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Previously on "Sad lunches"

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by freakydancer
    Not where I was - big financial company near Noisy-Le-Grand
    Ah well, that makes sense.

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  • freakydancer
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    Originally posted by Francko
    In France? You must be mad. You have to actually drag them from the restaurant to make them do some work.....
    Not where I was - big financial company near Noisy-Le-Grand

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by freakydancer
    I've seen it in Belgium, France and Australia.
    In France? You must be mad. You have to actually drag them from the restaurant to make them do some work.....

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  • freakydancer
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    Originally posted by Francko
    Oh yes, also american....where else have you witnessed that?
    I've seen it in Belgium, France and Australia.

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by snaw
    IS that british, feck me I'm must have been hallucinating in all the other countries where I imagined I witnessed that ...
    Oh yes, also american....where else have you witnessed that?

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  • snaw
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    Originally posted by Francko
    How many of you do follow the sad british tradition of a lunch consumed in front of the computer checking the emails or doing some work with only one hand typing?
    IS that british, feck me I'm must have been hallucinating in all the other countries where I imagined I witnessed that ...

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  • TheOmegaMan
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    Originally posted by Jawz .
    Always. I owe my company for employing me and I think they will respect me more for working through my lunch and working after hours for free. I also wear adult nappies, this reduces the amount of toilet breaks I have to make and therefore increases my productivity.
    Nice idea, but it is better buy a commode for the office - 110% productivity. Nothing breaks up those unwanted conversations better than the sound of running water. I save the really loud sound effects for emergency situations, but timing can be tricky.

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  • BoredBloke
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    "When I eat my pie I give my full undivided attention to it.

    Threaded"

    Either that is a mistake or it is one huge mother of all pies!

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  • n5gooner
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    Originally posted by Francko
    How many of you do follow the sad british tradition of a lunch consumed in front of the computer checking the emails or doing some work with only one hand typing?
    well I get paid for it

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  • Swamp Thing
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    Anyway, back to the thread….yes I have a sad lunch most days sitting infront of the PC. It gets sadder whenever I read thru' some of the inane witterings on CUK. And today new depths of sadness have been plumbed, seeing that the mischief-making Chico-bot has made a return. FFS….

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  • Jawz .
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    Originally posted by Francko
    How many of you do follow the sad british tradition of a lunch consumed in front of the computer checking the emails or doing some work with only one hand typing?
    Always. I owe my company for employing me and I think they will respect me more for working through my lunch and working after hours for free. I also wear adult nappies, this reduces the amount of toilet breaks I have to make and therefore increases my productivity.

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  • hyperD
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    Supposedly, it's the production and excretion of methyl mercaptan (very smelly substance) that's produced during the digestion processes of asparagus. Supposed to be related to a gene that only occurs in 40% of people or so.

    More interestingly, anedotal evidence shows that urine after the consumption of asparagus ("sparrow grass", ironically a food popular amongst the poor centuries ago) only started to smell after the introduction of sulphur-rich fertilisers in the 18/19th century.

    Great trick is to piss in a crowded trough in the gents' toilets after eating asparagus - people think you have a serious STI.
    Last edited by hyperD; 7 March 2007, 13:18.

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  • SallyAnne
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi
    Nothing sinister, you either have the reaction or you don't... consider yourself gifted!

    Oooh get in - lucky old me and my liver enzymes!

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  • SallyAnne
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    Originally posted by freakydancer
    Like what?

    I know you geordies say 'like' at the end of every sentance but I've never seen it written.
    Dont start.

    I've got personal smell issues to deal with today, I dont have time for fighting

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  • gingerjedi
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    Originally posted by SallyAnne
    Does it mean my liver is broken then? or is it a sign of being healthy?
    Nothing sinister, you either have the reaction or you don't... consider yourself gifted!

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