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Dis86 said:
Ive worked with a lot of Chinese engineers and techs. I can assure you not one of them would ever have been offended. Its the usual thing of some sad act being offended on behalf of someone else.
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As I said my half Chinese wife just replied "lol" to my message when I told her, but I think whether for good or bad, the world we live in now whether rightly or wrong, people will take offence or find nuance in the words you use, by proxy or otherwise.

It is a little frustrating having to walk on egg shells all the time, but then I guess you want the work place to be a place where people feel comfortable. There are so many different personalities that you'll never satisfy everyone so being as vanilla as possible is the best bet. I think you can still be a "big character" but you just have to be more thoughtful about it with the terms of phrases you use.

Hey ho, you live and learn. I'd rather be told gently about it so that I can be aware of it next time than be taken to task on it - I think the person handled it really well and I just feel a bit embarrassed.
 
Dis86 said:
Ive worked with a lot of Chinese engineers and techs. I can assure you not one of them would ever have been offended. Its the usual thing of some sad act being offended on behalf of someone else.
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Yeah, I think over 90% of the time I've had to deal with it at work it is someone offended on behalf of someone else and in most cases those who might have a reason to be offended aren't unduly bothered by it - though that said that doesn't mean they should be subjected to it either - there is a balance to it even when offence isn't intended. But in the vast majority of cases it is someone who can't tell when offence is or isn't intended, feels they have to be offended in case somehow it looks bad on them or a busybody type.
 
Rroff said:
Anything joking about race in a non-private context is best avoided these days - awhile back one of my older colleagues, of a different generation, was cracking a couple of fairly harmless Chinese jokes and the face of my boss standing behind him was a study - did his best to gently steer him onto other topics as he was becoming more risqué with them but he didn't take the hint, later got a complaint put in about him by another colleague.
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I was told by my wife that I should not say an item* was probably bought from alibaba in public. She did not know the reference but I mean really some people ask for it. ;)

*lithium batteries bought from a market stall that did not work.
 
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Rroff said:
Yeah, I think over 90% of the time I've had to deal with it at work it is someone offended on behalf of someone else and in most cases those who might have a reason to be offended aren't unduly bothered by it - though that said that doesn't mean they should be subjected to it either - there is a balance to it even when offence isn't intended. But in the vast majority of cases it is someone who can't tell when offence is or isn't intended, feels they have to be offended in case somehow it looks bad on them or a busybody type.
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Reminds me of that skit where the guy in full stereotype Mexican regalia sombrero and all asking white Americans if it was offensive and they all said yes and all the Mexicans loved it.
 
Throrik said:
Reminds me of that skit where the guy in full stereotype Mexican regalia sombrero and all asking white Americans if it was offensive and they all said yes and all the Mexicans loved it.
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Pretty much my experience of south Americans and people from the far east. They just find that stuff to be stupidly amusing, not offensive.
From memory the Mexicans kept buying him food and tequila!
 
apparently some woman got a £150 fine for pouring a cup of coffee down the drain.


maybe the people who decided that was a good idea should visit one of those legal hand car washes?

how much dmg you think they are doing versus 1 cup of coffee thats 99% water and heavily diluted instantly.

compared to all the chemicals used to clean a car.


all the oils that naturally leach out of roads too, horrific!!! that 1 cup off coffee could destabilise the whole eco system.
 
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arknor said:
apparently some woman got a £150 fine for pouring a cup of coffee down the drain.
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Stupid, isn't it?

maybe the people who decided that was a good idea should visit one of those legal hand car washes?
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Here, car washes are required to filter their outflows before, I expect it's the same in the UK although whether some of the places I've seen actually do, I don't know.
 
Mr Jack said:
Stupid, isn't it?



Here, car washes are required to filter their outflows before, I expect it's the same in the UK although whether some of the places I've seen actually do, I don't know.
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Same is generally required here. Along with a discharge licence.
Bet compliance is low.
 
arknor said:
I got a snail on the inside of my 5 story high window thats been sat there all day long, its south facing so probably got kinda warm...

hopefully it finds it's way back to the outside cos I ant touching it and a mosquito net stops it coming in.

Gave it a misting of water to hopefully wake it up and move it along!

if it comes to it i will spray oil os silicone shine ont he window and let that intruder drop.

probably a better death than being cooked on a window.
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5 story high window? Bet that's a right bitch to clean.
 
Alice In Wonderland said:
Has anyone ever hoovered up the hoover flex by mistake? Coz I've just done that! I even got down to the copper wire inside but I was a bit high so maybe hoovering wasn't the best idea.
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No, but what i have done, a few years back is i had the mower in the back lawn tugged on the cable too hard going towards the furthest part of the garden and the wire was loose in the handle mechanism, it came out made a bang and it was near where my hand was, so it burnt my hand. There was a flash


Electricity is bad mmmkay
 
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DJMK4 said:
No, but what i have done, a few years back is i had the mower in the back lawn tugged on the cable too hard going towards the furthest part of the garden and the wire was loose in the handle mechanism, it came out made a bang and it was near where my hand was, so it burnt my hand. There was a flash

Electricity is bad mmmkay
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It's when all you see is funky psychedelic pattens of pink, orange etc. I got a shock once and literally that's all I saw. Electrical burns are evil, it's almost like it dissolves the skin layers. They'll keep you in for observation, testing vitals and nerves work, and treating the burns. Odd side effect is I have more steady hands after that than I did before. Thankfully I didn't need any long term treatment.

Recently I shorted out 345Vdc for a guitar tube powered pedal.. that make an arch that melted the solder before it could blow the fuse.
 
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Hagar said:
Now that the sumo wrestlers have left London, they presumably know how many holds it takes to fill the Albert Hall (Letters, 19 October).
Mike Abbott
Chiswick, London

extract from the Guardian. Made me chuckle
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That reminds me still have the last one to watch :D At first the audience weren't sure what to do or when to applaud but by the end they were really getting into it.

Dis86 said:
Ive worked with a lot of Chinese engineers and techs. I can assure you not one of them would ever have been offended. Its the usual thing of some sad act being offended on behalf of someone else.
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Thats PC HR for you constantly watching for anything that might offend someone, somewhere, real, imagined or not.
 
Why is it so difficult to find reliable workmen. Job gets pushed back several days despite us being booked in for weeks, they do most of the job at least, plenty of complaining thrown in despite them having done a site survey weeks ago and then their decorator to finish the job doesn’t even turn up, so I’ve ended up tidying up with filler and paint myself on a Friday evening, having waited in all day. Not cheap either! I’ll definitely be asking for a reduction in price seeing as they didn’t ’make it good’.
 
Had a good sleep. Feeelng abit better

Now on route to the airport


Got to the airport. Perfect time for my cabin bag to fail. Can't get the handle down .


Also looking round I still find it funny people drinking pints of lager and pints of Guinness and wine at 8am in the morning :p on a Sunday
 
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I'm sat eating an overpriced ginsters slice and listening to some American girls talk. And say "like" every 5 seconds .

You know like he was ya know like so hot.


I thought it this was ya know like the most British thing to do like . But like apparently not .. like
 
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Been to landfill near Tintagel it's one of the few ones where you don't have to book a slot online, not sure if it's the same up county
 
DJMK4 said:
Also looking round I still find it funny people drinking pints of lager and pints of Guinness and wine at 8am in the morning :p on a Sunday
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You know what they say... It's always 5pm somewhere in the world!

Sat on sofa after a sensible night out at friend's club night. It was interesting to hear the last song at 1am, get in a cab home, make tea, and sit on the sofa with a brew at... 1am :D
 
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