Yeah it blew my mind when a few times I was called black in Australia when I am of Indian heritage. One even made a joke about my penis being larger!

In Britain, Asian means someone from Indian/Pakistani part of area of Asia, whereas in North America and Australia it means Chinese/Japanese parts of Asia.

Reminds me when a PCSO (UK police community support officer) knocked on my window and told me off for driving while on my phone. I was literally just scratching my ear. Also, I had managed to forget my phone at home when having to visit a clients office and didn’t have time to go back and get it - I was in the car grabbing a quick lunch. I was already annoyed with myself anyway so was livid after that. Told them you shouldn’t go around accusing people of things unless you can actually see it. They just doubled down and walked off without apologising or anything.

Influence is far more valuable than a public veto. They get full access to laws before they are passed and access to senior politicians through things like the privy council.

This leads to several carve out of laws including tenant protection laws, human rights/discrimination laws, environmental laws etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/queen-immunity-british-laws-private-property

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/09/prince-charles-vetted-laws-that-stop-his-tenants-buying-their-homes

A Karen, I kid you not. She had been working at a place for decades in Treasury meaning she put in payments. The power went to her fucking head and walked around like she was the most important person at the company but in reality made the whole process as shitty and ridiculous as possible.

In the UK you need a sort code, amount number and reference to make a domestic payment but she asked for all this extra stuff like bank name, address etc. She challenged a bank name because her system said it was different, which I knew to be wrong but also completely irrelevant. It was for our tax authority for the companies corporate tax payment, so pretty important to make on time. Sent her the link to their website with the details to show it’s correct. Thought it should be the end.

It took hours, fucking hours, of back and forth bullshit and extra random changes to the form. She finally settled on changing the bank name on the form to “government account” which is just complete nonsense. I had to get the form signed again by two others including the Finance Director. Waste of everybody’s time and she pulled this shit every 3 months.