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Texan in London... what?
« on: May 14, 2022, 04:18:41 PM »
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So I met a Texan in London yesterday and oh my days...

One of the managers at work asked me to attend a local meeting with two of her team so they could watch me in full sales action, re the division I am Director of, to help develop them. Love me a bit of business development so I readily agreed and off I went. It was to talk to a local business about placing vulnerable young people with them for a period of work placement to help them gain the employability skills they need to sustain in employment. As an aside this is a passion of mine, better life chances and life choices through skills and experience for our most disadvantaged young people has been a life long endeavour.

Any whoo in this meeting - was having a really great conversation, about what good likes in social responsibility and how we can support that mission in their organisation - please bear in mind at this point that the two young chaps who are shadowing me are from Asian and West Indian descent - and this is one of the most diverse areas in London - this chap decides to tell us he is from Texas. Austin, Texas. Of course I then made some assumptions. Austin in London, that is not the bio of a Texan Texan, right? So I told a story about how being in NYC just after the 2016 election when I had a couple say sorry for Trump when they heard my accent, I thought he would nod in agreement. Whoops.

Everyone in America wishes Trump was President right now
They can send money to Ukraine but not build a border wall
Illegals
Rant, rant, rant, but in a very charming, having a normal discourse kind of way.

Oh my days. Chatting with a Texan White Supremacist in one of the most diverse communities in London. Never saw that one coming. I so wanted to tell him to do one, instead thanked for his time, left the meeting and assured the young men who accompanied me to the meeting that I would rather cut off my own head and eat it than do business there. I do have the email of his boss though... heh

What??
Was there a point besides the made convo and attributes of the supposed Texan?


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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2022, 04:54:00 PM »
What??
Was there a point besides the made convo and attributes of the supposed Texan?


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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2022, 05:03:59 PM »
That was not among DU's more intelligible :bouncy: -tales. That aside, other than the dude being from Texas, not hating Trump, and not wanting to do business in that part of London, where did "White Supremacist" come from?
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2022, 05:05:53 PM »
That was not among DU's more intelligible :bouncy: -tales. That aside, other than the dude being from Texas, not hating Trump, and not wanting to do business in that part of London, where did "White Supremacist" come from?

I must've missed where the guy didn't want to do business.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2022, 05:17:35 PM »
.1 bong. It started with ‘so’.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2022, 05:24:16 PM »
I must've missed where the guy didn't want to do business.

I took this:

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Oh my days. Chatting with a Texan White Supremacist in one of the most diverse communities in London. Never saw that one coming. I so wanted to tell him to do one, instead thanked for his time, left the meeting and assured the young men who accompanied me to the meeting that I would rather cut off my own head and eat it than do business there. ...

To have been a comment by the Texan. DUmmie soph0571's :bouncy: was so unintelligibly written that what I highlighted could mean that DUmmie soph0571 does not want to do business in Austin, Texas.
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2022, 05:29:50 PM »
I took this:

To have been a comment by the Texan. DUmmie soph0571's :bouncy: was so unintelligibly written that what I highlighted could mean that DUmmie soph0571 does not want to do business in Austin, Texas.

I took it as the DUmmie not wanting to do business with the Twxan

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2022, 06:41:49 PM »
That's Slayer level stupid, right there.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2022, 07:25:24 PM »
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Oh my days. Chatting with a Texan White Supremacist in one of the most diverse communities in London.

Hey, DUmbass, the United States is WAYYYY more diverse than the U.K. We probably have at least one person from every other country on the f'n planet. I HIGHLY doubt the U.K. can make that claim. Are all those Hispanics in Texas who WANT a border wall and WANT our government to do their damn jobs and enforce the border ALSO white supremacists? How about all the black Americans who are ALSO impacted by the flood of labor?

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2022, 07:28:44 PM »
I wonder if this DUmmy realizes that Austin is the home of the wacko left in TX. Their business community's slogan is "Keep Austin Weird", after all.
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2022, 10:08:40 PM »
Did a bobby jump out of the bushes and hit you in the head with a can of bubble and squeak? If not then 0 bongs. :stoner:
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2022, 09:05:25 AM »
I took it as the DUmmie not wanting to do business with the Twxan

That's another possible meaning. Proper grammar and syntax (and sparing use of pronouns) would have made the meaning of that sentence clear, but DUmmies ...
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2022, 11:38:34 AM »
Likely a bouncy, but Londoners have some of the same mental issues as people from NYC or any large urban city. They think they’re smarter than those who don’t live in the city and look down on them. Their arrogance is usually their downfall.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2022, 12:48:07 PM »
Did a bobby jump out of the bushes and hit you in the head with a can of bubble and squeak? If not then 0 bongs. :stoner:

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2022, 01:08:13 PM »
That's another possible meaning. Proper grammar and syntax (and sparing use of pronouns) would have made the meaning of that sentence clear, but DUmmies ...

I did spend a few minutes trying to translate the  DU stupid to English.
Your interpretation may be more correct, lol.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2022, 03:18:24 PM »
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2022, 03:42:30 PM »
I did spend a few minutes trying to translate the  DU stupid to English.
Your interpretation may be more correct, lol.

Because of my industry and current (and a previous) employer, I have considerable practice interpreting things said/written by people whose first language is not English. The Mandarin-speakers I work with are easier to understand than that DU-Speak word salad.
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2022, 05:48:34 PM »
Because of my industry and current (and a previous) employer, I have considerable practice interpreting things said/written by people whose first language is not English. The Mandarin-speakers I work with are easier to understand than that DU-Speak word salad.

I have no doubt of that...

Also some DUmmies are starting to doubt and/or called them out for being the asshole

 
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19. I am a Texas expat, a former Austin resident

You heard he was from Texas and made some assumptions. Then you broached the subject and enjoyed seeing how uncivilized he was. Now you want to write his boss and do him harm. Now you will not do business with him.

You set this situation in play. You are the one to blame
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2022, 06:32:38 PM »
Oo! Oo! The above gets better! :rotf:

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19. I am a Texas expat, a former Austin resident

You heard he was from Texas and made some assumptions. Then you broached the subject and enjoyed seeing how uncivilized he was. Now you want to write his boss and do him harm. Now you will not do business with him.

You set this situation in play. You are the one to blame.

Defending Texas against Prog bigotry is very risky on DU. And now, the :rotf:

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57. What complete and utter bollocks n/t

1. Nailed her!

2. Based on her use of Brit slang, it appears that Miss Unintelligibility who cannot write coherent English is, herself, English! :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2022, 03:25:12 AM »
Likely a bouncy, but Londoners have some of the same mental issues as people from NYC or any large urban city. They think they’re smarter than those who don’t live in the city and look down on them. Their arrogance is usually their downfall.

^This - 100%

I love London, think it's the best major city in the world - but the population are largely fruitcakes. These are the sorts of people who think that the communist B.B.C. is biased towards the right. I can well believe that if one of them heard a slightly positive, or even neutral, comment about Pres. Trump they'd assume this was a full-blown white-supremacist.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2022, 03:27:51 AM »
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and this is one of the most diverse areas in London

'Diverse' is one of the P.C. terms to mean crime-ridden sh!tholes.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2022, 06:31:06 AM »
2. Based on her use of Brit slang, it appears that Miss Unintelligibility who cannot write coherent English is, herself, English! :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf:

Agreed - the (mis)use of language does feel English - we've got to own this one I'm afraid.

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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2022, 09:33:33 AM »
Agreed - the (mis)use of language does feel English - we've got to own this one I'm afraid.

I don't know that Soph0571 is typical of English people. I've worked with a few in tech, and my wife and I visited England for a few days as part of and after a cruise some years ago. Because it worked better for us, we took a taxi rather than a train from Canterbury to London and had a pleasant conversation with the driver en route. Even though conversational usage is usually more informal than written, we never heard anything as unintelligible as Soph0571's :bouncy: -tale. Our visit was quite pleasant, though a tourist's micro-sample.

My own bouncy - for amusement, nothing political. Though she is currently stuck here in the states, unable to return, my daughter is a student at an international university in central China (being distant from the major population centers of China, it is somewhat of what US people sometimes call a "Moo-U"). She is quite fluent in Mandarin, and there are students from all over the world. She is occasionally asked, along with other English-speaking friends from the UK and Oz, whether an English expression is American, British, Aussie, or Kiwi. At least once all had to agree that they didn't know.
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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2022, 09:37:21 AM »
This guy is still there:

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29. So you introduced politics into a professional setting

While role modeling for others how a job should be done no less. Then after realizing you weren't aligned, you idly think about mailing someone's boss.

I know where I am and all that.

But this isn't ok in a work environment, particularly one where others are being trained to be professional. Reverse political sides and I don't think there'd be as much backslapping.

This is some classic AITA Reddit material.


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Re: Texan in London... what?
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2022, 10:23:10 AM »
In some 45 years working in tech, I can think of perhaps 5 people who broached political stuff. They ranged from a libertarian who objected to government social programs as government coerced charity/theft to an avowed socialist who not say "Reagan" without attaching an F-bomb as an adjective. 45 years, 5 people throwing out political comments. IMO, it's unprofessional to knowing toss potentially divisive remarks into a working environment.
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