Cruel but I'd had enough

[cookiemonster]

Can't wait for an example of said 'funny' jokes.

Oh Cookie ...... this is you this is....

 

[cookiemonster]

Actually, thinking about it, you messed up.

Should have delivered him to the airport, and let him enjoy all of those nice "friendly" cabin attendants...

That's what I was planning to do.


Just don't tell the boyfriend

 

[GrumpyGregry]

superb

 

[Arch]

By contrast I work in a small factory where banter and jibes are commonplace, daily, constant. Many of the comments made would be sacking offences in PC patroled organisations but not here.

Sounds horrible. We don't all think insulting each other is the epitome of wit. Your mates would probably call me goofy, something I thought I'd left behind with the bullies at school....

Good for you CM, the sort of thing I'd never have the nerve to do, and wish I did.

 

[swee'pea99]

I know what Mr Pig means tho'. Did anyone see the recent series 'Getting On' with Jo Brand working as a nurse in a geriatric ward, finding herself on the wrong end of a disciplinary tribunal for making a friendly joke which was deliberately 'taken the wrong way' by an utterly humourless superior, well-versed in institutional PC-protection. Very funny. Also not funny at all.

Oh yeah, but more importantly big thumbs up for the monster - nice one!

 

[Mr Pig]

Sounds horrible. We don't all think insulting each other is the epitome of wit.

No, but the PC brigade have gone so far to the other extreme that they're causing real problems for ordinary folk who've often done little wrong.

Every generation has to have its equivalent of the Pharisees or Nazis, blinkered humourless morons need something to occupy them. Regularly blowing incidents out of all proportion, they make situations much worse than they would have been if they'd done nothing, they hide their own defiances as human beings by persecuting others. They are not right, they are ar** holes.

I'm not saying that Mr Monster was in the wrong by the way. Not there, who knows, but I prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt as the story is so darn funny! :0)

 

[theclaud]

I'm not saying that Mr Monster was in the wrong by the way. Not there, who knows, but I prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt as the story is so darn funny! :0)

What doubt would that be? He threw a homophobic peanut out of his car - what's not to like?

 

[Mr Pig]

What doubt would that be?

He could have been over reacting to workplace banter.

And before you start, you weren't there either.

 

[theclaud]

He could have been over reacting to workplace banter.

And before you start, you weren't there either.

Ah! By 'banter' you mean homophobic gags. I thought so - I was just clearing it up.

 

[snapper_37]

He could have been over reacting to workplace banter.

Cookie seems a down to earth bloke who enjoys a laugh. It obviously went too far and Cooks shifted the bigot out. Good for him.

I'm sure you'd do the same Mr P if someone was taking the piss out of you - constantly and with an under-current of maliciousness.

It's nothing to do with PC brigade or banter, imo.

 

[summerdays]

I agree there is a difference between banter and picking on someone. Banter between friends/work colleagues is good but you have to know the lines over which you can't cross and apologise immediately if you accidently do offend. This didn't sound like banter. But I would never have had the guts to stand up to him like that... I would have just simmered.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Because I don't like drinking, football, or discussing my sex life, colleagues in a previous workplace used to think I was gay. When they realised I'm not, the quality of the conversation actually deteriorated.

Well done CM, I doubt he will ever make a homophobic gag again - every time he does, he'll remember getting manhandled, punished, and soundly trounced by a well-groomed, fit, muscly young kick-boxer.

(Oooh! Maybe I AM gay...)

 

[Night Train]

Good move CM. I've threatened like wise to get passengers to stop unacceptable talk/'jokes'.

 

[Dan B]

Well done CM, I doubt he will ever make a homophobic gag again - every time he does, he'll remember getting manhandled, punished, and soundly trounced by a well-groomed, fit, muscly young kick-boxer.

Maybe that's what he was after ;-)

 

[vernon]

Just last week some teacher or other, guy with decades of good service and experience, was sacked because of one little remark, which quite frankly wasn't very bad. The PC brigade have a hair-trigger that fires them straight to thirty-thousand feet at the slightest touch.

The one comment in itself and out of context might not sound too bad but, reading between the lines and being inside the walled garden of education, I can say that a dismissal normally comes at the end of a long chain of meetings, warnings, retraining sessions and counsellings.

Reading between the lines the chap might have been good at delivering education but his relationship with the kids was not so good.

I've had kids complain to me about colleagues' behaviour/attitude towards them and when I point out that I'm more extreme than their 'adversary' their response is always; 'But we know you like us and don't mean it'.
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There's banter and malice. Kids can tell the difference and react accordingly.