saying things without thinking in a quiet office

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And then I said, "Sometimes bottled water really tastes like a swimming pool."

And then silence got more silent.

I'd said it at conversational volume. Perhaps hoping to instigate a discussion about brands of water or perhaps swimming pools. I feel punished. I am now in exile from sound.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I normally don't say a thing to my coworkers. But last year, when the last episode of Friends was about to air, I made a really hilarious joke about praying for death or something every time it comes on, and the whole office just stopped and looked at me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

make some puns

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I talk a lot here... I don't get spoken too a lot, but... y'know... you do what you can...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the guy who sits next to me only started laughing at my jokes this year.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

err... one o on to. yeah.

and as far as people laughing at my jokes... perhaps there is a larger reason that i want to do standup. i feel like i'm wasting good material on my coworkers.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope your idea of "good material" doesn't consist of things like "Sometimes bottled water really tastes like a swimming pool."

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i just had an extended discussion in the office lunchroom about cow's milk because a fellow employee couldn't understand how we decided, collectively, as a race, to drink cow's milk and not, say, gorilla's. we also discussed the soda nomenclature of "dr. pepper" at length.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever tried to milk a gorilla?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what i said!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

re: dr. pepper, his point was to the effect that pepsi and coke are part of a larger group considered colas, ditto a&w and barqs to root beers, and other fizzy beverages to cream sodas and orange sodas, and yet, since dr. pepper has no cheaper variants and isn't a cola per se, it's kind of floating free in the soda world. when someone else pointed out that there's a cheap version of dr. pepper called mister something or other (i forget), he amended his theory to allow for the possibility that dr. pepper's parent group is fizzy drinks whose names contain signifiers.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Once while we were waiting for a meeting to start my boss who was at home after having her appendix out called on the telephone for one of my coworkers. I started shouting "DRUNK AND DIAL!" People are used to this though.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

www.fakedrpepper.com -- there are like a hundred Dr Pepper clones (Mr Pibb is a Coke product sold in areas where Coke doesn't distribute Dr Pepper; 7-Up and Slice used to have Dr Pepper analogues, too).

But yeah, there's no umbrella term for them, and "Dr Pepper clone" discounts the possibility of significant variation, the way you can have among colas, orange sodas, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

mr. pibb, that's the one. thanks tep, i'll send him the link.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad loves Dr. Pepper and i hate it but I can't remember what kind of pop it is. Cherry? Plum? Purple?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

no, the bottled water comment was not good material...
that was a serious observation

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i learnt this too. apparently lots of people like to say it's a prune base but the dr. pepper faq says otherwise.

(xpost)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, none of the above. It's a blend. Most of the flavors are emergent (the way wine might have "a floral note" but wouldn't be considered flower-flavored, and certainly doesn't contain flowers). It's its own thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I made some "lawyer scum" comment forgetting that a lawyer was in the next cube. (My housemate and two of my 4 best friends are lawyers, I can't even remember why I made the comment)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone in Long Island who was waiting in line in teh first district courthouse was arrested like 2 weeks ago for making lawyer jokes. A lawyer near the front of the line complained and the person was charged with disorderly conduct.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the guy making the jokes is a regular who just hangs out at the courthouse and harrasses lawyers!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I have nipples Fokker, can you milk me?

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 20 January 2005 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

my office is sterile. all you hear is typing. friends, family, etc tell me i should try and start conversations, but i have, its just hard to build momentum in a place like this (not helped as the quietness makes me quite self conscious about whatever i say - this is the kind of place where people are all waiting for someone else to say something/hello/smile first i think).

some people on my team talk a bit (and a manager from another team near me just blurts out things every hour or so, when not on facebook), but half the time i have no idea what theyre talking about as we all work on different things. guy who sits opposite me is so moody, i have given up saying hello in the morning as half the time you get nothing back from him.

have set myself a deadline to leave within 2 months, for my mental wellbeing.

― StillAdvance, Friday, 22 July 2016 09:56 (nine years ago)

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