****BE WARNED, THIS POST CONTAINS SOME DIRECT QUOTES THAT ARE OFFENSIVE AND GRAPHIC****
A few days ago, I actually managed to meet a man who made me ashamed to be British.
This guy was a member of the armed forces, and over the course of the night had got chatting with some American businessmen - These particular businessmen stay with us for months at a time and as a result the staff of the hotel are very friendly with them and quite informal. I've been out to dinner with them a few times and I can't count how many times we've gone to the pub together.
As the bar was dead, and I had nothing to do for a while, the Americans threw a chair at me and told me to sit down and join the conversation...
This conversation continued till 5am, with the armed forces guy getting more and more drunk until I eventually had to escort him to his room.
However, before the drunken lead-off, I had to listen to him debate immigration, taxes, political correctness, Iraq, and Bush with the Americans - The Americans hate conversations like this as every drunk English guy feels the need to have it with them. Additionally, they end up defending issues they wouldn't back in the US because they think if they don't it means they're not defending their country.
About halfway through the conversation, the English guy comes on to immigration, and says that this country has gone to shit. The reason this country has apparently gone to shit is that we let everyone else in. The country isn't British anymore. We let all these f*ing sp*des and p*kis in, and now we're nothing. All they do is leech off benefits and commit crime.
He went on to say that everyone knows this, even the f*ing government, but we're so f*ing scared of being un-PC, that no one will do anything. The government just looks the other way as these f*ing n*ggers and p*kis get away with it. He summarised this point by saying that Britain is looking for a new motto currently, and despite popular demand the government won't accept "There's no black in the Union Jack!"
He followed up with "If it were up to me, I'd kill the lot of them. Just BANG! Bullet in the head of each of them."
Then charmingly, "Take this guy (pointing at me); an average English guy. He'll agree with me!"
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Entertainingly, he finished by saying immigrants were the reason he doesn't live in Britain anymore; he has a house in Portugal... So surely, he's an immigrant?
It worries me that this guy is travelling round the world, representing my country, and giving people the impression that we're all a bunch of violent racists...
7 comments:
I've met someone not dissimilar to the guy described.
In saying that, I also met an American guy (Tennessee, I think) who flew the Union Jack on a flagpole in his garden because of his political views. It was also him who angered me by asking me, "When the rest of the world would wake up and realise that America IS the capital of the world."
He did tip well though, even though it was in $ bills.
Oh that's ok then...he won't target me...I am, by an awfully long way, an above-average English gentleman...how come you didn't claim the same exemption?
My reply began with 'No', and ended with 'What the hell are you talking about?'.
I really wanted to just say: "What?! No, because I'm not a massive racist!". Damn this professionalism, where I can't even inform guests that they're racist morons...
I love the hypocrites who complain about immigrants and then move to another country because of them.
I haven't dealt with any openly racist customers but I don't know if I would be able to remain professional if I ever had to. There's just no need for it whatsoever.
I'm not jealous of you being in a warm office ALL NIGHT LONG...
... I'm not, seriously.
Well, maybe a bit.
What a dick....I hate the way racists always think we are all the same, that we all share the same views...
I haven't dealt with any openly racist customers but I don't know if I would be able to remain professional if I ever had to. There's just no need for it whatsoever.
Don't worry about professionalism; does it really matter if you lose one customer because of that? And they probably won't complain to your superiors illuminating their own racism; even if they do, your superiors probably won't take any action against you. I would have no qualms about having a rant at someone being racist in my presence when I was working - although I do work in a corner shop/newsagents style place and have therefore cultivated a hatred for the vast majority of the customers that leaves me searching for a reason to blow up in their faces, so maybe it would be less of a cause, more of a justification or an excuse...
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