The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp

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Welcome everyone. Wipe your feet, it's been wet out.

Don't forget to namechange before posting if necessary.

I don't suppose the terrible British road signs helped your journey much. But it was nice of one of the gerbils to conga home with you. I'm afraid I can't tell who it was.

No more mad than usual Boily, they still do. (Have to post it up where employees can see it, that is)

Thank you. Even less excuse for all those HR bods to claim ignorance then.

Although I suspect these days it gets put on the company intranet or hidden on Teams somewhere 🤦🏻‍♀️

And bats.

I will say that the lyrics so far are 100% better than those of the average modern 'Christmas play' (which usually features a nativity story/ scene along the way) performed by KS1s across the land.

I am glad to be retired.
This allows me to climb on chairs, use knives and run with scissors as much as I want to.

All at the same time, Fuzzy?!

Nah, that would be dangerous!!

If you’d ever lived in the US you’d appreciate how good uk road signs generally are! I once had a book (company issue) on good design which had a chapter on them.

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its a good thing Android has a strong metal skin.

Sorry, I just had a bad flash.

I would think some of the gerbils would agree, they need their rest poor mites.

Like it's the most brilliant thing ever but I wish they could to include a few little anecdotes from my own safety committee days.

But I know the sensitive might find the bones broken by staff demonstrating the dangers they face at work, the line manager insisting the underling he'd ordered to use the carcinogenic substance close the door between her office and his, the staircase with the filing cabinets on it that later collapsed, the boss' fury when he was prevented from installing an inward-opening gate part way up a fire escape staircase (not the same one) and the boss's even greater fury when his bigger boss forwarded the letter from the union asking why he hadn't produced a H&S statement as per legal requirement (we'd better let the mimes handle his very LOUD phone call asking what sort of stupid bitch she was . . . .).

So, they changed the management structure, the new senior executive asked whether the union would mind if he adopted the comprehensive H&S statement they'd produced in their lunch hours, and all was legal compliance.

PS, in the 1990s, not the 1970s

In those days (and maybe still) the catalogue of the company that provided all the kit included dainty little ladylike court shoes with 2 inch heels and steel toecaps, which I slightly coveted, despite not really being a heels gal.

And are those Christmas lights already on Swashy's galleon in the background?

I was self-censoring, he actually asked his boss (very loudly) what sort of fucking stupid bitch she was. Because she had asked why he had not ensured the organisation he led complied with the nearly 2 year old legislation.

He would have been much less long-winded if he'd had to stop using 'the f word'.

I'm so glad I decided to quit.

And we really couldn't expose the gerbils to that.

When I did H&S training in about 2010 we were shown a short film about an aspiring jazz singer who falls down the stairs because of missing signage that the floor was being cleaned and potentially wet, when she hurries from her office job to a concert or rehearsal. I can't remember the details because I was so distracted by trying to figure out who the actress was. Turns out Kate Beckinsale's first starring role was as a victim of insufficient H&S compliance.

I'm chairing our quarterly H&S meeting in December, I don't think I'm brave enough to burst into song.

That's like 1970s Marina Sirtis as a flight attendant serving Cinzano Bianco to Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter, which wasn't an H&S infomercial, but might as well have been seeing how it ended.

I've given up heels but I too might like a pair of steel-toe-capped (note 1) courts. To go with my statement cocktail rings, or as I like to think of them, my smacking-people-in-the-face rings. (note 2)

Note 1: Is that the correct number of hyphens in the correct places, fellow pedants?

Note 2: I am not really a psychopath I promise. It's just some people...

Note 3: notes because MN formatting won't let me use asterisks properly.

Or Anthony Stewart Head drinking Nescafe.

I was so surprised when I first heard her talking in her own voice!😂 I thought it slightly broke through her ‘Deanna’ accent in the Picard series

Note 2: I am not really a psychopath I promise. It's just some people...

The illustration suggested that were being marketed for secretaries who might have to move filing cabinets and other furniture, which in no way reduces the wisdom of your observation.