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   Pepijn (pepijn@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 20:35:17 JST Pepijn

   Anecdote: on a worktrip to the UK I stayed in that #Rothertham hotel that was just attacked by racist thugs. I forgot about the rooms but the breakfast was shit.

   Anyway.

   Having never been to that area of the UK I went out for dinner. As it was monday I ended up in a Wetherspoons. After establishing that I was not, indeed, a German, but Dutch ("Cruijff was good") all was well and I ended up chatting with the regulars.

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     Pepijn (pepijn@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 20:35:17 JST Pepijn

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     Soon multiple local experts were busy explaining issues of immigration, muslims & "the paki when they don't keep their place".

     It was the only time in my life I left a meal half finished.

     I spend a year in the Welsh valleys where the German thing also came up. But never in Wales did I feel this would escalate, and never was it that aggressively racist.

     Next day at the client the "guys" said "nice place" about that spoons & I figured it best to drop it.

     Anyway. I didn't like the town.

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