Reply to: Contractor loses out on his 'dream' £1,000-a-week IT role

[Dominic Connor]

Veggies

We had a party for his when my kid was 4 and we asked him if any were vegetarians.

"Yes" he replied

I then checked his answer asking "what do vegetarians do ?"

"They line up nicely"

He'd deduced this from the way school meals were run and his queue being told to line up nicely like the veggies.

One thing I also noticed was that food fetishism is best achieved by outsourcing.
Some kids have genuine issues, for instance I react to eggs in a way best compared to scenes from The Exorcist, but mostly it is superstition, defective education and pretention.

Where we know of a genuine issue, we take great pride in finding stuff they can eat (self popping popcorn with no coating if all else fails), but when kids outsource their child rearing to nannies etc the help is programmed to stop their kids eating all sorts of things , yet these "intolerances" disappear when the mothers are looking after the kids and have to do the dirty work themselves of explaining to a kid why he can't eat the stuff other party goers can.

Being me, I have taken some satisfaction in explaining to veggies what Quorn is made from, which to those that care makes anything else look good.

[SueEllen]

My sister used to be a nanny and looked after this kid. The kid was a very fussy eater. One day she told her mum that she loved the bacon butties my sister gave her. My youngest brother once told me how he made a mean veggie chilli. Apparantly he was cooking for some veggie girl who said his chilli was lovely. His magic ingedient was to lob a couple of oxos in at the end.

[BoredBloke]

Well for pig feast at grub club I inadvertently asked a Muslim to come along. I wasn't aware of his religious persuasion, given he used to come out drinking with us.

Was a tad embarrassed to say the least, he thought it was hilarious.

My sister used to be a nanny and looked after this kid. The kid was a very fussy eater. One day she told her mum that she loved the bacon butties my sister gave her. My youngest brother once told me how he made a mean veggie chilli. Apparantly he was cooking for some veggie girl who said his chilli was lovely. His magic ingedient was to lob a couple of oxos in at the end.

[doodab]

Wifey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was the same bloke who suggested we sent piss kippers to Syria. He wanted to check his mail..

[darmstadt]

Well need to look up an article I read the other day where here in Germany they're going the other way, encouraging English to be spoken amongst business groups.

This one:

Germans are speaking Denglish

[doodab]

One of my colleagues caused a few raised eyebrows recently when he asked if he could use someones wifey.

[norrahe]

Well for pig feast at grub club I inadvertently asked a Muslim to come along. I wasn't aware of his religious persuasion, given he used to come out drinking with us.

Was a tad embarrassed to say the least, he thought it was hilarious.

[SimonMac]

At clientco, bacon and/or pork sausage is the _only_ filling available in breakfast rolls and sandwiches.

In my innocence asked for a tuna mayo roll, which seemed the healthier option and hardly exotic. but the dopey serving lady gawped at me as if I'd asked for mammoth burger.

Maybe its kosher pork in the bacon?

[doodab]

At clientco, bacon and/or pork sausage is the _only_ filling available in breakfast rolls and sandwiches.

In my innocence asked for a tuna mayo roll, which seemed the healthier option and hardly exotic. but the dopey serving lady gawped at me as if I'd asked for mammoth burger.

She probably thought you were one of those hate preachers.

[Bunk]

the Daily Mail simply didn't have time or space

Or the inclination

to gather the complete facts of the story and report them.

[NotAllThere]

I had a neighbour who took offence. I didn't want to say anything in case he took a gate as well.

[petergriffin]

Really says a lot about the state of the UK when a breakfast of English origin is now racist. How about we go the whole hog and make possession and distribution of bacon a criminal offence? Or perhaps the very mention of bacon should be seen as aggravated assault.

Fecking Marxists.

What's wrong with Marxism?

[original PM]

[mudskipper]

As soon as someone takes offence. Once someone takes offence, then it is offensive.

And I'd suggest that there may have been more than one comment, but the Daily Mail simply didn't have time or space to gather the complete facts of the story and report them.


Good for you. If you are offended then you have two choices - you ignore it, or you do something about it.

If you offend someone, then the correct course of action (particularly if they are in a position to offer you work that you want / need) is to apologise for inadvertently causing offence. You didn't mean it, but if you did offend them, then apologise and move on. The correct course of action is not to swear at the manager and hang up, then bleat that they didn't want to represent you any more.

Should Muslims, homosexuals and feminists apologise for offending KW then?

[TheFaQQer]

Since when offering to buy a bacon sandwich is "offensive"?

As soon as someone takes offence. Once someone takes offence, then it is offensive.

And I'd suggest that there may have been more than one comment, but the Daily Mail simply didn't have time or space to gather the complete facts of the story and report them.

BTW, offence is a two way street. I am offended daily by Marxists, Muslims, Communists, Homosexualists, Feminists, etc., and I take it.

Good for you. If you are offended then you have two choices - you ignore it, or you do something about it.

If you offend someone, then the correct course of action (particularly if they are in a position to offer you work that you want / need) is to apologise for inadvertently causing offence. You didn't mean it, but if you did offend them, then apologise and move on. The correct course of action is not to swear at the manager and hang up, then bleat that they didn't want to represent you any more.