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Next to a bunch of yanks in suits - talking in a very work like matter of fact kind of way -

"US Attourneys"

"login credentials"

"Dark Net Quarantine" - "collecting data on private individuals"

"Israeli's selling weapons to ISIS"

"Threat actors"

Who the **** am I sat next to? I feel like I'm in an episode of Homeland.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:41 am
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The bi-monthly meeting of the Tom Clancy appreciation book club?


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:42 am
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In suits, on a Monday morning....in central London....


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:43 am
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he bi-monthly meeting of the Tom Clancy appreciate society book club?

Thats fairly on the money, likely reps from a large publisher discussing a new book.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:44 am
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Nahhh, they're talking about what they do....ones talking about what he gets up to on the Dark Net. Others are talking about data security.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:45 am
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Infosec engineers perhaps.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:48 am
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[Red pen]

"sitting in Waterstones"

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If it's Piccadilly, it's probably someone from [[b]Redacted[/b]]

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Posted : 26/06/2017 10:48 am
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Record them and stick it on youtube. You'll soon find out who they are when they knock on your door ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:49 am
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Well, the Nigerian Intelligence agency just came up ๐Ÿ˜†

I love London.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:49 am
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as you leave, pop a handwritten note on the table:

'you don't know who I work for...'


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:49 am
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Lean over and tell them they're not very good at keeping info secure, tap pencil on notepad and walk off


 
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Record them and stick it on youtube. You'll soon find out who they are when they knock on your door
If they're any good they should already know about this! ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:50 am
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If it's Piccadilly

Yup!

Remind me to be careful of you CFH.
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It's getting better - "CISO's" (Chief Information Security Officer) and "Black Ops Markers" now mentioned.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 10:57 am
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Yup!

Remind me to be careful of you CFH.

The paperclip industry is full of dark shadows......


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:05 am
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๐Ÿ˜€

Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:05 am
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[quote=Tom_W1987 ]
Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?

in a meeting in waterstones.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:07 am
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Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?

Trying frantically to cover his tracks now that you've been 'made'


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:07 am
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Sat in Waterstones, Piccadily.

Edit, too slow. Twice


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:09 am
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That would actually be brilliant if he was.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:10 am
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Black Ops Markers"

Definitely in the stationary business

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Posted : 26/06/2017 11:11 am
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Tie your shoe. Tie your shoe right now.

Wait......

Move along the far wall to your left in 4,3,2,1...go!


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:13 am
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Cut some eye holes in a newspaper. Bonus points if it them looks like your spooks feel like they are being stared at by Prince Phillip or someone who got their tits out on Big Brother.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:16 am
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ask them who really did do Kennedy? no ask them, seriously.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:17 am
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....one has a very 1920's old worldy pencil moustache, a dark tan, thick framed glasses, with thick lenses and a bowtie.

It's all a bit much....I don't know whether to die laughing at the stereotypes or feel scared.

I'm tempted to do my best "Archer" impression....see if they get it.... "*brrrring, brrrring!* Hello? (in Golden Age Radio voice) Hi, it's the 1930's! Can we have our words and clothes back...."


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:18 am
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Missing the bowtie, obvs.


 
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Hmm. Sackable offence that level of carelessness if they are for real.

Would go with the "you might want to find somewhere more discrete to chat, chaps" and flounce off stage left.

Leave them with something to think about.

Maybe leave some notes of their conversation topics on napkins on your table with descriptions of who said what.

I strongly suspect they are Walter Mitty types on their way to an "improving process management" training course though.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:21 am
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my best "Archer" impression....

Probably no need - if it Waterstones I'm sure he'll be about somewhere doing book signings. Probably his latest scrawling - "Tell Tale"


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:21 am
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You should put on a faux-Russian accent and walk over to their table to ask them the Wi-Fi password.


 
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........well....they left...

a mid 40's, slightly gaunt, power dressed Blonde American woman has come and plonked herself next to me now....

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Posted : 26/06/2017 11:25 am
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a mid 40's, slightly gaunt, power dressed Blonde American woman has come and plonked herself next to me now....

Sounds like Kelly Anne Conway. Yes, you should be very worried. ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:26 am
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Are you not Grey Squirrel??


 
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Blonde womans mobile phone ring tone is Mission Impossible....

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Posted : 26/06/2017 11:45 am
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did you the server look like jeremy beadle?


 
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server?

If you mean pencil tached guy, no more like a cuban gangster mixed with a bit of Jeffery Wrights Felix Leiter and maybe a bit of Jeremy Beadle.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:52 am
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"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once"


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:54 am
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You've been here for an hour

Did you order a large?

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........well....they left...

a mid 40's, slightly gaunt, power dressed Blonde American woman has come and plonked herself next to me now....

...for King and Country, Son!


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:55 am
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For King and Country,

Reported for swear filter avoidance


 
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........well....they left...
probably just as well, sounds like you were very close to having a little "accident" ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:57 am
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You've been here for an hour

I just got off 14 hours of head banging idiocy into the early hours of the morning, I'm trying to calm myself down not hop myself up on coffee. I came in because the pubs weren't open/I felt a bit self conscious about trying to find somewhere to neck a pint at 9 am.

I can start drinking at 12? Can't I?


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 11:58 am
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"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once"

Please.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 12:04 pm
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I can start drinking at 12? Can't I?

In the shop doorway? Yes.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 12:05 pm
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Nahhh - that's just a little bit too working class for me.

There's a 75 something Winston Churchill lookalike to my left now, complete with perfectly folded pocket handkerchief - typing in a very distinguished manner on an Ipad with a kickstand.

I think I'm in love with this place, it's like a cheap knock off of Raffles Singapore.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 12:06 pm
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I think they were Trumps "subtlety and eloquence" advisors?


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 12:12 pm
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Edit: scrub that, all pub chains sound alike.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 12:17 pm
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Are you being secretly filmed?

Either a set-up or they are here to rig the election that'll be called in a couple of months.

EDIT maybe American cyber-mercenaries working for Putin. Idea for novel...


 
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I left for a bit - and I shit you not - a Black Range Rover pulled up next to me with two very small Union Jacks flanking the side of the engine bay and a plate starting with "MI5" - with a very serious looking suited bloke driving it.

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I really think Jive is missing out, it must all mean something! ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜ˆ


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 1:56 pm
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That was jamba.....


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 2:01 pm
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When you say 'Waterstones' did you actually mean 'Tussauds'?. I think you need that coffee.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 2:02 pm
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Are you on a film set Tom?


 
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I think you need that coffee.

Ask them to hold the polonium.


 
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the RR sounds about as subtle as:

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I've got a photo. Will upload later before I get bungled into a learjet at RAF Northolt.


 
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There's a branch of Itsu up the road if you fancy something to eat.....


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 2:07 pm
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I was thinking of Bodeans smoked meats sharing platter and a Manhattan - but I puked my guts out all over the wall of my bathroom last time I went there.


 
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before I get bungled into a learjet
[img] [/img]someone about to get Bungled, earlier


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 2:16 pm
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I dont remember Bungle looking like Pedobear.

Wait, maybe hes not a bear, maybe its a lizard in a bear suit! It all makes sense now!


 
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I've got a photo. Will upload later before I get bungled into a learjet at RAF Northolt.

Pictures or it.....

Hang on a minute, that post was 6 hours ago....

Makes you think!


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 8:13 pm
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I dont remember Bungle looking like Pedobear.

Thats the second generation less terrifying Bungle

In the first series of Rainbow Bungle looked like this

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I shit you not


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 8:16 pm
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I dont remember Bungle looking like Pedobear.

I think I just swallowed my tongue laughing at that.


 
Posted : 26/06/2017 9:11 pm
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Thats the second generation less terrifying Bungle

In the first series of Rainbow Bungle looked like this

Voiced by the guy who also voiced K-9, fact fans.

There's been a few Bungles over the years.


 
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There's been a few Bungles over the years.

If they ever recommission rainbow they're going to have to sober him up and give him a haircut

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Bungle Mk1 looks terrified in that close up. What did they do to him? I bet he overheard a conversation in Waterstones. Speaking of which, where's Tom?


 
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Bungle Mk1 looks [s]terrified[/s] terrifying in that close up. What did they do to him? I bet he overheard a conversation in Waterstones.

Speaking of which, where's Tom?

Ah, yes, about Tom; I believe the conversion he overheard included words along the lines of 'rendition', and 'Gitmo'...


 
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Speaking of which, where's Tom?

He's fine. Just fine.


 
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[url= http://www.denofgeek.com/uk ]Who's the best Bungle? [/url]

Thread derailed!


 
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Who is Tom? I'm not sure he ever existed. Prove he did.


 
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WTF....WT actual F.... has happened to Bungle up there ^

You see Zippy's poor little face with his bottom lip quivering - that's me right now. I don't think I'll ever sleep again.


 
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