tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪11h ago
saraaaaargh

I've been getting some 1:1 management training (oh don't ask) it's all very corporate and sincere. In the first session, he talked about leadership.

him: "Winston Churchill was a great leader, but there's something about him that most people don't know"
me: "That he was a massive racist and committed genocicde in India?"
him: ".... no that he had depression"
me: "oh yeah, everyone knows that"

Jun 14 at 8:36amWeb
Show threadOccasionalDucks1d ago

@sarahdal

I get the impression that in certain (possibly most) lines of work most people don’t know what “most” actually means.

Show threadNeil Hopkins1d ago
@sarahdal “so you’re saying that as managers we should conduct meetings in the nude and drink pints of champagne for lunch?”
Show threadAilbhe1d ago
@satsuma @sarahdal OK, I disagree with Churchill about MANY things but I could be convinced of this
Show threadJim Salter1d ago
@Ailbhe @satsuma @sarahdal dear God please no. Not unless you're going to be changing nearly everything else about typical corporate meetings as well, especially who else will be IN them with me.
Show threadAilbhe1d ago
@jimsalter @satsuma @sarahdal Oh only people one invites, everyone else has to sit outside the door and listen through the crack
Show threadAilbhe1d ago
@jimsalter @satsuma @sarahdal I think he was often in his bath
Show threadBen Fulton1d ago
@satsuma @sarahdal Wait, you're not doing that now?
Show threadJules she/her1d ago
@sarahdal wasn't he the one who created the phrase the black dog?
Show threadSarah W1d ago
@afewbugs @sarahdal
That's my understanding yes.
Show threadWellsiteGeo1d ago
@afewbugs @sarahdal
Popularised it, certainly.
As a long-term journalist, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he picked it up from somewhere, but lost the attribution.
Show threadWellsiteGeo1d ago
@sarahdal
My history teacher assigned me the task of writing a biography of Churchill.
As a member of the 1946 generation who sacked Churchill, he'd have marked this highly.
Show threadMatt Palmer1d ago
@sarahdal peak "I just read his Wikipedia page and here's something I didn't know, so I assume nobody does."
Show threadJessie Kirk1d ago
@sarahdal True, but people who have an unhealthy fascination with Union Jacks and Spitfires get very angry with you when you point that out.
Show threadJim Salter1d ago
@sarahdal I thought people who actually made any effort to know things generally knew both.
Show threadRupert V/1d ago
@sarahdal Where I live we still have a dawn parade every year to commemorate one of his enormous strategic fuckups based on his opinion that foreigners are so subhuman they won't fight to defend their homes.
Show threadFluffgar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@sarahdal Oh, I thought it was going to be about the tanks and troops sent against striking workers.

"It is estimated that 10,000 soldiers were sent into the city, in the biggest troop deployment against a civilian population ever seen in the UK."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/15907896.photo-didnt-fit---uk-send-tanks-glasgow/

The photo didn’t fit – but the UK did send tanks into Glasgow

THE heady days of Red Clydeside and the Battle of Glasgow’s George Square have passed into the city’s legend. The story goes that in late…

The National
Show threadLx Leckford1d ago
@sarahdal The thing I learned about Churchill that blew my mind was when we were touring the magnificent Blenheim Palace, seat of the Duke of Marlborough, and was casually informed it was Churchill’s family home. This was around the time a now-forgotten film was depicting him riding the London Underground as mister humble man of the people, which I imagine he’d’ve been outraged by.
Show threadBen Rosengart20h ago
@lx @sarahdal that’s the site that had the functional solid-gold toilet stolen from it!
Show threadBen Rosengart20h ago
@sarahdal @davidgerard well done!
Show threadLegit_Spaghetti17h ago
@sarahdal Probably was depressed about not getting to commit even more genocide.