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    We can't 'think' anymore. They now have energy saving motion detecting lights in most of the toilets. If you 'think' too long it suddenly goes all dark. Most unpleasant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TechMonkey View Post
    We can't 'think' anymore. They now have energy saving motion detecting lights in most of the toilets. If you 'think' too long it suddenly goes all dark. Most unpleasant.
    Going over to the dark side eh ? Does that mean you do a Darf Doo Doo ?

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    Crikey. If I'm that short of work, I usually resort to tidying my office... it doesn't happen very often!

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    Web development usually (currently my room booking system which I haven't had much time to work on in the last 2 years ... )

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    It's been reasonably quiet at work so I finally had time to put a new hard drive in my machine (to replace a creaking 120Gb example) and put a fresh software isntall onto it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TechMonkey View Post
    We can't 'think' anymore. They now have energy saving motion detecting lights in most of the toilets. If you 'think' too long it suddenly goes all dark. Most unpleasant.
    That's the least of our worries - they've installed ultraviolet lights in ours to stop us mainlining......



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    Quote Originally Posted by mattx View Post
    I've had two dumps today which means i have had quite a bit of 'thinking' time to myself.....

    Hmmm, this gives me an idea for a new thread....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew_C View Post
    Oh, and looking at these pictures (perfectly SFW)
    The picture are amazing BUT I'm sure everyone from London will agree with me in saying that the picture of "Big Ben" isn't Big Ben... it's St. Stephens Tower.

    Big Ben is a bell

    I don't know why but that bugs me

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    Quote Originally Posted by rolfea View Post
    What sort of things do you do when everything is completed?
    I don't know, the question's never really come up before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tech_guy View Post
    Hmmm, this gives me an idea for a new thread....
    Whatever it is, the prospect scares me in many many ways.

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    What is this concept you talk of when everthing is completed?

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    there is nothing constructive worth doing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvLPhenom View Post
    What is this concept you talk of when everthing is completed?
    It's more commonly known as 4PM - when you refuse to do any more so everything (for the day) must be completed!

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    Open up Classlink and see what the kids are looking at. Half the time it is uninteresting or soon finds you work to do kicking them out.

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    Take a dump....

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