Friday's Unscientific Poll + Five Days of B&W 2/5

[nanila]

I took this photo last week, after MP Jo Cox was assassinated. I want to make it very clear, for what I hope are obvious reasons this morning, that this photo is about her death.

In the hope that others could also use the distraction of an Unscientific Poll:

Poll #17530 Telecon Unmute Bingo

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

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Whilst on a work-related telecon, I have heard the following “participant unintentionally unmuted” actions

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sneezing
17 (77.3%)

coughing
16 (72.7%)

burping
7 (31.8%)

farting
4 (18.2%)

swearing
10 (45.5%)

typing
16 (72.7%)

boiling a kettle
6 (27.3%)

attempting to dial another number
5 (22.7%)

conducting a separate phone call on a different device
13 (59.1%)

deriding the person currently speaking
6 (27.3%)

deriding the chairperson
2 (9.1%)

flushing the toilet
1 (4.5%)

I can escalate this:

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Comments

[fred_mouse]

/o\ for the story of the pic; it is, however, a stunning pic.

I don't think I've ever been on a work related teleconference. I have, however, been the person in the background making completely unrelated noises, which may or may not have gone through (partner used to make such calls from bed). I think at least one kid wandered in during a teleconference, and either demanded cuddles or a book, but I'm going back a while, and I may be conflating two separate incidents.

[pbristow]

I've been in the gents - mid-stream, as it were - when my boss wandered in, phone to his ear; occupied the other urinal; started doing the necessary; and then started speaking in a carefully structured way that made it clear this was a telecon rather than just a chat with a colleague...

He was still standing right next to the one and only hand-dryer when I started it up. Must've sounded good to the other participants. =:o?

[fred_mouse]

Oh dear.

[nanila]

AAAAHHHHH NOOOOOO

[nanila]

Thank you.

I've been on work telecons with a child on my lap. Once, actually, Humuhumu gave a perfectly timed howl. I unmuted briefly so that the other participants could hear it as a response to a question, which prompted much hilarity.