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Freddie Woo tugged our coat and asked: Have you ever had to tell someone they had BO? Had to break dreadful news to somebody? Tell us how you broke through the cringe barrier

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 16:09)
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I've had quite a few occasions to say potentially difficult things to colleagues.
Unfortunately I don't suffer from crippling social feebleness so they've always passed without incident.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 18:59, 8 replies)
Well done you!
Here's a gold star for your badge.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 19:39, closed)
That's very kind.
But I'm not sure I really deserve a star simply for managing to not be a snivelling autism.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 19:48, closed)
Your colleagues always passed without incident.
You poisoned them?
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:26, closed)
I see what you've done here.
You've contrived a rather strained misinterpretation of a perfectly simple pair of sentences such that the colleagues rather than the incidents become the subject of the second phrase. Then you have cleverly managed to read the single word "passed" as the common English idiom "passed away" in order to suggest that the colleagues have died. Which could only possibly - for the comedic purposes of this misinterpretation - have been a result of my having poisoned them. Brilliant stuff.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:34, closed)
In all fairness, there's more thought gone into it than 'you're rubbish Shambles and BTW I'm not upset, you are'

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:38, closed)
I'm exploring the theory that all humour improves if you have to explain it in painful detail.

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:40, closed)
Congratulations on your new series of 'Miranda'.

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:41, closed)
ROFFLES
and this For The Wellington.
(, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 0:35, closed)

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