Reply to: "Phwoar, nice scalp!"

[vetran]

Go on girls you know you want to

[GregRickshaw]

Are we still allowed to bully gingers? They're barely part of the human species so should be fine.

Obvs!

[Whorty]

It seriously is time we stopped name calling anyway, being called fat, tall, small, bald, (glasses wearer) is (can be) hurtful and is bullying plain and simple. Any bullying in the workplace (or anywhere) should be dealt with as bullying.

Bullying bald people though seems acceptable and they are meant to take it as 'fun'

Are we still allowed to bully gingers? They're barely part of the human species so should be fine.

[GregRickshaw]

Bullying is bad. But name calling isn't automatically bullying, and commenting on any aspect of someone's appearance isn't automatically name-calling.

And regardless, in the real world yes you should be able to "suck it up" if someone says something nasty to you. It's an important thing to be able to brush off such things, and a skill one can learn.
If your idiot workmate calls you 'beanpole' you shouldn't descend into a shame-spiral.

I don't agree at all there is zero need for anyone to say anything nasty based on shape, size, hair in this case etc., Brushing things off, in my experience, makes the comments acceptable.

[d000hg]

Yeah bloomin pansies (no offence to pansies) name calling and bullying is just character building after all. Just suck it up buttercups

Bullying is bad. But name calling isn't automatically bullying, and commenting on any aspect of someone's appearance isn't automatically name-calling.

And regardless, in the real world yes you should be able to "suck it up" if someone says something nasty to you. It's an important thing to be able to brush off such things, and a skill one can learn.
If your idiot workmate calls you 'beanpole' you shouldn't descend into a shame-spiral.

[GregRickshaw]

Ooh, get you, are you in to flower arranging or something?

"Consider the Lilies"
"He's having a go at the flowers now!..."

[WTFH]

Yeah bloomin pansies (no offence to pansies) name calling and bullying is just character building after all. Just suck it up buttercups

Ooh, get you, are you in to flower arranging or something?

[GregRickshaw]

What a soft lot we've all become.

Yeah bloomin pansies (no offence to pansies) name calling and bullying is just character building after all. Just suck it up buttercups

[d000hg]

What a soft lot we've all become.

[GregRickshaw]

It seriously is time we stopped name calling anyway, being called fat, tall, small, bald, (glasses wearer) is (can be) hurtful and is bullying plain and simple. Any bullying in the workplace (or anywhere) should be dealt with as bullying.

Bullying bald people though seems acceptable and they are meant to take it as 'fun'

[mattster]

I wonder if he's actually trolling us all and it's a wig.

Although I'm far from the first to say it, I've long been convinced that the entire Fabric*nt persona must be a work of long-term performance art - and a fabulous one at that. I mean surely there is enough of a clue in the name?

[d000hg]

Better a Bald **** than a Fabri****

I wonder if he's actually trolling us all and it's a wig.

[DaveB]

Better a Bald **** than a Fabri****

[d000hg]

Depends if it is a man or woman.

I've worked with a couple of women who were well over 6ft who were also slim.....

What part of "more likely" wasn't clear? It's like all those stupid online arguments "women aren't as strong as men" / "well let's see you compete against a professional female weightlifter"

[SueEllen]

Sounds a nicely impartial judgement.

Presumably calling someone a "beanpole" is also sexual harassment because men are on average taller? What a waste of everyone's time. You can already take action on workplace discrimination without having to make it about gender.

Depends if it is a man or woman.

I've worked with a couple of women who were well over 6ft who were also slim.....