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Best way to be anti-social in an open-plan office.
fluffykerfuffle Posted Feb 25, 2011
okay kids lets see if we have learnt anything
try out your new skills right here!! 
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrraack 
heh heh
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 25, 2011
I'm sorry Mr. D, I can't hear you over my excessively loud headphones. It's just possible you can hear the overspill from the trance bagpipes.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Feb 25, 2011
I'll see your trance bagpipes and raise you 45 minutes of multi-instrument ambient drone/doom. I tend to get odd looks on the bus when I have my iPod turned up loud as instead of the usual tinny drum beat my headphones emit a steady rumble.
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Orcus Posted Feb 25, 2011
Butyric acid... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F62071?thread=7833010
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 25, 2011
Listening to Radio Four at a level of volume that allows me to answer the phone and converse or listen to it seems to cause suspicion in my workplace. They all think there's something wrong with me. 
I guess it depends on your office mates.
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Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Feb 26, 2011
Perfect find, Stunningfrenchie! 
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 2, 2011
If anyone in the office smokes, you could bug them by getting a poster of the damage smoking does. There was one in a classroom at school which had a picture of what we called, the aero lung. It was really disgusting brown colour. sure to gross out any office worker.
You could also try decorating your space with pictures from gameing magazines. There are some lovely pictures of blood, guts, and fighting. Make everyone think you're slightly disturbed.
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 4, 2011
I seem to have killed the thread...I'm not really that creepy, most of the time at least 
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Rod Posted Mar 4, 2011
Some of us have that gift, Persephone.
What's your office like?
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Alfster Posted Mar 9, 2011
Make an eco--suggestion that they should have plants in the office to brighten the area up and also produce a better atmosphere in the place with the oxygen producing abilities...then after a while infest them with greenfly and other such nasties...maybe ants...OK you'll probably suffer to but it will be fun.
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Mar 9, 2011
Or you could do what my co-worker did and use the largest potted palm in the place as an emergency latrine (he was secretly *living* in the office!) and too lazy at night to go out the back way and use the alley...since there were no lavs in the office proper, but down the hall, where he'd have to pass the guard. We figured this out after he'd been let go, and the odd smell remained. Practically needed a fork lift to get that palm outta there!
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 10, 2011
Ewww
At school we had a teacher that said 'you get it' a lot. So we made a word document telling him he said it and printed it every time he did (He sat next to the printer). We also hid a couple in his desk for good measure.
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Vip Posted Mar 29, 2011
So, after absolutely *** ages, I've finally made a stab at pulling this thread together. The Entry is at A81597180 and the Peer Review thread is at F48874?thread=8139815. Please go and have a look and comment!
The layout probably needs a bit more work. I would also like to ask you all to check that you have been included in the author list. I would hate to leave anyone out by mistake!
Thanks,
Vip 
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Alfster Posted Mar 29, 2011
ooo, thanks for posting Vip I thought of another today...unless it's already in can;t be bothered going thru backlog.
Have a trouser pocket full of loose change and make sure it jangles when you walk and then when you go top talk to someone continually jaggle it about in your pocket with your hand...guaranteed to piss people off.
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HonestIago Posted Mar 29, 2011
Or swing keys around on a long lanyard and occasionally hit peoples desks/heads with them
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 29, 2011
Sniff.
Not a great big, dragging-the-entire-contents-of-your-lungs-up-and-back-down-again type sniff (save that for special occasions, such as Mondays), but a gentle yet sharp inhale through the nostrils. Enough to make a noise that can only just be heard if everyone else is being quiet. Repeat every 15 to 20 seconds.
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Mar 29, 2011
This thread is making me sooooo happy I'm out of the work force...what a deviously creative bunch of cubical-weasels we are! 
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 31, 2011
Hey, two of my suggestions got in. Amazing since they always seemed to end the thread. Must be the first time I ever managed to do anything for an edited entry
I must say, I agree with SpaceCadette, I wouldn't like to work with any of us
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Vip Posted Apr 1, 2011
Links! Gosh, I hadn't even thought of them. 
Thanks, Trout.
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- 145: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Feb 25, 2011)
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