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Physical Spam

By Paperstone on 16 June 2013 in Fun with 0 Comments

Anyone that has an Email account, which is just about everyone in the known world, will know the mild irritation of spam. This playful clip highlights this by placing the phenomena in the context of the home. However, beyond simply making light of the inbox virus it attempts to remind the watcher of just how […]

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Take Your Dog to Work Day 2013

By Paperstone on 14 June 2013 in Fun, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Take Your Dog to Work Day 2013

If you spot a bloodhound in a bowler hat and spectacles on the way to the office don’t worry – it’s probably Take Your Dog to Work Day. This annual celebration of our four-legged friends takes place next Friday, June 21 and aims to boost the number of animal adoptions around the world. Bosses are […]

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Wrong Trousers Day 2013

By Paperstone on 10 June 2013 in Fun, Office Workers, Workwear with 0 Comments
Wrong Trousers Day 2013

Why not have a wacky day in the workplace and support Wrong Trousers Day on June 21st to raise funds for sick children. Employees are urged to donate £1 to follow in the footsteps of Wallace and Gromit and don their craziest trousers instead of normal work clobber. The Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Foundation wants […]

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The Peeping Notebook

By Paperstone on 6 June 2013 in Fun with 0 Comments
The Peeping Notebook

It is by no means an entirely original idea, but it has been charmingly reproduced by Urban Outfitters for every office-based peeping Tom out there. After all, the traditional eye-holes in the Newspaper may work for the undercover detective but it’s not suited to the office environment. This discreet bit of kit adheres closely to […]

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Meet Colin Furze – Plumbing Inventor Extraordinaire

By Paperstone on 2 June 2013 in Fun, Janitorial with 0 Comments
Meet Colin Furze – Plumbing Inventor Extraordinaire

British plumber Colin Furze is flushed with success after building the world’s fastest toilet! The pioneering plumber from Lincolnshire has built a fully functioning lavatory capable of travelling 55 miles per hour. It took the 33-year-old four weeks to build the high speed petrol-powered loo which boasts a 140cc motorcycle engine. The plumber often gets […]

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Heil Heatler

By Paperstone on 30 May 2013 in Catering, Fun with 0 Comments
Heil Heatler

A kettle which looks like Hitler is selling like hot cakes. American retailer JC Penney is selling hundreds of the Michael Graves Design Bells and Whistles kettle after someone noticed it resembled Herr Fuhrer. An image of the kettle photographed from a billboard went viral, and is the latest item to feature on the website […]

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Recycled C3PO

By Paperstone on 4 May 2013 in Fun, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Recycled C3PO

Ever since Marx, certain elements of society have been aware of the negative effects of becoming a cog in a machine. Various solutions have been proposed, including Marx’s very own. Others include everybody becoming self sufficient vegetable growers and, the other extreme, creating robots that will quite simply do everything in our place. Tired of […]

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Pop Culture

By Paperstone on 29 January 2013 in Fun, Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Pop Culture

Yesterday was Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, a day inaugurated in 2001 to celebrate the strangely additctive protective wrap. To mark the day, 366 students at a New Jersey high school simultaneously popped bubble wrap, in the process setting the record for the most people popping bubble wrap at one time. Students of Hawthorne High School […]

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Google Zeitgeist 2012

By Paperstone on 31 December 2012 in Fun with 0 Comments
Google Zeitgeist 2012

Google recently released its Zeitgeist lists for 2012 which details the fastest growing search terns throughout the year. Globally, the fastest growing search term was ‘Whitney Houston’ in relation to the singer who was found dead earlier this year, followed by the ultra-viral ‘Gangnam Style’. Both these terms featured in the UK-only fastest growing search […]

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Bog Standard Weekend: Part 2

By Paperstone on 9 December 2012 in Fun, Janitorial with 0 Comments
Bog Standard Weekend: Part 2

The Korean city of Suwon, about an hour outside of Seoul, lays claim to the world’s first theme park dedicated to the toilet. The Mr Toilet Sim Jae-duck Foundation is named after the founder and first president of the World Toilet Association (WTA), a man dubbed “Mr Toilet” for his lavatorial passion. The WTA’s mission […]

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