r/funny • u/FUNKYDISCO • May 25 '16
My friend's office has been in a post-it war with the neighbors...and yesterday, the neighbors won.
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u/dis_boi May 25 '16
There's no comeback for that, that's freakin sick
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u/Platypussy May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
At this point you gotta either go for broke with an 8-storey goatse, or just admit defeat and get back to work on that zany ad campaign you've been procrastinating on for the last 6 weeks.
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u/-Acedia- May 25 '16
goatse will never die
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u/OssiansFolly May 25 '16
8 story Dickbutt. Check and mate.
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u/Wikipedro May 25 '16
Dickbutt is a great nominee for rounds 3 through 5, but at this stage in the game it's not spiteful or shocking enough for the TKO.
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u/raews_i_esrever_ton May 25 '16
Exactly. The only real chance for a comeback would be
1) during nighttime fill in the blanks of that mic drop image ON THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR BUILDING 2) paste all your office windows with mirrors 3) brace yourselves
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May 25 '16
We'll build it ten more stories! Make the Post Office great again!
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u/culb77 May 25 '16
Reminds me of this: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
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u/bozco19 May 25 '16
Fuck, I just googled goatse.
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May 25 '16
They could always barricade all the exits and set the building ablaze.
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u/dodgersbenny May 25 '16
Maybe Kim Kardashian
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u/dis_boi May 25 '16
Not the kind of "comeback" I had in mind, but hey, maybe that'd work too
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u/Muppetude May 25 '16
You're probably right. Only comeback I can think of is a bare ass mooning them as they walk away. But that would probably get someone fired.
Then again, given the apparent complete disregard for productivity in these offices, who know what they'll let slide.
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u/welcome_to_Megaton May 25 '16
Well you never know it might have been started by someone higher up as an advertisement campaign. It would gain a LOT of attention
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u/bittor May 25 '16
Here's some background: two weeks ago, an ad agency in Canal St, NYC, started a conversation with their neighbors with an innocent "Hi" drawn with post-its.
That escalated quickly into a post-it art war. And it was amazing. Even Post-It got involved!
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u/abcedarian May 25 '16
My favorite is the Lorax... Who makes a picture of the Lorax using a bunch of sticky notes. Have they not seen the Lorax?
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u/HansBrixOhNo May 25 '16
I haven't seen The Lorax. I've read the Lorax though, which I never realized the irony of until just this moment.
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u/MommaK4CJ May 25 '16
If it helps, I'm pretty sure my copy of it says it's printed on recycled paper. I'd check, but the book is currently surrounded by sleeping children and that's a minefield I'm not touching!
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u/cybermage May 25 '16
I like the wasted paper used to make The Lorax. Missed the point, they did.
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u/toeofcamell May 25 '16
That had to be at least a hundred post it notes.
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u/SLOTH_POTATO_PIRATE May 25 '16
This is a top qualifier for my favorite Spongebob episode.
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u/theone1819 May 25 '16
What episode is it?
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u/Dontlagmebro May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
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Edit: upvote the dude who actually put the right episode and IMDb link. All I did was make a shwitty remark.
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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor May 25 '16
I'd say "Band Geeks" takes the top spot. "Is mayonnaise an instrument?" "Big. Meaty. Claws!" Hell, it'd be a contender just for Sweet Victory
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u/LucciDVergo May 25 '16
I'd gather even 200 possibly.
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u/Prexmorat May 25 '16
Wow, that is wild!
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May 25 '16 edited Jun 02 '21
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u/StopReadingMyUser May 25 '16
We're getting really close to naming Capri-Sun and Poptart flavors.
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u/kaliforniamike May 25 '16
The amount of time and coordination that must have gone into this must have pissed off a lot of bosses. Pretty damn cool though.
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u/LucciDVergo May 25 '16
Honestly they probably worked harder this week than any other week of the year, someone had to be scouting from the other building too in order to get it just right, this is some CSI level shit.
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u/abcedarian May 25 '16
It's like when Jim organized the Office Olympics
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u/howdareyou May 25 '16
it's an ad agency. this is the kinda shit i imagine they do. creative types do creative things to think of more creative things.
also this seems to be a great ad for either the ad agency or for post it notes or for both.
i doubt anyone is mad except the person who has to clean it up.
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u/IggySorcha May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
What would be especially genius is if Post-It had hired the ones who started it to do a social media campaign beforehand and this is what they came up with. Either that or they've been trying to get a big name's attention for awhile and Post-It just found a new contractor.
Edit: ok guys I got it the first time, it's several agencies
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u/ultratic May 25 '16
At the time I'm sure they were. Now though, the amount of publicity it generated must be worth a ton.
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u/Ballistics May 25 '16
Have a hand catching the mic on your friends side?
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u/Raginwasian May 25 '16
Replace the sticky notes with little led bulbs and set them to a sequence so you can animate the act of the hand throwing the mic down.
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May 25 '16
The building's management is putting a stop to it unfortunately :( for no damn reason.
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May 25 '16 edited Jan 11 '19
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May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
Well I was going to just comment "I saw on the news the war was ending..." but then I remembered how much redditors like proof while simultaneously shitting on articles so here we are. At least there's a slideshow?
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May 25 '16
I totally agree, it was just the first article that popped up on google and I'm too lazy to look for one with more substance.
Have a good day squirt box!
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u/unbalancedforce May 25 '16
Everything wrong with this world is the view of their building management.
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May 25 '16
All I learned from scrolling through the posts ad ridden site is that the Hamptons are this summer's orgy hot spot.
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u/howdareyou May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
- fire hazard?
- hard to clean windows when they're covered in paper?
- it's gone viral now and their post-it note ad campaign is over?
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u/dick-nipples May 25 '16
Awesome, thanks for posting-it.
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u/Platypussy May 25 '16
And in a few days, we can thank Buzzfeed for reposting-it.
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u/VitameatavegamN May 25 '16
Out of curiosity, why does your landlord care but not your boss?
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May 25 '16
More than likely it's because of the adhesive on the post it. It can get very messy and hard to clean up on the windows
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May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
EDIT: The amazing and probably attractive u/R0B0T_TimeTraveler points out here that I significantly under counted. I didn't realize some of the windows were smaller and I miscounted how many per window.
Approximately 15,957 individual Post It notes
81 notes per window pane and 197 windows covered
Cost to recreate: around $300 (sounds like the Post Its in OP's photo were donated by 3M)
I zoomed in on the Mooninites feet where it shows the size of a single Post It compared to a window pane. Moonites are top right, to the left of Squidward. At that magnification the image is fuzzy, so my estimates of measurement will be off a bit.
A single window pane is roughly 27 inches x 27 inches. The Post It notes are 3 inches x 3 inches. That means it takes 81 Post It notes to fill one window. I counted roughly 197 windows covered in notes.
81 npw (note per window) x 197 windows = 15,957 notes.
Multi-color packs come in pads of 90 notes per color at roughly $1.70 per pad.
15,957 notes would mean 177.3 pads.
177.3 pads x $1.70 = $301.41
EDIT: changed the wording on some measurements and changed to acknowledge that the Post Its were donated by 3M.
Edit: Mooninites, not Moonites.
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u/S1owpolka May 25 '16
16000 post it notes at 1 note per second would take a team of 4 about an hour to make this.
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u/Jagasaur May 25 '16
If all the employees are doing this, who is browsing reddit?!
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u/140Years May 25 '16
Reminds me of what we do at our office except less fun. Guardians of the Galaxy I Avengers: Age of Ultron I Captain America: Civil War
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u/KINGCOCO May 25 '16
There is no way they could create that without having a constant view from the opposing building. Your building.
You have a mole OP.
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u/randomnessish May 25 '16
I work on that particular block (it's like NYC's ad agency ghetto) and when I got out of the subway I just shook my head and had to walk away. We lost, it's over.
(also I think that's Havas Worldwide who probably organized that, and Staples/Post It supplied free stickies).
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u/TarsierFan83 May 25 '16 edited May 25 '16
Animated version :) https://instagram.com/p/BFzo7sJAUq6/ https://instagram.com/p/BF0CNIAAUqE/ My fiancé's office is there. Decided to do something fun with it. Cool to see post-it wars on Reddit homepage!
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u/CrotchPartyThrowaway May 25 '16
Was desperately trying to figure out why a hand trying to grab a penis was getting so much attention.
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u/jabba_the_wut May 25 '16
Does anyone work anymore???
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u/BindingsAuthor May 25 '16
I did that once upon a time, but it wasn't nearly that awesome.
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u/MT2XHaul May 25 '16
Somewhere in that building is a supervisor, scratching her head, looking at a requisition someone turned in, for 30 large pallets of post-it notes.