Entries Tagged as 'u.k.'

help yourself

March 24th, 2008 · 43 Comments

spotted by doppelfrog at london’s paddington station…

related: water, water everywhere

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Tags: just fix it · london · rhetorical question · subway · water · whiteboard

the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved

March 21st, 2008 · 112 Comments

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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Tags: CAPS LOCK · alot · anthropomorphism · fridge · inane cartoon · mixed metaphors · say wha? · spelling and grammar police · u.k.

oxford drama

March 2nd, 2008 · 108 Comments

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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Tags: just an asshole · signed with love · u.k. · university · warning

hostile takeover

February 5th, 2008 · 73 Comments

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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Tags: london · milk · office fridge · stealing · u.k. · underlining · yahoo

now that’s effective management

September 10th, 2007 · 110 Comments

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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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bar · cleaning · crazy boss · not-so-veiled threats · nottingham · office · u.k. · underlining

water, water everywhere

August 7th, 2007 · 39 Comments

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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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathtub · danger · guilt trip · u.k. · water

pencils goeth

August 6th, 2007 · 43 Comments

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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Tags: pencils · stealing · u.k.