I’ll have to disappoint Kimmie: I’m not at all weird. Constantly making use of a bad choice of words seems to be a requirement for a (software) developer. Of course, there’s the fact that my colleagues do this on purpose while I don’t… but then I’m still learning 
Vera is bemoaning the fact that her computer would not start up.
Colleague 1: Why not take that laptop in the meanwhile?
Me: I can’t! A would roast me alive, just look at what he does to B, when he so much as looks at his tool.
Colleague 2: B, stop looking at A’s tool1.
Me:
Rest of the colleagues died of laughter.
What are the side effects of your job… or regular activities?
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1 for those of you who don’t know, tool is slang for penis. 
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Side effects: Getting clucky.
I can’t help it - you spend all day surrounded by glowing pregnant women, and you can’t help but start thinking: “Gosh…wouldn’t it be great to have a kid?!”
Vera: … just not right now
*giggles* … penis…
When I worked in a team of software developers it was pretty much the same thing. Too much jargon which could be mistaken for innuendo. For example, bool is rather close to boob
Vera: with my colleagues … anything seems to be an innuendo (whether Jargon or not).
Usually the side effects of a job for me are well, the headache that comes with having to work with people?
Vera: hee-hee we tend to have very… “funny” clients as well.
I don’t believe you! You have to be weird! All females in computer science are a little weird.
Vera:If everyone is weird, then that’s automatically considered normal
My sister and friend do that to me all the time. It’s hard trying to find a different alternative because they’ll somehow smut my words up :rolleye:.
Well, apart from talking about how silly some customers can be there’s not a lot that goes on.
Vera: erm… be quieter, that way they might not hear you
Well, the side effects of taking Art right now, would be anything remotely related to the project you’re doing would jump out, like our theme was Freedom, so every second we’ll be relating something to that word. Eg. “OMG we’ll have to use up our holidays to do this!” “Urgh, how ironic! Freedom’s taking away our freedom!”
You get the idea.
Vera: oh I remember I did something similar with a classmate 12th grade, when we had to analyze a very difficult poem
How rude!
I have the same thing in my office all the time.
Rude jokes and innuendos are banned now. (Well, they tried to ban it! Hehehehh!)
Vera: you try banning rude jokes from an office with 2 girls and 11 guys. The only solution is to put on the headphones and… go about your day as usual
I usually find conversations like this amusing as long as it doesn’t make the other people uncomfortable. Actually I was doing it the whole time I was with my friend yesterday…that says a lot about us eh?
When I was working it was one worker at a time, even when I wanted conversation there wasn’t any to be had except with customers. Boo.
Vera: I think I’m the only one who was embarrassed
he he, that’s good
So it’s not just our office then
Vera: today one of my colleagues was wondering how programming came to be, another answered that it must’ve been a bunch of swear words
lol that was an interesting conversation
I luckily hardly ever make such mistakes but when I do I find it so embarrassing! lol. But funny at the same time.
Vera: as long as you’re aware of what you said it’s fine. I remember my classmates in elementary school made some very weird joke about a pumpkin and try as I might I didn’t get it. They wouldn’t explain it either.
I like my co-workers, but I rarely get a chance to talk to them… and we work in front of kids, so we can’t make dirty jokes.
My side effects: getting dry eraser markers all over my hands.
Vera: are American kids so innocent?! I mean high school kids here are… dangerous.
lol @ the foot note
at my work, i work w/ young immature computer geeky boys, so everything is a “your mom” joke.. everything!
*long suffering sigh*
Vera: you’ll get used to it. My colleagues use fuck/shit in place of um… any word that doesn’t come to their mind right at that moment.
Today a really ballsy (excuse the pun) student at my school streaked completely STARK naked wearing nothing but a red cape (like superman), hopped a 12 foot fence, and ran to his getaway car.
Side effect: my teacher commented “Did he pole-vault over the fence?”
Vera: wow. Just wow
side effect? too much concentration when I am in front of the PC, and don’t even realize that we are having fire drill lol.
lmfao
growing up with 4 older brothers has made it easy for me to adapt well with a bunch of, erm..perverts. lol. I think that’s why, when I waitressed night shift (especially on weekends), everyone would seat the drunk old men in my section. It always takes a lot to offend me, when usuing sexual jokes, and I am always witty with come-backs 
I hate to admit, but I would fit in nicely amoung your co-workers
though, I’ll never forget the time..riding in the car with 3 of my brothers, when one older brother says to the other, “I can’t wait til tonight, I need to get laid!” The other brother (his twin) replies, “Me too man, it’s gonna be a good party!”
Our youngest brother and I are sitting in the back seat..eyes wide, me 7, him 8… both gleefully shout, “Can I go too?! I want to get laid!!”
Niether of us understood why they both busted out in hysterical laughter, after all, we thought “getting laid” meant going to a party!
I didn’t understand until years later…heh.
Vera: that’s brilliant!
*laughs immaturely*
That’s really funny. I would definitely do something like that, though - I always say things that end up sounding completely wrong.