31st August 2013, 08:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 31st August 2013, 09:00 PM by RedEarth.)
I, like a lot of people, (I assume, I could be wrong, apparently I am about most things) don't carry a copy of the Urban Dictionary around with me or spend a lot of time referring it to it. Apparently 'twerking' was just added to the actual dictionary, by the time you read this 'mellon-farm' might be in the urban one...
This has now seemingly been blown out of all proportion, but that is was the whole point, a throw-away remark by you might be mis-interpreted by another (perhaps someone not familiar with the term used) as highly offensive. The area is a minefield, and now I am being accused of I'm not sure what, and women can't be sexist(?).
You seem to contradict yourself, you were describing a male dominated workplace as a 'sausage fest', hosty was referring to the term in the context of a party (by which I assumed he meant a drinking/dancing type of party, perhaps with cheese on sticks, who knows? Perhaps you took 'party' as meaning 'group of people'. That's the trouble with the written word, not always easy to interpret the meaning, if only someone would come up with a book that had all the meaning of words written down in a logical order. Someone else could then write one to explain what certain expressions meant in a built-up environment). Either way, I think an internal company email that described a workplace as a 'sausage-fest' might not go down to well (unless your workplace was in Germany, shit, I'm being racist now!), but you might get away with it in conversation.
Anyway, this isn't adding anything much to what was an important topic. Bored now...
This has now seemingly been blown out of all proportion, but that is was the whole point, a throw-away remark by you might be mis-interpreted by another (perhaps someone not familiar with the term used) as highly offensive. The area is a minefield, and now I am being accused of I'm not sure what, and women can't be sexist(?).
You seem to contradict yourself, you were describing a male dominated workplace as a 'sausage fest', hosty was referring to the term in the context of a party (by which I assumed he meant a drinking/dancing type of party, perhaps with cheese on sticks, who knows? Perhaps you took 'party' as meaning 'group of people'. That's the trouble with the written word, not always easy to interpret the meaning, if only someone would come up with a book that had all the meaning of words written down in a logical order. Someone else could then write one to explain what certain expressions meant in a built-up environment). Either way, I think an internal company email that described a workplace as a 'sausage-fest' might not go down to well (unless your workplace was in Germany, shit, I'm being racist now!), but you might get away with it in conversation.
Anyway, this isn't adding anything much to what was an important topic. Bored now...