Stunt pineapple for work zoom meetings?

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Light-hearted...
I'm just about to sign in to my very first online meeting. I'm in my kitchen/diner, dressed (well, not in pjs) and hair brushed. Took a look at myself via zoom to check if I was clear on the screen. Whirlwind clear-up of the kitchen followed, along with strategic placing of fruit bowl with pineapple...

Tell me what you've added/removed from your background before video calls!

You can download Studio Ghibli backgrounds:
www.popbuzz.com/internet/social-media/studio-ghibli-zoom-background-free-download/

There was great hilarity in one of DH's meetings last week when a colleague's cat brought a live rat in through the cat flap and let it go

Buggerit, Laurie!

I can't stop obsessing about you lovely dog's magnificent eyebrows . . .

@SchadenfreudePersonified (& make sure you move Decameron!)

This thread is stressing me out!! I have a zoom interview for a job I really want and now I am stressed about double chins and grubby walls, is it possible to redecorate during lock down so I have a tasteful backdrop by next week??? Also might need a total facial makeover.......

I also have a stunt pineapple, and a very well stocked fruit bowl in the background. I will admit to having cleaned off the worktop behind my kitchen desk in advance of our first meeting, and I keep an empty cardboard box that I place under my laptop for meetings, so that the camera is slightly raised and I don't look quite so 'chinny' :D

Schadenfreude, don't worry about your original book choice. My very boring C of E church, low numbers of congregation most over 80 had a book swap table at the back near the door. One morning all three of the 50 shades of grey appeared and disappeared by the end of the service. I was most pissed I had to spend half of the service with my potty training toddler and missed who swiped them...was also considering nabbing them myself, purely for research, I would never buy them

We discovered customisable (JPG) backgrounds in Teams last week! I am currently working through various holiday locations, a colleague is travelling through different buildings/offices for our firm, and we have a joker who comes up with funny backdrops that always get us talking

(& make sure you move Decameron!)

No worries - is in little cupboard of bedside table.

She really does have Magnificent Brows

Goldenhedgehogs

I would never buy them either- obviously they are the work of the Devil, but purely for research purposes, (and to protect the souls of the congregation) sometimes you have to just bite the bullet (not a euphemism) and confiscate them. And read then to make sure that they are really as bad as they are supposed to be

And her EARS, Laurie

Her ears are amazing!

I'm nagging Mr Schaden for a terrier (we have a house full of spaniels - I need a nice little ratting dog, just because. I was working towards another Westie, but now am wondering a Scottie would be the ideal choice . . .

I noticed Lisa Nandy had a very prominent and well thumbed copy of Catch - 22 behind her.

This is a book about total chaos where nobody has a bloody clue what is going on.....

Not very hidden or subtle message there Lisa!!

My favourite thing is when she's watching tv and the ears go back and forth like antennae when it's horses/cats/squirrels

For such a small dog she has the hugest personality

(Love Westies too)

@mumwon no, Shades of Grey!

You can always get one of these www.businessinsider.com/zoom-video-goat-2-meeting-llama-sweet-farm-animals-cameo-2020-4?r=US&IR=T

DD had her music lesson via Zoom last week. I hastily shoved the folded pile of clean washing over so it wasn't in the background!

At DD's college the lecturer teaching Astrobiology has been dressing in a Star Trek costume and changing his background to the bridge in Star Trek Discovery...

I had a stunt bottle of gin.... in today’s video interview.
Got the job!!

I heard you can set your Zoom background to look like you are on the Starship Enterprise. That would be my move.

Paper your wall with pictures of loo rolls and tins of tomatoes then deny hoarding.

Otherwise a strategically placed bag of bread flour could stand in for a stunt pineapple.

Just don’t be this guy 😜

www.facebook.com/100000087906572/posts/3182435731769326/?d=n

I had a stunt bottle of gin.

Stunt bottle bargebill?

Virtual backgrounds are your friend, I alternate between the Oval Office and the Queen Vic.

I just blur the background.

Virtual backgrounds for the win.

If you really want to show off how wonderful your house is, tidy it once, take a photo, use that as your virtual background and never tidy again.

You're welcome.