Vin Diesel once wore a kilt during a visit to Scotland. Next time you see him you can say to him "I heard you once wore a skirt you big soft shandy-drinking poof". He will then correct you on the difference between a kilt and a skirt.
next you will be telling us a sarong is a skirt too!!! :)
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Similar thing here in a Government office. The women wear what they like such as jeans and tshirts, but men are discriminated against by being forced to wear trousers and a shirt. Men are NOT alowed to wear a skirt and a kilt gets a warning letter. Religious dress is ignored as it causes too many problems. Not right is it.
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I checked on the health & safety side of things. My office has been without fresh drinking water for 3 months now and the air conditioning is crap. This is a major Government Department too, but complaining gets staff nowhere. the drinking water from a tap smells of chlorine and has black bits in it! So it's OK to bake us alive as there is no upper temperature limit a person can be forced to work in. There is a lower limit so at least they can't freeze us even though they try in Winter. So much for equal opportunities and Investors in People, that should be changed to Investors in Under 25's as most scams (schemes) the government pay departments for are only for those aged under 25. So everyone else who hasn't just left school and will move on gets nowhere! What this has to do with cars I have no idea, but it was in reply to another message in the group to which lots of others have replied.
So because someone may be 'big and butch' means that the item of clothing they are wearing is something completely different ?
What the f*ck kind of logic is that ?
He could wear a pair of fk'ing flip flops and carry a hand bag for all I care, they wouldn't suddenly become a set of Doc Martens and a wallet :)
And Sam L Jackson, when he visited Britain to film "The 51st state" He liked it so much he bought several.
Collins GEM English Dictionary kilt n. knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn orig. by Scottish Highlanders. - kilted adj.
You could wear:
Who said anything about mini skirts? Nothing above the knee please. What do you think I am? A tart?
Is that all?
Noo, that's just sarong...
If you do it by yourself you will look like a bit of a dick. A better way to do it is to get every bloke in the office to turn up in a mini skirt. Preferably on a day when important visitors are expected.
Fraser
Doesn't work like that at our place. They all think they are so wild and wacky, especially sales. But as soon as they need to do something, they all bottle it.
Every year for comic relief they try to impose a "Fine" on everyone to=20 raise money. Two years ago "You must wear a Suit and tie, for a =A32 fee you can wear=20 your casual clothes, If you choose to wear a suit and tie you will pay a=20 =A32 fine". Plan was to make everyone donate =A32 to comic relief. I wore a suit, and= =20 refused to pay the =A32 fine (I actually later donated a =A35 to the=20 collection the next day, but it is the principal). I was told I had to=20 pay the =A32 as I chose to wear a suit. I told them to check the wording=20 of the order. I was wearing a suit because I was told I must, not=20 because I chose to.
Last year, they tried the same thing, (except Sales couldn't get away=20 with just wearing their normal suits without paying). I told one of the=20 blokes in my department, well, I'm wearing a suit, and they better not=20 ask me for money, I'm a tightwad bastard. he said, if I wear that on a=20 sign round my neck all day at work, he would put it in for me.
So I put on a my dinner suit, with bow tie and cumberbund, and a mini=20 sandwich board which said "don't ask for money, I'm a tightwad bastard".=20 A lot of the office forgot they were even supposed to pay money to=20 choose their clothes. And those that bothered just put on jeans and a T=20 shirt. The other fella in the office, and a couple of others all put=20 extra in, for me having "the balls to do something so outrageous". I=20 really did try, but I couldn't find a wetsuit or suit of armour in time,=20 which is shame.
I don't think many of them would have the bottle to wear a skirt, or=20 even a kilt.
--=20 Carl Robson "Sorry Sir the meatballs are orf" (The poster formerly known as Skodapilot)
Thats quite warm for an office full of blokes, sweating like gorillas.
It doesn't get that warm.
Yes. There are two things that upset me about "office policies." Car parking is one, dress code is the other. Where I am is much better than the office in Norwich! :)
Some great phrases include:
"Employees must wear respectable clothing with a tie if appropriate."
Shorts were unacceptable, "not respectable, too short." How come half the girls wore mini-skirts that barely covered their ass? "That's different, that's their usual dress in winter too." Grrr!
So I wore full Highland Dress for a week. On the Thursday and Friday, three other guys did same. :)
Don't get me started on the neck tie / open blouse argument. Apparently, ladies wear bras, which are hot, so that's comparable with guys wearing ties.
"Employees may only drive into the office car park in association with carrying on the Company's business."
Absolute classic that one. Bloody stupid too. I use the car for business - I attend meetings, presentations, blah away from the office. Thus if I had a breakfast I should be entitled to use a space in the car park when I get back or if I have a meeting over lunch, I can park the car in the spot. Well, no, because I can't drive into the car park as part of my commute, but I can use it when going to or from the business function. It was so petty I was b******d for parking Lucy back in the car park after going to a lunch function, despite the fact that there was nowhere else to park...
I used to drive Lucy to just outside the office car park, got out, pushed her into the spot and leave a note that said, "I pushed her into the spot." That got me a verbal warning and they changed the wording so that only consultants could use the car park. That's cool if they're in and out of the office on appointments, but they were either in the office for a day or not in at all...
I started giving them my car park stubs in expenses.
*shudder* Horrible place. I played up to it but until I started, everybody else was a spineless lump of jelly prepared to be taken advantage of.
As the token Australian here I think that's my line.
Fraser
Doesn't work like that at our place. They all think they are so wild and wacky, especially sales. But as soon as they need to do something, they all bottle it.
Every year for comic relief they try to impose a "Fine" on everyone to raise money. Two years ago "You must wear a Suit and tie, for a £2 fee you can wear your casual clothes, If you choose to wear a suit and tie you will pay a £2 fine". Plan was to make everyone donate £2 to comic relief. I wore a suit, and refused to pay the £2 fine (I actually later donated a £5 to the collection the next day, but it is the principal). I was told I had to pay the £2 as I chose to wear a suit. I told them to check the wording of the order. I was wearing a suit because I was told I must, not because I chose to.
Last year, they tried the same thing, (except Sales couldn't get away with just wearing their normal suits without paying). I told one of the blokes in my department, well, I'm wearing a suit, and they better not ask me for money, I'm a tightwad bastard. he said, if I wear that on a sign round my neck all day at work, he would put it in for me.
So I put on a my dinner suit, with bow tie and cumberbund, and a mini sandwich board which said "don't ask for money, I'm a tightwad bastard". A lot of the office forgot they were even supposed to pay money to choose their clothes. And those that bothered just put on jeans and a T shirt. The other fella in the office, and a couple of others all put extra in, for me having "the balls to do something so outrageous". I really did try, but I couldn't find a wetsuit or suit of armour in time, which is shame.
I don't think many of them would have the bottle to wear a skirt, or even a kilt.
I work in a factory with plastic extrusion machines, the main extruder is 5m long .5m round and sits at 280-300c at the end of this is the die which is
2m long and .5 round this sits at 260c, the plastic then goes through 3 rollers which are 2.5m long by .5m these run at 180c it then goes through an oven which is 3m square at 300c There are 3 of these machines in my department so you can take a guess what the ambient temp is like on cold days never mind warm ones. Of course we have to wear saftey gear,boots, trousers, tshirt, kevlar sleeves, kevlar gloves and a bump cap.
I did used to work in a factory as a fabric cutter. And the cutting table used to be right next to the boiler for the steam irons and presses. That used to get pretty hot, especially the pipe work that ran right behind your legs if you stepped back too far to lean over the table. I used to have semi permanent burn welts.
The only dress code in that corner was that you actually wore something.
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