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My array.
1 x Boba Fett
1 x James Bond Lotus submarine car (with missiles)
3 x Italian Job Minis
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None - but that's not because I'm 'grown up'!
Is that Windows 2000?
Looks like XP with the 'classic' theme. IIRC, the 'remove media' icon was different in W2K.
Looks like XP with the 'classic' theme. IIRC, the 'remove media' icon was different in W2K.
No idea. I just use it to do sums.
I've got a Sapim nipple driver that's a very satisfying twiddle when I'm on a call.
I've got a penguin shaped stress thingy - minus it's head though 🙄
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I have a phone, two normal tea cups, one mint tea cup, invoices, magazines, paper, wallet, iphone, doctors MRI referral letter, tobacco and a phone.
I'm going to build a tower.
I have a milk analyser on mine. Fun to play with and it annoys the rest of the office!
RC chopper.
Two lego photoframes, plasticine penguins and some origami
A multicoloured stuffed giraffe (his name is Mongoose)
Single cab (open backed?) Landrover dated 1974 underneath from my childhood sat on my desk. Found it when my Mum moved house 😀
Just noticed under a pile of other stuff, despite the lack of toys, I do have the Viz 'Big Book of Filth'. It's an essential reference tool
Two toy F1 cars (both Williams' - Coulthard '93 and JPM 2001) and an F3 car (N. Minassian, 1997).
All except JPM are now missing their wing mirrors.
A 2' skeleton, two inner tubes, a Tiagra front mech and a Middleburn drive side crank arm.
2 Elvis dogs
1 handmade Perry the Platypus(my advanced higher class thought I looked like him when I was angry)
A bobbing head Angus Young.
Does a multitude of Apple devices count? I think so. I love a bit of Reckless Racing now and then when working.
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In contrast to my London desk...
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Looking at my [s]tip[/s] desk, I see that I have a set of three PG Tips chimps (one festive, one small with suckers on its hands, one normal), a bike pump, an empty Marmite jar, an Arduino and assorted wiring and some habanero Tabasco sauce.
The rest is my work rubbish, including a Wacom graphics tablet, two laptops and a desk phone.
Hang on. I've just seen a jar of artichoke hearts in olive oil under some paperwork! EPIC WIN!
this
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along with two half finished canvasses and an enormous selection of paintbrushes and acrylic paints
lots of titanium.
No toys 🙁 only an old Spinergy hub used as a pen holder.
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behold the Rexel auto staple wizard. When you get one of these bad boys, you know you have made it.
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You people have desks? We have shared tables and a personal drawer - everything has to be cleared at night.
logitech 'momo' force feedback steering wheel and pedal set.
LOL @ NF. you is a winner!
I have some 'toys' (ok, some of you may have a different view on 'toys') on, next to, leaning on or visible from my desk at the moment:
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Some days, my job is amusing 🙂
3 toy cars. A china cow. A squeezy red phone box for stress relief. A red wooden fish. And the three musketeers and d'artagnan. And on the cupboard next to my desk is selection of photos from my trip to the Alps last summer 😀
My RC drifter for when I'm really bored.
Again not on my desk, but in the back office... Yess its a mess!
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Also have a tiny 4 Channel RC Helicopter on my desk and a powerball!
216 magnetic ball bearings:
http://www.firebox.com/product/2577/M-Cube?via=gf3k
(but not at that price 😯 )
Morph!
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& this landed on my desk today, thanks to eBay, been after one for ages 😉
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Keeps me quiet anyway!
not a toy, more of a creation. I give you Spongeman!!
(Other water bottles are available)
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I don't have a desk but am surrounded by toys most of the time.
couldn't possibly list all the toys around me right now, sorry.
Kewl @ Morph btw.
I also got a Chas plasticene kit. Must get artistic sometime.
A motorola 2 way radio some speakers for when Im on my own so I can listen to the radio or watch F1 practice. Does a DMR mug count? And a tape measure.
iPhone, for playing Galaxy on Fire 2
Bouncy ball, which never gets bounced 🙁
I don't have a desk, but if I did I'd not have any toys on it. A framed picture of Kenny Dalglish maybe, arms aloft.
a new set of dental moulds after a crash on the ice at crimbo
Loads of dust (seriously, loads of it)
Some sort of strange little kangeroo thing (covered in dust) given to me by a nice Aussie girl that worked here for a few months
One of those googly eyed bug things that people use to advertise things no-one's really interested in (covered in dust)
A funky monkey out of a Kinder Egg (also covered in dust)
I should really clean my desk 😕
I have this fella
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He's been a little poorly so I've been nursing him.
This baby
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(I should point out both of these are properly housed, unlike in the photos)
This little lady
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(she also has three egg sacks)
and one of these
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This was the biggest surprise though
I didn't even know she was gravid (preggers)!!! 😯
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Roper 😯
What type is the one in the first pic?
Does it bite and are we safe from them here in the UK? 😉
The first was a rather angry European funnel web ([i]Macrothele calpeiana[/i]).
They are not native in the UK but are in Andalucía in Spain, and Gibraltar , where their name comes from. They do bite but are not dangerous at all. Just a little mardy 🙂
matt_outandabout - MemberI have some 'toys'
What do Petzl think about that GriGri copy, there? 😯
I have a stuffed, toy sized, reindeer. So not a full sized one just to be clear.
I'm glad I don't work in ropers office.
Thanks Yunki thats the little ones next [i]whatever-[/i]day present sorted 🙂
a desktop link to this forum. some of the threads beat any toy any day!
The first was a rather angry European funnel web (Macrothele calpeiana).
I'm guessing they're the fun ones that live in the wall in my MiL's garden in Extremadura, you poke a little stick in the end of the funnel and watch them jump out to attack. Good to know what it's called!
I've got a wooden turtle, and a usb cup heater that never gets used. Need more toys, really.
An RC helicopter and a Singletrack mug and calendar. The bloke next to me has a bottle of Dettol spray, which probably tells you how messy my desk is.
its as exciting as a corporate stress reliever in the shape of a derrick
and a caffetiere - largely because im never at my desk for long.
- my dash in my van has a small metal london bus and a ceramic splity vw bus stuck to it though 😀
mogrim, if it looks like this,-
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then yes. They are mainly nocturnal but would bite if you stick you finger in, though they can live as far as 2 metres underground. They are called La Araña Negra de los Alcornocales in Spanish.
(I had a brood of 101 slings earlier this year 😀 )
a little model of a ct scanner - a ge lightspeed to be precise
and a monkey riding a motorbike
What do Petzl think about that GriGri copy, there?
It has been around a few years and has a couple of advantages supposedly, so going to play with it and see. Better made for a start it seems.
I have a Flat Eric soft toy on my dashboard...Once stopped at a zebra crossing, and the guy decided not to cross but come to my window to try and buy him...in heavy traffic! normally just raises a smile from adults or pointed fingers from kids 🙂
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I have no toys on my desk. (1) the desk isn't large enough and (2) I always like to be in a position to pack and leave quickly (hence no family photos, etc.).
Yes, I am that paranoid.
I have:
9 phones
4 fossils
1 squishy sumo wrestler for use as a a projectile during office wars
a book of 1000 recordings you have to hear before you die.
Some of you are paid far, far too much and have far, far too tidy desks!
I just have my paper aeroplane page a day calendar, an Ipod Touch and a small badge bearing the legend "W*****" on it to keep me humble.
Just found my indoor RC helicopter under an A1 map of the internet! Off to charge it up before a quick spin round the office.