Prejudice is a funny old thing ...
And even funnier when you challenge one of your own.

Like most bright kids born to working class parents, I have always wanted to shove the silver spoon down the neck of the rounded vowelled, bow-tied, snort laughing Eton types. Not just because I have had to work very hard to enjoy a level of lifestyle which they were born into. But because I genuinely believed that they equally despised me for my accent and stunning lack of table manners.

/wavy lines

Way back in 2001, I was working as an IT contractor. It was a 3 month contract with a well specified tasklist and good cash ... unfortunately, my direct manager was a sexist, racist, boorish (working class Brummie!) bastard. I won't bore you with any of his daily disparagement. It was a short contract, the work was good, and most of the other staff were smashing.

There was one chap in particular ... who barely spoke a word to me and couldn't look me in the eye. He was a graduate from an elite private, boys-only, boarding school. Finished his education at Eton yadda yadda. And I was a Woman ... in IT ... poor chap had no idea how to speak to me. He was so incredibly shy.

So back to the office floor where Bastard Brummie Boss is about a third of the way through his usual daily appalling, unfunny, offensive rant when the Shy Eton Chap stood up. In the open plan office. Took two steps forward with his trembling balled fists at his side. And he bellowed the most immortal words;

"How DARE you Sir! How DARE you use such uncouth language in the presence of a lady! You Sir! Are a CAD! And a BOUNDER Sir!"

He was furious. And those were the worst words that he knew.

What a treasure. Thank you Shy Eton Chap.
(Que?, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 5:12, 6 replies)

I say!
That chap certainly lost his composure.
(knackerz is skinning up, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 6:12, closed)

Don't leave us in suspense.
Who won the duel?
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 6:29, closed)

Heh ...
Wasn't quite pistols at dawn, but Shy Eton Chap won the Man Battle hands down.
(Que?, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 6:58, closed)

A cad and a bounder!
That's fighting talk.

Is it true? Please say it's true.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 8 Apr 2010, 8:16, closed)

I bet he knew MUCH worse words
but wouldn't say them in front of A Lady.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:03, closed)

Marvellous.
I for one am fed up with chippy twats judging me because of where I'm from instead of who I am.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:30, closed)