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Sibling comments have answered this correctly, but I like to imagine it was there as a threat to the Compaq visitors, like one might leave a loaded gun in a vis
by Y_Y 5y ago
Sibling comments have answered this correctly, but I like to imagine it was there as a threat to the Compaq visitors, like one might leave a loaded gun in a visible spot to facilitate negotiation.
- gerdesj 5y agoIn these parts we threaten to withhold biscuits from meetings. Sometimes we really mean it. Escalating straight to firearms sounds a little bit excessive.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoAre you in England?
- gerdesj 5y agoYes, towards the bottom left of it.
- beervirus 5y agoTasers aren’t really firearms. Also I’m guessing this was more of a stun gun anyway.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoOn the weapon scale, taser is a lot closer to gun than biscuit.
- giaour 5y agoI am impressed that your weapon scale goes all the way to biscuit! I guess a stale one could serve as a projectile
- Symbiote 5y agoEngland invented rock cakes (see: Harry Potter) and ginger nuts ('the original biscuits in the 1840s were "as hard as a nut"'). Although the USA can fight back with a slow HFCS poisoning :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_snap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_snap
- gerdesj 5y agoYou don't throw them. It's the threat of having to drink your tea (yes, coffee too) without a biccy that does the damage. Withholding tea is unthinkable.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI could tell by your accent ;)
- tehbeard 5y agoBOFH and PFY tactics :)
- Y_Y 5y agoGood reference. My first coding teacher made us read all the early BOFH stories while learning Unix and Java. Really brought that shit to life, thanks Jonathan.