In Other Words

Different kinds of humour

New person to work with. She seems more capable then the other bloke from Monday, though I can’t be too certain as she might just be lying. Her English isn’t the best in the world, not that that shows anything, but it does mean that talking to her is slightly less enjoyable. She’s from mainland china, close to Beijing, in case anybody wonders. (I didn’t till somebody else asked).

One interesting thing did already happen. She was doing something on her computer and I asked her for some info that was supposed to be open. I closed some page and behind it was some page about a hand phone. An internet page, in other words, not related to her work. ‘Is that yours?’ I ask and she answers, very quickly, ‘no’. I hesitated for a millisecond and then decided to drop it.

What I could have said: “Oh yeah, we do have a bit of a midget problem” or “Pretty amazing that AI stuff now adays, huh?” or “damn, me and that annoying nervous twitch”or “Oh yeah, right, its mine, sorry I also seem to have lost my purple veined floppy dildo, have you seen it?”.

I didn’t say any of that, I just wondered why she chose to say no. I mean geez, its not like I actually cared that she was looking at another page, I do it pretty much all the time, but why say no when the answer is obviously yes? Maybe she has an even more twisted and weird sense of humour then myself, though I must say Chinese humour does not normally tend in that direction.

Never mind.

posted by Symbol @ 1.7.04