Pulaski

At least we didn't have to sit criss-cross apple sauce.

You seem suspiciously knowledgeable about this matter!

SultanOfSwing

You mean you didn't all have to cross your legs and say 'om' or whatever stupid bollocks those hippy twunts like to chant as they waste everyone's time.

Pulaski

Yeah, we did the "om" thing, but we didn't sit cross legged. Maybe that is why it didn't work for me?

Nutek

I'm a caring kind of guy.



Sensitive.

SultanOfSwing

I was joking, FFS, they actually made you do that? That's humiliating. Worrying that the company put enough stock in that airy-fairy shite to make it compulsory as well

Nutek

I'd quit first.

[edit] In a sensitive and caring way.

Pulaski

I wish I was too! Thankfully it was a fad that went away shortly after I joined the company, and there was some change in management, then I switched department, and there's not been a sniff of that sort of cräp since.

SultanOfSwing

Did the change in management involve some nice men in white coats coming to take the old managers somewhere nice and soft for a while?

Pulaski

One left the company, I think a couple of the others were promoted. .... Promoted to somewhere where they couldn't do any harm, you know how that works.

Hotscot

Not making anything..I can handle power tools but that sewing stuff is far too arcane for me.
I've always just wondered how they work.

Nutek

I STILL can't make my mind accept how it works. I do like watching that gif though.

SultanOfSwing

Sounds like it was for the best anyway ...

Pulaski

Me neither. Surely if both threads are anchored in the fabric at one end and wrapped around a bobbin in the machine at the other, isn't it topologically impossible to tie a knot in them?

Nutek

The only thing I can think is... Magnets.

Pica

That circular doo-dad at the bottom is a bobbin-just bobbin' about on the bottom of the......