Tech Support in the Victorian era
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Tech Support in the Victorian era
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
Awesome! I used to work in customer tech support for a popular electronics retailer and this is pretty much what the bottom level of support was like just before it was all shipped off to Dubai.
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
Would the Victorian Tech support be trying to fix this machine?
And I WANT ONE!!!
http://www.gizmag.com/steampunk-laptops ... ale/18884/
And I WANT ONE!!!
http://www.gizmag.com/steampunk-laptops ... ale/18884/
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
But did you watch the NSFW video at the bottom?
A PowerPoint of "a monkey fellating itself" - that just about sums up every presentation I ever sat through.
A PowerPoint of "a monkey fellating itself" - that just about sums up every presentation I ever sat through.
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
What?SandJ wrote:But did you watch the NSFW video at the bottom?
A PowerPoint of "a monkey fellating itself" - that just about sums up every presentation I ever sat through.
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At the bottom of that web page is a work-parody video. Watching it is Not Safe For Work.DaddyHoggy wrote:What?SandJ wrote:But did you watch the NSFW video at the bottom? A PowerPoint of "a monkey fellating itself" - that just about sums up every presentation I ever sat through.
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How can you have been on the 'net for so long and not known what NSFW means?!DaddyHoggy wrote:What?SandJ wrote:But did you watch the NSFW video at the bottom?
A PowerPoint of "a monkey fellating itself" - that just about sums up every presentation I ever sat through.
Cheers,
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Most of my 'net-centric acronyms have been supplanted by military context ones...
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I still think this golden oldie is the greatest NSFW (includes sound) going:drew wrote:How can you have been on the 'net for so long and not known what NSFW means?!
http://www2.b3ta.com/top-10-cutest-kittens/
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
eek!
I am currently WAH.
phew!
I am currently WAH.
phew!
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I shall click on that link.... later.
Cheers,
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Re: Tech Support in the Victorian era
There's no need for that here.
Take an idea from one person and twist or modify it in a different way as a return suggestion so another person can see a part of it that can apply to the oxp they are working on.
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