Harry says this little scene was the culmination of “a classic washing-up feud” at his office in London. (Kind of adorable, right? I would SO watch a movie about anthropomorphic milk bottles with British accents.)
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Tags: anthropomorphism · kitchen · London · office
As Sondheim said, there’s no place like London (“filled with people who are filled with shit”) — and, not coincidentally, the home of this sign.
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Tags: flowers, trees, houseplants & gardens · London · TL;DR · warning
Rebecca in London spotted this notice in her boyfriend’s block of flats. “While it’s true you do notice washing machines running, they’re not that loud,” she says. “On the night of the note being ‘edited’, there was defiant laundry running at 11:30pm.”
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Tags: "polite notice" · laundry · London · neighbors · noise · rebuttals
Danny works for a small print company in London. “Our lovely cleaner only comes in once a week, so it falls upon the rest of us to keep the office neat and tidy.” Danny says that, judging from this creation — made up hundreds of punched paper holes — “I’ve got a feeling that someone feels that they are doing more than their fair share.”
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Tags: cleaning · London · office
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Spotted by Leonora in the window of a London office:
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In the U.K. —more so than anywhere else — self-proclaimed “polite notices” are quite often anything but. Take, for example, these two notices, both from London.
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Tags: "polite notice" · dogs · London · most popular notes of 2013 · piss · shit · toilet · U.K.
Imagine this: You’re about to pen a note to post in the office men’s room, but you’re torn — should you go for the patronizing approach, or opt for some sarcastic reverse psychology?
At Colin’s office in London, the note-writer apparently decided: ¿Por qué no los dos?
(As always, click the image above to enlarge.)
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Tags: a little patronizing · bathroom · blitzkrieg approach · London · office · toilet paper
Writes our submitter, Iris: “East London’s Brick Lane is the city’s hipster epicenter. A nearby pub had clearly had enough of being flooded by ironic facial hair and cardigans.”
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Tags: bar · London · most popular notes of 2012 · warning
Writes Jocelyn in London: “Since moving into halls for the first year of university, our hygiene skills have gone downhill, to say the least. Finally, one of our roommates cracked and cleaned up the rotting mess…or so we thought.” Instead, he just found a new “dumping ground.”
![I needed to wash a mug so I made room in the sink. Please stop using the sink & tops as a dumping ground! Sincerly [sic] Cameron xx](http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8335/8103441660_a2a33ee9f5.jpg "I needed to wash a mug so I made room in the sink. Please stop using the sink & tops as a dumping ground! Sincerly [sic] Cameron xx")
Tags: college life · dishes · London · roommates
