I would not claim that my comments about the Senegalese face paint could be filed under 'Complaint'. All rather colourful !
My point was that "White face" is considered acceptable but not "Black face" but there are those willing to offer context on such matters.
Suffice to say I will not make any further comment and concentrate on the subject matter 'World Cup 2022'.

Edited by Willo (30 Nov 2022 10.29am)

If it helps, I'll black up right now. Both marmite and black face at various points have been a bit well.. marmite, so I will use that.

Enjoy the competition, chaps. Cheers.

A mate of mine used to pre prepare emails during the normal work afternoon, then go down the pub & upon his late evening return would send them out to give the impression he was working long hours - I should say that at the time we were working in the Middle East and our reporting requirements would cover several time zones -

Generally a decent spoof, but you had to be careful not to send them out to someone who was liable to receive it, who would think, oh he is up & working, then call to discuss the contents of the email, work phone calls after an evening on the razzle is not such a good idea.

I have to say that as a Middle East office we were generally very respectful of the time zones (particularly other offices working schedules) it often wasn't reciprocated by some other continents who would call whenever it suited them & start the conversation with, oh sorry have I called you at an inconvenient time, anyway as your already on the phone we need to discuss .......

Absolutely - modern technology is becoming more the spy in the office as it were - especially with the more widespread recently accelerated move towards WFH

IMHO, women tend to not properly understand football and therefore it seems ridiculous to have them talking about it.

Furthermore, they often cannot concentrate for very long without thinking about handbags and make up etc so it's a bit ridiculous to have a person commentating who cannot focus for the whole match. This is further hampered when there is more than one as when together they will inevitably start nattering and forget to watch the game.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!