MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Do you do it tentatively, give it a ruddy good whack or jab at it frantically and repeatedly as though trying to make your little 8bit character run across the screen really fast?
Me, I think it'd be a decisive, emphatic wallop.
I'd use my foot.
Proper stamp the bastard.
With your fist, bang, no hesitation. Then when nothing happens; hit it again.
Do it properly...
Hand over eyes, gentle click.
Or use a hammer.
I don't think I could click my fingers at the same time as covering my eyes.*
And a hammer seems a dangerous but novel way of covering your eyes.
*edit and now my eye is sore
With dead eyes and a cold smile
The technically correct answer is...hit it firmly but only once with the engineer's hammer; no other hammer is acceptable.
1) A weary sigh and long frustrated look directly into the (imaginary) camera;
2) One hand, probably my left, firmly placed atop the button;
3) Another weary sigh and a barely perceptible shrug;
4) A very deliberate push down with the heel of the hand, holding it down for a second as if to make sure;
5) Release, pause a beat, then stand upright, turn on heel and walk purposefully towards the door.
For big red button pushing I’d do a countdown from ten then with an exaggerated theatrical motion swoop my right index finger through the air on to the button and shout BOOM!
Push it firmly, realise it's not moved, twist to release and reset, then realise some pillock has locked off the EPO.
probably with a tense "no, no, no, I'm definitely not going to do it. Ah shite I've gone and pressed it..."
The technically correct answer is…hit it firmly but only once with the engineer’s hammer; no other hammer is acceptable.
Looks round workshop and struggles to choose between a selection of different weight ball pein hammers, copper & hide mallet, dead blow mallet, lump hammer, and sledgehammer.
Shrugs and presses the button gently, listens to the satisfying click of a decades old Klockner Moeller contactor making the circuit that will.......
Rousing speech, confidently engage eye contact with the assembled and a firm thump with the heel of the palm. Realise I’ve hit the emergency stop, flustered ask of tech how to get it back on again, assembled drift away, shame facedly shuffle out of control room, wait a couple of days before sending invite to next go, get a couple of tentative s but mostly declines
Hit it firmly and hope the machine stops cutting their arm off.
I assume it’d need to be pressed and held to avoid accidental triggering? Or hit hard enough to snap a retaining wire?
According to the movies, that are obviously 100% accurate, it requires two people, some small keys and synchronised turning of said keys. I’d train a chimp to be my second and we’d both use an open palm walloping technique
Just leave a couple of small children in the same room as the button*.
It will get pressed and they will both deny any involvement at all so it must have just pressed* itself, right?
* You can replace the word 'button' with 'big vase of flowers full of green smelly water' and 'pressed' with 'tipped all over the new living room carpet and trodden all the coloured petals deep into the pile' if you want**
**I am not bitter about a £3,000 carpet lasting less than a week
Well, maybe a little
Drink a litre of strong espresso then do a dirty protest on it.
someone else can press the button after that.
Pirouette to Flick Flack to Triple salchow to BS Rodeo alley-oop no-look double pump with pike !!
6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0
I would tickle it and make it giggle.
Jab it with a long stick.
Headbutt
Repeatedly and angrily mash it into the floor while exercising my varied swear vocabulary.
Can you tell I am a little grumpy today
Just leave a couple of small children in the same room as the button*.
It will get pressed and they will both deny any involvement at all so it must have just pressed* itself, right?
Sounds like it might have been your button that's been pushed WCA
A little sign lights up in red on a red background saying please do not press the button again.
Do not try and press the button, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no button. Then you'll see that it is not the button that is pressed, it is only yourself.
I like that BVP7, but raise you ....
Do or do not, there is no try
Needs to have a klaxon attached. Helps reinforce how bad it's going to be.
Needs to have a klaxon attached.
One of our fire alarm call points is directly under the sounder.
I make sure it's someone else's turn whenever it needs testing.
Can I just check if this is about a certain poster who was a bit thirsty to be banned for wanting to have an argument about the war in Gaza, or am I reading too much into it?
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Can I just check if this is about a certain poster who was a bit thirsty to be banned for wanting to have an argument about the war in Gaza, or am I reading too much into it?
I think starting a post about another forumite would probably get me in trouble and so far as I know, I'm not in trouble. Ergo you must be reading too much into it.
And it's about you and what you'd do, obviously.
Of course, the thing with Big red buttons is they could be anything, it's all up to your imagination.
Like Will Ferrell beating his stepbrother's drum...
As flounces go, it was different....
What kind of crazy person buys a £3k carpet and has vases of flowers when they have small children? That’s the important question here.
Quickly, and then shout "shit sandwich!"
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What kind of crazy person buys a £3k carpet and has vases of flowers when they have small children? That’s the important question here.
You'd think it was an accident of global scale waiting to happen
Probably by accident, whilst attempting to turn some lights on or open a door.
On the occasions where it’s been necessary for me to hit the big red button, it had to be done hard, quickly, if not sooner, and without even thinking about it.
Not doing so would usually result in something expensive happening.
Calmly, methodically and with great gravitas. Maybe even a brief pause between my finger settling on the button before depressing it, just to show I've thought about it. Then run to the window to watch the launch like a small child would do when they know a new puppy is being brought home for the first time!