Ha! That happened at last week's town hall before the meeting. Something like 200 people on a call, and a hundred or so more in several conference rooms across the country, and while we waited for one of the muckity mucks to start speaking...a toilet flushes.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 12:53:27 pm PDT #19143 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
brenda m - Apr 05, 2011 1:19:04 pm PDT #19144 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jeez, people. That's what the mute button is for. That and catty tabletalk.
NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2011 1:31:28 pm PDT #19145 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
I amazed that some people remember to breathe so it doesn't surprise me at all that they are outwitted by a mute button.
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 1:48:43 pm PDT #19146 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm still not entirely sure why anyone puts the whole of a conference call on hold, to music. Unless it's you're meeting, and you really want to drag everything to a screeching halt in your absence, DON'T DO IT. IT'S RUDE. Use your mute button, or hang up and call back in.
NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2011 1:50:54 pm PDT #19147 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
The hold button is big and red, the mute button could be almost anything and someone might have to hunt for it.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 1:52:02 pm PDT #19148 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
- 6
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 2:02:22 pm PDT #19149 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hold button and the mute button are exactly the same size and shape on our phone systems.
I never bother learning how to mute a con call on the con call software, because we use too many providers and it's confusing.
PLUS I HAVE A MUTE BUTTON. I use it all the time anyway.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 2:03:57 pm PDT #19150 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
We have it in the rooms, but not the phones.
Zenkitty - Apr 05, 2011 3:17:06 pm PDT #19151 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm always paranoid that my mute button won't work, and people will hear my cat yowling or me blowing my nose.
quester - Apr 05, 2011 3:23:05 pm PDT #19152 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Wait, you let you cat blow your nose?
Perhaps I misread that.