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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    I talk to people. You should try it sometime.
    FYI kids talk too - perhaps you could try them.

    Assumption.....
    Or do you want a process to make everything ok with you. How about ISO cert?
    Nah -kids talk jibber-jabber and their parents talk slightly less sense
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    Nothing rude or disrespectful about it either. Just the way it is.
    Totally and utterly disagree. It's just basic manners. Just like keeping your mouth shut when you're eating. I wouldn't acknowledge the kids I taught if they used my first name. I address all my customers as Sir/Madam or "Mr or Mrs such and such" unless they tell me otherwise.

    My other pet peeve is the ghastly Americanism where you don't prefix someone's surname with Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr/Whatever. Referring to someone as "Jones" or "Smith" is just ignorant IMHO. They're called honorifics for a reason.
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    I heartily applaud the sentiments of this thread.

    As a newly-minted member of the working class, I, for one, like to spend a few minutes each day in front of the mirror practicing my cap-doffing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scracha View Post

    My other pet peeve is the ghastly Americanism where you don't prefix someone's surname with Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr/Whatever. Referring to someone as "Jones" or "Smith" is just ignorant IMHO. They're called honorifics for a reason.
    Southern Bastard Englishmen are vastly worse at that than their colonial brethren from the Americas.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Southern Bastard Englishmen are vastly worse at that than their colonial brethren from the Americas.
    Yeah, when I worked at Lucent down in southern Englandshire it was dreadful. Seemed to be white collar slaves further up the chain than me that were the worst culprits....oh...and the marketing & HR idiots.
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    Worked for Racal in Hythe across The Water from Southampton. We had a good little team run by a Falkland Islander. Only one of us was Southern Bastard and he was lazy shit with a miserable attitude. The bosses though - my word.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Hythe eh.... Small world eh moosh moosh?
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    Fuck off, cheese has no place in pies
    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle
    i would could and can, put a fat fuck down with a bit of brass.

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    Smaller than you'd imagine. The Barrista who operated the only espresso machine above or below Bar in Southampton and I got on chatting terms fairly quickly because the locals couldn't cope with the stuff.

    I come back to NZ, get a job as an IT Manager, hire an admin temp for a project, and guess who it is. She's now married to a mate's brother.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    And now this morning, The Remarkables Primary School are going to be calling teachers "expedition leaders", teaching areas (a.k.a. classrooms in the old language, I assume) will be "campfires", meeting places will be called "watering holes" and one on one meeting areas will be called "caves".

    The school receptionist will be known as "Director of First Impressions".

    Wow. School was never that exciting when I was there. I really feel I've missed out on something special for all those years I was at primary school.
    I lahk to moove eet moove eet...

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    That made me LOL like the first time I heard the people at Subway were called "Sandwich Artists" and back in the day when there were 16 year olds helping put petrol in cars called "Petroleum Transfer Technicians" Oh and the short space of time where teachers got called "Education Facilitators"

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