when I worked in tech support so many techs put CD-Rs in the microwave to watch them spark up that management took it out of the break area. all it really did was scorch the glass tray in the bottom of the microwave. oh and smell bad.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 1 June 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
I only got told about not putting metal in microwaves last year. Really wish there were big notices on microwaves.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 1 June 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
idk, as someone who grew up with the advent of home microwaves, "no metal in microwave" feels less like something i learned & more like i was somehow born knowing it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 June 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link
/at least you didnt put the metal item in the mickiowake!― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:07 (one hour ago)/This happened with the microwave at work - although it wasn't me as I never use that one. Someone left a metal spoon in with whatever they were heating up, and it burnt a small hole in the metal mesh in the door. And then no-one noticed the hole for, like, a month.
― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:07 (one hour ago)/
This happened with the microwave at work - although it wasn't me as I never use that one. Someone left a metal spoon in with whatever they were heating up, and it burnt a small hole in the metal mesh in the door. And then no-one noticed the hole for, like, a month.
I did this at work! 2 minutes. No sparks, no damage. I was shaking when I opened and realized..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 3 June 2017 01:59 (seven years ago) link
wow i completely forgot about this thread
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 June 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
I locked myself out of my car today...TWICE
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 June 2017 05:03 (seven years ago) link
"no metal in microwave" feels less like something i learned & more like i was somehow born knowing it
Early 80s sitcoms always seemed to have a joke where someone gets one of them fancy microwaves and it explodes because they try and heat a can of beans in it.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 3 June 2017 08:29 (seven years ago) link
Jennifer Lawrence's character in American Hustle does that iirc!
― mh, Saturday, 3 June 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5HiTXpY0s
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 3 June 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
My old boss tried to destroy data on a cd-r in the microwave - I don't know why not just snap or step on it?
If you put a sponge in it wil BOBBLE UP!
OH CANADA!!http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/information-for-consumers/fact-sheets-and-infographics/specific-products-and-risks/fruits-and-vegetables/sparks-when-cooking/eng/1332278105073/1332278331477
― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Monday, 5 June 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
Not sure where else to put this, but I was checking out at the grocery store a bit ago and the female cashier hands me my receipt and says, "Happy Father's Day!"
So what, in all my glorious Sunday morning astuteness, did I reply with?
"You too!"
I hate myself.
― Austin, Sunday, 18 June 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
I love that story every time it happens
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 June 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
To other people
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 June 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
<3
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Wife putting bags on the kitchen counter last night after returning from the grocery store was very upset when she realized she left the rotisserie chicken at the self-checkout register. I offer to go back for it, and head to the help stand by the self-checkout and ask if they're holding a rotisserie chicken that was left behind. Attendant gives me a big smile and hands me the bagged chicken. When I get home my wife opens the bag and says "That's not my chicken."
Just got a text from my wife with a picture of her chicken which she found this morning in the car under the driver's seat.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Lol
I frequently lose things and empty my backpack to make sure the item isn't hiding in a secret pocket or something. If I don't find it, that's fine though, because 50% of all disappeared items somehow show up in my bag again 24 hours later. Conclusion: I have a magic bag.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
xpScore!
I wonder that if the buyer of the second chicken returned to the store for it, the manager would think there's some kind of scam going on - guy watches checkout for misplaced chicken, goes to the manager a few minutes later to "reclaim" it.
― nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
patched a pair of jeans this morning and discarded a pair that were too far gone to fix.
and then, three hours later, changed into the second pair in order to go to the shops.
― koogs, Saturday, 1 July 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Walked to the shops to recharge my myki (metro trams) card and get some bread.
Bought bread and 28945734785634 other things.
Came home and realised I hadnt done the met card recharge >:|
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 July 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Not a direct fit here, but it'll have to do...
Two weeks ago I attended a baseball convention in a large midtown hotel, the events of which were all on the first 3 floors and involved a certain amount of going up and down escalators, often passing through a dimly lit mezzanine. On Saturday morning I found myself nearly walking into a fellow wearing a cap and T-shirt (like most attendees). We proceeded to do the two-step "Excuse me" shuffle for about 10 seconds where you keep getting in each other's way. So with a sheepish chuckle I stood aside to let him pass.
Yes, it was then I discovered I was standing before a mirror.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Okay, that is awesome.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
ohhh that is gold-medal, morbs <3
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
kudos
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/duck-soup-1933-marx-brothers-mirror-routine-groucho-harpo-review.jpg
― brownie, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
I'd had just one cup of coffee and it WAS dark
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
yesterday at work i walked by a trashcan with my car-keys in one hand and an empty sbux cup in the other
i caught myself right as i was about to drop my car-keys in the trashcan
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
been there, done that
I got a cup full of cat food out of the bag one time and then dumped it right into the trash instead of the cat's bowl
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
"A very provocative woman comes up to me, and she begins to... size me up... and I take her upstairs to my hotel room. Shut the door. Remove my glasses. Show her no mercy. I unbutton my shirt, and she unbuttons her shirt. And I smile. She smiles. I remove my shirt and she removes her shirt. And I wink and she winks. And I remove my pants. She removes her pants. And I realize I'm looking into a mirror."
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
https://m.popkey.co/d8d909/lkjrK.gif
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
beautiful story morbs
― niels, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Realised my flies were undone at the office and tried to zip them up without anyone noticing, but instead they made a slapstick ZZZZZZZIIIIIIIPPPPP! noise at five times the regular volume of trousers. Embrassing.
Later in the day I was taking my sweater off and accidentally took my t-shirt partway off as well - no big deal, just a beer belly - but then I somehow reinserted my head in the arm sleeve, got stuck and had to excuse myself.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
If you ever need to make a significant adjustment to your clothing at work - any vertical zipping on a non-jacket item counts, any removal of a pullover layer counts - just do it in the bathroom.
Boys aren't taught this by their mothers. That's why I used to adjust my belt in front of people for years, like I was about to whip it out, but no, I'm just gassy, which is also TMI.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
lol wait what
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
I have, in the past, not for years, semi-consciously unbuckled and buckledy belt in the middle of a conversation because I get lost in my shitty ideas a lot and I used to not understand all the manners
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
Or frankly give two fucks about manners - this was also when I wore Docs every day. Believe it or not chuck taylors at the office are an upgrade
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Disagree about the toilet thing! Come to our office, adjust your buckle all you like.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
I do a lot of random shit at my desk but I'm a slob. Actually in front of people, or in the hallway, I think I do less of it? Scared now.
I am about 90% sure my fart control mechanism is broken. I'd only chance silently farting at myoffice desk, but I think having headphones on (and having them cranked up to music levels) somehow renders my brain incapable of remembering not to fart loudly?!?
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
so we're talking belt adjustment in the restroom, but I'm probably singing out loud and farting even moreloudly at my desk
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
Dont think this is just a boy thing (erm. Unless I'm just an uncouth dork>?). I have more than once undone my jeans button under my desk for comfort, then completely forgot I'd done so and got up and strode off across the office with my button undone :(
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 July 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
my manager takes his shoes off at his standing desk and walks up and down our row that way but idgaf
― mh, Thursday, 13 July 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
I do my part by taking folks over to an unoccupied room, or closing the door to my office, and then, only then, quietly painting a word picture of the unzipped pants, or the dry cleaning tag, etc.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 13 July 2017 01:32 (seven years ago) link
Best approach imo
Better than the complete stranger who lunges at you in the lift and yells TAG DAG! and tucks in your sticking-out shirt tag >:|
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 July 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
that is the most australian thing i have read this week. it's like one of three men in the whole country is "that dude who tries to be the aggressive bro in your friend group"
― mh, Thursday, 13 July 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
it was a woman who did it!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 July 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link
doubly aussie, then
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 13 July 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
Haha, yes I suppose it is :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 July 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
two out of three women iirc
― mh, Thursday, 13 July 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
i'm bad with shoelaces. and then the women on the street have to tell me to tie them. it's like a public health hazard, like what if their kids trip. on my shoelaces.
― surm, Thursday, 13 July 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
I don't want to live in a world where adjusting your belt or button is frowned upon.
That said, I've my own office. Door's usually open but I can close the door which signals to my colleagues 'do not disturb', so I realize I'm privileged.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
i once, as i left the flat to visit the shops, went out to put a binbag in the downstairs big bin on the way. forgot all about the bins and ended up at the door of the local shopping centre still carrying a great big black sack half full of rubbish. it's the sort of detail that, were it ever used as evidence in some kind of crime at which i was a bystander or whatever, no jury in the land would ever believe.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link