How do you know they are a CCE regular?
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(14468 posts)- Started 13 years ago by recombodna
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@Frenchy - if you fill in the details between the pictures I think you have a lucrative children's story there - a bit macabre perhaps - but no more so than Hansel and Gretel.
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How do you know they are a CCE regular?
He's behind you!!
In a previous employ I could see a guy from my desk on the forum a few times a day but never seen him post so couldn't work out who he was nor did he ever come along to PY.
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@Frenchy
Sir Gawain and the Green Deer?
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Velomobile spotted by minisrd
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Jogger lit up like a Christmas tree. Literally. Like, wrapped in fairy lights.
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@Hankchief,
@steveo has it
"In a previous employ I could see a guy from my desk on the forum a few times a day but never seen him post so couldn't work out who he was"
This. The Start on Friday logo is a giveaway
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Maybe you should drop some workplace specific clues on here so that the person reading it realises that it's them you're describing, without giving away exactly where it is you work...
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Is House E Ground Floor sufficiently revealing/cryptic?
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“Is House E Ground Floor sufficiently revealing/cryptic?”
Couldn’t you just leave a postit saying ‘please PM paddyirish @ CCE’...
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This approach could uncover more than one CCEr...
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Pop up to B.1 sometime, and wear a red carnation so i know it's you...
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If there's a BUG at your work perhaps you could get a thing in there to get all the lurkers to announce themselves and come forward...
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How about a secret CCE lanyard? More chance of folk seeing or using it than a CCE jersey and much cheaper.
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Surely lurkers will be less likely to out themselves at work than they are to out themselves on CCE where their boss is very unlikely to notice.
All are welcome to say hello wherever they are most confortable, obviously...
IWRATS - Good idea. A bit like the LGBTI Allies lanyard that's been doing the rounds recently.
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"OI! YOU LOT! GET BACK TO WORK!"
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LANYARDS PLEASE.
(I... I have a bit of a thing for lanyards.)
((What were our official colours again?))
@snowy /@paddyirish please make work friends. This pleases me.
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Is it just me...
At my work, lots of people know me (in my real life form) because of chats in the changing room about the big bike and what the kids have got up to, and whilst I gather from our brief conversations the general direction they travel in from, I have no clue as to their names or what they do in the organisation.
This gets further confusing when people post on the BUG with their real names rather than 'that bloke on the left who comes over the bridge'.
It does lead to some odd discussions when our paths meet professionally and they expect me to know their name as we've chatted for years and yet I have no idea...
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Nup. Nosey bosses could read lanyards, slyly check out the address, find out usernames and then have evidence of things being posted during the workday.
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@hankchief, when chatting to them in changing room, you could nonchalantly say - I'm Hank (or whatever your real name Is) How do you do? I know you tried that once in the refectory in freshers week when you started university and look how that panned out.
I suppose I do not always do that but have found out that way for the guys I talk to most regularly.
Sly look at lanyard name badge or asking someone I know who knows them being my other tactics. However, there are plenty people I chat to whose names I do not know. That is also acceptable. The organisation being so disparate I do not have any other dealings with them.
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How about CCE usernames discretely behind the headtube.
People could PM ‘spotted’ bikes/people, or start a conversation if they saw owner with bike.
Those not wishing to be ‘known’ wouldn’t do it.
Lurkers MUST stick the word lurker on their bike...
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A bit like the LGBTI Allies lanyard that's been doing the rounds recently.
At my work too. I don't have one of them but only because I'm very fond of my own (cycling-related) lanyard that I bought after I tired of a previous work-related lanyard that I was pleased to wear except the quick-release buckle kept digging in, and said lanyard replaced the standard issue one that I used for ages but was too thin and fiddly and boring in an age of increased lanyard diversity.
But lanyards are really just the new mouse mats. How many can you reasonably use at once?
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“But lanyards are really just the new mouse mats. How many can you reasonably use at once?”
Don’t remember the fashion for wearing mousemats.
Perhaps you are thinking of the Armstrong and Froom bands.
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How about CCE usernames discretely behind the headtube.
I rode a few miles with a charming lady this year who had the headset cap of her custom-built Croix de Fer engraved with a literary quote. Fair got me thinking on what I would choose.
100 CCE lanyards could be got very cheap if a colour and form of words could be found.
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"slow down you move too fast"?
"[insert autobiography title here]"?
"confessions of a cycle commuter"?
Colours: kingfisher blue or torpedo red?
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"Long Live The Kingsknowe Rat"
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How about a small enamel badge? Discrete and can be worn socially.
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I much prefer the belt-mounted rectractable cords to lanyards because they don't chafe my delicate neck.
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But if you don't have a belt on they present a technical problem...
(Which reminds me of my pet hate at conferences - trying to pin a name badge to the front of a dress with a totally inadequate safety pin, or otherwise having to clip the blasted thing to your collar.)
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“The Start on Friday logo is a giveaway”
How about that as a wee badge?
Doesn’t say ‘CCE’ to anyone who doesn’t know and might start useful conversations about starting (cycling to work) on a Friday.
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