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Work to rule - Coggle Diagram

- - - - do a purpose - make jokes - take pride in the maverick - iconoclastic status
  - - - who fortune to commerce: buy estate, conceal all evidences
    - - sneer at the stigmatisation of anyone involved in ‘sales’ by upper-class
- - - - generally half-resolved, by means of a peculiarly English sort of grumpy, vague, unsatisfactory compromise
- - - - a bit fag and nuisance
      - imposed by practical necessity
    - - stoical pride
        
        "getting on with it"
        
        "doing our best"
    - - religious believe in "fairness"
      - not a belief in the sanctity of work
  - - - trade
      - business
    - - awkward
- - - - jokes
        
        raucous
        
        thigh-slapping
    - - wit
      - irony
      - understatement
      - banter
      - teasing
      - pomposity-pricking
  - - - not very much workaholic and oversealous
        
        'sad' and pathetic
    - - over-earnest
        
        teachers pet
        
        'swot'
        
        'geek'
        
        'nerd'
        
        'suck'
        
        'boffin'
      - enjoy study, finding subject fascinating,take pride in their academic prowess
        
        conceal their eagerness under a mask of
        
        feigned boredom
        
        cynical detachment
    - - anti-earnestness
      - anti-boastfulness.
  - - - sometimes say what we mean
        
        audience is not surprisingly somewhat sceptical, or, if foreign, completely bewildered
  - - - instead of abandon unwritten rules - twisted and changed the rules of advertising
- - - - in company: a moaner
    - - Genuine grievances may be raised in these sessions
        
        must be delivered with humorous grimaces, shrugs, eye-rolling, mock-exasperated eyebrow-lifts and exaggerated stoical sighs
        
        not with tear-filled eyes, trembling lips or serious scowls.
- - - - weather, enquiries about journeys, the obligatory wryly humorous traffic-moan, courteous comments on the host’s excellent directions and rueful jokes about one’s own poor navigation skills, interminable fussing over tea and coffee -including the usual full complement of pleases and thank-yous, appreciative murmurs from the visitors and humorously self-deprecating apologies from the host