Was it a West Ham sandwich?

Did he have a Chelsea bun to go with the sandwich?

Perhaps it was a Chip 'n' Ham (town) butty?!?

---------> I keep my sanwiches in the pocket!

I'll bet he got even more sheepish when he showed up to recover his sandwiches, only to find a large group of very pissed-off men in full bomb squad gear with guns looking at him with rage in their eyes.

I hope Brian got overtime for that.

Crumbs

especially if prepared with Archchancelor Ridcully's Wow-Wow sauce,

or of course if Bergholt Stuttley Johnson had anything to do with the recipe.

I'll get me coat

conceivably Bergholt Stuttley Johnson (aka Bloody Stupid) and arguably equally talented and obviously decendant Boris might have shoved the poor fan's sammies under the table as one of his overprivileged oafish undergraduate pranks.

A chum of Mrs Marmite had cause to be highly embarrassed a while back. Chum and her hubbie were heading off on holiday in Paris and were trying to get directions. They strayed just that wee bit too far from one suitcase and were preoccupied enough with working out where to go, that they didn't notice the police cordon being hastily thrown around said suitcase.

Cue hurried and intensive negotiations with the bombe squad, including describing the case's contents, before le fuzz allowed the red-faced tourists to retrieve their luggage and scuttle off.

I would be very suprised if a UK government building had a bathroom - it is not a hotel. It may well have had toilets, posibly a water closet or even the bog however.

Language evolves over time. Get over it.

I will accept rebuttals only in old english, latin, or proto indo-european.

Its not about language evolving. Americans can call a toilet "the bathroom" or even the rest room if the wish to.

In the UK a bathroom contains a bath.

I live in UK, I have a room I call "bathroom" without a bath (it has a shower instead).

Though TBF, I have another room with just a toilet and washbasin, that room gets called "toilet" - so would agree that in UK bathroom would mean it also has a "proper" body washing facility such as a bath or shower

"Language evolves over time."

Ungelic is us.

Honestly, I've worked in all sorts of buildings which have been converted from one use to another over the years, and it wouldn't surprise me to find a bath tucked away somewhere in an old government office. Probably in a tiny room somewhere where there's no access to remove said bath without knocking down walls.

The Order of the Bath (the UK's order of chivalry for senior military staff) originally involved the recipient taking a bath as a symbol of purity. The official bath may still be around somewhere in Whitehall or Horse Guards.

They have those annoying "see it, say it, sorted" announcements on the London Underground but you'd mad to report a suspicious package while you were still underground cos of the risk of being stuck there for hours. I'd rather be blown up.

Been in London for St Mary Axe and Houndsditch - you wouldn't, though I appreciate and understand the sentiment. (I never nomrally go on the tube without a portable fan and drink)

We think there's a bomb nearby which might blow up and collapse the building. So for safety's sake we will lock you in a small room with no way to escape.

The bomb scare was in a pub, so (presumably) not the building our hero was locked in.

Government buildings tend to have some security measures against external blast, so it was presumably viewed as safer to keep everyone in the building than let them out on the street, where they would be more vulnerable to the (suspected) bomb that was found - or the possible second bomb that hadn't yet been found.

Bomb alert evacuations seem nowadays to be 'evacuate the building and disperse', rather than 'evacuate and assemble at the fire assembly point' specifically to avoid the risk of creating a target (the assembled evacuees) for a second, better hidden, bomb.

Still, I'm pretty sure I've met some jobsworth types that would lock you in a small room if that's what the rules said, regardless of logic, and since it's Friday, have a >>

assuming we weren't talking N°2's, a jug, a pen cup or two behind a desk, failing a convenient potted Aspidistra* can provide relief at a pinch. Even a sheet of 80gm A4 paper with a little origami can provide an ad hoc recepticle.

In Oz we might make it someone else's problem: " Choose a wall mate ."

Believe me nothing in this world is worth suffering an avoidable kidney or urinary tract infection.

* of the multitude of species alternativa , elation or bogneri could be most à propos.

Who's waiting for Mondays WhoMe from Crowdstrike?

I used to work in a high security environment where all internal doors had magnets and you could only go into rooms your pass allowed, even the MDs toilet had a card reader.

My boss, being a coward, never liked putting reports on the MDs desk, so he made me do it, and made my pass essentially access all areas, I could even use the MDs toilet now!

So, one day I was dropping the kids at the pool in the MDs loo, when the access control computer had a brain fart and locked all the doors, so I was trapped for 4 hours in the MDs toilet, slowly suffocating due to the automatic air freshener blasting me every 10 minutes.

Re "So, one day I was dropping the kids at the pool in the MDs loo, ". The mind boggles. That was one heck of a posh loo if it came with a pool.

[1]Euphemism!

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drop%20the%20kids%20off%20at%20the%20pool

"So, one day I was dropping the kids at the pool in the MDs loo,"

The MDs loo had a pool? Very posh!!

I think the bomb squad just like getting their toys out to have a play.

1980s - my mate forgot he left his school books on the steps outside Barclays bank. Went to cinema. Came out at end of film to find the town square locked down and the bomb squad poking at this bag.

2022 - I live behind a university building. Got front row seats when bomb squad turned up with their little robot and full metal suit to blow up someone's abandoned sandwich bag. The black plastic bag had actually been sitting in that position for a week before they decided to blow it up.

Entertaining to watch. What worried me with that one is they evacuated the solid Victorian university building and the building site, but ignored us in the houses who looked straight at the "bomb".

I bet more sandwiches have been blown up than bombs.

Anyone who was active during the 70s and 80s in the UK will remember innumerable bomb scares - the vast majority hoaxes, with just enough real ones to make people take them seriously. The IRA used that tactic to waste police resources and, of course, upset a large number of people. I was evacuated a couple of times when a bomb warning was received for concerts; my sister-in-law was in a London mainline station when one of the real ones went off - fortunately, she wasn't near the blast.

More recently, the 7 July 2005 bus bombings happened when there was a conference being hosted by my organization in Cambridge. Large numbers of attendees were unable to return home as public transport through London was disrupted.