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  1. #11321
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    I wasn't expecting to sit through the whole video, but it was so fascinating. That bloke has some serious skills. The end product is a thing of beauty, not sure what it does though!

    Maybe the producers of the next Jumanji film will make use of it
    its a maze bolt apparently. you have to find a way to get the nut to the other end... he said he still hasnt solved it himself...
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Hmm, I thought it might be that. I don't have the patience for puzzles, but it's cool enough to display.

    I remember back in the 80s being impressed by my brother solving his Rubik's cube. Till I realised he'd peeled off the tiles and re-glued them. Then I was really impressed.
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    I also find puzzles tedious. Got enough real problems to solve without tackling additional pointless ones.

    They want to do an 'Escape Room' thing at work as a team building exercise. Solving problems together.

    Which is what we do anyway, day in day out...told them I would just show up for the curry afterwards. Don't think I will get away with that though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I also find puzzles tedious. Got enough real problems to solve without tackling additional pointless ones.

    They want to do an 'Escape Room' thing at work as a team building exercise. Solving problems together.

    Which is what we do anyway, day in day out...told them I would just show up for the curry afterwards. Don't think I will get away with that though.
    Our lads have done escape rooms and enjoy them. Don't have the curry before!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
    Our lads have done escape rooms and enjoy them. Don't have the curry before!
    id have to quit
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  6. #11326
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I also find puzzles tedious. Got enough real problems to solve without tackling additional pointless ones.

    They want to do an 'Escape Room' thing at work as a team building exercise. Solving problems together.

    Which is what we do anyway, day in day out...told them I would just show up for the curry afterwards. Don't think I will get away with that though.
    Escape Room thing sounds horrible, I've never been one for teams stuff. I would escape work the day before then throw a sickie till it was over. The free curry complicates things though.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Escape Room thing sounds horrible, I've never been one for teams stuff. I would escape work the day before then throw a sickie till it was over. The free curry complicates things though.
    You could cry off with an injury and avoid the escape but just about make it to the curry?

  8. #11328
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Escape Room thing sounds horrible, I've never been one for teams stuff. I would escape work the day before then throw a sickie till it was over. The free curry complicates things though.
    It does but I'm not entirely sure the curry part is free.

    Franky the 4 hour Fire Marshall training course I went on the other week is still traumatic. I mean part of my education was to learn to cope with impossible levels of boredom - you can be in that 40 minute Latin lesson all your life and we had 4 a week for 5 years. Not to mention the 3 hour end of term Mass.

    But in that fire thing - my god, I was climbing the walls. So I think I've done my bit already.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    It does but I'm not entirely sure the curry part is free.

    Franky the 4 hour Fire Marshall training course I went on the other week is still traumatic. I mean part of my education was to learn to cope with impossible levels of boredom - you can be in that 40 minute Latin lesson all your life and we had 4 a week for 5 years. Not to mention the 3 hour end of term Mass.

    But in that fire thing - my god, I was climbing the walls. So I think I've done my bit already.
    I would say so - the ability to climb walls in the event of a fire is something worth learning. Though really it shouldn't take four hours to learn not to point the fire extinguisher at your own face.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    I was tempted to set fire to the place just so I could get out. In fact if someone had said to me you can carry on with this or I can burn you to death right now I'd have needed time to ponder the options.

    It was beyond awful. I mean just sitting there being bored is one thing, and I was mentally prepared for that, but when I hear 'Now I'm going to divide you into teams' the full horror of what was ahead began to sink in.

    Thankfully the cetification lasts 3 years as there is no way on god's green earth you would get me back into that again. You can shoot me, stab me, I don't care.

    At my last place it was totally different - a bloke came out, gave the 'Fire is bad' speech, showed us a video of some pallets on fire, then we went in the yard, he set some fires and we put them out. An hour tops and putting out the fires was getting paid to have fun.
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