It's good fodder to talk about around the water cooler.
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Then, installing the water cooler was way harder than I imagined.
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Water Cooler Noah Masterson, a web marketing manager in Austin, Tex.
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They'll be repeating that one at the water cooler for days.
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Make sure the chatter around your water cooler is age-appropriate.
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"It's their version of the water cooler conversation," Ms. Mumm said.
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In one video, she cooks hot pot in the water cooler.
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We shouldn't have to tolerate it in our digital water cooler spaces.
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The Jet Cream is essentially three water cooler bottles duct taped together.
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The "water cooler" conversations around the country continued and additional supporters emerged.
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Venus, planet of harmony, tags along, bringing water cooler conversations at work.
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It gives us stuff to talk about around the proverbial water cooler.
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A woman stood at a water cooler making a bottle of baby formula.
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I took to avoiding pressing the water cooler button with a bare hand.
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These days, a simple office water cooler and coffee machine won't cut it.
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Shopify is standard water cooler fodder for anyone in the e-commerce world.
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MORRIS And yet here we are gathered around the water cooler unpacking them.
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I'm sure they fretted over their ionic water cooler about what to say.
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Workologist readers offer their personal rules for avoiding trouble at the water cooler.
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Whispered asides at the water cooler are hard to observe, much less measure.
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First, many "water cooler" conversations have migrated online, leaving behind a computerized archive.
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And usually things people do ... There is no water cooler at work anymore.
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Now, picture wearing those few looks while standing next to your office water cooler.
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Bunch compares it to a coworker making a racist joke at the water cooler.
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The internet made the office water cooler global for just about any TV show.
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Water cooler conversations across the world will revolve around the Olympics beginning Aug. 5.
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Gratton advises managers schedule "water cooler" conversations or casual social breaks for their employees.
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But he also knows that sports is the only "water-cooler friendly" content left.
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People genuinely had water cooler conversations as a national culture was shaped by synchronous moments.
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Score an A+ with all your nerdy friends at the water cooler chat, starting now.
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And with Twitter, you can take the water-cooler around with you in your pocket.
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So a water cooler bottle might be used on classroom walls to avoid hurting children.
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At least that was the takeaway from panel sessions and water-cooler conversation at MWC.
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App Smart DISCUSSION of the presidential election is everywhere, from TV to water-cooler conversations.
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On the upside, CRISPR is about to become water cooler fodder for millions of Americans.
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Light Reading The water cooler that is Twitter has been awash in discussion of rejection.
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This is basic water cooler conversation, so pay attention — you've been uncharacteristically socially awkward lately.
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How much of your personal life could be the 'keynote topic' at the water cooler?
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At the water cooler, nod and say hello, then move purposefully back to your desk.
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What became virtual water cooler fodder, and why did it become part of the discourse?
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Throwing a water cooler bottle by hand at a wall is not going to do much.
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Yikes, conversations are probably a bit tense around the old Northrop Grumman water cooler these days.
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"There was definitely water-cooler talk," recalls Janet Van Huysse, who oversees employees and human resources.
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So is pointing to one specific show that exemplifies what's wrong with the TV water cooler.
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DON'T have a conversation in front of the water cooler after you're done filling your cup.
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The water cooler talk, as expected, is all about the fire and how we've been affected.
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In each case, water-cooler conversation and the internet were abuzz with debate: Are leggings pants?
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Instead of decompressing by the water cooler, get cracking on those items you and she discussed.
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Which means there is plenty more fodder to come for water cooler talk about this case.
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And using the water cooler for scale, this one looks to be about four feet long.
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Myth #2: But so much creativity comes from bumping into each other at the water cooler!
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By the water cooler: Boost collaboration with your co-workers by taking turns to openly weep.
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Generation Z can't be counted on to discuss last night's debate around the office water cooler.
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Bringing the water cooler effect back to streaming television helps companies get more impact and attention.
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Next to the brick facade and the white fences, a giant water cooler grabs my attention.
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Take those to work tomorrow, and you'll be monarch of the water cooler, everyone's favorite colleague.
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Are you planning on overclocking the processor to the extent that a water cooler is actually required?
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This week, we summarize Fargo so you don't have to embarrass yourself at the water cooler anymore.
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Luckily, all you really need to keep up with the water cooler talk is a quick guide.
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It hovers in the corner of the area like a water cooler, commonplace but also slightly antiseptic.
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When the conversation turns to Trump at the water cooler, it usually begins and ends with laughter.
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A man has a heart attack clutching a blue plastic cup by a blue plastic water cooler.
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I know what it's like to have those water-cooler shows back in the day for me.
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A stack of paper cones clung to the side of the water cooler, in a slotted rack.
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There's no water cooler when you work from home, no snack table, no meetings down the block.
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One strategy is to restrict water cooler small talk to weather, sports, entertainment, music and so on.
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WhatsApp groups are the new water cooler conversations where gossip and public announcements are shared via groups.
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Robot" and "Orphan Black, is the stuff of awards season glory — or, at least, water cooler debates.
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As such, she encourages her team to meet weekly, without her, for a "virtual water cooler session."
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Either way, here's what else you need to know to credibly participate in today's water cooler discussions.
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It wasn't clear if I needed to use thermal paste for the water cooler I bought or not, and since the instructions that came with the water cooler weren't clear about that, I spent some time researching to be 100 percent sure I wasn't going to fry my CPU.
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Remember when people around the office would gather around the water cooler to talk shop and exchange gossip?
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Don't expect the digital equivalent of a knitting club or office water cooler to be your information clearinghouse.
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The minimal furnishings are, shall we say, vintage, and you wouldn't want to go near the water cooler.
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While it's easy to discuss reputation in the abstract, you can't just hang out around the water cooler.
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Something and associates, in Tokyo, looks like an office, with a water cooler and computers on wooden desks.
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Over time, it evolved into a virtual water cooler frequented by economics faculty members, graduate students and others.
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At the end of the inning, deGrom angrily fired his glove at a water cooler in the dugout.
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I might not hit a water cooler, but it's the intensity I always bring to the games, too.
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Late-night television often provides the fodder for the water cooler (or Slack thread) conversations the next morning.
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An even more politically polarized country could further vex businesses struggling to maintain peace at the water cooler.
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But in practice that doesn't preclude a bit of casual chat about matters of belief over the water-cooler.
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The self-cleaning water cooler is usually $300, but you can get it now for $199—a 34% savings.
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They want to be included in the water cooler talk and get invited to the happy hours after work.
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Encourage "water cooler" interaction on Slack, for example, to help combat loneliness and create a stronger sense of teamwork.
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The data in Slack is either low value ("water-cooler" conversations) or already lives in existing systems of record.
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Workers can also use SherpaShare's social network as a virtual water cooler, where they swap work tips and gossip.
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He's ubiquitous on television, in social media, and as a topic of dinner-party discourse and water-cooler hobnobbing.
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DON'T MEET ME AT THE WATER COOLER As white collar workers return to offices, many are reluctant to socialise.
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This water cooler will hook you up, with three different temperature settings for cold drinks, room temperature, or piping hot.
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Even though Legion never becomes the water-cooler show Detective became, Hawley's series is similarly ambitious, sprawling, atmospheric, and frustrating.
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Even if you get the wrong one, you'll sound very smart in your bracket pools and at your water cooler.
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Shows like "Game of Thrones" or "The Walking Dead" are water-cooler conversation pieces — and they're all over social media.
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In fact, the water cooler was a stainless-steel beverage dispenser with juice glasses laid out in a row nearby.
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But a quick scan of the sports pages is all you need to prepare for conversation around the water cooler.
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Done right, these curated location Moments could compete with Snapchat's Live Stories to take you inside water cooler-worthy events.
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The R-word either raises their blood pressure and ire, or stops water-cooler conversations with black colleagues mid-sentence.
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Several weeks ago, a New York fitness startup, Aaptiv , installed a new, high-tech water cooler in its downtown offices.
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Sharing space with water-cooler bottles, an ancient Coke machine, and ballpark odds-and-ends, Giannoulas does some light stretching.
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The five series of the program have inspired online debate and water cooler conversations, and turned participants into overnight celebrities.
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Speaking of water cooler talk, have any readers noticed how Times reporters are getting increasingly chatty, especially with one another?
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Watching the show this way means you do miss the trading-card, live Twitter, water-cooler aspect of the experience.
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Elite media and water cooler dissection of this phenomenon seem to begin and end with a surface level demographic analysis.
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In 803, no one knew quite how to exploit controversy and water-cooler conversation the way modern-day publicists do.
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On The Office early on, there were these glimpses of reality, like a water cooler bubbling or a copier copying.
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Stand on either side of the water cooler like they do in movies so other people can fill their cups. 11.
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Plus, there's a water cooler full of tequila, which I am assuming is something the Vox holiday party will not have.
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What's happening in Washington is not rattling Wall Street even as it generates plenty of water-cooler chatter on Main Street.
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Their smart water cooler dispenses flavored still and sparkling water beverages while reducing plastic and aluminum waste and saving customers money.
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I've spied on presumably trust-funded bros as they dumped woodchips into the water cooler at the turn, just for fun.
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"He's the first one to say the stuff the rest of us talk about around the water cooler," Ms. Fee said.
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And before social media, water cooler conversations at the office were the way many people shared their perspectives on television shows.
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The soon-to-be galactic president kicks the water cooler and wonders if they have any coins for the vending machine.
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" The playfulness that marks some of Kate Bush's tracks was applied to the duo's lightest track on the record, "Water Cooler.
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But, the prison drama is the one that made the streaming platform a must-have for water cooler — and Twitter — conversations.
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I think especially like the coincidental conversation opportunities like that, that water cooler chat, how do you make room for that?
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Big Little Lies was a water cooler show in its first season, and Laura Dern was the queen of the show.
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Every meeting, encounter on the street, or water cooler chat is an opportunity to learn from the confident communicators around you.
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As many people work remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, office interactions, meetings and water cooler conversations have gone totally digital.
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That is, unless you want to be the only roamer around the water cooler not discussing Lucille's first on-screen victim.
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Next to those videos, Seung-Min Lee set up a water cooler filled with milk, which visitors are free to drink.
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Unique ammo Water cooler bottles as ammo may sound too fun to be serious – but it is actually a very smart idea.
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Click through to check out these must-shop brands and give your cohorts something stylish to talk about at the water cooler.
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Etiquette and our instinct to avoid conflict keep us from bringing up politics at the dinner table or around the water cooler.
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Here's a wild fact for your next visit to the water cooler: it is believed that every year almost 2.5 million lbs.
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"It's all hot air," one person inside the White House said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe internal water-cooler conversations.
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He did not simply gather his father's top lieutenants without notice from their workspaces or pick them off at the water cooler.
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There is more water-cooler chatter among young employees about using their Goldman experience to build a career outside banking, he said.
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I don't think sort of water cooler arguments or cocktail party arguments between anti-vaxxers and vaxxers will do anyone any good.
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When the social media site was created, its founders thought it could be the water cooler or town hall for the world.
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Ideas can quickly become stagnant when they exist only in your mind or in a quick water-cooler conversation with a friend.
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According to the management consulting firm Overland Resource Group (ORG), water cooler conversations are essential to temporarily destress and build workplace relationships.
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"Clearly it created a big water cooler moment in the U.K.," said Larry Tanz, the vice president of content acquisition at Netflix.
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Fans would proudly wear team jerseys and caps, bars would overflow with viewing parties, and the team would dominate water-cooler talk.
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At cocktail parties, on cable television, at the dinner table, at the water cooler, all we talk about these days is Trump.
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Most of this housecleaning is going on behind closed doors, the subject of water-cooler gossip or anonymously sourced articles in newspapers.
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Several gallons were sloshing around in a huge plastic jug that looked as if it had been snatched from a water cooler.
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"I've watched a few people on our team run away from it in that situation," Joseph said of the celebratory water cooler bath.
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The water cooler model may have fazed out, but sharing TV is as important and ever — and now we're doing it in public.
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After all, if everyone you know is watching, you won't want to be left out of the water-cooler discussions the next day.
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The internet has only bolstered the water cooler imperative of keeping up with mass culture events like Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones.
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In the beginning, the Illinois-based company made the kind of cone-shaped paper cups you find next to the office water cooler.
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"It's all hot air," one person inside the White House told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe internal water-cooler conversations.
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It was the national water cooler; Americans took long, thirsty drafts, and lingered, sometimes looking one another in the eye and sometimes not.
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The executive said that in election-year conversations with colleagues, around the water cooler or over cocktails, there usually arises a clear favorite.
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But by this time, I'd heard some water cooler talk among authors that if your numbers aren't great, it can affect your advance.
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Before every game he would show up at the park three hours early, hauling out equipment and chopping ice for the water cooler.
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As for how Drake did ... word around the water cooler is that folks were making fun of him for being low-key trash.
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I can listen to your progressive chatter at the water cooler, but are you protecting Planned Parenthood and a woman's right to choose?
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Mr. Liang said that companies were interested in capturing all of the conversations of employees, including what goes on around the water cooler.
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Don't be shy about hoarding all the bulk packs of water bottles and water cooler containers that you can lay your hands on.
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"I can&apost believe that this was not typical water-cooler discussions and [there was a] running joke about the FAA," he continued.
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"Netflix's exclusive shows are dominating people's water cooler moments," said Tony Gunnarsson, a senior analyst at Ovum, a technology research firm, in London.
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But for the class of power users that sees Twitter as a 24/7 water cooler, expect this design to land with a thud.
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Watching TV used to mean tuning in on a certain time and day, then sharing a conversation around the water cooler the next morning.
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This year there's no doubt a lot of talk around the water cooler about OLED, but E Ink isn't letting that get to them.
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One takeaway here might be that if you want better data, you may want to jog from your desk to the water cooler. Kidding!
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Depending on your interests, that conversation might be happening on Twitter, on Tumblr, or even — gasp — in real life around your office water cooler.
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I did like an older ... when I was growing up, when you had the water cooler moments, when everyone would watch the same news.
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But the case — which also sparked countless office water-cooler arguments and much concern in C-suites — also hinged on two tricky legal questions.
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So, that morning, I rushed through my work, emails and water-cooler chatter to leave the office around lunch time with some shit excuse.
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"There's no way to control them," said Wu Ziguo, a migrant worker who rides a three-wheeler to deliver water-cooler bottles in Beijing.
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"Think twice before you take that there because you might see that person five minutes later across your cube or by the water cooler."
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Members of my family, people at the water cooler, a group of people out having a beer and someone tells an off-color joke.
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Then I want you to be able, the reader, to introduce something to that person at the water cooler that they haven't heard before.
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"It was literally water-cooler conversation everywhere," said Freada Kapor Klein, who conducted one of the first surveys on sexual harassment in the 1970s.
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Temper its sleek minimalism with high-rise jeans, artsy earrings and statement stilettos, and no one at the water cooler will be the wiser.
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A water cooler had mold in it, so he grabbed a large knife, stabbed the plastic base wildly and smashed it on the ground.
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Take your coffee cup and put it on a water cooler, or in your sink, or in your refrigerator, next to the water bottle.
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The game had one of the more elaborate setups at the festival, featuring a miniature recreation of an office, complete with a water cooler.
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And right now, before the 2017-214.9 season even starts, basketball's biggest water cooler subject is yet another free agency-related decision by LeBron James.
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Recreate those '90s vibes in your own home and cut down on plastic bottle consumption by snagging this self-cleaning water cooler that's on sale.
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Rule learned that inmates would pool their money, draw lots, and bribe guards for impromptu conjugal sessions in the restroom or behind the water cooler.
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Social media has been the ultimate water cooler over a long campaign season, and the destination for sharing, discussing and complaining about the latest headlines.
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"What you've got are hot-button issues that America is talking about at the water cooler, at lunch or over the fence," Pirro tells PEOPLE.
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New York (CNN Business)PepsiCo is launching a high-tech water cooler for customers who want healthier drinks that are also better for the environment.
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He added that Mr. Trump has a "water-cooler effect" — people like to talk about him — which could also account for the early voter engagement.
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It featured many interviews with the defendant, and the debate over his innocence or guilt became regular water-cooler conversation in the fall of 2014.
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Standing around the proverbial water cooler, getting exclamatory, emotional and aggrieved about, say, being denied a shot of Daenerys's face as she commits mass murder.
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DealBook is the ultimate cheat sheet for what's happening and what everyone will be talking about at your morning meeting and around the water cooler.
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She pointed to the dusty water-cooler jug by the open front door; inside were rolls of pennies, loose change and a crumpled $2 bill.
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O'Beirne runs GymCastic, a wildly enthusiastic podcast that serves as a water cooler for the online gymnastics community, which refers to itself as the Gymternet.
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Slack wants to be in that pantheon — as the place where people collaborate and hang out online, the world's virtual conference room and water cooler.
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Water Cooler Gossip: -I fear for Daniel's (Desean Terry) safety after agreeing to help Alex keep her job by eliminating Bradley and inheriting her seat.
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These services charge on a monthly, per-user basis and offer everything from video conferencing to workflow structuring to spaces for digital water-cooler gossip.
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The humble, ordinary water cooler bottle used in offices all across America becomes a mighty missile when loaded into this amazing cannon - the BCB Wall Breaker.
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If you asked Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall to cite an example of that singular kind of water-cooler series, he'd say Showtime's revival of Twin Peaks.
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If you just listen to the conversations at the water cooler, you're going to learn a lot about sports, even if you're not a sports fan.
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We gathered every must-read article and gallery in one place, so you can expertly lead your water cooler Oscars recap bright and early Monday morning.
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They're just like the debates happening nationwide at the dinner table and on the golf course, at the water cooler, the kid's soccer game and Facebook.
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Multiple competitors complained about a lack of access to water, though each conference room had a water cooler and cups that stayed stocked during the event.
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We've compiled a list of the top mistakes people make when writing, whether drafting an office memo or just chatting with coworkers around the water cooler.
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"Fasten your sleep-belts," he might murmur in a codeine drawl before jumping into a tale about the glug-glug-glug sound of a water cooler.
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Do we care more about the water cooler talk and being part of the phenomenon than about the real humans at the center of these stories?
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"Having a 'general' or a 'random' channel is a great way to build a team atmosphere like a virtual water cooler would in the physical world."
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In a second interview, White said that he picked up a water cooler inside the cell and began pouring water over Smith to wake him up.
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After a couple weeks of filling Twitter timelines and conversations by the water cooler, the HBO series is starting to garner some pretty impressive viewership numbers.
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That water is put through a water cooler—the opposite of a radiator—located above the platform, which, in turn, lets off chilled air to commuters below.
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Your coworkers mentioned the Harlem Shake at the water cooler, and so you went to YouTube and watched Harlem Shake videos for the rest of the evening.
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I know at least a few other researchers and administrators who use it; there are sometimes interesting discussions about dosing, stacking, and suppliers at the water cooler.
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Pepsi is selling a high-tech water cooler that lets customers fill up their own bottles with flavored or unflavored, still or carbonated water in varying temperatures.
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"If there are guys gathered around a water cooler talking about a female colleague inappropriately, call them out right there so that it doesn't perpetuate," says Churches.
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And these guys are men I would categorize as feminists—we're on the same page politically, and they don't pull any sexist crap around the water cooler.
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"We're back in the world of the water cooler — a bygone era when we all watched TV at the same time," Zoe Williams wrote in The Guardian.
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Turn the message board into an online water cooler and the board could open itself up to a possible defamation suit should conversations take a heated turn.
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I know what I said about social media, but I still use it like a water cooler, like a library, like my work truck filled with tools.
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The event, where roughly 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honor the best in film and television, has a reputation for surprising water-cooler moments.
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At the same time, the voice of blockchain technology — barely acknowledged in media and entertainment circles in 2017 — will increasingly be heard and respected at the water cooler.
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And the cable network is on somewhat of a streak itself, with Matthew Rhys bringing the goods during a water cooler-worthy episode of Girls late last month.
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The real "see something, say something" should be aimed at fossil fuel consumption, resulting in uncomfortable water cooler conversations about excessive meat intake and fast fashion, for example.
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What they probably never anticipated was that Twitter would become a meeting place for all sorts of people you would never want to meet at the water cooler.
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"My view of social media is that it's no different from old days of standing around the water cooler or over the fence or at church," said Kaplan.
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It's Monday, which means it's time to refresh your water-cooler conversation repertoire—all by listening to these excellent new podcast episodes on your way to the office.
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And his victory didn't stop there: By creating unexpected moments, Trump's performance went viral — video clips were shared around the world, water-cooler talk traded in every office.
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At the dinner table, or in bed, or maybe even at the office water cooler, stories like Hey's are radiating across the country in all kinds of ways.
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Single-player RPGs don't result in the same kind of water cooler discussions that a shared world can lead to, and the studio wanted people talking about its games.
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Nevertheless, these tips are effective ways of keeping your surreptitious browsing activities hidden from the boss who usually wanders behind your back on the way to the water cooler.
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Especially for corporate types and people who communicate between regional offices, the tedium of reconnecting to a dropped conference call is nothing to laugh about at the water cooler.
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Spend a Few Minutes at the Water Cooler: A safe and open workplace starts long before an altercation or incident of discrimination — it's your responsibility to make it safe.
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In the sports community, Twitter is the social hub of choice for athletes, fans and journalists — a giant water cooler in the cloud where people share opinions and ideas.
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On the weekend before the finale, Mr. Brown chatted on the telephone about Mr. Darden's terrible poker face and the experience of being part of a water-cooler show.
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And while the utilities test their water, virtually all lead contamination occurs inside schools — in lead pipes, water-cooler coils and linings, and in leaded-metal fountains and taps.
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Don't get me wrong, I was happy to say hey to coworkers and joke around the water cooler, but in all conversations, I kept my private life off-limits.
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I love going to midnight showings of movies, playing games as soon as they unlock, and chatting with the Internet water cooler when an interesting new thing is out.
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Facebook has spent a lot of time and energy working to become a digital water cooler, the place online where people go to talk about what's happening right now.
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When I heard chatter around the water cooler at work condemning Turner's father's statement during the trial and how the final jail sentence was too short, I got nervous.
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Allison Arieff Many recent technological advancements seem more ominous than optimistic: Alexa eavesdropping on water cooler conversations at work, automation taking our jobs, autonomous vehicles crashing into taco trucks.
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Every best practice Olson has seen comes back to communication, especially since the more informal desk-side and water-cooler chats are not a realistic option for remote teams.
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But that's what you get with modern water-cooler dramas, which so often work as an aesthetic Esperanto that lets us talk about politics without fighting about the news.
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Phillies beat Reds on Joseph's walk-off RBI PHILADELPHIA - Teammates dumped a water cooler on Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Tommy Joseph after his second walk-off hit in three days.
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The game's announcement trailer is every school-yard and water-cooler "What if there was a game where..." conversation turned into high-quality CG. Just watch: It's nostalgia given motion.
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Netflix, too, spiced up water-cooler gossip on Thursday when it received an astonishing 112 Emmy nominations, bumping HBO down the Emmy ladder for the first time in 18 years.
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Since we're all accustomed to our own scents, breathing into your hand actually isn't the best way to smell what everyone else is inhaling when you're sharing water-cooler gossip.
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But you still want to keep your finger on the pulse, if for no other reason to not be completely out of the loop at the office water cooler, right?
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It is then disseminated out to the broader membership, believed to number several million, before spreading to others officially or through conversations or around-the-water-cooler sorts of ways.
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The De Moulin brothers made a living by inventing trick devices, like the "automatic water-cooler for initiating purposes" that shoots a stream of water in the unsuspecting victim's face.
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But if you're not too concerned about perfect prank execution and want to have a good story to share around the water cooler, then this sounds like just the ticket.
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It boasts an Intel Core i7-6800K processor, a two terabyte solid-state drive, 32GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM, and a dedicated closed-loop water cooler for the CPU.
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The lack of interaction that often comes with remote work can also be a detriment to team-building — something that is built during meetings, lunches, or even water cooler conversations.
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For example, did you notice Michael has an Italian flag on his desk instead of an Irish one, or that they dyed the water in the community water cooler green?
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Whichever is true, or none of the above, I bet there's some interesting water cooler debates in Brackley and Brixworth on Monday... Find more F1 news and analysis at motorsport.com.
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"I heard a lot of New Yorkers say, in the elevator or at the water cooler, 'Man, this spring really feels like it came late and left early,'" he said.
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You'd be wise to keep that in mind next time someone — on cable news or at the water cooler — tries to tell you they've got this election all figured out.
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Employees at Bloch's company envision a future where viewers gather around the water cooler to discuss the differences in what they watched, rather than to parse a shared dramatic experience.
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We love to talk about, it's a social experience to share content together, whether it's the news or a show you watched last night, at the water cooler at work.
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Donald, Melania, and Ted provided plenty of fodder for this week's conversations at the water cooler—so show your coworkers you've done your homework by bringing in tidbits from outside sources.
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After the meeting was over, he immediately went back to his office to get to work while others caught up with their colleagues -- never being one for water cooler, small talk.
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Like many other freelancers who primarily work from home, I had grown accustomed to using social media as my virtual water cooler — a place where I could communicate with other folks.
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Twitter has 328 million active users — journalists and news hounds, politicians and public agencies, activists and Russian trolls — a real-time cacophony that has become the water cooler of the internet.
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Also, I don't have enough friends to designate one as my "water cooler conversation" person for each of the 100 television shows I now watch (thank you, golden age of TV!).
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That guy at the water cooler scoffing at Evan Spiegel for turning down Facebook's $3 billion acquisition offer and complaining that the Snapchat app violates every principle of user-centric design?
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Lining the walls of college dorm rooms across the country and being referenced in casual conversation every day, knowing about these movies is a vital part of understanding water cooler conversation.
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The only way to close the loop is to watch until the end, even if it means venting our frustrations on social media or at the water cooler the next day.
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I can also picture how thrilling it might be to be aware of those little sex wounds underneath your clothes while you're having boring water-cooler chats with a co-worker.
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Jacob Weisberg was one of them, but his conversations were overheard well beyond his office's water cooler: As host of Slate's Trumpcast, Weisberg broadcast his workplace speculations to thousands of listeners.
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Despite rumors swirling at the proverbial water cooler, Justice Anthony Kennedy maintained his unpredictability (as the often swing vote on an equal court) and did not announce his retirement on Monday.
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Zapier also pairs employees for weekly "buddy chats" — the remote worker version of a water-cooler conversation — which have no set agenda and bring together teammates across the organization, said Foster.
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Where we once discussed last night's game by the water cooler, we now swap messages over Slack about that Netflix show with all the British people freaking out over baked goods.
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Stadium is the evolution of the hashtag and the trending topic, two less overt ways to create a digital water cooler where everyone talks about whatever's most important in the world.
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Ms. Rae told the reporter what so many black people have told their family members at dinner, their friends on group texts and their black co-workers over water cooler talk.
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Long gone are the days when a third of the nation watched "Gunsmoke" or "Happy Days" every week and everybody at the water cooler knew something about the plots and characters.
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The 34-year-old is more comfortable making bets in Vegas and cleaning up on the set of the popular game show than he is making small talk at the water cooler.
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With Game of Thrones over, one big question hangs over the TV industry, TV fans, and people who more casually enjoy water-cooler shows: Will there ever be another show like this?
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Facebook's controversial Trending topics feature is sacrificing support for niche interests in favor of an internationally scalable approach that could create nationwide digital water cooler moments you can read at a glance.
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Qamar had just been laid off from her 9 to 5 "talking to Jim by the water cooler" job in advertising, and used her new found time to discover a hidden talent.
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Todd Bol's Little Free Library boxes, which blend the form of folk art with the function of a community water cooler, have popped up in all 50 states and in 88 countries.
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Carl Minzner, an expert in Chinese law and governance at Fordham University in New York, said the party's socialist rhetoric had become "water-cooler banter and fodder for jokes" among educated Chinese.
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Horowitz has spent much of his career trying to rise above politics, say former colleagues who describe him as a "straight shooter" who avoids ever talking about politics around the water cooler.
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He invited me into a secret room, tucked down a small passageway hidden by a trap door next to a water cooler, where he and his colleagues go for device-free brainstorming.
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It looks like any other room in the hospital—white walls, gray vinyl floors, a semi-broken water cooler—but the people seated on the blue waiting room chairs aren't typical patients.
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The trailer for Apple Music's new series is here, and it looks – well, it looks basically like what you'd expect out of a series based on the Late Late Show's water cooler hit.
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Even if you make regular water-cooler trips to refill your Hydro Flask, here's a dose of the cold, hard truth: Your skin could probably benefit from more hydration than it's currently getting.
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Discussion of Easterbrook&aposs past relationship with Denise Paleothodoros, who previously worked on McDonald&aposs account at public relations firm Golin, served as water-cooler gossip at McDonald&aposs, according to multiple sources.
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And, most importantly, now is the to stand up to hatred, bigotry and discrimination, whether it be at the office water cooler, the newsroom, in the LGBTQ community or on the campaign trail.
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When I'm pushing a water cooler down on the CPU while twisting its radiator into place and screwing it into place at the same time, it becomes clear that PCs don't just work.
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This was no normal doctor's office lobby: no trashy daytime talk show running on a barely functioning TV, no fashion magazines from 2004, and no completely unusable cone-shaped cups by the water cooler.
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This rest was intended to revive the apparently stout woman between rounds, although she was not allowed to go near an open window or the water cooler, lest she disrupt the fat-burning process.
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Cognizant that federal investigations are highly secretive and that water cooler and barroom conversations by special agents working cases is extremely atypical, there are several issues regarding this latest Clinton scandal that beg consideration.
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But you are in desperate need of friends and hobbies and fortheloveofgod an occasional baby sitter so you can connect with real live adults in a far deeper way than water-cooler chat allows.
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Neurodiversity is the practice of staffing your organization with employees who can do the job based on their cognitive abilities, rather than whether or not they can hold a conversation around the water cooler.
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"Whether you're a psychologist, psychiatrist, or even if you're a nurse, talking to a friend at the water cooler about some of the difficulties you're having can be incredibly helpful and therapeutic," Shah says.
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Otherwise, the week belonged to the Grammys, with Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton acceptance speech, Kendrick Lamar's amazing performance, and Taylor Swift's winning response to Kanye West (below) dominating Internet water cooler talk the next day.
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It's not like every woman in tech is dodging groping hands on the way to the water cooler in between being turned down for a raise and being asked to order the cake for birthdays.
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Siri is the Game of Thrones "fan" who's really watching Keeping up with the Kardashians and keeping an eye on #GoT Twitter so they don't miss out on the water cooler conversation the next day.
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This was not the case back in November 1973, when Jim Lehrer signed off the last megacast by addressing viewers as if they were the loyal fan base of a long-running water-cooler serial.
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For example, instead of your usual office break to go to the water cooler or get a cup of coffee, consider taking your dog out for a walk, or pet your cat for a moment.
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Since then more than 4003,2400 Little Free Library boxes, which blend the form of folk art with the function of a community water cooler, have popped up in all 2100 states and in 22015 countries.
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But before Will Shortz became the crossword editor for The New York Times, pop culture, and everything we discuss next to the water cooler, was rarely seen in the Crossword, if it appeared at all.
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The app provides profiles on each location and what it offers, such as flavored or sparkling water, and whether it comes free or at cost from a water cooler, counter service or a drinking fountain.
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But the way you drink your H20 doesn't have to be limited to running to the water cooler every 2.5 seconds, drinking just from the tap, or constantly having to keep plastic water bottles at hand.
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Iglesias allowed a grand slam to Tyler Saladino on a first-pitch fastball and kicked a water cooler with his left foot in the dugout after being replaced by Wandy Peralta (1-1) two batters later.
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After all, if stories like Stormy Daniels started to fade, more of the public might actually start paying attention around the water cooler to how Trump is impacting public policy, electoral politics and our government institutions.
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Read more: 14 rules for using commas without looking like a foolWe've compiled a list of 12 common grammatical mistakes people make, whether drafting an office memo or just chatting with coworkers around the water cooler.
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One is more formal where people discuss what they are working on and other business-related subjects while the other one, called "water-cooler," is more casual, where people post more personal messages and funny images.
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We will not always agree on everything, and that's O.K. Wordplay exists as a water cooler discussion, where aspects of this two-dimensional puzzle can leap off the page and help us connect to one another.
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Even in the so-called golden age of TV, Mr. Trump hasn't just dominated water-cooler conversation; he's sucked the water right out, making all other entertainment from N.F.L. games to awards shows pale in comparison.
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People went to newsstands or physical mailboxes to find bound pieces of paper dropped by postal workers that would tell them who and what was cool, giving them topics for cocktail-party and water-cooler chatter.
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Water Cooler Gossip -Chip (Mark Duplass) is the only person we haven't seen not at the office, up until the very last scene of this episode where we see him reading the NYT story in shock.
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Books of The Times Anthropologists studying a tribe in southern Africa in the 1970s distinguished between two kinds of stories: those told during daylight — gossipy anecdotes, your average water-cooler chat — and those told at night.
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Not only did these shows confirm everyone would tune into young adult programming — a genre previously dismissed as B-list, smirk-worthy eye candy — they proved it was still possible for television to create water cooler moments.
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But whether they're short-lived or strangely enduring, many shows lack the qualities that make them worthy social media fodder and fandom bait, the 2018 equivalent of water cooler conversation topics: they exist without seeming to matter.
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Social media has been flooded with furious comments, pro-Kremlin newspapers have run scathing opinion pieces, the episode has featured on the country's main talk show, and the case has become grist for office water cooler conversations.
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Men who date women, are married to women, ride the subway every day, work in an office and engage in polite water cooler chat, sit next to you in math class, wave to you over the fence.
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Bingeworthy – on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN) – is a smart, humorous review of what's burning up the small screen, from upcoming series and new season premieres to the water-cooler shows of the past week.
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In some cases, it seems as simple and silly as a better football team making wealthy donors happy: They have reason to tailgate on campus and bragging rights at the water cooler among other liberal arts alum.
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If you want to watch before the water cooler chatter starts at work the next day, you'll have to make it an early morning — the episodes post in the wee hours the day after each episode airs.
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You can flirt over the water cooler, complain about your boss, and call it a coffee date, and if you make it past the first few dates, you can even save money by sharing an Uber to work.
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"In the pre-social media age, it meant getting upscale markets in New York and Los Angeles to notice your film and then hoping you would get water cooler buzz to eke out into the heartlands," he said.
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From a civil liberties standpoint, drivers might not want to use the app if there were a chance they'd end up talking shop around the proverbial water cooler with someone who, unbeknownst to them, was holding a badge.
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Global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, based in Chicago, has done the math and estimates that as much as $3 billion is lost due to absenteeism and water-cooler analysis of the game and commercials.
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And when your office interactions go beyond water cooler chatter and the occasional post-work happy hour and into, well, full-on bareback sex, making sure you can get through a workday with someone is even more important.
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Serial's huge cultural saturation saw its cast of characters memed and parodied everywhere from social media to Saturday Night Live — turning the question of Syed's guilt or innocence into an intense public debate, a modern water cooler conversation.
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Todd VanDerWerff: The Day After — the 1983 TV movie that became a water-cooler event when it first aired and lent its title to this week's episode of The Americans — might be the most significant TV movie ever made.
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So you mosey over to the website for Jay-Z's streaming service, Tidal, the only venue at which 244:24 is available, ready to listen participate in all the water cooler conversations sure to come from this album's release.
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Black Twitter has become a virtual office water cooler for engaging in discourse on everything from cultural appropriation (which Ms. Stenberg, who received the Young, Black and Gifted award, addressed in a viral video) to inside jokes like #growingupblack.
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But her modernist approach this time includes a faceless, multilevel set, drained of color but containing a water cooler next to which sits the Porter (an ever-deadpan Michael Hodgson), who now and then pushes a carpet sweeper around.
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FUTURISTIC NAVY SEAL BOAT DUBBED &aposBATMOBILE&apos Tailored for scale of impact and collateral damage, a water cooler bottle can be filled with sand or even dirt scooped up from a school playground to provide a different impact if necessary.
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The action takes place entirely in an auto factory's break room (designed with long-lived-in shabbiness by Michael Carnahan, with mortuary lighting by Rui Rita), where three co-workers punch in, play cards, snack and trade ominous water-cooler gossip.
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All this noise about the league's struggles to draw up and enforce rules drowned out what should be our collective water-cooler talk: Two incredible playoff games that set up one of the most intriguing Super Bowl matchups in years.
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It provided a shorthand to talk about a whole range of personal needs: how much you like to fill your calendar, how you want your manager to give feedback, how personal you want to get with colleagues at the water cooler.
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When iconic images like the pedestrian-looking Andy Ruiz standing over the sculpted body of Anthony Joshua are captured, they quickly become the big conversation on social media, radio and TV talk shows, and at the water cooler at work.
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One of the things that people are missing right now if you're working from home is the opportunity to just sort of have water cooler, lunch room or hallway chats that make people feel connected to the work place, McCulloch says.
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Is this the last time you'll ever gather with your friends to watch a show, knowing so many others are watching it at the same time, ready to discuss it real time on Twitter or the next day at the proverbial water cooler?
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"While the city of Flint states that correction actions are not necessary, D.T.M.B. is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink," the notification said.
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"[The Department of Technology, Management and Budget] is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink," the facility notification obtained by the New York Times stated.
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Now painted chroma blue (the original, and easier-on-the-eyes version of a green screen), the new offices also feature a centralized control room, movable walls, a lounge area with a water cooler, the Pioneer Works staff, and the office dogs.
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Here's an interesting milestone to talk up around the water cooler: researchers in the Netherlands have created a microscopic storage system that encodes every bit with a single atom — allowing them to fit a kilobyte in a space under 100 nanometers across.
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During a court hearing Tuesday, Larry Ginsberg made it clear ... the lawyer in question has no involvement in the Patton/Thicke case, but the judge felt there was always the chance of water cooler talk so Ginsberg is now off the case.
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When the LA-based filmmaker's going to the store spread across college campuses and infiltrated water cooler conversation, stoners "heh'd," sorority girls "couldn't even," and everyone else just wondered where the hell this distorted human body scan flopping through life had come from.
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The question, particularly in black circles, has been animating cocktail parties, college homecomings and water-cooler chat, a reaction to a trio of ambitious white candidates who are among the eight major contenders in a wide-open race to replace Mayor Kasim Reed.
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Taylor's rule of thumb is to not say something in a chatroom that you wouldn't say in person: "Think twice before you take that there because you might see that person five minutes later across your cube or by the water cooler."
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While frustrated drivers have often formed loose associations using Facebook or even home-brewed technology, Rideshare Drivers United appears to have outpaced its predecessors by deploying an app that enables organizers to contact drivers as seamlessly as if they shared a water cooler.
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Yes, but: Although some employees may not show up and water-cooler discussions of "Game of Thrones" may be intense as the HBO series nears its conclusion, there are far costlier workplace diversions, according to a calculation by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Instead the company should focus on obtaining a giant blockbuster – in the style of Game of Thrones or House of Cards – that will generate the water cooler buzz that is needed to turn Snapchat into a place where users turn to for real entertainment.
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An example I'm particularly fond of is water-cooler talk, the kind of casual bull session one has about the news, sports, or office gossip with one's colleagues: often during such casual chats, we don't care about whether what we're saying is true or false.
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And while yes, he's at work—and at a sports game—it's not like this is the water cooler at his accounting job, or him spilling a tray of nachos to get down on one knee in front of his season ticket-holding seat.
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As soon as the nearly 90-minute battle sequence began to unfold, viewers turned by the thousands to the communal water cooler we call social media, where they shared memes, thoughts, spoilers, praise and grievances in thousands of posts on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and YouTube.
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These songs will stick with memories, and will haunt your soul years later as you wither away at your cubicle where you come to the realization you'll never have a summer break ever again and unfortunately that water cooler break can only last so long.
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Nowhere is this dizzying interconnectedness more succinctly illustrated than in Colin McMullan's "Clouds Filtered through Trees" (2019), which consists of an almost-seven-foot tall water cooler that resembles a laboratory beaker and dispenses rainwater captured from the museum's roof and filtered through white pine tree sapwood.
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Which brings us to the ageless water-cooler debate about the nature of athleticism: Of the A-list athletes playing major sports — the superstars we see splayed across billboards and magazine covers; the ones we hear TV commentators call "athletic freaks" — who, really, is the most athletic?
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One of the FBI agents said that he learned Lesin was put up by the Justice Department at the Dupont Circle Hotel — a midrange hotel out of keeping with Lesin's extravagant lifestyle — during an informal "water cooler talk" with a "case agent" working on the investigation.
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"He sat us down, told a dry-sense-of-humor dad joke and after the punch line, just stood up and walked to the water cooler at the end of the bench," said Adrian Tigart, who played on Pearl's round of 16 team at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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In Lodi, north of the state capital, Ann Groves Lloyd is campaigning for the State Assembly with a tongue-in-cheek ad in which she tries to water her cows with plastic bottles and irrigate her fields with a water cooler strapped to a John Deere tractor.
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Before there was A Song of Ice and Fire (the books), before there was Game of Thrones (the TV show), before the go-to water cooler topic of conversation was, "Did you see what happened with the dragons on Sunday night," before all that — there was Dragonlance.
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Following in the footsteps of great water cooler topics before it, such as the epic Yanny versus Laurel debate of 2018, comes a brand new argument ready to upset family dinners, divide group chats, and start bar fights across the nation: Is the Aperol spritz a good drink?
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While the majority of fans might rely on their knowledge of the game, popular sports analysts, water cooler talk and a gut feeling, machine learning scientists are building a predictor tool to help the masses complete the ultimate bracket and win a few bucks from the office pool.
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Buxwaha, INDIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For his 2000-year-old daughter's wedding last year, Makhanlal Ahirwal bought Bhawani saris, bangles and anklets, got her in-laws a water cooler, a bed, and utensils as dowry and threw a feast for 216 people in his village in central India.
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"We can now see big cultural conversations taking place in ways that we couldn't have seen when we only had them at the water cooler at the office or over the backyard fence or at coffeehouses," said Lee Rainie, director of internet, science and technology research at Pew.
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"While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, [the department] is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink," the department's facilities team wrote on January 7, 2015.
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Unwind all the story threads, reshuffle them into some semblance of linear order, and the water cooler summary goes like this: Bernard makes it to The Valley Beyond, which is home to The Forge, a secret facility where all of the digital copies of the park's guests have been stored.
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All you need to know about this is that the CO2 rushing into the water cooler jugs is about 100 degrees below zero, and because the ice cream mix is a spray, each of those tiny droplets is getting bombarded by all sides by really cold gas and freezing almost instantly.
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Let's cut to the chase: just as every political discussion at dinner or at the water cooler or anywhere else centers around The t-word — Trump — so, too, every political campaign in 2018 – whether they want to admit it or not — will be a referendum on Trump and his Republican Party.
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One of the reasons Kelley slowly fell out of favor with TV critics (including myself) was that his characters often felt less like organic human beings and more like collections of tics that didn't really add up to anything, other than an attempt to provoke buzz at the water cooler.
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READ: Remember that six-week period where you sensed a promotion might be in the offing—middle manager quit at short notice; no immediate replacement announced; water cooler murmurings about "promoting from within"—so you started actually trying at your job in an effort to get that extra 10K a year?
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Think about it: If people have been saying "Rocket Man" and "suicide mission" around the water cooler for six months, they're going to be a lot less shocked if they hear something in the news about Trump wanting to take out Kim Jong Un – and a lot more supportive of the solution.
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Don't you hate it when you're at your psychedelic office, just minding your own business at the water cooler, and your computers start sucking everyone through the screens and regurgitating them through the floors, and then the copier disassembles itself, and then everything shatters and implodes into the mouth of an omnipotent purple being?
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I'm dreading the moments when they kill Brienne just to make her recent knighting feel more ironic and hollow, kill Tyrion because they don't seem to like him and they've never known what to do with a really smart character, or kill any number of other people solely to dominate next-day water cooler conversation.
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Chris Bedi, ServiceNow's chief information officer, said a co-worker's daughter sat on her lap during a Zoom-based team meeting Bedi, who lives in Pleasanton, 30 miles from the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, is meeting by video three times a week with his 40 direct reports to "try and substitute for the water cooler conversations," he said.
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" One gripping scene sounds like the setup of a joke: Caldwell Butler, William Cohen and Hamilton Fish walk up to a water cooler … Over two years after the American people first heard the name Watergate, Mr. Naftali writes, Representative Butler wondered aloud to his fellow Republicans "whether the country could stand the trauma of an impeachment.
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Baseball history is littered with memorable moments of anger-letting: David Ortiz demolishing the bullpen phone at Camden Yards with a bat; Paul O'Neill pummeling the water cooler in the dugout or taking a bat to the toilet paper dispenser in the Yankee Stadium bathroom; Bo Jackson breaking his bat over his helmet; Kevin Brown breaking his hand by punching a clubhouse wall.
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And one main advantage of the bot over alternative virtual communication options such as current conference call tools or, perhaps in the future, Oculus Rift-enabled get-togethers, is that the user can stay logged in and just be there to contribute to discussions as they come up, or go hang around the water cooler, rather than sticking to a fixed meeting time.
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Water Cooler In the hours after Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, was silenced by her Republican colleagues for "impugning" a fellow senator by reading aloud a letter Coretta Scott King had written that was critical of Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama (later confirmed as attorney general), thousands of Americans did what they always do: They tapped away at their phones.
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At first, it was awkward, but when she included us on one of the "breaks" she took during her fifty-minute show we felt we knew her the way co-workers would: she was the woman who puts more energy into standing around the water cooler, looking for attention and asking if you know anyone to set her up with, than she'll ever put into her work.
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These oranges are instead somewhere between that cold quarter section you used to shred between your teeth at halftime huddle in junior-varsity field hockey, sweating and panting around the Igloo water cooler, and those sandy, taffylike traditional candied orange peels a health-conscious mother would put in your snack pouch mixed with nuts and seeds to give her daughter a big, fast — natural — boost.
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Much of the talk around the final season of "Game of Thrones" was about how — given the splintering of pop culture and the continued rise of streaming TV, in which everyone watches on their own schedules — the show might be the last of its kind: a proverbial water cooler that drew millions together to parse the latest turn or compare theories and themes or just complain about Daenerys's big character swerve.
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Once you take your eyes off the three disgruntled men and a woman asleep cradling a rifle, all gathered around the makeshift table, most likely in someone's cellar, with one man working on a dynamite bomb, you notice the patriotic emblems on their coffee cups, and, on the grid of metal shelves behind them, stacks of blue Bumble Bee tuna fish cans, gold bars, a blue water cooler bottle, and a large box of rifle cartridges with their specifications lovingly rendered.
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Oh, and just because we've been talking about Top Gear around The Verge Transportation water cooler-cum-Slack room recently, here's a very young-looking Richard Hammond reviewing the Zonda Roadster for the show back in 2004: Okay, one more Top Gear video — one of my favorites from original Top Gear, in fact — for good measure: a supercar road trip to France starring the Zonda, a Ford GT, and a Ferrari F430 that the BBC has, for some reason, split into four parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
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