My young colleague, who does have some choice expressions...

[Bbbananas]

... has just rung up and reported her printer as needing a service call. She said "my printer's being a bit gay......" and the operator the other end hit the roof and accused her of homophobia.

I mean, honestly.... ;-(

[squarebear]

Apparently this is a modern term for lame or bad.

[milly143]

This is where working in the most un-PC environment in the world works well for me.

[Bbbananas]

Where do you work milly?

[mccfluff]

i don't know milly, j accused j of having gusset breath earlier she retaliated saying she couldn't have as all she was eating was ar&egrapes, all this as the new boy was waitign for me to sort his security key, the poor soul looked terrfied

[milly143]

I work with for a ductwork company - construction basically so it's all a bunch of blokes who don't care what they say or what anyone else says (within the confines of the office). Being the only female does have it downsides sometimes - they were watching porn in here the other day.

[ummmm]

I use to be the only girl as well. Christmas do's were entertaining.

[Bbbananas]

The same colleague who I'm referring to above, used to work - between the age of 18 and 23 at a garage with horny mechanics. They bored a hole in the toilet door so they could peek on her doing her whatnots...... That is so bad.

[milly143]

oh my god, that's horrible. I'm fairly confident the perversions here don't go quite that far.

[pa___ul3]

I think it's just very presumtuous by the operator, for all she knew your young colleague could have been talking about her printer, who may have been a chap, kissing another chap using tongues, which would be a bit gay!

[Bbbananas]

Vibra: she aint that innocent - she was carrying on with the married manager for 3 of those years. He took advantage ;-)

Paul - very good thought process !!

[McMouse]

My monitor went poof the other day.

[redman41]

Yes, these printers can act a bit 'Queer' at times salla ! lol

[mike11111]

Even in the 90s when I was still teaching, children used the word 'gay' as meaning naff or out of order.

[McMouse]

"I might have bu99ered my keyboard" would certainly have excited my IT department.

[mollykins]

I don't think what she said was homophobic as it wasn't attaching gay people but i think she could choose her words more carefully.

[McMouse]

<<attaching gay people>> like a daisy-chain sort of thing?

[pa___ul3]

maybe that's what WAS up with the printer! On every invoice printed came a picture of Graeme Norton or Alan Carr!