Re: Whingers and Whingeing

[antstig@my-deja.com]

In article <39c8292d$0$26552$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
  "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>
> <antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > In article <39c5bcb4$0$26546$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
> >   "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
> > > <antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > > >   Bill <billguest@the.net.nz> wrote:
> > > > > Are you a Pom?
> > > >
> > > > No, a Paddy, not that it is any of your f***ing business.
> > >
> > > I love calling Micks Poms, it really gets them going :-)
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Micks? Ouch! So Politically Incorrenct!
>
> All the more reason to use it! The only time I use it is to stir.
>
> > Seriously with our stringent
> > harassment policies some wowser (see below) might report you and
then a
> > major inquiry probably lasting several weeks would kick into action.
>
> They could report me all they like, it'd be to no avail.

Well, that's in Australia. Over here you could be taking the piss out
of a mate (it could be anything, even over him being fat or bald) and
even if he was enjoying the joke and giving as good as he's getting, if
some wowser was in earshot he could report the pisstaker for harassment
(what I cal her-ass-meant) and the guy could get disciplined or even in
extreme circumstances sacked.

Of course needless to say anyone who grassed up like that would never
be spoken to again (oh and not talking to someone is considered
harassment)and he would get no changeovers of duties ever again.

Fortunately apart from one asshole this has never hapenned. That was a
case when two guys were talking about travelling people and what a pain
in the ass they can be. They were exchanging stories and the asshole
heard them and reported one of them to the managers.

The manager demanded that the reported guy apologise to the asshole. He
refused and told the manager to "sit on it" giving the usual gesture.

And that was that.
>
> > I must think of some way to get you going.
>
> I don't know how. Maybe you could suggest I was wrong about
something, but
> no, that wouldn't work, as everyone here keeps saying, I'm never
wrong.
>
> > I was talking to an Aussie mate of mine at work and he said Aussies
are
> > always calling each other whingers.
>
> Musta been talking about his Pommie mates, as in "Whinging Pommie
bastards".
> We use that a lot.
>
> >He also said that a killjoy is
> > called a "wowser". I'm not sure if I've got the spelling right.
>
> Yep. Usually PC type people that can't take a joke.
>
> > Maybe I should read Bill Bryson's recent book on Australia. It might
> > give me some ammuntion. :-)
>
> Who?

He's written very funny books about the USA, the UK and now Australia.

Regards

Frank


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