Getting my bike licence, the post office and feminism.

To me it was just having a laugh, it didn't seem demeaning at all.

I'd *love* someone to put this in a survey and ask "Do you consider
this demeaning?" and do a north/south survey.

I've noticed in the majority of people that "northern" humour
(including Scotland) is more insulting/piss taking, don't know why
though.

Me neither but then I've never worked in a min salary customer based
job.

I'd like to think that the fact someone might find the comment
patronising didn't even enter the PO workers head.

I agree that there's a time and a place for light hearted customer
relations, and times and places where its totally not on.

 

How do you work that one out then?

You see plenty in and around UKRM, from all over the UK (and beyond for that
matter), and I have to say, I don't find a generalisation that those from
further up the country, are more jovial or less likely to utter a death
threat, than those in the depths of it... but if it's something you seem to
identify with, when comparing your, if it hasn't changed, locale, to the
homelands, may I suggest Sir fucks off back up to his roots. ;-)

That, and maybe you should replace 'north / south' with 'male / female' and
then maybe a sub category of 'Blob: on / off'.

--
JackH

CBR1000 - Micra 1.3 (K11)

BOTAFOT #110 D.Bot (University Of Speed) - BOTAFOF #29 - GHPOTHUF #29

 

The definitive 'win-win' situation.

 

Not in here, people have totally different personas than in real life.

Its just from my experience from living in Carlisle for 20+ years,
everyone I know up there quite happily insults everyone else. I know
between freinds thats nothing new, but to do that to someone you just
met I found very common in Carlisle and Gateshead (and so I grew up
doing it too), and when I moved to Kidderminster/Milton Keynes everyone
I hardly knew took great offense when I insulted them in the usual
"friendly banter" way I was used to.

I'd like to see if this is peculiar to Carlisle/Gateshead /
Kidderminster/Milton Keynes or if it is actually a north/south thing.

Back to the land of little sun and crap wages? No sirree!

Heh, thats gonna get you in trouble

 

.... and you think that it will arrive? You have more confidence in the PO
than I do at the moment[1].

<opens gob>

.... <thinks>

A substitute teacher in a primary school? Best I can come up with at short
notice.


[1] We used to use a postal licence thingy where you have pre-paid envelopes
and the cost is charged back to your account. We had to stop, because any
time we sent anything that *might* be valuable, packages would disappear/be
accidentally torn open/arrive minus some contents.

 

[snip]

Good luck and I hope that they do apologise properly (which I doubt).

Went to post office to get a new tax disc and the person behind the
counter was fine right up to the end of the transaction. I am handed a
leaflet for PO motor insurance which I politely refuse as it's got "car"
all over it. The lady replies oh we do bike too and is then pulled aside
and told by a colleague that they do not do bikes. She then turns round
and says that I should keep the leaflet handy for when I grow-up and get
a car.

Only a very busy lunch-time queue saved her from a full-on rant and a
call for the manager.

 

ITYF the correct form of address for female customers in the "Tart"
column on the "wrong pen colour" row is "silly".

"Stupid" is more appropriate for trying to pay for stamps with Scotch
fivers...

 

I'm with SteveH on this, actually.

I flogged my ST70 monkey bike on Ebay. Utterly fair description, nice
pic, explained it wasn't original paint, had non-standard carb, etc etc,
but it was taxed, MoT'd and went really well.

As I was silly enough to let it time out on a Bank Holiday, it went for
£353 - an absolute bloody bargain. I was gutted.

Bloke collected it, and then emailed to complain because it was missing
a tiny bracket from the exhaust heat shield. FFS.

 

Lady Nina wrote

snippety snip

Now which naughty little girl forgot to take her Evening Primrose Oil
today?

 

Before I left for Thailand I pulled up at a petrol station on my Gixxer. Tis
10 year old man came up to me and said "are you safe on that, women" I
replied "of course not". He then told me that women shouldn't ride
motorbikes and that he would keep out of my way" I showed him the finger as
I rode off.

Well, is it time?

 

Dear Bill luv, you don't mind if I call you Bill do you? You really have to
live to experience it, it happens all the time.

 

Bugger, there goes another stitch.

 

Blimey - if you don't want to be patronised by chauvanists, don't go
to fucking Rome.

 

Legal reasons, official documents need to be signed in black. No other
colour is acceptable.

JL

 

I'm not entirely sure how shagging someone up the arse is a good "are
you a girl" test...?

 

That doesn't exactly answer the "why" question, does it?

 

wait...back up...whoa....

you're living in Matt's house? And you were during the last little spat
(about whatever the **** it was) on here?

Sorry, but muahahahaha!

 

It used to be the case that black photocopied better than blue. Mind
you, technology probably hasn't advanced in government circles.

 

I've had some little twat calling me 'Mate' in Burger King in the UK
once before, whilst taking my order. The fact that he didn't know me
and I wasn't his mate fair wound me up.

Mind you, this was in Birmingham...

 

Yup, sounds par for the course. One of the burds in the deli I use
semi-regularly calls me "young man" (I'd say on balance she's probably
slightly younger than me).

Nor me. The fairly-obviously-bent bloke in Thorntons down the road
called me "naughty boy" the other day - that didn't bother me either,
though I was tempted to reply along the lines of "could you /be/ any
more gay?".