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.
The bi-monthly meeting of the Tom Clancy appreciation book club?
In suits, on a Monday morning....in central London....
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.
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.
Infosec engineers perhaps.
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"sitting in Waterstones"
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If it's Piccadilly, it's probably someone from [[b]Redacted[/b]]
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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 😉
Well, the Nigerian Intelligence agency just came up 😆
I love London.
as you leave, pop a handwritten note on the table:
'you don't know who I work for...'
Lean over and tell them they're not very good at keeping info secure, tap pencil on notepad and walk off
If they're any good they should already know about this! 😆ctk - Member
Record them and stick it on youtube. You'll soon find out who they are when they knock on your door
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.
Yup!Remind me to be careful of you CFH.
The paperclip industry is full of dark shadows......
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Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?
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Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?
in a meeting in waterstones.
Wheres JiveHoney when we need him?
Trying frantically to cover his tracks now that you've been 'made'
Sat in Waterstones, Piccadily.
Edit, too slow. Twice
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That would actually be brilliant if he was.
Black Ops Markers"
Definitely in the stationary business
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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!
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.
ask them who really did do Kennedy? no ask them, seriously.
....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...."
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Missing the bowtie, obvs.
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.
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"
You should put on a faux-Russian accent and walk over to their table to ask them the Wi-Fi password.
........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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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. 🙂
Are you not Grey Squirrel??
Blonde womans mobile phone ring tone is Mission Impossible....
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did you the server look like jeremy beadle?
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.
"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once"
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!
For King and Country,
Reported for swear filter avoidance
probably just as well, sounds like you were very close to having a little "accident" 😆........well....they left...
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?
"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once"
Please.
I can start drinking at 12? Can't I?
In the shop doorway? Yes.
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.
I think they were Trumps "subtlety and eloquence" advisors?
Edit: scrub that, all pub chains sound alike.
