spotted by doppelfrog at london’s paddington station…

related: water, water everywhere

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this note represents pretty much everything about office culture that makes me cringe. appropriately enough, i can’t even bring myself to call out the specifics — it’s just too overwhelming. (but the sign will always be there…every day, taunting me.)

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our submitter found this glorious piece of work on the door to the common room at her oxford university dorm. “the guy who left it was a 6′5 redheaded dude who wore cravats,” she says. “no one was gonna fuck with him.” (don’t really understand the causality there, but i’m gonna let that one go.) […]

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a possibly prescient note from the offices of yahoo! u.k….

related: just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm

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craig from nottingham, england snapped these at the pub where his cousin works. (apologies for the blurriness — just pretend you’ve already knocked back a few pints.)

by the way, if you’d like to go meet stephen and shake his hand, craig says the name of the pub is the flowing spring, in henley. stephen seems […]

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notes rayya in canterbury, kent: “informing the building landlord about a sticky tap would probably have been a more sensible move than guilt-tripping the female staff into feeling responsible for global water shortages!”

it doesn’t end there: says rayya, “not only are we responsible for global water shortages but we’re breaking people’s limbs.  the ‘please’ […]

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this note comes to us from an archaeological dig in the u.k. (roman silchester, to be precise), where our submitter says the planning team was quite worried about the writing instruments going the way of ancient rome.

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