Cringe!Chickenlady winces, "I told a Hugh Grant/Divine Brown joke to my dad, pretending that Ms Brown was chewing gum so she'd be more American. Instead I just appeared to be still giving the blow-job. Even as I'm writing this I'm cringing inside."
Tell us your cringeworthy stories of embarrassment. Go on, you're amongst friends here...
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chthonic, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 18:58)
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Ve haf kom for your tea.You'd've thought that the staff common room of a humanities department in a large university'd be a haven for PC liberals, wouldn't you?
Not completely.
Our SCR consists of a large main room with chairs and pigeonholes, and a smaller room leading off it with a sink, fridge, kettle and so on.
I was in there making a cup of tea a couple of months ago at the same time as a couple of our PhD students. They happen to be German. I don't know them well, but we're on nodding terms.
Another person joined us. We're a fairly sizeable department, and I still don't know who he was - academic, PG, admin, permanent, temporary or what. Anyway, he noticed that the little kitchenette was full of Germans, tutted, said, "Was Poland not enough?" and smiled sweetly.
He genuinely thought he'd made a joke.
The three of us just looked aghast.
"Oh," he added. "That'll be the famous German sense of humour, then..."
Nice way to rescue the situation, eh? I can still feel my vertebrae crawling out of my skin when I think about it.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:19,
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