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To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

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Abbeymum · 25/10/2025 07:58

We are quite a small team and had a new staff member join this week. It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

Anyway - new colleague was eating a salad with two boiled eggs. We were chatting and she says that’s a usual weekday lunch for her. I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

Blank face…sense of humour failure on her part?

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MumoftwoNC · 25/10/2025 08:02

It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

I hate this kind of thing, hate it.

ApiratesaysYarrr · 25/10/2025 08:01

Some people find fart humour really disgusting, so I would have saved the "grosser" jokes for when I knew they shared that sense of humour.

It's not that big a deal, she presumably just doesn't find it funny (although she might think that you are a bit childish), so I'd rein in the banter and let her lead with any jokes - if/when she joins in , you'll have a better idea of where to pitch things.

Blarghism · 25/10/2025 08:01

Do eggs make people fart? I've never found that.

idri · 25/10/2025 08:01

I would’ve laughed

OnlyFangs · 25/10/2025 08:01

That was a joke you make to someone you have known for a decade (if you must make it) not to a new work colleague

(Although it should be a sackable offence to eat eggs in the office )

AmethystAnnotation · 25/10/2025 08:01

It isn't particularly funny but I wouldn't have been offended by it.

Guildford321 · 25/10/2025 08:01

Its a bit crass to insinuate that your new colleague is going to fart the house down.

SapphOhNo · 25/10/2025 08:01

New colleague just has second hand embarrassment for you.

FastFood · 25/10/2025 08:00

No its just not funny

Nickyknackered · 25/10/2025 08:00

I mean, not offended but I wouldn't have laughed as it's not funny. I have a sense of humour but i guess it's a bit more sophisticated than toilet jokes.

TofuEater · 25/10/2025 08:00

I would have found it childish and not funny at all

SillyQuail · 25/10/2025 08:00

I can eat 2 boiled eggs without needing air freshener so I'd say you just revealed more about your own digestion than you intended! At best I might have laughed awkwardly.

ClarissR · 25/10/2025 07:59

Gross and unprofessional! I wouldn’t have known how to react either.

xxxwd · 25/10/2025 07:59

I would have cringed and definitely not laughed. Personally, I don’t find fart jokes funny because I’m not a 12 year old boy.

Notmyreality · 25/10/2025 07:59

The blank face is probably because it’s a shit joke and not funny, not because she was offended. She was probably embarrassed for you.

tomorrowsfishandchips · 25/10/2025 07:59

Mean

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