my friend essex
so-called because she is from essex, is very like rachel from friends in that she gets herself into dizzy situations all the time. she looks like her too, the bitch. anyway, for a very bright girl (she was a solicitor, now she's a law lecturer), she can be really thick sometimes.

so far her university has sent her on 3 lots of political correctness training. the first was for exclaiming in delight when one of her male colleagues turned up to the christmas do dressed as a woman. essex complimented him on getting into the spirit of things.

despite being nearly 7 feet tall and 17 stone, he was in fact a pre-op transexual. he complained.

the second one was a japanese girl who reported her for being racist because she answered an english girl's question first. this is the same japanese girl who, when drafting a licence to use a field for a fete, defined "marquee" as "tent or any other erection designed solely for the use of pleasure".

the third one was because she described a former client of hers as a "big fat arab". and then compounded her error by saying, "what? he was big, he was fat and he was arabic..."

so she was given the option of disciplinaries or political correctness training. taking the latter, obviously, off she trotted to a class where they were made to write down all the cliches they could think of under headings like "jewish", "yorkshireman", "woman", "ginger" etc. she said the worst thing was that, as they all looked at them, all they could think was, "yeah, and? how true!"

on the other hand, when i was doing my own law degree there, on more than one occasion i heard asian girls asking each other if they had "remembered to play the race card" in interviews. this stinks. get the job because you're good at it, not because you're male, female, tall, short, one legged, gay, pregnant or sky blue pink with yellow dots all over you!

and breathe...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:16, 11 replies)

with that third one
I quite agree with her reasoning.
( Kroney, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:24, closed)

I like her!
She sounds fun!
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:25, closed)

pjm
you've MET her!!!

but no names please. she could get sacked...

and yeah, unassailable logic. or so you'd think.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:33, closed)

I have?
Are you sure I've met her?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:38, closed)

yes.......
there were 4 of us in the pub, she was one of them!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:43, closed)

well then PJM
if you wouldn't mind forwarding her number to me, i'd be grateful. She sounds like my sort of girl.
( Kroney, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:45, closed)

Ah!
Was she an ex-flatty or someone who's moving soon?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:46, closed)

her bf
would have quite a lot to say about that, given that she's just abandoned me to move in with him!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:47, closed)

Ah!
I know now who you mean. Yes, she is bloody funny and so is her bloke.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:51, closed)

damn it
all the good ones are taken.
( Kroney, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:57, closed)

"pink with yellow dots all over you!"
What is Mr Blobby doing these days?
(Musuko, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:04, closed)