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    You guys are waaaaaay to sensitive about this sort of thing....for christ´s sake.

    it was a joke....you can debate if it was funny or not...but harassment????


    I´ll just pose this question....if that joke was told on a room full of men nobody would consider it sexual harassment it would just be a joke.....just because a women is on the room it magically becomes something else????

    If it was somehow inferred that the woman in question should take part in a sexual behavior I agree that it would be harassment......but just mentioning sex?...over here people would just laugh and the meeting would go on......

    how much of a prude can society as a whole get?


    P.S.- All I know is that from now on I´m flying RyanAir....you never know
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
    I´ll just pose this question....if that joke was told on a room full of men nobody would consider it sexual harassment it would just be a joke.....just because a women is on the room it magically becomes something else????
    I can certainly think of a number of men who would have a problem with such a situation.
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    I can certainly think of a number of men who would have a problem with such a situation.
    My friends and I used to dry hump one another and simulate deprived crap. Always with clothes on and always tastefully...

    If there was a girl in the room and we didn't give her the same treatment, it would be discrimination because how can we treat friends differently? So we dry humped them too. Mercilessly. and any pets that meandered into our den of drunken and clothed iniquity.

    Long story short - men are hilarious and women are prudes. We should have never let them into the workplace if all they are going to do is make life unbearable for those of us with a sense of humor. We spend 10 hours a day at work and should be allowed to enjoy it!

    I honestly very rarely talk about sex or sex acts on this forum, but when I do it shouldn't be construed as fostering a "hostile environment" if I do it once every few months.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    My friends and I used to dry hump one another and simulate deprived crap. Always with clothes on and always tastefully...

    If there was a girl in the room and we didn't give her the same treatment, it would be discrimination because how can we treat friends differently? So we dry humped them too. Mercilessly. and any pets that meandered into our den of drunken and clothed iniquity.

    Long story short - men are hilarious and women are prudes. We should have never let them into the workplace if all they are going to do is make life unbearable for those of us with a sense of humor. We spend 10 hours a day at work and should be allowed to enjoy it!
    Yes. I'm that way too(you have to be if you want to survive military service), but the fact remains that not everyone is. And there are people who will feel really bad from things like that. And I don't see making other people uncomfortable as a meaningful way to spend my life.
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Yes. I'm that way too(you have to be if you want to survive military service), but the fact remains that not everyone is. And there are people who will feel really bad from things like that. And I don't see making other people uncomfortable as a meaningful way to spend my life.
    I'm a prude in action and a degenerate pervert in words. I don't use sexual jokes too often because I don't find them all that funny except from certain people (usually when drunk), but when I do WHAMMO. They are the musings of a truly twisted sicko. I'm sure you think I am over estimating - let me assure you I am not.

    Plus - you love making other peopl uncomfortable. What does it matter whether you joke about sex or oppressive socialist theocracy? No harm though - I do too. It should be up to the company as to whether occasional sex jokes are conducive or not to a productive and competitive working environment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    I'm a prude in action and a degenerate pervert in words. I don't use sexual jokes too often because I don't find them all that funny except from certain people (usually when drunk), but when I do WHAMMO. They are the musings of a truly twisted sicko. I'm sure you think I am over estimating - let me assure you I am not.
    Overestimating? Take a trip to Norway and join me in some drinking here, you might get a new sense of what "truly twisted sicko's" mean

    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    Plus - you love making other peopl uncomfortable. What does it matter whether you joke about sex or oppressive socialist theocracy? No harm though - I do too. It should be up to the company as to whether occasional sex jokes are conducive or not to a productive and competitive working environment.
    Bah. I play my commieness to get people angry, not uncomfortable.
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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    My opinion is rather that the woman is pretty happy to have such a funny boss instead of some dry guy who never makes a joke, maybe she blushes a bit but theat doesn't mean that she has no fun.
    I think it was just a good situational joke and everybody in the room probably knew it.


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    That video made me feel uncomfortable too. I'll join the sourpuss squad.

    I don't think his behaviour was appropriate for a professional environment. The translator clearly felt very uncomfortable.

    Blowjob jokes are for private environments, best left to business men who take their old boys network out to stripclubs to do business, or who communally visit the local brothels when travelling abroad.
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