Being blokey

[Bozza]

Does anyone else go all 'blokey' when conversing with those who do some form of hard manual graft for a living, as opposed to airy fairy desk based activity.

I've just dropped my car off for some TLC at a garage and felt the need to bloke it right up with the mechanic. I wonder if it comes across as badly as my attempts at French in France.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Yes. Everyone does.

 

[Simster]

Yes.

 

[upthealbion1970]

You're not alone Bozza, I used to manage ats in Brighton and had a fair few office types in and could almost always tell the ones who "bloked it up"

For some reason the ones who tried the hardest didn't get the best deals

 

[8ace]

I usually camp it up

 

[LamieRobertson]

Some of us grafters have to speak propa english for the customers ya know

 

[Daffy Duck]

Us girlies have the same experience when we want to ask about something that blokes think we shouldn't, like cars or building supplies (and dare I say it, football or cricket).

Some men go into "bloke mode" and talk over us as if they can't understand why we're even mentioning it.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Some of us grafters have to speak propa english for the customers ya know

Or dumb it down for them

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

I think it's funnier when blokey blokes put on their posh phone voice..

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

It's the opposite for me as I employ about 200 "blokes". I, sometimes, struggle to tone down my "blokey" language, when not at work.

 

[User removed 4]

I'm not sure really, as I work in an office but it's probabaly one of the blokiest environments it's possible to work in.

 

[marshy68]

Us girlies have the same experience when we want to ask about something that blokes think we shouldn't, like cars or building supplies (and dare I say it, football or cricket).

Some men go into "bloke mode" and talk over us as if they can't understand why we're even mentioning it.

Calm down love.... pop the kettle on treacle two sugars

 

[Meade's Ball]

I live on the Dalston/Highbury border. When a middle class person asks me where i'm from, i say Highbury. Anyone a bit scummy, i announce it to be Dalston, and end my statement with an "innit". I want the middle classes to be mildly jealous and consider me stylishly unkempt, and the scarred-faced dog-walkers to think i am at least partly one of them so i am not on their beat-him-to-death list.

 

[Was not Was]

Got a feeling I do the opposite, as I'm such an awkward bugger: drop my aitches in polite company, then polite and a bit detached with the garage.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Calm down love.... pop the kettle on treacle two sugars

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I try, but my man bag and chiffon scarf let me down.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'm not sure really, as I work in an office but it's probabaly one of the blokiest environments it's possible to work in.

Is this the case? Or is it the fact all your colleagues just roll with your wholly inappropriate behaviour?

 

[8ace]

I think it's funnier when blokey blokes put on their posh phone voice..

Everyone has phone voice though, even Brian Sewell and Henry Blofeld I'd imagine.

 

[User removed 4]

Is this the case? Or is it the fact all your colleagues just roll with your wholly inappropriate behaviour?

There are a couple of posters on here who work in a similar environmemt, they can confirm there are people who are FAR worse than me , believe me

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

I'm not sure really, as I work in an office but it's probabaly one of the blokiest environments it's possible to work in.

bitchy's spring to mind