on a crap mobile phone.
The once respected local news papers have been reduced to something similar to a nosy irritating neighbour who's net curtains twitch each time you climb in the car.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 11, 2019 12:56:56 GMT
Next candidate for Room 101 is the office laugh-a-minute that has a cheap 'novelty' toy that plays tinny music over and over every few minutes in an open plan office even when he's not there!
For today I'm sat in an office in Stratford near the Olympic Park (the 2012 Olympics, that's a candidate for Room 101 another day) and there's a knobhead office 'joker' that has a Larry Lobster musical toy. Every few minutes it bursts into song playing "Sea Cruise" or "Rock The Boat" for around 15 seconds. The sound quality is abysmal for one thing and it is the same tunes over and over.
Now I quite like "Rock The Boat" (wasn't it by The Hues Corporation around '73 or '74?) but this cheap tat is really getting on my thruppenny bits and much more I'll be taking this lobster into 1990 and reprogramming it with Stop! Hammer Time.
Sam.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 11, 2019 13:52:32 GMT
Next candidate for Room 101 is the office laugh-a-minute that has a cheap 'novelty' toy that plays tinny music over and over every few minutes in an open plan office even when he's not there!
For today I'm sat in an office in Stratford near the Olympic Park (the 2012 Olympics, that's a candidate for Room 101 another day) and there's a knobhead office 'joker' that has a Larry Lobster musical toy. Every few minutes it bursts into song playing "Sea Cruise" or "Rock The Boat" for around 15 seconds. The sound quality is abysmal for one thing and it is the same tunes over and over.
Now I quite like "Rock The Boat" (wasn't it by The Hues Corporation around '73 or '74?) but this cheap tat is really getting on my thruppenny bits and much more I'll be taking this lobster into 1990 and reprogramming it with Stop! Hammer Time.
Sam. I thought it playing "Rock Lobster" would have been more appropriate. Yeah - I've seen those; aren't they on a par with those "Dancing Plants" you used to get (the ones with Sun Glasses on).
I worked on a film about 7 years ago, that was set in an open plan office - the lead had this fantasy about bludgeoning his irritating work mates and the office clown. Wasn't based on your place was it Sam?
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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 11, 2019 14:19:38 GMT
Yeah - I've seen those; aren't they on a par with those "Dancing Plants" you used to get (the ones with Sun Glasses on). You've just given me a flashback with that Sparky.
Not only the dancing plants there were also the dancing Coke cans, remember those?
Where I worked at the time one of the other engineers had a dancing Coke can on top of his bookcase. One of the elder secretaries used to find it hilarious to sing to it and make it gyrate every single time she walked past which was annoying as her voice was like Vienna getting strangled.
That was until the day when I bought a can of Coke and between me and the other engineer we replicated the dancing can's headphones, sunglasses and punched holes in the back then placed that on the bookcase instead. Knowing that at 2pm every day she'd walk by on her way to the kitchen we moved to the other side of the office and waited. She must have been wailing at it for nigh on ten minutes before we finally walked back, p***ing ourselves laughing, put the imposter in the bin and the correct dancer back up in its rightful place on the bookcase.
She did eventually see the funny side of the joke but never tried singing at the can again.
Sam.
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Post by Villain on Dec 11, 2019 15:40:48 GMT
Room 101 is probably a little overcrowded by now but I hope there's still enough space for all the politically motivated emails I'm getting from my work colleagues in the union - no gents, I shan't 'stick to the message and support the cause', I'll make my own mind up thanks! Villain
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Post by Sparky on Dec 11, 2019 19:01:44 GMT
Yeah - I've seen those; aren't they on a par with those "Dancing Plants" you used to get (the ones with Sun Glasses on). You've just given me a flashback with that Sparky.
Not only the dancing plants there were also the dancing Coke cans, remember those?
Where I worked at the time one of the other engineers had a dancing Coke can on top of his bookcase. One of the elder secretaries used to find it hilarious to sing to it and make it gyrate every single time she walked past which was annoying as her voice was like Vienna getting strangled.
That was until the day when I bought a can of Coke and between me and the other engineer we replicated the dancing can's headphones, sunglasses and punched holes in the back then placed that on the bookcase instead. Knowing that at 2pm every day she'd walk by on her way to the kitchen we moved to the other side of the office and waited. She must have been wailing at it for nigh on ten minutes before we finally walked back, p***ing ourselves laughing, put the imposter in the bin and the correct dancer back up in its rightful place on the bookcase.
She did eventually see the funny side of the joke but never tried singing at the can again.
Sam.
The Dancing Plants were all the range in the late 80s.
I think a drink Advert was even made using one.
Was there also am irritating rubber singing fish on a wooden plaque?
Or was that some obscure dream I had after a few Real Ales?
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