There is at least one person here who will stuff the toilet full of paper, THEN do a shit in it. They're clearly doing it deliberately to block the toilet and cause work for the cleaner. It's odd as hell. There are also one or more people who have such explosive shits that it gets poo on the outside of the toilet bowl, in defiance of all known laws of physics.

Heh.

I meant at my current employer.

People also seem averse to washing their hands. Related etiquette point - is it permissible to call people out on walking out without washing their hands?

I was facilities manager for a couple of years and you'd be amazed at the crazy things people do in their work places, and not just in the loos. We had some log layers who never flushed, some who deliberately blocked the loos before flushing, or left the plugs in basins and left the taps running, or stole the plugs from all the basins, stuck superglue in door locks, crapped all over the cubicle floors, pissed in the conference room hot water flasks, put food waste in the paper recycling bins, etc, etc, etc, etc........ And I know this happens all over the place, as I had a lot of contact with other building managers.

Most of the time we never found out who did these things, though we had our suspicions.

Hmmmmm.

The new one looks similar and has the same PSU connection. Thankfully however I checked the pinout and it has the 12v and ground reversed from all my other caddies. This is important as I tend to keep one PSU next to the computer and just bring the enclosures to it (I have about 12 with old projects on).

Ghetto solution: you could probably wire a polarity inverter dongle from a few quid in parts from Maplin/eBay, assuming it's a standard barrel connector. Then keep one next to each PSU and put a bright reminder sticker on the enclosures that need the dongle.

polarity inverter dongle

Ghetto solution: you could probably wire a polarity inverter dongle from a few quid in parts from Maplin/eBay, assuming it's a standard barrel connector. Then keep one next to each PSU and put a bright reminder sticker on the enclosures that need the dongle.

Ghetto solution

I would love to see a ghetto where wiring polarity inverter dongles is commonplace...

I imagine the same ghetto to be filled with womp rats.

I don't want any differences at all if I can help it.

I would love to see a ghetto where wiring polarity inverter dongles is commonplace...

I don't want any differences at all if I can help it.

Dr G, we didn't take time out from scrapping with Napoleon to go all the fucking way to Washington, burn down the US capital building, because frankly, awesome, and return to fighting with France for you, 117 years later, to pop over there and bring their bad habits back with you.

Dr G, we didn't take time out from scrapping with Napoleon to go all the fucking way to Washington, burn down the US capital building, because frankly, awesome, and return to fighting with France for you, 117 years later, to pop over there and bring their bad habits back with you.

I can't think of an equivalent British English neologism. Can you?

Boom.

I like "jury-rigged".

Boom.

Indeed, but if they don't make it any more then you can't help it.

There is at least one person here who will stuff the toilet full of paper, THEN do a shit in it. They're clearly doing it deliberately to block the toilet and cause work for the cleaner. It's odd as hell. There are also one or more people who have such explosive shits that it gets poo on the outside of the toilet bowl, in defiance of all known laws of physics.

I would have used "makeshift" or "jerryrigged" or "adhoc"

I have a friend who said he did this. It's to prevent splashback/a noise/something. I pointed out that it will just block toilets and suggested that he instead fashion a crude toilet paper sling.

I may have been joking. Who can tell?

I like "jury-rigged" ( not to be confused with jerry-rigged - totally seperate! ). It has a pleasingly nautical air.

This is actually linked to a recognised medical condition. Linky. One of my friends suffered from being unable to use a public toilet for number twos, or other peoples houses, and it led to severe constipation.

Someone I knew at uni once shared uni accommodation with a girl who refused to use the lavatory. Presumably she peed in the sink in her room. When she moved out, several dozen carrier bags were left under her bed, containing her excrement.

It turned out that I was staying in the very same room a few years later.

to boot

I understand now why the starlings swooped down and cracked open the shells of the snails and ate them.

I wish I had moved out before I was told of the room's brown secret.

Rumour has it that Apple are talking to the head of a well known company with a view to him being a replacement for Steve Jobs.

There are no new features that will show up once your system has been updated.

This update is preparation for additional system enhancements coming to Xbox 360 later this year.

Rumour also has it that a Chinese firm has been asked to produce green screen LCD's for a budget iPhone.

Today's Xbox update took a little while. Must be something exciting!



Oh.

Can I go in the dead room on mafia. Thanks

You don't mess about!

Done.