Entries Tagged as 'u.k.'

a limerick

July 31st, 2007 · 44 Comments

back in 2006, austin in london didn’t feel like confronting his roommate about the masses of hair that were clogging the bathroom sink. instead, he wrote him this special poem.

adds austin: “my roommate never actually said anything about the note, but he did clean the drain out by the time I’d arived home…so I assume [...]

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Tags: bathroom · london · roommates

to each his own microwave

July 19th, 2007 · 106 Comments

paddy in belfast sends us this series of shots from his office kitchen, where several of his coworkers have taken their frustrations with microwave cleanliness into their own hands.
it all started when one day, a microwave appeared bearing this note:

…but SDT wasn’t taking any chances.

later, a second microwave appeared, complete with its own note:
…which prompted [...]

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Tags: belfast · kitchen · microwave · office · spelling and grammar police · u.k.

what michael moore didn’t show you in sicko

July 11th, 2007 · 28 Comments

annette in the u.k. calls this one “how to make toast in the nhs.”

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · danger · dishes · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · office · u.k.

your mother doesn’t work here (or here, or here, or here)

July 6th, 2007 · 61 Comments


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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · moms & dads · nebraska · office · u.k. · virginia · visual aids

and the coco-pops weren’t even yours.

June 9th, 2007 · 18 Comments

vici lives in london with five roommates — all guys.
(if you don’t have a house full of cereal-stealing warcraft players like vici and don’t get the “orly?” thing…wikipedia to the rescue!)
related: cereal killer 

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Tags: food · london · rebuttals · roommates · shameless meme-mongering · stealing · university

let’s talk washing up shall we

June 7th, 2007 · 20 Comments

any note that starts with “let’s” i kind of immediately love. this one was forwarded by lindsay in watford, england:

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Tags: "helpful" advice · dishes · exclamation-point happy! · office · u.k.

with 17 roommates, it could have been worse

May 21st, 2007 · 11 Comments

this lovely petri dish courtesy of ben, who explains: “while living in a house in london with 17 people from all over the world, things become way too green. this had to be done every once in a while in order to remind others not to overpopulate our kitchen with new living organisms.”

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Tags: "helpful" advice · dishes · london · roommates