Remote working 22:34 - May 17 with 4517 views | rockj | Many of us are doing this. Can someone explain why there’s a need to have a load of books behind you? What is it with these nob heads in the media? | | | | |
Remote working on 09:42 - May 18 with 3110 views | Catullus | Maybe these nob heads actually have offices at home with small libraries? If my wife went on webcam/zoom/skype right now you would see our bookcase behind her. Not to much highbrow stuff but full shelves with a few reference and history books sprinkled in. I'm sure if Lohengrin (and a few others) went on cam they'd have plenty of books in view too. Reading isn't only for nob heads y'know! | |
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Remote working on 09:45 - May 18 with 3109 views | Dr_Winston | If people have a home office (as the types likely to be interviewed in TV may well have) then having a bookshelf or two is hardly unusual. What are people expecting? Flying ducks like Hilda Ogden? | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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Remote working on 10:58 - May 18 with 3064 views | LeonWasGod | What's with these people who's craft is through words having books containing words? No idea. Must be voodoo | | | |
Remote working on 11:05 - May 18 with 3056 views | Highjack |
Remote working on 09:42 - May 18 by Catullus | Maybe these nob heads actually have offices at home with small libraries? If my wife went on webcam/zoom/skype right now you would see our bookcase behind her. Not to much highbrow stuff but full shelves with a few reference and history books sprinkled in. I'm sure if Lohengrin (and a few others) went on cam they'd have plenty of books in view too. Reading isn't only for nob heads y'know! |
Here’s live footage of Lohengrin in his study. | |
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Remote working on 11:13 - May 18 with 3043 views | JackSomething | Is it suddenly bad to have books in your house? Like others have said, any space that is designated as an office in the home is likely to have books in it. Although I am cynical enough to believe that some make sure only the 'best' books are on display and their mass market paperbacks are out of sight. I'm alternating between working at the kitchen table or a desk in our spare bedroom. It's a tiny room which we use as a multi-purpose room rather than have a bed in here. If I was to have a webchat now, you'd see a small selection of our vast boardgame collection in a shelving unit behind me (the books are in other rooms). I shudder to think what Rockin would think of me... | |
| You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. |
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Remote working on 11:21 - May 18 with 3030 views | Dr_Winston |
Remote working on 11:13 - May 18 by JackSomething | Is it suddenly bad to have books in your house? Like others have said, any space that is designated as an office in the home is likely to have books in it. Although I am cynical enough to believe that some make sure only the 'best' books are on display and their mass market paperbacks are out of sight. I'm alternating between working at the kitchen table or a desk in our spare bedroom. It's a tiny room which we use as a multi-purpose room rather than have a bed in here. If I was to have a webchat now, you'd see a small selection of our vast boardgame collection in a shelving unit behind me (the books are in other rooms). I shudder to think what Rockin would think of me... |
I look down on anyone who hasn't transitioned to an e-Reader. Think I must have donated not far off 300-400 books to the PDSA shop in Morriston when I last moved house. Couldn't go back to having that much clutter around now. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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Remote working on 11:26 - May 18 with 3016 views | Whiterockin | There are books behind me on shelves so if I was on a webcam you would see them. Secret is keep the porn on the lower shelves. | | | |
Remote working on 11:27 - May 18 with 3010 views | airedale | Someone told me that a Lloyd’s group call centre and another big company, Tui, were considering making the current ‘working from home’ arrangement permanent for some employees. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Remote working on 14:06 - May 18 with 2879 views | JackSomething |
Remote working on 11:21 - May 18 by Dr_Winston | I look down on anyone who hasn't transitioned to an e-Reader. Think I must have donated not far off 300-400 books to the PDSA shop in Morriston when I last moved house. Couldn't go back to having that much clutter around now. |
Ex-librarian so treat e-readers with horror. Possibly makes me a 21st century Luddite. | |
| You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. |
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Remote working on 14:11 - May 18 with 2873 views | Highjack |
Remote working on 11:26 - May 18 by Whiterockin | There are books behind me on shelves so if I was on a webcam you would see them. Secret is keep the porn on the lower shelves. |
Who on Earth has physical copies of porn in the 21st century? | |
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Remote working on 14:27 - May 18 with 2846 views | Whiterockin |
Remote working on 14:11 - May 18 by Highjack | Who on Earth has physical copies of porn in the 21st century? |
Keeps the laptop clean. | | | |
Remote working on 14:35 - May 18 with 2833 views | Dr_Winston |
Remote working on 14:06 - May 18 by JackSomething | Ex-librarian so treat e-readers with horror. Possibly makes me a 21st century Luddite. |
Nah. I've got friends younger than me who shudder at the thought of moving from books. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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Remote working on 14:36 - May 18 with 2830 views | jack2jack |
Remote working on 11:26 - May 18 by Whiterockin | There are books behind me on shelves so if I was on a webcam you would see them. Secret is keep the porn on the lower shelves. |
Ive got a fridge freezer behind me atm. | | | |
Remote working on 14:38 - May 18 with 2830 views | Highjack |
Remote working on 14:27 - May 18 by Whiterockin | Keeps the laptop clean. |
Yes but your bookshelf is probably covered in jizz instead. You’ll have a lot of questions to answer if a visitor plucks a copy of Schindler’s Ark from the shelf and it becomes stuck to their fingers. | |
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Remote working on 15:35 - May 18 with 2781 views | Best_loser | Gove had a book by holocaust denier David Irving and a book claiming whites are genetically superior to blacks | | | |
Remote working on 15:46 - May 18 with 2763 views | Professor | Well either I would be in my son's den/gaming room (ex garage) with a Stranger Things poster or in his bedroom (as quiet) with a blue Ikea wardrobe. | | | |
Remote working on 16:22 - May 18 with 2741 views | Catullus |
Remote working on 11:21 - May 18 by Dr_Winston | I look down on anyone who hasn't transitioned to an e-Reader. Think I must have donated not far off 300-400 books to the PDSA shop in Morriston when I last moved house. Couldn't go back to having that much clutter around now. |
I use an e-reader but my wife is retro, prefers 'proper books' My reader has dozens of books on it, I actually read some of them. | |
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Remote working on 16:24 - May 18 with 2738 views | Catullus |
Remote working on 11:05 - May 18 by Highjack | Here’s live footage of Lohengrin in his study. |
Where are the hounds? | |
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Remote working on 16:28 - May 18 with 2731 views | Highjack |
Remote working on 16:24 - May 18 by Catullus | Where are the hounds? |
They’re curled up around the aga after a long days ferreting. | |
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Remote working on 17:23 - May 18 with 2702 views | karnataka |
Remote working on 16:22 - May 18 by Catullus | I use an e-reader but my wife is retro, prefers 'proper books' My reader has dozens of books on it, I actually read some of them. |
My wife always has a library book on the go but she's just run out after a session of panic borrowing when it was announced our library was closing for lockdown p. Now she's having to use a tablet to read downloads which are free via her library membership. She hates it, says it's not natural. | | | |
Remote working on 19:04 - May 18 with 2649 views | Neath_Jack |
Remote working on 16:22 - May 18 by Catullus | I use an e-reader but my wife is retro, prefers 'proper books' My reader has dozens of books on it, I actually read some of them. |
I don't know how anyone can use an e-reader instead of a book. I love the feel of a book, the smell of a book, even the old tatty ones with curled up edges. There's something comforting in picking up a book. | |
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Remote working on 19:06 - May 18 with 2643 views | exiledclaseboy |
Remote working on 19:04 - May 18 by Neath_Jack | I don't know how anyone can use an e-reader instead of a book. I love the feel of a book, the smell of a book, even the old tatty ones with curled up edges. There's something comforting in picking up a book. |
I gave up on “hard copy” books some years ago. I used to feel exactly as you did but with a bit of perseverance I got over it. Much prefer my kindle now. | |
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Remote working on 19:11 - May 18 with 2626 views | monmouth | The only book I read on a kindle was Monk's book. It was shit, and put me off the kindle. | |
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Remote working on 19:41 - May 18 with 2591 views | Dr_Winston |
Remote working on 19:11 - May 18 by monmouth | The only book I read on a kindle was Monk's book. It was shit, and put me off the kindle. |
It's also impossible to get rid of it off there. Or at least I can't work out how to do it. Like the chip on his shoulder. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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