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When in Rome, for the love of Jeebus, when in Rome!!!!

  • 08-10-2013 10:12AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭


    So I am sitting at my desk in work and the girl on the other side of the partition from me keeps burping. She has been working in my office for 2 weeks and burps continuously from 9 til 5. It is so disgusting.

    She is Chinese, so I am assuming its grand to belch at your desk in China.

    But it's not in Ireland!!!!! Stop doing it!!!!!!

    Next thing you know some Swedish dude is going to start working here and take to fapping at his desk.

    I don't think this is being racist to expect her not to belch in a quiet office... I think its just good manners.

    Am I the first to notice this clash of cultures on our fair Isle? Or have you ever been abroad and told to stop doing something that's fairly grand in Ireland and been shocked to hear that its just not acceptable - obviously there is binge drinking but that's their problem not ours :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Just tell her, she may not be aware you can hear it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Just look up what's considered rude in China, and do it constantly, that'll learn her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    Take your keyboard and repeatedly use it like a bat against her head...

    then press ctrl alt and delete


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Take a massive dump on her desk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    She is Chinese, so I am assuming its grand to belch at your desk in China.

    :P

    Yes, it is normal in China.

    She probably genuinely doesn't know it's not normal in Ireland. Try to tell her in a nice way. I'd say she'd be glad to know.

    Or just ask about it, is it Chinese culture, oh very interesting.....etc
    Just enough that she is aware it's not normal here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    She is Chinese, so I am assuming its grand to belch at your desk in China.
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    I don't think this is being racist to expect her not to belch in a quiet office... I think its just good manners.

    I'd expect its the girl herself and not a cultural thing. Your sample size to assume its a race thing is rather small. I work in a multinational with lots for different cultures, no burpers though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Wipe your nose with pics of chairman Mao


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Go over and whack her on the back and say "There, there".

    Works on babies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,885 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Knex. wrote: »
    Go over and whack her on the back and say "There, there".

    Works on babies.

    FYP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    Have a belching contest with her. Welcome her to the office:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Real Life


    Its probably nothing to do with her being chinese. I have a friend whose irish and he does it all the time. really loud long ones too. doesnt matter where he is he just doesnt seem to see the problem with it even though hes been told a few times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    'When in Rome' is becoming one of the most ridiculously overused phrases.
    Any as for your problem, action it now and don't kick the can down the road. The company shouldn't waste another red cent on her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    If she drives a tank to work you should stand in front of it when she's trying to go home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    So I am sitting at my desk in work and the girl on the other side of the partition from me keeps burping. She has been working in my office for 2 weeks and burps continuously from 9 til 5. It is so disgusting.

    She is Chinese, so I am assuming its grand to belch at your desk in China.

    But it's not in Ireland!!!!! Stop doing it!!!!!!

    Next thing you know some Swedish dude is going to start working here and take to fapping at his desk.

    I don't think this is being racist to expect her not to belch in a quiet office... I think its just good manners.

    Am I the first to notice this clash of cultures on our fair Isle? Or have you ever been abroad and told to stop doing something that's fairly grand in Ireland and been shocked to hear that its just not acceptable - obviously there is binge drinking but that's their problem not ours :P

    Extremely biased. I know plenty of Irish people who would burp pretty loudly with no regards about where they are - even when not intoxicated.

    I work in a big office with people from every corner of the globe and no gastric flatulence can be heard at any given time.

    About Irish people's disgusting habits - yes, binge drinking counts; Try to be publicly pissed drunk anywhere in continental Europe and see how well that goes.
    Besides that, the biggest issue would probably be farting in public: you can't be in a bar, shopping centre, bus, train...wherever really, without getting constantly chocked by venomous rectal air emissions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    As a cultural ambassador for my country I would like to join in this discussion. Its perfectly normal in Ireland to have a big feed of stout and then fart like a dying Labrador the next day, poisoning everybody within a 50 meter radius. I recommend doing this every second day until she gets the message or throws up in her wastepaper bin.

    'c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    OP you're such a lacist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    OP burping in China is quite acceptable -
    Many Chinese spit and burp vivaciously throughout the day. In this culture, it's not gross; it's not rude. Due to SARS and the awareness of disease spread, there are public campaigns to stop spitting and it has worked, if slightly, in larger cities. But don't be surprised if you hear a spirited cough with a wet thwak at the end where it hits the sidewalk (just remember to take your shoes off before you go into your hotel room).
    Burping is a sign of contentment. Your cabbie might belch and so might your waitress. Just pass it off and enjoy the difference in culture. Difference makes life interesting, doesn't it?


    Source: Things the Traveler to China Should Watch Out For


    But of course, your colleague may not be aware that it isn't socially acceptable here. You could just inform her that in Irish culture it's considered impolite to belch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    She may have some kind of gastrointestinal disorder. You're being very closed-minded about it. Your co-worker probably goes home and complains about her Irish colleagues who keeps huffing and puffing and sighing and yet when anyone asks if she's OK, she responds "I'm FINE". :D


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,318 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Have you a pair of kids you can bring to work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Well, that's what I reckoned alright. I don't really know her well enough to broach the subject. I would much rather toodle off to boards for a good whinge about it on After Hours than confront her ;o)

    So I suppose that another Irish thing I could add to the list - or maybe its just me - is the paralyzing fear of embarrassing/offending someone be it a stranger/friend/co-worker

    Still disgusting.

    Work with a hoard of Spanish guys too and all they do is talk really loudly on the bus in the mornings... that is definitely a Spanish thing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Alternatively, next time she belches you can always go, "Mmm, noodles", really loudly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    seamus wrote: »
    She may have some kind of gastrointestinal disorder. You're being very closed-minded about it. Your co-worker probably goes home and complains about her Irish colleagues who keeps huffing and puffing and sighing and yet when anyone asks if she's OK, she responds "I'm FINE". :D

    More like giggling, in an "Oh My God! I can't believe she did it again" kind of way...

    and then a quick glance over my cubicle to see if anyone else is reacting...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    seamus wrote: »
    She may have some kind of gastrointestinal disorder.
    Yah burping constantly nine to five is Not Normal. And I don't mean just culturally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Yah burping constantly nine to five is Not Normal. And I don't mean just culturally.

    Could it not just be habit tho?

    She looks grand...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭VinylJunkie


    Just ask her politely to stop, if that ain't an option put a drop of laxative in her green tea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Don't they spit everywhere too, the Chinese?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Don't they spit everywhere too, the Chinese?

    The Chinese, a grand bunch of lads...

    Come on now... I don't want this turning into a Chinese bashing thread... I'm sure them Fe1cking Greeks get up to all sorts too...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    The Chinese, a grand bunch of lads...

    Come on now... I don't want this turning into a Chinese bashing thread... I'm sure them Fe1cking Greeks get up to all sorts too...


    Read that the first time as felching Greeks... *shudders* :(


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  • Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Op, that would have driven me insane by now:)
    You really should just speak to her about. When I say speak , I mean let her know it is not acceptable behaviour .


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