Came back from UK with heartbroken
Aug 21st 2012, 3:30 pm
#31
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
Commander, Norm and Boomhauer. Headmistress' office. NOW.
Aug 21st 2012, 5:06 pm
#32
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
Aug 21st 2012, 6:09 pm
#33
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
She didn't 'stop posting' - she moved to the Asia Forum............
Aug 21st 2012, 11:36 pm
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
I reckon the lady has more things to worry about than the typical cheeky chappy. It's the quietest ones we should all worry about 
harmless banter and if not confident enough to accept that without challenge I certainly wouldn't be trying to move country or continue a life in one alone lol! I'm not a pervy man acting like a school kid.. and I thought it was funny . Am sure if she was offended she would say so, as sticking up for your own battle is usually a good start to life in general
harmless banter and if not confident enough to accept that without challenge I certainly wouldn't be trying to move country or continue a life in one alone lol! I'm not a pervy man acting like a school kid.. and I thought it was funny . Am sure if she was offended she would say so, as sticking up for your own battle is usually a good start to life in general
Aug 22nd 2012, 4:10 am
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
And anyway, if someone can't take a bit of harmless sexist/racist humour, then ... something. It's good for them and their character in the long run. Yeah. Right?
Aug 22nd 2012, 6:43 am
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
I'd also like to say that I thought it was just harmless banter and if I thought it might be perceived as crude, I wouldn't have said it.
Aug 22nd 2012, 8:57 am
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
After my month of soul searching reflection, I'm thinking the same thing. I cannot tolerate all this innuendo, sexism, and Norm's brand of racism dressed up as well researched and harmless prejudice any longer.
I look back at my previous troll like posts with shame. Things were much simpler when we discussed car batteries and VPNs.
I look back at my previous troll like posts with shame. Things were much simpler when we discussed car batteries and VPNs.
Aug 22nd 2012, 9:10 am
#39
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
I've always held the view that what's posted in the Sand Pit is fair game, unless its very clear that a poster is in genuine distress: its strap line is "off-topic chit chat", and therefore surely not intended to be serious. OK, things get serious from time to time, but the very nature of chit chat is that if flies off at tangents, including comments which are intended to be humourous.
By-and-large the Middle East forum proper and the ME Job Discussions forum are contributed to seriously: for what its worth, I (try to) avoid posting anything that could be deemed offensive, sarcastic or flippant in those forums.
Isn't that why there are 3 forums for the Middle East?
By-and-large the Middle East forum proper and the ME Job Discussions forum are contributed to seriously: for what its worth, I (try to) avoid posting anything that could be deemed offensive, sarcastic or flippant in those forums.
Isn't that why there are 3 forums for the Middle East?
Aug 22nd 2012, 9:10 am
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
Sorry.
Aug 22nd 2012, 11:26 am
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Aug 22nd 2012, 11:44 am
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
After my month of soul searching reflection, I'm thinking the same thing. I cannot tolerate all this innuendo, sexism, and Norm's brand of racism dressed up as well researched and harmless prejudice any longer.
I look back at my previous troll like posts with shame. Things were much simpler when we discussed car batteries and VPNs.
I look back at my previous troll like posts with shame. Things were much simpler when we discussed car batteries and VPNs.
Where can I get a car battery that doubles as a VPN and maid-beating device?
N.
Aug 22nd 2012, 12:14 pm
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Re: Came back from UK with heartbroken
Ask Scamp to bring you one back from Vietnam...
