Comments on: Abuse and its absence

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:05:00 +0000

As Mick Hartley points out, there’s more to the story. Doubly good for Belgium.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:41:00 +0000

Follow the link … it’s a story about some Iranians who were having lunch with the speaker of the Belgian parliament. Their diplomats asked "out of respect for our Islamic beliefs, could you ensure that no alcohol is served" and received the reply "well we’d better schedule the meeting for the next morning then because this is Belgium and I am fucked if I’m not having a beer with my lunch".

Belgium is a great country.

By: kenzdawg

kenzdawg — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:13:00 +0000

Birching chavs? EUrabia? Will dsquared be guest blogging on Conservative Commentary sometime soon?

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:11:00 +0000

By: McManus

McManus — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:39:00 +0000

You. Outside. Now.

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:16:00 +0000

I heard that report this morning. It didn't say what kind of call centres they were. Telesales cold-callers? They deserve rudeness from their "customers". I get wage slaves from these places calling me up once every couple of days trying to get me to upgrade my mobile phone. I say a polite "no thank you" several times, but when they continue jabbering away at me, a terse "I SAID NO, YOU IDIOT" generally does the trick. I've yet to swear at them, but it's only a matter of time.

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:11:00 +0000

Quite right, Dan. If the 999 staff piss you off, write about it in your blog. If Jamie is right, and I’m sure he is, is abuse all that surprising?

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:05:00 +0000

Presumably he's talking about shouting abuse at people who work in 999 call centres rather than doing technical support for fucking useless Sony Vaios[1]? Still not as bad as throwing stones at fire engines, but rather closer to the "deserving the birch" end of the spectrum than the "clearly understandable".

[1]The Sony Vaio is a fine computer but its technical support people are in my experience a god damned disgrace.