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Old 04-28-2021, 01:33 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Seems like a pretty cushy job to me. I don't have any panic button under my desk.
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Old 04-28-2021, 01:40 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Seriously people? Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auf_Wiedersehen,_Pet

Boys from the Blackstuff was amazing too. Not comedy per se, but a lot of black humour. What about Only Fools and Horses? Couldn't call that white collar...
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Old 04-28-2021, 01:45 PM   #13 (permalink)
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What about The King of Queens, American sitcom focused on the life of a UPS driver? Might not count since that's not the constant setting though.
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Old 04-28-2021, 02:09 PM   #14 (permalink)
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How are cops classified? I mean, there are a ton of cop comedy shows, not least among them Police Squad! (in color) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine...
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How are cops classified? I mean, there are a ton of cop comedy shows, not least among them Police Squad! (in color) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine...
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How are cops classified? I mean, there are a ton of cop comedy shows, not least among them Police Squad! (in color) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine...
Blue Suits = blue collars
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How is it a question if convenience store clerk is a blue collar job?
it's just that since I'm not a native speaker the finer shades of the terms white/blue collar are vague to me, I actually had to google it. My reasoning was it's not really white collar since it's not a comfortably paid office job but also not blue collar since it's not manual labour? But maybe with technological advances blue collar = manual labour is an outdated definition?
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If you can be described as a "schlub" then you are blue collar.
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How are cops classified? I mean, there are a ton of cop comedy shows, not least among them Police Squad! (in color) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine...
Maybe "grey-collar" in between blue and white collar.
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If you can be described as a "schlub" then you are blue collar.
now that's a clear definition at last
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