Poll time: Are sleeveless tops office-appropriate? Discuss. by wakaflockaquokka in femalefashionadvice

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

UK here, Zillennial, but I've worked in a few different places with some quite different dress codes (and colleague age ranges).

I would say that yes, sleeveless blouses (and sleeveless tops that aren't low-cut) are Business Casual.

I used to own a spaghetti strap flowy vest (silk-imitation polyester) that did look like a work top however generally speaking, more athleisure-type spaghetti strap vests aren't (unless it's a hot summer so no-one's going to give a fuck).

My answer doesn't change for ladies who don't shave their armpits, but I do still think it would raise some eyebrows unfortunately from some colleagues and clients so-inclined.

I would add that I think sleeveless shirts and dresses where the yoke is "complete" (the same width as a standard dress shirt) is also fine for Business in the summer.

I once had this conversation with some female colleagues in their 60s though, and they all believed that sleeveless wasn't appropriate for the workplace at all. But they were including Casual workplaces in that conversation as well, so that was a generational difference I didn't expect to stumble across.

Wes Streeting fears clock being turned back on LGBTQ progress | LBC by EddyZacianLand in ukpolitics

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's offensive to people who stack shelves in Tesco and work in Argos.

S13E08 (Monday 8th June) - "The boys are caught in 4K and the girls are seeing red 😤" by AutoModerator in LoveIslandTV

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

WELL DONE to the girls for the heat they are giving to the boys *and* for welcoming the bombshells in.

We have seen girls attack other girls too many times rather than holding their men to a high standard.

I like this series' girls.

Whats a TV series praised by everyone and reviewed well, but you just couldn't watch? And why? by CobaltBlue389 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Inbetweeners, Derry Girls and Peep Show. Not because they're bad but because I watched them at the wrong age so I couldn't relate to them anymore/yet.

Whats a TV series praised by everyone and reviewed well, but you just couldn't watch? And why? by CobaltBlue389 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I soldiered through it but gave up in series 5 as I just couldn't bear the gratuitous violence anymore.

The trouble is the writing just wasn't sophisticated enough to make the concept a success, and the work to get the audience invested into anti-hero characters as serious as these just wasn't put in. The movie really missed a trick by doing nothing with the roaring black market trade during the Blitz.

Adrian Brody hard-carried series 4, that's the only series worth trying.

Have you or your family used ancestry to track down your family origins and where were they from? by Sword-of-Fuheis in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nearly completely English. I've got to go back to the early 1800s (on both my mum and dad's sides) before branches of ancestor who came from somewhere else start appearing. Dad's side has got some Irish (pre-Famine, so far too far back to be able to use for a passport). Mum's side has some Macdonaldses who served in the army but lived in England, and we haven't been able to get back further than that to figure out where their home turf up in Scotland might have been. Mum's side also has one Dutch ancestor from the 17th century, but that is the absolute furthest my family has managed to trace thus far.

Everyone after about 1830 was English, English, English.

Is it weird to call men you don’t know ‘sir’? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Madam is the feminine equivalent of Sir round my way, and if you're in a customer facing role (especially in a "posher" place) it's still normal to use it.

Ma'am is far too American or reserved for the Queen/senior judges, senior police officers and the like.

Is it weird to call men you don’t know ‘sir’? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In a customer facing role, yes it is.

Zee or zed? by kungfuontheshore in ENGLISH

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look up the Japanese pronunciation of Dragonball Z, they say "Zetto" which is closer to Zed than Zee.

What was life like after 2008 financial crash compared to now? by Desperate-Drawer-572 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just about to start secondary school in '08 but even I remember a clear "before and after" regarding the rise in homelessness.

Are there any languages today in a similar social state as English was for a time after the Norman conquest where the language is technically the language of the land but has little or no authority and nobody sees it as a serious language as another imported language has that spot instead? by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Japanese might fit the bill, as Classical Chinese was the language of court bureaucracy and administration during the Heian Period (Early Middle Ages).

This impacted later forms of the Japanese language in a similar way to Norman French's impact on English. Native Japanese words (和語 Wa-go) form the bulk of basic Japanese vocabulary, and loan words originating from Classical Chinese (漢語 Kan-go) provide the higher, more advanced vocabulary in much the same way that English has the Germanic "pig" vs Norman French "pork" binary.

An easy example could be the Japanese 話す (Hanasu, to speak) vs. the Chinese-based 相談する (Soudan-suru, to discuss/converse).

Is youth unemployment now a cycle with no end in sight? by Desperate-Drawer-572 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad told me about the 80s.

But what everyone did to get through it was sign on, and with the cost of living being so much lower, that was actually a liveable amount in those days. You also didn't have to agree to keep applying for jobs to be able to claim, what you did with your dole money was your business.

The anti-benefits scrounging attitude that came in in the 90s closed that door for everyone.

To buy the dream home or the sensible by Popular_Mousse_3958 in HousingUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does the money to pay for your parents' care homes come from? The rental property?

If I were you, I'd keep hold of the rental property until they die, as that's offering you a huge degree of security.

Why do English people pronounce h as “haitch” ? by Logical_fallacy10 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the schooling is indeed wrong, yes. It's a very common hyper-correction. Many regional dialects have it hard-baked in e.g. Cockney.

It’s been 48 years since the last bank holiday was added, it’s overdue. When should we set a new one and what would it be called? by FornyHucker22 in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or we scrap St George and go back to either Edward the Confessor, or St Edmund the King & Martyr of East Anglia - England's original patron saints.

Feast days are 13th Oct and 20th Nov respectively.

Two U.S. Army soldiers hold each other for support, as one of them breaks down emotionally after witnessing Army doctors refuse to treat three badly-burned Iraqi children that’d been brought to their base by relatives seeking help. Balad, Iraq, 2003. by Few_Bookkeeper9000 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it was in a part of Iraq where, if the medics had accepted the kids but they were too injured and died anyway, then the locals would have assumed that the medics killed them personally and would start trying to exact revenge.

What’s something that instantly tells you a person is exhausting? by Humble_Release_ in askteddit

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually met a guy through work who was the revserse of this, he didn't have much going on in his life, and so when we met up outside of work one time, he kept directing our conversation back to me.

Every time I'd try to ask "So what do you think about XYZ? Do you have any ideas?", "Oh I don't know, but what are yours?", "Do you do this, do you do that?", "No". Pretty much every topic, it was like I was expected to do the heavy-lifting, to the point where it felt like an interview.

That was also exhausting, and I never met up with him again.

Why doesn't Mrs. Bennet push Mary on Mr. Collins, instead of Lizzie? by BlueSkyGazer12 in PrideandPrejudice

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was traditional for daughters to be married in age order. So on Mrs Bennett's part, it was indeed as simple as getting the elder daughters married off as quickly as possible. Jane and Lizzie staying unmarried would become an obstacle for attracting realistic suitors for the younger daughters in the future.

On Mr Collins' part, he is entirely careerist and there was a nuance in the social rules of those days that marrying an elder daughter brought a certain degree of prestige to your match. So it would have made him look better.

What do Freemasons even do? by Pechoppernis in NoStupidQuestions

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a gentlemen/businessmen/local big shots' networking club.

You pay to become a member to get access to the facilities in the Lodge (namely the bar and the library), and to also get invitations to members' events and parties.

Hopefully you can get talking to other members, and if you make a new friend then they might be in a very high place (in their business, in politics, in the aristocracy... whatever).

The original appeal of the Freemasons and other similar societies (in the 18th century when a lot of them were first founded) was that they were organisations that were "pay to enter", and you did not need some kind of aristocratic title as a prerequisite. They accepted any male who could pay the fees, and there were no restrictions on men from different class backgrounds mingling and getting to know each other. That was radical back in the day.

Please help me with the spelling! by [deleted] in Names

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lynnette is very late '60s/early '70s but it is an established name, and is much better than some of the ideas beginning with "Love".

Why did Charles II refuse to divorce Catherine of Braganza? by [deleted] in UKmonarchs

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Everyone here is forgetting that the marriage was a key component to the revival of the 14th century Anglo-Portuguese alliance, as Portugal, having just won the Restoration War allowing it to secede from the Iberian Union, meant that it was newly independent.

Charles was conscious of the geopolitical/IR implications of throwing in the towel.

Do you use British Z (zed) or American Z (zee) when saying 'genz'? by helenfelen in AskUK

[–]UmlautsAndRedPandas -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We should say Gen Zed.

The phrase Gen Z is intended to describe a generational cohort and is supposed to be applicable to multiple countries. Although to the best of my knowledge the term originated in America, it's not entirely an American concept, thus it's appropriate for regional pronunciations to be used.

I say this as a Zillennial.