Frothers Unite! UK

You and a small team of technicians are sitting (illegally) in an automatic telephone exchange in a Mediterranean island. You are listening to, and recording, telephone conversations of vital importance to the UK national interests.
You become aware from comments on monitored calls that your machinery is tying up large amounts of the available trunk network and people are experiencing difficulties making calls across the island. Your bit is working fine, but your intercept op is overloading the system.
Soon, engineers will get suspicious and come to check the system. You need another couple of hours you reckon to get all the material you need, but during this time, hospital, doctor, ambulance, police and fire services may be unavailable to callers who need them.
Do you;
abandon it now – there may be other ways of doing it – you will lose face back in the office, and you may miss information that will never again become available.
Attempt to fix the problem on the fly – unlikely to be successful and you may make it worse.
wait and hope – If you are caught HMG will deny you. You may be able to bluff your way out but this is by no means certain.
wait and make sure the engineers don’t get a chance to catch you – there are forceful and not so forceful ways of doing this. HMG will not sanction force – if you get caught, but if successful they do not need to know. If police get involved you are stuffed. The non-forceful means are less likely to be successful – it is a relatively small island and there are not likely to that many unknown engineer/techy groups wandering about. But it may work.
Compromise and wait a bit and run asap if anyone tries to enter.
During the time you continue there is always the chance people will die as a result of your monopolisation of the available bandwidth. If caught this will bump up any charges from illegal entry, through espionage to murder.

Discuss.

There are only 5 30 metre rolls of bacofoil in the supermarket. It is one hour before the next NSA satellite pass and the next closest store is 30 minutes away. You have read that double shielding your bunker will triple your resistance to their mind control rays, but your acquaintance from a well know forum is suffering greatly from their effects and has no insulation at all. You see him coming through the doors.
Do you:
Let him have them all – his need is greater
Rush to the 5 items or less (fucking grammar) checkout and hide your face
Share them
Buy them all but offer to drive you both to the next nearest store and hope they have some and you can get there and back before you become convinced the Tea Party is a benign force for good in the world.

You see three men savagely beating Bronshtein, his pulped lips spluttering entreaties, his shattered kneecaps shockingly white as they protrude from his flesh, his little pinhead bouncing off the pavement with a sound like a tiny coconut falling down a flight of concrete steps.

Do you - a)Step in and help or b) walk away, as three men should be able to manage without your assistance?

Pat

C. Do nothing and wait for Humphrey to start a thread in the Pot. After all, this is Frothers....

Roger Theloger wrote:load of suggestions

here's one, you're tossing it off on the internet when you're meant to be at work catching tax dodgers for HM revenue & customs, someone asks you to suggest a moral quandries for a team building exercise..

Do you spend the next 30 minutes writing fucking loads of em down, or get busy cracking some tax dodging scum's nuts?

I ain't working today.

Quandry .. what to do?

Fuck it, sit on the Sofa with kids TV on in the background while they both drive cars everywhere.

We may go to the park later.

Sane Max wrote:You see three men savagely beating Bronshtein, his pulped lips spluttering entreaties, his shattered kneecaps shockingly white as they protrude from his flesh, his little pinhead bouncing off the pavement with a sound like a tiny coconut falling down a flight of concrete steps.

Do you - a)Step in and help or b) walk away, as three men should be able to manage without your assistance?

Pat

Gosh! I'd never placed much credence in Melanie Klein's phantasies, but now I read this... thank you SM

Bronshtein wrote:

Roger Theloger wrote:
The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer. He simply answered:

“I would give the car keys to my old friend and let him take the old lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.”

Your friend, suffering from PTSD after his experience saving your life and depressed you did not keep in touch, has severe neurological problems exacerbated by his self medication with alcohol and prescription drugs. He crashes into another car before spinning into a swollen river. He and the old lady die. The paralysed occupants of the other car sue you for giving a vehicle to someone whose licence was revoked because of past traffic violations, who had no insurance and was under the influence. You are liable for several million pounds damages. The police arrest you for allowing an inebriated uninsured driver to drive your vehicle. Your life falls apart and the partner of your dreams abandons you in disgust at your feckless self absorption with your own pleasure that led to these tragic events.

Check all the facts before giving glib aswers

And the hidden moral of this story is that the US were behind it all. They slowly poisoned the old lady, a refugee from behind the old iron curtain and suspected of being a Russian spy, with radioactive material to make it look like a Russian 'hit'. Your old friend is actually a secret federal agent and only saved your life because you were about to stumble upon the US' plan to poison the old lady.

Finally your brainwashed and deluded ideas of what the perfect partner is are centred around a childhood of heavily American influenced TV shows like Baywatch, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team and the copious amounts of US porn available to you on the internet as a teenager. Therefore you only think she is good material due to her bleached blond hair and fake tits.

IT IS ALL THE FAULT OF THE USA!

You are the Minister for Paperclips. You discover* that a recent Saudi order for British paperclips worth £200bn was won through bribery. Do you advise the Parliamentary Ombudsman of your evidence and claim the moral high ground or do you stay quiet and take the credit for British paperclips?

* you can vary this to 'you discover' or 'a whistleblower tells you'.

Note that the loss of the order will possibly cost 150 UK jobs. Possibly in a marginal constituency.

Feel free to add in that the latest EU drive on corruption is just being launched and that this wil heighten public interest, and more importantly, press interest.

fucking you lot and the conspiracy theories make programs on the History Channel look factual and well researched.

I can't say anymore as this whole website is probably being monitored by the CIA, Mossad, MI5 etc

fucking loons