What English expression do you hate the most?

[Profpointy]

That's the public services for you. It's easier to annoy, inconvenience, and generally oppress those that aren't causing any issue than it is to actually address a problem.

Like when they sent me, a nice Jewish boy, on an Islamic awareness course so I could waste my time visiting mosques...or not, as there were none on my manor. I've never been an observant jew, so I had to borrow a kippah to wear - I was ejected before the first tea break The thought of sending my muslim colleague who actually had a mosque on his beat didn't seem to occur to them.

Surely your muslim colleague would already have a passing knowledge of islam so wouldn't really need an "awareness course"?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Surely your muslim colleague would already have a passing knowledge of islam so wouldn't really need an "awareness course"?

How dare you apply logic to a course based on equality and suchlike!!!
See comment above about Welsh Language courses!!!

and that was a long way off the only example of that

 

[Drago]

What the stated reason for ejecting you??

They didn't think it suitable for a nice Jewish boy in a kippah to be visiting mosques, for some reason. I suspect the management had more issue with it than any regular visitor to a mosque would.

When I promised not to annex any mosques I visited I was out the door before you could say, "WTF were we thinking?"

 

[yello]

"like minded"

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

They didn't think it suitable for a nice Jewish boy in a kippah to be visiting mosques, for some reason. I suspect the management had more issue with it than any regular visitor to a mosque would.

When I promised not to annex any mosques I visited I was out the door before you could say, "WTF were we thinking?"

I have heard of some more reasonable mosques actually having reciprocal toursof Mosques and Synagogues and having mixed social events

which probably do more good for relations than dozens of well meaning meetings and courses

 

[Andy in Germany]

When I worked for a big company I got sent on an "equal Opportunities" course pretty much every year
not because I was order ed to do it to correct my attitude
but because I was one of the few people in the department that could be trusted to not make "wrong" comments

Suddenly I realise why no-one in my team of social workers and similar gets sent on one of these Equal Opportunity courses.