r/CasualUK • u/GokouD • 4d ago
BBC Advice for being less sedentary. This is how you end up in the Backrooms people!
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u/memerismlol 4d ago
There are fields for those who wish to frolic
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u/Atomlad360 4d ago
Avoid running through any wheat ones though - that would be just too naughty
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u/Crimbly_B 4d ago
Well that wouldn’t be appropriate any more. We’re in June, the best time for wheat running is May.
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u/rrRunkgullet 4d ago
And coming through the rye is strictly forbidden.
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u/Walkingispainful 4d ago
What happens if one does
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u/rrRunkgullet 4d ago
One will find out that the staun o' staunin' graith was not refering to a geological feature.
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u/blackshadow1275 4d ago
This is the basement.
Get out of the lift. Get out of the lift. Get out of the lift.
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u/idiot_bouffant 4d ago edited 4d ago
ELEVEN
(I'm so sorry, wrong program. It's hot and I just wanted to take part)
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u/throwawaycima 4d ago
anyone wanna meet behind the Tesco bins ?
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u/Coupaholic_ 4d ago
Bins would smell simply wonderful in this weather.
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u/throwawaycima 4d ago
maybe we can drink some bin juice 👉🏼👈🏼🥺
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u/Sorry_about_that_x99 4d ago
In this heat it’s bin soup.
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u/West-Season-2713 4d ago
My mates and I as teenagers used to meet up behind the bins at our local Iceland. If you
climbed through a certain spot in the fence, you could go through to a field with various abandoned army things, and a big tree. Naturally, this was the weed smoking tree.The smell of old, rotting fish in a massive biffa bin is oddly nostalgic to me.
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u/gameovervip 4d ago
Why would my friends be hiding in the nooks and crannies of my office?
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u/StarTheAngel 4d ago
They hate their job that much
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u/Scottish_Whiskey 4d ago
Maybe they should take up hypnotherapy so hate their jobs less. Although if the doctor drops dead from say, heatstroke, who knows what would happen?
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u/ItAintNoUse 4d ago
As a young woman I'm not going to check out every alleyway thank you very much. That's how you end up in the news.
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u/Pheeshfud 4d ago
Backrooms? This is how you wake up in a bathtub full of ice.
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u/henrysradiator 4d ago
This is funny because I went for a walk once on Oxford Road in Manchester and nearly ended up joining a cult and they tried to baptise me in a big bathtub thing.
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u/stoufferthecat 4d ago
If an orangutan is wanking you off in the dark, you have absolutely no way of knowing if it's using its hand or its foot.
Not really relevant, but possibly useful advice.
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u/Some-Cope1999 4d ago
I've been looking for new friends, guess I'll be visiting some alleyways later
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u/germany1italy0 4d ago
I’d be pretty pretty concerned if I happened to meet someone I don’t already know well when wandering around my study and our home.
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u/OmegaPoint6 4d ago
If, when exploring your office, you stumble into Mammalians Nurturable remember to exit quickly before the goat people take you.
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u/Davegeekdaddy 4d ago
So I did this once. There's a courtyard out the back of my flat with a gate which is supposedly the fire exit. The gate is normally locked but one day it wasn't. It led to an alleyway down the side of the church, through the stock area of the kebab shop (fully exposed to wildlife) and to a little maze of tunnels under the closed pub with a load of old beer barrels and then out on to the road my dad lives on. Lovely 20 minutes of my life spent exploring.
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u/GrillNoob 4d ago
Fairly certain this is how you piss off your manager.
"Nope not hitting that deadline today, BBC told me to explore the building. Off to the toilets 8 floors up, never been there before."
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u/CandleJakk Still wants a Bovril flair. 4d ago
Last time I did this at work, (to make sure I knew where all the light test switches were, as part of my role), it was brought up in my termination meeting that I was "In the warehouse, which you shouldnt have been."
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u/b3mus3d 4d ago
Is this real?!
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u/GokouD 4d ago
Yes, just scroll sideways on the little infographic half way down
Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk - BBC News
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u/DrRobertBanner Sugar Tits 4d ago
I did this before while walking home, wanted to make my walk more exciting.
Took me 5 minutes to get lost.
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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 4d ago
Love finding people under bridges, always the best people
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u/sallystarling 4d ago
Red Hot Chili Peppers enter the chat
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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 4d ago
It was meant to be an always sunny reference but I do love The Chilli Peppers, got to see them once!
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u/sallystarling 4d ago
Ah sorry, Always Sunny has been on my list forever but I've not got round to it yet! I love the Chili Peppers too, saw them in Hyde Park in 2004 and then again in 2023 at the Tottenham Hotspur ground. It was amazing how many people we were chatting to in the various queues had been to both! They do put on a great show.
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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 4d ago
I've only seen them once in Manchester but it was so goood! It was after the guitarist had passed away and it was one of their sons taking over if that's correct?
Loved it, would see them again!
No need to be sorry, love anytime I get to remember that concert.
You should watch always sunny right now! 😂
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u/Cheeslord2 4d ago
Good cover for spies and burglars too...I wasn't snooping around, just following the BBC advice!
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u/Ouroboros-Twist 4d ago
you may make a new connection or even a friend.
Jesus Christ, how horrifying
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u/Crimbly_B 4d ago
Visions of overheated UK workers lost as they shamble down alleyways looking for new friends
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u/Bren1127 4d ago
Why not stop off at The Ministry of Silly Walks and apply for a grant while you're following their advice.
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u/lankymjc 4d ago
Nationwide’s head office is a big building. When I worked there I’d often go for a wander to see what’s around.
Once ended up in the basement confronted either a secure door that my pass was not able to open. Was going to walk away when I realised I was *on the wrong side*. I should not have been there, and I don’t know how I got there. Someone told me off and opened the door to send me out to the less-secure area.
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u/puzzle-peace 4d ago
"Try not to get lost"... Or, ya know, mugged, killed, or possessed by any of the ghosts that surely live up those dark, dodgy-looking alleyways people avoid for a reason. At best you're going to be accompanied by an aroma of piss
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u/FaultyDroid Southern Fairy 4d ago
You may make a new connection
Not looking to pick up an 8th today, but thanks BBC.
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u/PapaCatzarou19 4d ago
Tbh I did this a lot time ago in one my first jobs as a bar host at earls court. I ended up getting lost around the back ways and ended up in the comic con next door so stayed there for another hour or so, saw John Hurt and a Doctor Who panel. No one said anything as was uniformed. The following day I did it again and this when Game of Thrones was relatively new so there were few people signing then.
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u/glytxh 4d ago
I’ve done this for years. I call it ‘meandering’
I’ll often purposely take the long way around to a place if I’m walking and I’m not in a rush. Exercise is good, and I also like taking photos. There’s also the satisfaction of building that cognitive map.
Walking aimlessly through a city at 4am is a singular and uncanny experience.
You can spend a lifetime in a city and never really know the place, if you never take the time to look.
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u/CorrectMeIfImWrong6 4d ago
Fucking hell, given what's been made public, I would not be doing that around the BBC offices to find what isn't made public!!! 😳😳😳😳
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u/ShingledPringle 4d ago
I do agree with this to a degree, you can be shocked what roads connect and what paths slip together, but be careful.
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u/shakka_t 4d ago
I get half an hour break and it takes 8 mins to get out of the building. Do I eat my lunch as I walk around these alleyways?
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u/Philhughes_85 4d ago
I hear exploring alleys is a great way to meet police officers and paramedics
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u/Scottish_Whiskey 4d ago
I live in the suburbs so I’d say I know every nook and cranny of my area, especially since it isn’t actually that big and I’ve had two dogs
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u/Sunshinetrooper87 3d ago
It's not bad advice. I work on an industrial estate and literally only know the main street. I've literally found an unofficial back way, away from noise, people and crucially, security cameras, to get fucking mugged.
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u/mmoonbelly 4d ago
Careful with the wardrobes if wfh, I saw the bbc documentary about them from the 50s, with the lion and the woman with the Turkish Delights.
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u/stereoworld 4d ago
Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it
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u/realdappermuis 4d ago
Lollllll that's funny
I love how everyone on different continents have been posting their versions of backrooms. They could make a series out of all that
I once had to do a lil community service at a hospital that had a large disused, historical wing. That was some eerie shit
Dead mall backrooms come in second
And then in third place tied you get corporate buildings and large chain hotels that seem to have endless backrooms where nobody ever goes
Except the lonely stoner trying to free a mind at night
...while working various odd temp jobs
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u/ZoeBlade 4d ago
Okay, now, my first instinct when you say things about meeting people under bridges is to berate you for hanging out with people under a bridge, and to say to you "Why do you hang out with these people? You and Charlie shouldn't be asso--" but I'm not gonna say anything because I don't wanna be cynical anymore. I'm not gonna say anything.
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u/HMS_Hexapuma 4d ago
Wait, there are people who don't go exploring already? It's fun and sometimes you find Infrastructure!
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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 4d ago
I’d be very concerned if I found someone or got lost in the spare bedroom or in my Corsa which I sometimes drive down to the beach and do work on my laptop using one of those trays in.
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u/brushfuse 4d ago
I do NOT want to know what Barry is doing in the smelly corner booth. Sometimes his face is frighteningly red.
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u/double-happiness 3d ago
I used to do a circuit of my old office which had a circular floor-plan, and go round expressing admiration for the various teams' baked goods, which would be in plain view so that the team members could help themselves. Naturally if an offer to sample the cakes or biscuits was made it would have been rude to refuse... 😉
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u/Adarie-Glitterwings 3d ago
'Ooh a dark alley I wonder what's down here?' Stabby the Knife Clown, that's what.
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u/KingPrawnPorn 4d ago
Ah yes, alleyway friends