In the pub on Saturday I witnessed a hate crime

[Burney]

An Irish chap came in and someone had left something behind the bar for him, saying he had left it for ‘Guinness Mick’. To which said Irish chap said ‘Well at least that’s an improvement on ‘Irish Mick’”. To which the barman replied: “Well that’s pretty much covered by ‘Mick’ innit?”
Naturally, I was ready to call the police at this appalling racism, but was prevented from doing so by the fact that, rather than break down in tears of rage or taking to Twitter, the Irish chap simply laughed at the joke and carried on bantering amiably with everyone.
So, in other words, someone was in a position to portray himself the victim of a hate crime, but instead simply took a ‘joke’ in good part and as not as evidence of any ill-will or racial hatred.
Genuinely baffling behaviour.

[Sir C]

An Irish chap came in and someone had left something behind the bar for him, saying he had left it for ‘Guinness Mick’. To which said Irish chap said ‘Well at least that’s an improvement on ‘Irish Mick’”. To which the barman replied: “Well that’s pretty much covered by ‘Mick’ innit?”
Naturally, I was ready to call the police at this appalling racism, but was prevented from doing so by the fact that, rather than break down in tears of rage or taking to Twitter, the Irish chap simply laughed at the joke and carried on bantering amiably with everyone.
So, in other words, someone was in a position to portray himself the victim of a hate crime, but instead simply took a ‘joke’ in good part and as not as evidence of any ill-will or racial hatred.
Genuinely baffling behaviour.

Tick Paddy innit.

[IUFG]

Tick Paddy innit.

Here's one for you, sc

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ai...ear-of-flying/

who would have thought that sacking a pilot with a fear of being trapped on an aeroplane would be unfair?
And he is seeking reinstatement.

[Sir C]

Here's one for you, sc

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ai...ear-of-flying/

who would have thought that sacking a pilot with a fear of being trapped on an aeroplane would be unfair?
And he is seeking reinstatement.

Marvellous, absolutely marvellous.

I know any number of pilots who suffer from fear and anxiety when they're rostered to throw a 200 ton aeroplane at a Greek island in the middle of the night with no radar cover, when their sleep patterns have been devastated by 3 days of mixed duties and they're dozing off in between desperately hoping the cloudbase is above Sector Safe Altitude when they get there... that's simply normal.

[Luis Anaconda]

Marvellous, absolutely marvellous.

I know any number of pilots who suffer from fear and anxiety when they're rostered to throw a 200 ton aeroplane at a Greek island in the middle of the night with no radar cover, when their sleep patterns have been devastated by 3 days of mixed duties and they're dozing off in between desperately hoping the cloudbase is above Sector Safe Altitude when they get there... that's simply normal.

This is why it is always best to try to be more drunk than the pilot when you get on an aircraft. Hard work some times

[Sir C]

This is why it is always best to try to be more drunk than the pilot when you get on an aircraft. Hard work some times

It's the coke fiends you want to worry about. Sleep patterns all to hell.

[PSRB]

This is why it is always best to try to be more drunk than the pilot when you get on an aircraft. Hard work some times

Can't believe they're trying to ban alcohol sales for early morning flights! As my glw will tell you, it's not the early morning flights that are the problem, it's the evening ones to Ibiza, Costas and Sunny beach (Bulgaria)

[davidwebb]

Marvellous, absolutely marvellous.

I know any number of pilots who suffer from fear and anxiety when they're rostered to throw a 200 ton aeroplane at a Greek island in the middle of the night with no radar cover, when their sleep patterns have been devastated by 3 days of mixed duties and they're dozing off in between desperately hoping the cloudbase is above Sector Safe Altitude when they get there... that's simply normal.

No doubt... hats off for the pilots... many unknown heroes gave their lives in such horrible conditions and situations.

[Rich]

No doubt... hats off for the pilots... many unknown heroes gave their lives in such horrible conditions and situations.

Are you a pilot, David? And an Arsenal fan?

[SWv2]

An Irish chap came in and someone had left something behind the bar for him, saying he had left it for ‘Guinness Mick’. To which said Irish chap said ‘Well at least that’s an improvement on ‘Irish Mick’”. To which the barman replied: “Well that’s pretty much covered by ‘Mick’ innit?”
Naturally, I was ready to call the police at this appalling racism, but was prevented from doing so by the fact that, rather than break down in tears of rage or taking to Twitter, the Irish chap simply laughed at the joke and carried on bantering amiably with everyone.
So, in other words, someone was in a position to portray himself the victim of a hate crime, but instead simply took a ‘joke’ in good part and as not as evidence of any ill-will or racial hatred.
Genuinely baffling behaviour.

We don't tend to get annoyed or angered by such trivial things though others do like to get annoyed on our behalf.

The outrage last summer when Ian Wright made an attempted joke about Roy Keane's accent for example. There was absolutely no outrage in Ireland about it though I did see some complete fúcking melts getting annoyed on Twitter.