Just found out a guy who works for me is being a git

[aqua]

Prams? Cars? WTF you lot on about?

Sorry, like but I've had a slight change of heart, following the Nigerian's being lazy comments and revelations. I hope the door hit her arse on the way out and knocked some of that shit in her brains out.

if you're talking about this bit, from this thread, where does she call Nigerian's lazy?

often is though- most 'wtf?' moment of my time in HR was a regularly absent Nigerian guy, called into a disciplinary who said it was in the Nigerian culture to be absent/late and we were discriminating on the basis of national characteristics. Only three disciplinaries I had to walk out of to laugh- that was one

or have I missed another post?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and the poltergeist.

but not the house in Richmond

 

[spanglechick]

Change for the better not worse.

This place is a LOT less cut throat than it was. That is good change.

yeah - someone bumped a thread from 2006 the other day. oh yeah - the urban dictionary... really nasty fighty stuff after the schism.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

or just didn't think maybe? yes the boards have changed, of course they have. I've been here 10 years already and fucking hell, it would be weird (and very sad) if the posters' lives hadn't moved/changed in that time too.

It's not just that people's lives have changed IMO. They are very mainstream now and a lot of that is changing posters. I'm not getting too worked up about it, I'm pretty mainstream myself, but I do think it's a bit of a shame.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

nah

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

and so's manter isn't she comrade?

I don't think she's fundamentalist, right wing, nor from Oklahoma.

 

[Firky]

No, who's FB?

Frumious B.

The only person who can't see a problem, because if you do - you're a troll

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Change for the better not worse.

This place is a LOT less cut throat than it was. That is good change.

TBF that is also true.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Frumious B.

The only person who can't see a problem, because if you do - you're a troll

No, not him. Someone I know in real life

 

[friedaweed]

I don't think she's fundamentalist, right wing, nor from Oklahoma.

But how can you be so sure?

 

[Winot]

It's not just that people's lives have changed IMO. They are very mainstream now and a lot of that is changing posters. I'm not getting too worked up about it, I'm pretty mainstream myself, but I do think it's a bit of a shame.

Although tbh the restaurant recommendations are better.

 

[ymu]

I think pbman was the genuine goods, ie that he actually was a fundamentalist right winger from Oklahoma. I didn't think he was someone pretending to be someone else.

You're saying Manter is pretending to be someone else?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

But how can you be so sure?

That's true.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You're saying Manter is pretending to be someone else?

We all kinda are, aren't we? My name isn't really 'Johnny Canuck'. Yours isn't 'ymu'.

From that point, there are degrees of role playing.

 

[Libertad]

but not the house in Richmond

I was disappointed by so much, but not by Beyoncé.

 

[co-op]

Didn't Manter get voted 'best new poster of the year'?

K.O.D.*








*Kiss of Death

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If firky wasn't on the boards, I'd probably have suggested that Manter is firky.

 

[friedaweed]

So how is this thread going to make 20 pages?

Pingu?

 

[Firky]

TBH Aqua I didn't search, I was just going off what Trashy and someone else said

yeah - someone bumped a thread from 2006 the other day. oh yeah - the urban dictionary... really nasty fighty stuff after the schism.

Aye! That was brutal, think a few people re-read that thread and had a reminder of how brutal it was. It's not the most brutal of threads either: there's been threats of actual real world harm on these boards

I mean how the fuck can you physically threaten people on the internet without feeling like a massive dick?

I AM GOING TO KICK YOUR HEAD IN SPANGLES, YOU TYPED STUFF I DIDN'T HAVE TO READ AND IT UPST ME

 

[ymu]

We all kinda are, aren't we? My name isn't really 'Johnny Canuck'. Yours isn't 'ymu'.

From that point, there are degrees of role playing.

pbman's real name is pbman?

 

[trashpony]

firky's not wrong about how the boards have changed tbh. Regardless of who said it or what else they might have said I think the fact that someone who's been here for over a year thought this was a place where 'overheads' would fit, even as a joke, does say something IMO.

Although tbf it is a common term where I used to work (and where Manter does) although I'm an overhead so it probably pisses me off a bit more

 

[aqua]

TBH Aqua I didn't search, I was just going off what Trashy and someone else said

I might be misreading it, but she wasn't saying nigerians were lazy. she was giving an example of how someone she'd worked with tried to use their own national stereotype as justification for their behaviour.[/quote]

I AM GOING TO KICK YOUR HEAD IN SPANGLES, YOU TYPED STUFF I DIDN'T HAVE TO READ AND IT UPST ME

 

[aqua]

Although tbf it is a common term where I used to work (and where Manter does) although I'm an overhead so it probably pisses me off a bit more

this too, in project management speak it's pretty common unfortunately - but then "human resources" kind of states exactly what is thought of employees anyway - not sure manter can be blamed for that one

though yes, using it here without thinking was stupid, using it anywhere is pretty dumb tbh but it does happen

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Although tbf it is a common term where I used to work (and where Manter does) although I'm an overhead so it probably pisses me off a bit more

I've slipped into workplace jargon meself on occasion.

 

[Frumious B.]

firky's not wrong about how the boards have changed tbh. Regardless of who said it or what else they might have said I think the fact that someone who's been here for over a year thought this was a place where 'overheads' would fit, even as a joke, does say something IMO.

Aren't you trying to make something out of nothing? I've just reread the 'overheads' pages here http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-good-the-drag-and-the-ugly.285274/page-1556 It's just black humour which doesn't betray any snobbery. But it's shown up a lot of people here as being all too keen to join the bully's gang. Silly school-playground stuff.

 

[trashpony]

if you're talking about this bit, from this thread, where does she call Nigerian's lazy?


or have I missed another post?

It was me that said that. It was more in the context of (what seemed like)a slew of posts one after the other where it was slagging off different nationalities for different characteristics. I dunno, I read it while watching Murder in Paradise and it felt a bit off to me

 

[Firky]

ah fuck it.

 

[Firky]

It was me that said that. It was more in the context of (what seemed like)a slew of posts one after the other where it was slagging off different nationalities for different characteristics. I dunno, I read it while watching Murder in Paradise and it felt a bit off to me

I burnt my spaghetti because of this thread and I am missing Africa. But I did see Matt Baker handling a massive lubed up cock like sausage with a grin on his face.

 

[two sheds]

I might be misreading it, but she wasn't saying nigerians were lazy. she was giving an example of how someone she'd worked with tried to use their own national stereotype as justification for their behaviour.

Yes, that was what I'd taken from it - relating a story about something that had happened.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

this too, in project management speak it's pretty common unfortunately - but then "human resources" kind of states exactly what is thought of employees anyway - not sure manter can be blamed for that one

though yes, using it here without thinking was stupid, using it anywhere is pretty dumb tbh but it does happen

Why did they have to replace Personnel with Human Resources and Maintenance with Facilities Management etc. anyway? If it ain't broken...