An oddity from this morning
I get on very well with my boss, who is worryingly similar to me (to the extent that we frequently get mistaken for each other on the phone). We don't see eye to eye on sport (he's a football fan, I couldn't care two shits about it), or music (he's a jazz nut), but mostly it's good.

One area that is an occasional problem, however, is political correctness. I'm a fairly PC guy, I don't approve of casual racism/sexism and can be a bit sensitive to it - my feeling is, if you're going to make a dodgy joke, it has to be *seriously* funny to justify it. (I think this is pretty close to the consensus position on B3ta). And today, well, it was a fairly odd conversation. I'll do my best to report it verbatim:

Boss: I was watching Wimbledon yesterday, it was a crazy match. There was a dwarf playing!
FF: (pause) A dwarf.
Boss: It was fucking hilarious. She was running about on her little legs - had a fair speed on her, but she was a fucking dwarf!
FF: Sounds fairly unlikely.
Boss: Right, that's it, I'm looking her up. (Wikipedias) There, that's her. Look - she's a fucking dwarf.
FF: (Reads stats) She's 1m 67. That's a pretty tall fucking dwarf.
Boss: I don't care how tall she is, look at her head!
FF: Oh, so she's a rare freakishly tall dwarf. She's doubly afflicted, not just a dwarf but a huge one. Is she outcast by the other dwarfs?
Boss: That's it, I'm not arguing about this any more. That's a fucking dwarf.

I don't know what this says about either of us. It's not even that funny when I see it written down. But I had to share it in some way.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 23:56, 1 reply)

Hmm
The obvious conclusion is your boss is a freak. Or has vision problems. Or is a freak. I'd go with freak.
(Dog Bum Cute, wiggly, has scary anal glands, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 0:14, closed)