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Good grief.
Dec. 13th, 2012 01:30 pmIf you're planning on saying something like, "I don't like going to foreign people's houses, they always smell funny," here are a few thoughts:
1) Don't. Some opinions don't need to be shared.
2) If you really feel you must, try judging your audience just a little bit. Who did you think was going to agree with you, the Kenyan Indian, the British Pakistani, the Hong Kong Chinese girl, the British West Indian or the Jew?
This is my very least favourite colleague, who has said things like this before and is magnificently oblivious to the less than enthusiastic reception she gets. We all just stood there looking at her, waiting for her to register the fact that there was not one single person in the room she'd shared this gem with who wasn't a smelly foreigner. She didn't, just stood there waiting for applause.
Sheesh.
1) Don't. Some opinions don't need to be shared.
2) If you really feel you must, try judging your audience just a little bit. Who did you think was going to agree with you, the Kenyan Indian, the British Pakistani, the Hong Kong Chinese girl, the British West Indian or the Jew?
This is my very least favourite colleague, who has said things like this before and is magnificently oblivious to the less than enthusiastic reception she gets. We all just stood there looking at her, waiting for her to register the fact that there was not one single person in the room she'd shared this gem with who wasn't a smelly foreigner. She didn't, just stood there waiting for applause.
Sheesh.
