"Best take the staples out, Tom," Alice said as she left the room.'n"Best take the staples out, Tom," he mimicked her voice once she was gone, scrunching up his face.
Uncategorized
1
Posts
1
Posters
8
Views
-
"Best take the staples out, Tom," Alice said as she left the room.
"Best take the staples out, Tom," he mimicked her voice once she was gone, scrunching up his face. "As if I've never used a shredder before."
He fed the documents into the machine, one by one, taking comfort in their destruction. The next one he picked up had a staple. He grinned as he put it in the shredder. What's the worst that could happen?
The shredder pulled in the paper and shredded it until the staple hit the rotating blades. A spark and a bang made Tom jump. The lights in the room dimmed momentarily. Then, a loud mechanical whirring came from the machine, rising in pitch as the motor spun faster and faster.
Tom stepped back cautiously as the stack of papers on the table were sucked through the air into the shredder. When a book flew off the shelf towards the machine, he ran out of the room. In a panic, he pressed the nearest fire alarm and ran out of the building.
Chairs and tables were shreded, followed by drywall and supporting pillars. People hurried out of their offices. Part of the building caved in, smashing the shredder and severing its power line. Without electricity, it finally stopped.
Stunned office workers looked around to see if anyone was injured or missing. Tom found his colleagues, thankfully all there.
"I told you," Alice said.
"I told you," Tom repeated, making a silly face.
-
undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic on
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@pzmyers @cstross we had a brief interlude here in Italy where we actually did that. The Mafia responded by literally blowing up the prosecutors involved (famously Giovanni Falcone, whose assassination tore up a whole section of a montorway, and Giovanni Borsellino, whose assassination blew up a a building). This was followed by a negotiation between the government (Silvio Berlusconi was PM at the time) and the Mafia for the State to be less strict in exchange for less killings.
-
@mikkaels grazie! zero professionale veramente, zero tatto e rischio che nascano seri problemi. Anche perche' poi e' tornata ieri e oggi e aveva tutt'altro atteggiamento, e anzi l'ha vista bene nonostante la sua condizione. Mah.
-
@stefano human stupidy is probably what was used to define the measure of infinity.
Makes me think about a French cinema writer that got famous for particularly acid texts, Michel Audiard, makes a character say “Si la connerie se mesurait, tu servirais de mètre-étalon” which would roughly translate to “if stupidity was measurable, you would be the reference” (as in a measurement reference such as the metre metal stick). [Well translation is not my best skill… ] but I love dialogues from Audiard. A genious writer
-
Ricetta veterinaria («come cucinare un cane»)
-
@rysiek or alwaysending in this case, maybe
-
@rysiek the neverending poll 8-D
-
@phabrizio
Scusa se prendo spunto dal tuo messaggio per una riflessione multipla.
Dopo che la cronaca dalle manifestazioni ha iniziato a parlare di "vittime tra i manifestanti" il cuore mi si è stretto al massimo. E nulla può di più.
Spero proprio che tutto finisca con la libertà, vera.
Quando arriverà si porrà una ulteriore domanda, forse ancora più importante: libertà da chi?
Il regime ha tre teste:
il clero
i guardiani (potere militare e imprenditoriale)
la popolazione che crede in loro.
???
-
@IcsIcs
E siamo in due a vederci male e farci delle domande .
Qualcuno sa "illuminarci" sulla filosofia tecnologica dei led ?
