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Best way to be anti-social in an open-plan office.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 18, 2011
Start shouting out four letter words for no apparent reason. When someone asks, tell them that you have suddenly contracted Tourettes!
GT
Best way to be anti-social in an open-plan office.
Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Feb 18, 2011
Presumably these are not four letter words like "fish", "pore" or "unit" 
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Best way to be anti-social in an open-plan office.
Orcus Posted Feb 18, 2011
Personally I'd be more worried about someone who shouted 'unit' out.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 18, 2011
FISH!!
UNIT!!
Sorry, thought this was the Father Jack thread
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swl Posted Feb 18, 2011
A colleague who used to work in the Royal Signals once had an extremely irksome new boss. He rigged a 16mhz signal generator to create a high pitched noise just outside of normal human hearing but enough to cause severe migraines in the office and wore earplugs himself. Within a month the new boss was gone.
Just sayin'
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The Twiggster Posted Feb 19, 2011
What an excellent suggestion.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Feb 19, 2011
Infrasound generators could also work, if you wanted to go the other way.
(science bit: before anyone says it infrasound will make people feel uneasy and generally a bit scared but there is no 'brown note'. Nobody will soil their pants.)
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Feb 19, 2011
uhm .. Nitrogen triiodide .. there's some confusion here with ammonium triiodide .. while moist a SMALL QUANTITY can be pasted in (e.g.) a door frame.
Cleaning up afterwards is a pain several body parts. Iodine gives nasty stains.
it's good fun, that is .. as long as you're careful with it. the stuff will explode and -usually- does so without warning. Serious damages to eyes, hands, ears and most other body parts are common. Repair is usually not possible.
google for "ka-(rude four letter F word)ing-boom" and experiment some 
I did warn you all about the risks, didn't I ??
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The Twiggster Posted Feb 19, 2011
"there's some confusion here with ammonium triiodide "
No confusion necessary.
Ammonium triiodide is NH4I3. It's innocuous enough.
Nitrogen triiodide is NI3. No hydrogen there at all. You swap out the iodines for hydrogens real quick, leaving free iodine. Careful, kids! 
That's what makes the badaboom.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Feb 19, 2011
yes, well, the good news is that it's a bit hard to make NI3. Ammonia and Iodine will result in a mix of NHxIy .. that still does ka-boom when dried ..
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The Twiggster Posted Feb 19, 2011
"a bit hard to make NI3"
Hmm. Good point. It's not easy. You'd ideally need to have access to chemicals, a laboratory and supplies, protective clothing, and a good deal of education and experience in something like, ooh, I dunno, chemical engineering, say. Perhaps someone who works for a living for a company that actually makes dangerous chemicals, ideally someone who's borderline sociopathic and lacks the sort of consideration for others that would normally prevent you from doing something so stupidly risky. Does anyone know someone like that?
Apart from me, I mean...
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Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Feb 24, 2011
Butyric acid 
I remember out chemistry teacher smiling, opening the bottle, passing it around the class, and watching our reactions.
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3098538.ece/BINARY/w468/kontor_468.jpg
Here's some rescue, just invented. I WANT.
My office neighbour goes "oy oy oy oy" at regular intervals. I have actually started asking if all is well.
Other ways of joy can be had from jiggling/bouncing your leg - keep your toes on the floor, but let your foot quickly stretch and relax, to get a bouncing effect of the thigh. Vibrations may travel along desks, and anyone in view will get really annoyed at the movement in the corner of their vision field.
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Feb 24, 2011
I'm surprised to see no mention of some effective oldies but goodies.
Make a bag of popcorn in the microwave. Burn it nicely. Place in the office trash at the last minute, before leaving for the weekend. The cleaning crews don't normally work Friday nights, but come in early on Mondays, so the odor will have the chance to permeate the office environment all weekend, while the A/C is off. Without air circulation, you'd be surprised at how long it will linger. Also, effective for the edgy mood produced by smelling something burned.
Ditto for kimchi, mictowaved (Korean fermented cabbage, with the tiny fishes in it). I'd recommend, however, that you only do this one if you have the next week off on break. You really don't want to be there on the following Monday. 
The advantage of these two methods, of course, is plausible deniabiliy.
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Superfrenchie Posted Feb 25, 2011
Re post 135 :
http://xkcd.com/228/
Like this, maybe?
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Z Posted Feb 25, 2011
I'm worried that none of my lovely office mates do any of these things.
Which leads me to conclude that I am the anti-social one. As I do most of them.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 25, 2011
*Looks up from sausage and brown sauce cob and takes a swig of Bovril*
What? Antisocial in the office? Who is?
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Feb 25, 2011
Kerr, I think I love you...
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