# Can I get you a steaming cup of shut the fuck up?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 29, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-you-a-steaming-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up/266759 "2004-09-29T23:49:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-you-a-steaming-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up/266759/21 "2004-10-01T13:15:04Z")

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> [@BMalion](#):
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> I cannot take credit. Some other doper made the image. I merely saved it in my files 'cause it’s darned funny. Happy to share.

Wasn’t that made by/for **Manhattan** (“_I_ am the goddamned hall monitor!”)? I haven’t seen him around lately…

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**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-you-a-steaming-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up/266759/22 "2004-10-02T00:06:16Z")

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When your coworkers are speaking loudly enough for you hear every detail of their conversation, just butt in. Every single time. And give them unsolicited advice. Go off on tangents. Monopolize their conversations. It shouldn’t be long before they decide you’re a terrible, nosy pest and go off somewhere else to have their conversations.

That should work on most people, but your particular coworkers just might be so beyond the pale that they welcome you as another member in their not-do-a-freakin’-lick-of-real-work-all-day club.

This tactic has worked for me. Good luck with it.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-you-a-steaming-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up/266759/23 "2004-10-02T02:10:27Z")

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When things are getting really noisy over in the other department, it is imparetive that you shout out, " I’m masterbating like a mother fuck! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of your lungs.

This will not only quiet them down but keep them from pilfering your stapler and other assorted office steal-ables.

You could just do some sock puppets over their cubicle wall telling a story about the really LOUD coworkers who won’t shut the fuck up, donny. The moral could be that the Obnoxious Coworker Puppet could be set on fire by the torch weilding villagers. It’s called Sensitivity Training, I believe.  
Hope this helps.

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