Lurid Work Stories"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
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chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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apparently*at the BBC, before they sacked everyone and re-hired them all as freelance contractors, there were a load of grizzled old staff sound mixers, and many of them shared a common identifier - a deep scar on the pad of their thumbs.
You see, in the very old days of analogue reel-to-reel tape machines, lots of sound effects were created manually. For example 'flange' was created by running two machines simultaneously, each playing the same recording and by pressing gently with your thumb on one of the reels, you'd put them fractinally out of sync, giving a nice 'flange-y' sound.
So what the old boys would do to the fresh faced sound apprentices, was give them freshly sharpened tape reels. The cunts.
*all second-hand scare stories are legally required to start with this word
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 20:39,
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I heard that video in the 405-line era was recorded on magnetised wirebut in order to gain sufficient bandwidth witha a low-fi system they had to run it at 100 feet per second. So if you stand between the reels of wire as it whirrs up to speed you are likely to risk the wire under tension snapping and the sharp end slashing your jugular as it wound onto the draw reel.
Guess which newbie gets to stand there with the tensioning meter.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 5 Sep 2013, 20:52,
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Oooh, oooh, I think I know the answer to that one. Is it Headless Dave?
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 7 Sep 2013, 7:44,
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