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(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 8 months ago

That would make me explode. We had guys flying those mini quadcopters at the office, oh my god it was so annoying.

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

Hence the nerf.

I shot one with a slingshot and a nerf ball before it could get into the copy room...highlight of my career.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

When you’re not involved it sucks, but when you are it’s amazing. I’ve gotten really good at ignoring them, but it took years.

Now a quad copter in the office sounds awful. How tall are your ceilings?

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 5 points 8 months ago

Jast average hight, but they had those mini quad copters like this:

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

When you’re not involved it sucks, but when you are it’s amazing.

Yes, and the people who don't want to be involved have to just sit there and try to work through that chaos. It's rude behavior.

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