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A coworker organizes flag football after work and is always trying to get more people to show up. One week he claimed former Seattle Supersonic Shawn Kemp was driving by and stopped to play. It seemed made up but he had photos. As Kemp said he would totally come back the next week, attendance quadrupled even though Kemp didn't show. A massively built guy said when he lived in Chicago he was an extra in The Dark Knight and that you could see him on screen. I thought he was making it up or he would be a vague shape in a crowd scene, but when I checked he was completely in frame next to Morgan Freeman for several seconds.
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Turns out it was affecting production, all these years lol
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Dec 3, 2019 19:14
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Icochet posted:Turns out it was affecting production, all these years lol No poo poo I read this post and then turned back to my laptop and one of our production servers is loving down.
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Dec 3, 2019 19:25
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A guy I worked with years ago claimed he was driving down a deserted highway and saw a broken down 18 wheeler. He pulled over and talked to the guy, who said that he was hauling 3 tons of salmon and that the refrigerator unit in his truck was broken so the fish would spoil in the heat. My former coworker proceeded to drive to Walmart, buy a charcoal grill, and "Grill up a few hundred pounds of salmon". He spent all day there and ate it with the truck driver, then a tow truck driver that showed up to tow the truck, plus a random car full of beautiful women that pulled over. He finally grilled up all the salmon he could carry home and packed it up in some containers he bought at Walmart, then headed home to his wife who didn't believe him until he pulled out the massive containers of fish. It sounded insane, but it turned out it had a kernel of truth - this guy had been jerking off at a public pool and his wife found out and divorced him over it.
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Dec 3, 2019 19:33
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I once worked for a machinist who would warn trainees about being careful so they don't lose a finger. He'd then go on to say that he only lost one, but he kept it in a jar at home. He was missing most of his right ring finger, so people just took the warning seriously. Someone finally called him out on his jar full of finger at home. The next day, he brings in a little baby food jar with his finger sitting in formaldehyde or some other kind of preservative.
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Dec 3, 2019 21:47
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about 18 years ago i worked with an older dude (late 60s) who claimed he wrote everything down that he did, and he had all this incredibly detailed notes of his life. i thought maybe he just had a notebook or whatever. anyways he goes on vacation and comes back. we ask "how was the vacation?" and he goes, "oh here, i'll show you" and pulled out multiple manilla envelopes stuffed with papers. he had detailed descriptions of all the meals he and his family had, who ordered what, which meals were good, which were bad. how many traffic lights on his way to the airport he hit. how long his flight was. everything he did, including how long he had to wait in line. it was absolutely bonkers. in the office he would just mark a tally of tasks he completed as he went, but we never got to see the extent of it. it was insane.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:about 18 years ago i worked with an older dude (late 60s) who claimed he wrote everything down that he did, and he had all this incredibly detailed notes of his life. i thought maybe he just had a notebook or whatever. I can think of worse manifestations of OCD.
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Dec 3, 2019 22:55
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Down to the traffic lights? That's pretty freaking impressive. I wonder if he has a whole storage unit dedicated to the stuff that no longer fits in the room he surely has dedicated to his previous...memoirs stretching back to childhood? When he dies, they can be fed into his robot clone and it can carry on as if nothing happened. A fully intact replica.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:06
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:about 18 years ago i worked with an older dude (late 60s) who claimed he wrote everything down that he did, and he had all this incredibly detailed notes of his life. i thought maybe he just had a notebook or whatever. I knew an engineer who did this, but only for work related stuff. The guy had almost an entire wall full of notebooks that were really well done.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:10
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Someone told me one of my employees was a heavy metal star in pakistan and I thought that to be unlikely, then they showed me a clip and he indeed appeared to be playing pakistani heavy metal with some high production values.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:20
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Once a lady at work told me she used to have a pet fox and then brought me a photo album of her from the 90s with this fox thats hanging out like its a cat.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:22
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A Fancy Hat posted:A guy I worked with years ago claimed he was driving down a deserted highway and saw a broken down 18 wheeler. He pulled over and talked to the guy, who said that he was hauling 3 tons of salmon and that the refrigerator unit in his truck was broken so the fish would spoil in the heat. My former coworker proceeded to drive to Walmart, buy a charcoal grill, and "Grill up a few hundred pounds of salmon". He spent all day there and ate it with the truck driver, then a tow truck driver that showed up to tow the truck, plus a random car full of beautiful women that pulled over. He finally grilled up all the salmon he could carry home and packed it up in some containers he bought at Walmart, then headed home to his wife who didn't believe him until he pulled out the massive containers of fish. The long-lost ending to OMC's "How Bizarre"
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Dec 3, 2019 23:23
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A Fancy Hat posted:A guy I worked with years ago claimed he was driving down a deserted highway and saw a broken down 18 wheeler. He pulled over and talked to the guy, who said that he was hauling 3 tons of salmon and that the refrigerator unit in his truck was broken so the fish would spoil in the heat. My former coworker proceeded to drive to Walmart, buy a charcoal grill, and "Grill up a few hundred pounds of salmon". He spent all day there and ate it with the truck driver, then a tow truck driver that showed up to tow the truck, plus a random car full of beautiful women that pulled over. He finally grilled up all the salmon he could carry home and packed it up in some containers he bought at Walmart, then headed home to his wife who didn't believe him until he pulled out the massive containers of fish. are these two separate anecdotes
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Dec 4, 2019 00:17
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I'm probably the odd coworker in this situation.
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Dec 4, 2019 01:54
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm probably the odd coworker in this situation. 
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Isaac posted:Someone told me one of my employees was a heavy metal star in pakistan and I thought that to be unlikely, then they showed me a clip and he indeed appeared to be playing pakistani heavy metal with some high production values. The video isn't loading.
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Dec 4, 2019 02:37
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Resting Lich Face posted:The video isn't loading. I tried to find it but I can only find one pakistani metal clip and I dont think its the one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFB0x8cEvQ Imagine this, but my former coworker shaji is playing the guitar.
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Dec 4, 2019 02:59
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Isaac posted:I tried to find it but I can only find one pakistani metal clip and I dont think its the one. Neat. I love international metal; there's usually something interesting going on that you just won't find in western stuff. Fun rabbit hole to go down. You've set my soundtrack for the evening, cheers.
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Dec 4, 2019 03:12
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Isaac posted:Someone told me one of my employees was a heavy metal star in pakistan and I thought that to be unlikely, then they showed me a clip and he indeed appeared to be playing pakistani heavy metal with some high production values. i hope your job is cool enough, i feel for my riffin' bros with day jobs
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Dec 4, 2019 03:16
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Coworker told me had three nuts and showed them to me. Was true.
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Dec 4, 2019 03:22
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My coworker told me that his uncle worked for Nintendo. This was back when I worked at Nintendo. It turns out, his Uncle also worked there. It was the first guy ever who was telling the truth about his uncle working at nintendo. He knew all of the nude codes for Mario, and the secret fatalities in Mortal Kombat, like the one where Johnny cage turns you into a baby, and throws you into a ceiling fan, that chops you to bits, then puts on his shades and does a celebration pose
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Dec 4, 2019 03:31
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I once found my boss in a softcore porn He didn't tell me, I just found it I know
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Rat posted:I once found my boss in a softcore porn Quote it offhand and see if he reacts.
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What is softcore porn? Is that just like...video of people kissing??
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Dec 5, 2019 02:50
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I think it just means the actors don't claim to be related and the film crew isn't glued to the dudes balls
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Dec 5, 2019 02:52
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Colonel Cancer posted:I think it just means the actors don't claim to be related and the film crew isn't glued to the dudes balls Sounds boring as hell tbh
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:What is softcore porn? Is that just like...video of people kissing?? Google Cinemax in the 1990s.
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Rat posted:I once found my boss in a softcore porn This is pretty low stakes if you work in hardcore porn.
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:What is softcore porn? Is that just like...video of people kissing?? how do you... how do you not know this?
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I'm pretty sure I saw Jean Claude Van Damme in a softcore porn film on a german tv channel in the 90s. I googled it but i don't want to click on any of these dodgy as gently caress links
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Dec 5, 2019 15:35
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:What is softcore porn? Is that just like...video of people kissing?? where 'hardcore' porn has dudes with 'hard' penises, 'softcore' porn exclusively features lil' floppers
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A few months ago, my wife told me that one of their company's bidding services was run by some guys who were in a famous 90's band. She'd had a few phone conferences with them, and they were sort of evasive about it when it came up in conversation. Naturally, I called bullshit and figured that she was being lied to by some middle aged dorks who used to play guitar in a local garage band. Nope, as it turned out this mundane printing services company is actually managed by two of the guys from Oleander. I guess it was a family business, and once the music fame died down the guy from the band(Doug Eldridge) took over operations and brought on one of the other dudes from the band to help out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoiZc25t-k Here they are now http://www.ebrbids.com/auAdmin.php
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