0bvious things you’ve only just realised (2019 edition)

[touchingcloth]

The link?  They are both halls?

The link is the City-Hall-Town-Hall Hallway.

[zomgmouse]

The link?  They are both halls?

Well in the sense of... a town hall is a place of official government procedure type stuff in a town, and a city hall is the same thing... but in a city. As made famous by American legal crime films where they say lines like "I'll take you down to City Hall!"

[Jerzy Bondov]

The restaurant "Chick-fil-A" is actually pronounced "Chick Filet". And not, as I had assumed, "Chick Filler".

For some reason I'd imagined there was an extra A in there, "Chick-A-Fil-A", and was therefore pronounced "Chicker Filler"

[Darles Chickens]

Well in the sense of... a town hall is a place of official government procedure type stuff in a town, and a city hall is the same thing... but in a city. As made famous by American legal crime films where they say lines like "I'll take you down to City Hall!"

When you realise what a Village Hall is, you'll shit brix.

[Jittlebags]

The Incas invented instant mash. But not onion gravy, so they can fuck right off.

[seepage]

The Incas invented instant mash. But not onion gravy, so they can fuck right off.

it was instant mashed corn, so they died anyway. Serves them right.

[seepage]

Well in the sense of... a town hall is a place of official government procedure type stuff in a town, and a city hall is the same thing... but in a city. As made famous by American legal crime films where they say lines like "I'll take you down to City Hall!"

That you can have a town hall within a town hall should also blow your mind.

[a duncandisorderly]

town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall is a legal & legitimate sentence in english.

[Sebastian Cobb]

That you can have a town hall within a town hall should also blow your mind.

So that's why my old work called their quarterly regional meetings 'Town Hall', it's a lot of shite, innit?

[Norton Canes]

It's not 'damp squid'

[Norton Canes]

I mean it doesn't make sense, all squids are damp.

[Paul Calf]

You should keep a sense of perspective: don't put a quest for linguistic accuracy and precision on a pedal-stool.

[zomgmouse]

When you realise what a Village Hall is, you'll shit brix.

whoa...

That you can have a town hall within a town hall should also blow your mind.

WHOA...

wait hang on what

[seepage]

So that's why my old work called their quarterly regional meetings 'Town Hall', it's a lot of shite, innit?

"You coming to the town hall?"
'which town hall? Uxbridge?'
"no, the town hall"
'where?'
"in the pod"
???

[a duncandisorderly]

"You coming to the town hall?"
'which town hall? Uxbridge?'
"no, the town hall"
'where?'
"in the pod"
???

tcha. kids these days.

[Sebastian Cobb]

'nah, you go. I'll stay and man the phones'.

[gib]

I mean it doesn't make sense, all squids are damp.

[a duncandisorderly]

"You coming to the town hall?"
'which town hall? Uxbridge?'
"no, the town hall"
'where?'
"in the pod"
???

we've got these in the park now. there's one of these things barely twenty feet from my desk. fuck's sake. it's because everyone's given up smoking- now you have to arrange your informal chats, & nothing's spontaneous any more.

[Sebastian Cobb]

people who send meeting requests for one-to-one meetings when they could simply go 'do you have a minute?' need graving.

[seepage]

we've got these in the park now. there's one of these things barely twenty feet from my desk. fuck's sake. it's because everyone's given up smoking- now you have to arrange your informal chats, & nothing's spontaneous any more.

I bet after paying for those there was no money left over for desk chairs i.e. the ones that you'll use most of the time:
"where's the Herman Miller order?"
"had to cancel it, get the school chairs back out the skip"

[olliebean]

City Hall > Town Hall > Village Hall > Church Hall > Stuart Hall

[QDRPHNC]

For some reason I'd imagined there was an extra A in there, "Chick-A-Fil-A", and was therefore pronounced "Chicker Filler"

I didn't know you were Italian.

[JesusAndYourBush]

What are they?  Is it supposed to be art?

[a duncandisorderly]

What are they?  Is it supposed to be art?

I bet after paying for those there was no money left over for desk chairs i.e. the ones that you'll use most of the time:
"where's the Herman Miller order?"
"had to cancel it, get the school chairs back out the skip"

agile working here too, which means yes, there are fewer chairs in the office than there are people.
in fact, unless you're in technology & in the business of occasionally giving some recalcitrant hardware a "50Hz nap", wanking at working from home is now mandated at least one day a week.

I think people like the pods, though, because they can have a canny tab in there when it's raining.

[Twed]

agile working here too, which means yes, there are fewer chairs in the office than there are people

I'm sorry but what management fucko has decided that the term "agile" now applies to physical working arrangements?

[a duncandisorderly]

I'm sorry but what management fucko has decided that the term "agile" now applies to physical working arrangements?

yanks, innit? it's the corporation that's becoming 'agile'.... I'm staring at the word now, & trying to think how taking up less office space with your employees by depriving them of the camaraderie & sense of common endeavour can be even remotely productive, but hell, what do I know?

the sign outside now says "inc" under the name of the company, where it used to say "networks europe". I missed that change, I was on my week off.

[Twed]

Did they just not know that the word was already heavily used in business environments to mean something else?

[a duncandisorderly]

Did they just not know that the word was already heavily used in business environments to mean something else?

the way I deal with our colleagues & friends over the pond is to act as though they're speaking a different language that has some of the same words in it, but that don't mean the same thing. ever.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'm sorry but what management fucko has decided that the term "agile" now applies to physical working arrangements?

I've heard of sadistic call centre staff taking chairs and only giving them back when they've made sales.

Seeing banks and big corporations attempt agile is weird, the whole methodology was bourne out of them putting in too much bullshit process. From what I've heard they still haven't cut process, just started using wank names and tacking on scrum ceremony.

[touchingcloth]

"You coming to the town hall?"
'which town hall? Uxbridge?'
"no, the town hall"
'where?'
"in the pod"
???

I like that the two people use different speech marks.

That's an obvious thing I've just realised. "Speech marks", because they were invented by Mark Speight.