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What do you do to avoid working?
Our internet and E-mails have been off all day at work. This left me with little option but to work all day. I even resorted to Minesweeper and Hearts, which was even more tedious. Now I'm back home I see I've missed a whole day of average activity on here.

Speak at me good people, even if its only to call me a silly thing.

Need input.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:01, 148 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Shockingly enough, I actually do work at work.
There aren't many opportunities for distraction; the only computers I use are from about 1993 and while they're excellent at controlling machines, they'd not be so good for internet browsing.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:07, Reply)
Computers or PLCs?
I do plenty of work, but sometimes you've got to chill out, or heat up, on the web.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:10, Reply)
Actually yes, they're PLCs with graphical interfaces.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:13, Reply)
Grahpics is not my specialty
But I write a mean bit of ladder logic.

Too geeky? Probably.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:15, Reply)
Jonny Five!!!!!
Oh deary me yes, he's alive!
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:07, Reply)
I'll be dead soon enough.
Evening Mr Porkylips
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:09, Reply)
your mother was a snow-blower

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:19, Reply)
Best insult ever.
It could get you banned Bert.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:23, Reply)
Nah
I'm saving that for nearer the end of the month
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)
Be careful to target it correctly.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:36, Reply)
Oddly enough
we got a circular today reminding everybody that internet use in core hour times is strictly forbidden unless for work purposes, and that they have a list of the top 40 users yadayadayada... the timing is impeccable since the Agency is going to be abolished by 2012 and they're starting to look at 100 redundancies this financial year.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:07, Reply)
I depend on the internet to get technical griff on stuff we are using.
And without E-mails I'm really stuffed. Are you a civil servant and likely to get good terms if you take redundancy?
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:13, Reply)
Technically, yes.
18 years service means about £55k payoff after tax if it happens under current terms. Which I wouldn't complain about, frankly.

If the government push through their planned changes to civil service redundancies that'll drop to about £27k, so I'm of a mind that if I get an offer now I'll take it, even though I like my job, because in three years time when the programme I work on ends I'll probably be shafted.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:17, Reply)
Same as a chum of mine in the Ordnance Survey,
His pot has been halved, and he ir rather pissed about it.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:22, Reply)
I actually think I want to go now
I'm young enough to hopefully get another job fairly quickly, plus it'll scare me out of my comfort zone a bit, which can only be good.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)
If you could save half the cash for distant future retirment, then go for it.
Live of the other part until you find another job. If you get one quickly, then splure the remainder of your accessible half on whatever you want. Just keep the first half for pension.

No more wise words, drink yourself blind for three months instead.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:34, Reply)
I always come top on my team
Mostly because if they want to know something they ask *me* to google it because I care a lot less. Also I do just arse about a fair bit.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:41, Reply)
I check a few websites
mydrunktexts.com and then visit the links at top for fail family and OMGPets then on to peopleofwalmart.com and use the links at top for jawdrops, thatloser, mistakesfromlastnight and foolishfans
also here
and I listen to youtube when I'm actually working
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:16, Reply)
You're just rubbing it in
I like 15 mins of Wikipedia in the morning before I start, check the telly for the night, catch up on BBC iplayer, and check shadow and substance for the positions of the planets. Then I can start real work, just before 8:00am.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:20, Reply)
what do you look at on wiki? anything specific?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:23, Reply)
I run down there front page and if anything catches my eye, I read the article.
Mostly, scientific, military stuff, environment, history, sex, films, etc.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:27, Reply)
so, like, pretty much anything?
I like to read historical stuffs, I've read the Tudors Dynasty page and all of the links a dozen times at least
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:30, Reply)
there are other things in the world
like cake
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:31, Reply)
I haven't had cake in a while
I had a cupcake the other day, though
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:34, Reply)
that's cake, surely?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:36, Reply)
It's NOT cake shaped though!
if it were just cake it would be called cake but they're CUPcakes
gawd!
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:42, Reply)
I like downloading the pictures, and have loads to use as wallpaper.
Then I put a new one up to suit my mood. I have Laurel and Hardy for wallpaper this week.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:40, Reply)
Look for the Boston Globe Big Picture
they've got some fantastic stuff.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:42, Reply)
Wowzers
There are some great pics on there.

Thanks TLIC
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:48, Reply)
I finally have a job that I enjoy
but whenever there's a quiet moment I listen to my colleagues bitching about one another, it's hilarious
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:17, Reply)
whatever happened to your office gf?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:19, Reply)
She's off on 'vacation'
I have met a nice girl outside of work instead, and she seems to like me too
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:24, Reply)
she 'seems' to like you?
that's scary
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)
I'm not implying it's scary to like you, I don't even know you, I mean typically someone that seems to like you means they've got an agenda
you should run
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:27, Reply)
she's agenda-less
she had a painful break-up last year and is looking to move on, I'm just trying to be a mate to her, but there is definitely something else there too
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:28, Reply)
she let you do anal?
you're so in there
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:29, Reply)
I'm soooooo not into anal

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:32, Reply)
are you very
particular about it?
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:33, Reply)
so particular that I'm
positively obsessive
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:34, Reply)
Oi, xxxx-related incident
I want my anal punchline here now please
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:42, Reply)
you're a bum!

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:52, Reply)
pfffffffft

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:07, Reply)
what sort of man person are you anyway

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:34, Reply)
A hairy, lesbian one, by all accounts

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:35, Reply)
lesbians like anal too

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:42, Reply)
I was making reference to the fact that somebody called me gay earlier
and also the fact that I am a girl
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:45, Reply)
you can't be a girl, you showed me your cock

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:11, Reply)
I was looking at my cock last night
I am a lucky boy
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:20, Reply)

uck ad
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:34, Reply)
Pffffft

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:35, Reply)
I didn't when I was one

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:52, Reply)
Yeah
tell her to stick her generalisations up her arse
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:54, Reply)
Or not, if she wishes to decline the offer of insertions

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:10, Reply)
that would depend on whether or not she's a lesbian
she has a big dog, so I'm guessing she has 'biker' tendencies
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:12, Reply)

+n

it goes in "dog" if you're struggling
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:38, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post771148
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:41, Reply)
You're warming to me, I can tell

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:14, Reply)
I have nothing against you, TLiC
In fact, I think I recall you being alright a while ago, just haven't seen you around much lately.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:15, Reply)
Moved to be under a new director who apparently takes a keen interest in our internet usage
which means phone which means reading isn't too bad but posting takes 5 minutes.

Arse. The old director left it to the security guy, and the one security guy who was mad keen on it left, and the other just forwarded the reports to the line managers. Since my line manager flat out told me he "didn't have time to check it" - i.e. get the work done and I don't care - I used to post quite a bit more.

It would be awesome if the site had an alias like "businessdesign.com" or something similarly vague.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:46, Reply)
I didn't know you could be a lesbian and then not be one

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:10, Reply)
Well I thought I was
Turns out I wasn't.
I hadn't discovered cock and I was scared of boys and my bird was a mental.
It was long ago when I was someone else or something.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:12, Reply)
I'm just bustin' ya balls

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:14, Reply)
How dare you imply my teenage lesbianism was caused by an excess of testerone
and vadge lips like a ballsack!
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:15, Reply)
phwoar!

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:16, Reply)
Innit

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:19, Reply)
LIES! ON THE INTERNET!

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:28, Reply)
I OBJECT
ON THE INTERNET
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:32, Reply)
I don't like this
lets hug online and feed eachother cake and then you let me touch your breasts and all will be right again
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:33, Reply)
I don't mind a little jiggle
But then get the fuck away from me you lezza
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:36, Reply)
I'm NOT a lezza!
how dare you say such things to me!
touch me!
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:41, Reply)
Hhahahahhahaa

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:41, Reply)
is it family guy
where one of the characters says that women can choose to be homosexual, it's only men that can't
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:12, Reply)
I'd say that might be a bit right
Except for prison
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:15, Reply)
anybody who has ever been to prison is obviously gay
they're like holiday camps for those who are rectally-inclined
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:17, Reply)
Some guy once bothered us in a pub
and said "I mean, I'm not a queer, I'm just a bit prison-bent, like."
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:20, Reply)
Haha!
I hope he got lucky that night
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:23, Reply)
He probably went up Shag Alley and poked a random arse

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:31, Reply)
*jealous*

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:34, Reply)

outside of work at the clinic.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)
The poor girl
Her Nan (who brought her up) died recently, as did her best friend who was also her boss. So, I'm trying to get stuck in there while she's still vulnerable
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:27, Reply)
I wouldn't expect anything else, bertie boy.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:28, Reply)
Don't get me wrong, I do love my job
But you guys cast a strange spell over me.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:24, Reply)
It's addictive, isn't it?
Even when I absolutely loathe this place I come back, even though I have no idea why
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)
I can't get on through the day anymore
And posting from my phone is too time consuming.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:27, Reply)
Tell me about it!
My phone is an annoying piece of shit
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:27, Reply)
Women, eh?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:20, Reply)
I've had to pretend to work for the past couple of weeks
although technically I should be planning next year's work. BBC website is distracting enough. I suspect the interweb at work is closely monitored so I do little else
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:23, Reply)
I know ours is not monitored, and I clear my history every week.
Do try to do some work though.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:29, Reply)
Shameless whoring
You should go watch the psycho pussy sings trololo and laugh until you pee a little.

And then click it.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:38, Reply)
Yes that is shameless whoring.
Top marks though.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:43, Reply)
I was going to give you so much Kudos, and click 'I like this' just for it not being on Youtube
but then I saw it was just somebody who had dubbed an opera singer over a video of a cat, and I've spent the last two minutes screaming into a pillow just to get over the fury it invoked
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:57, Reply)
that's not opera

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:59, Reply)
I only watched a fraction of a second
before I hit my 'back' button with full force.

I refuse to watch anything with cutesy animals in, I am not 4 years old
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:00, Reply)
Your hatred of it
is all the kudos it needs.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:05, Reply)
find something better to do with your time
than dubbing crap music over crap videos of cats. Tit.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:09, Reply)
Oh Bert you don't understand

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:10, Reply)
I really don't
:(

EDIT I just tried watching it all the way through to see if it would change my mind. About a minute in I had to stop, it didn't work
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:11, Reply)
You have to watch the original first you stupid get

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:16, Reply)
I've actually seen the original video a couple of times before
it's fairly amusing.
Dubbing the same song over a cat doesn't make it any funnier
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:19, Reply)
That is where we differ
Well maybe not MORE funny, but funny in a different way
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:21, Reply)
I don't like cats
if it had been dubbed over a daschund chewing on a toffo, I'd have probably wet myself rolling around on the floor in hysterics
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:22, Reply)
Dogs are funny too
But you have a hole in your heart if cats don't amuse you
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:31, Reply)
I like my daughter's cat
especially when he's being affectionate, but the rest of the time he's a git.
All other cats should be made into soup
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:33, Reply)
If you were my dad you'd like my cat too
My dad didn't like cats until our Tigger befriended him and stopped him being sad
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:38, Reply)
Awwww.....
I'd probably like having a cat around, but they're like children to me, you always hate other peoples'
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:39, Reply)
I suppose that's how it should be

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:41, Reply)
Oh my god it's not opera
It's Eduard Khil, my fucking hero. I love him. He did boss songs that were emotional and not funny like Trololo.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:09, Reply)
I can leave this place whenever I like.
I just don't wanna.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:30, Reply)
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:33, Reply)

Please don't make me have to go *simpers*
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:33, Reply)
I think BGB has a serious problem
the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:34, Reply)
When it starts to affect my day to day life then I'll go away.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:35, Reply)
Off Topic is your day to day life

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:36, Reply)
These are the Days of our Off Topic Lives

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:38, Reply)

it is our Melrose place
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:40, Reply)
Corob3tan Street

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:42, Reply)
B3taly Hills: 90nz0

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:43, Reply)
FUCKING GET IN
POTD
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:44, Reply)
I love this
I'm glad Gonz has been immortalised like this
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:47, Reply)
Kudos to you sir
Your opinions on singing cats notwithstanding.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:49, Reply)
You lot had better not be clicking it
if you want I can delete the post, one of you can post the same thing and we'll all pretend it was you.

I don't want folks clicking it.

EDIT Aw, man. just checked the popular page, why does this keep happening to me?
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:51, Reply)
You love it you slag

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:59, Reply)
I remember having a life once.
There was sex too I think.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:41, Reply)
bollocks

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:42, Reply)
Well my memory is shaky but yes......bollocks too.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:43, Reply)
in your face?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:44, Reply)
*shrugs*

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:47, Reply)
I like a little bit of that

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:47, Reply)
if sex = having a life, then i have no life

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:43, Reply)
you're a hermaphrodite?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:44, Reply)
from your mouth to God's ears

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:46, Reply)
I think I must have God's ears
they're fucking massive

:(
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:47, Reply)
Haha
If you have big ears now, they'll be huge when you are older. You'll look like the BFG.
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:50, Reply)
I know, and my nose isn't exactly petite
I'm going to look like a wizened muppet
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:52, Reply)
Never mind, you can always get a job in regional panto.

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:55, Reply)

in as
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:57, Reply)
if you do, can you hear what I'm whispering?

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:54, Reply)
Yes
and I don't care how filthy they are, put them back on you dirty tart
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 20:56, Reply)
:'(

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:05, Reply)
2 hours and no replies
You've all got me on ignore you bastards.

I'm going to watch a programme about litter louts who leave flowers on the side of the road for no good reason now.

*sulks*
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:04, Reply)
Haha!
You're growing on me, Bartleby
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:05, Reply)
What you mean, no replies?
This is a big thread
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:07, Reply)
YOU'VE got a big thread!

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:08, Reply)
At her age
I'd be surprised if there was any tread left at all
(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:10, Reply)
the slaginator

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:17, Reply)
That thread was quite small

(, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:20, Reply)
What do you do instead of computer/internet work? Especially if its in the countryside
Live by, die by. BT are hopeless, I've been offline all day many times.

So watch : Harry Enfield made a sketch about women at a dinner party.

Insert a woman talking after the men have been debating the FTSE : "Well, you see, I just like fluffy little kittens"

Just watch DVD's of SOMETHING. *


*That's what I do when BT Openreach are fiddling with the green box in the corner of the street or the telegraph pole over the road and then I go out there and tell them to FUCKING FIX IT you shites

I have actually done that several times now
(, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 2:34, Reply)
Those green boxes are just urinals for BT engineers.

(, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 10:18, Reply)

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