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The Bellinghman
 
The Bellinghman
Date: 2010-04-22 11:38
Subject: Career limiting move
Security: Public
A colleague recently had a car accident. It wasn't his fault - a delivery lorry reversed into his car while he was stationary waiting for a gap in traffic before pulling out into a main road. But the lorry driver didn't want to admit fault, and started abusing our Pravin, calling him a Paki and so on.

(Pravin is, technically speaking, Kenyan born of Indian ancestry, and thus our token African, since we already have Chinese and Indian born employees - we are missing a South American, with our closest yet having been a Guatemalan.)

This is possibly a little foolish on the part of the driver, who was driving a lorry for an Indian company, delivering Indian food to an Indian grocer.

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The Bellinghman
User: bellinghman
Date: 2010-04-22 10:50 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Not yet - we're trying not to get ahead of ourselves there.

(Just how many native born Antarcticans are there? Is it into single figures yet?)

Our Chinese lass is now getting to grips with the Chinese version of Windows 7. While on a work trip to Shanghai a little while back, she decided to stay over and see her family (which normally involves flying out to Shanghai, and then travelling on from there). And then Eyjafjallajoekull started blowing the wrong way, so she got stuck there. So she ended up buying a new laptop to get on with work from somewhere in central China.
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The Bellinghman
User: bellinghman
Date: 2010-04-22 10:55 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
In answer to my question, apparently 11 people have been born there. So it's just scraping two figures.
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User: silly_swordsman
Date: 2010-04-22 10:55 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
At TAP next door, we had a French mechanical engineer who'd done a couple of 9-month stints at an Antarctic base. That's the closest I've been to an Antarctican.
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The Bellinghman
User: bellinghman
Date: 2010-04-22 11:04 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
When I lived in Cambridge with my first wife, lo this quarter century ago, the next door house was co-owned by three guys, two of whom were often away down south with the British Antarctic Survey.

And I did work, once and briefly, for the BAS myself.
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Megabitch
User: megabitch
Date: 2010-04-22 15:02 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I did too, many years ago... except it was with the Australian version.
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