Tumbleweed moment

**suityou01** · 2 April 2015, 15:36

That's a good reason not to bring her.

**stek** · 2 April 2015, 15:45

Worst one I did was in the not-so-PC nineties - I was telling a very homophobic joke to one of the lads in the Health and Safety office when I suddenly realised his co-worker (also listening with baited breath for the punchline) on the next desk was the office gay (they were rare back then).

I had to do the 'ooh, I forgot the ending...' thing....

**FatLazyContractor** · 2 April 2015, 16:10

Originally posted by stek View Post

Worst one I did was in the not-so-PC nineties - I was telling a very homophobic joke to one of the lads in the Health and Safety office when I suddenly realised his co-worker (also listening with baited breath for the punchline) on the next desk was the office gay (they were rear backed then).

I had to do the 'ooh, I forgot the ending...' thing....

**NotAllThere** · 2 April 2015, 17:58

Originally posted by stek View Post

Worst one I did was in the not-so-PC nineties - I was telling a very homophobic joke to one of the lads in the Health and Safety office when I suddenly realised his co-worker (also listening with baited breath for the punchline) on the next desk was the office gay (they were rare back then).

I had to do the 'ooh, I forgot the ending...' thing....

In my first job in the 90's, the head of IT (Dave) was a gay man. A group of us went to the pub, and one of my colleagues (Rob) got the drink order in - "5 pints of best, 2 pints of lager ... and an orange juice? An orange juice? Who's having the pouff's drink?"

"That'll be mine," says Dave.

Cue Rob's mortification, everyone else falling about laughing.

**cojak** · 2 April 2015, 18:35

Mine was taking about my contract and laughingly described it a 'in the land of the blind the one eyed man is King!', only to realise half way through this comment that one of the group had a glass eye...

**northernladuk** · 2 April 2015, 19:27

I remember New Years eve in Blackpool once seeing a slim girl in a nice LBD sporting a bump. Cue pissed guy sidling up and saying how nice she looked and how pregnancy can make a woman bloom. 3 second silence as she looked down, looked back at me... Then slapped me round the face....

**NotAllThere** · 2 April 2015, 19:29

I did once comment (as a contractor) that I'd never hire someone if I knew they didn't read books. One of my colleagues piped up that he hadn't read a book for years.

oops

It was later pointed out to me by the manager that a) they wished they hadn't hired him and b) he was an external and wasn't having his contract renewed.

**northernladuk** · 2 April 2015, 19:42

Originally posted by stek View Post

Worst one I did was in the not-so-PC nineties - I was telling a very homophobic joke to one of the lads in the Health and Safety office when I suddenly realised his co-worker (also listening with baited breath for the punchline) on the next desk was the office gay (they were rare back then).

I had to do the 'ooh, I forgot the ending...' thing....

Did that back in the mid 80s but was a joke about disabled kids to a guy I found out had a disabled daughter. I though his reaction was a bit cool. Fair play to him for not kicking off

**FatLazyContractor** · 2 April 2015, 19:57

Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

I remember New Years eve in Blackpool once seeing a slim girl in a nice LBD sporting a bump.

I see why some people here think that you are a racist chav

Tumbleweed moment