Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...who require one give her the formal you instead of the friendly one....

And there's a posh alert.

I never use one. I know posh people use it. But I never knew that it was used for particular reasons, formal/friendly. I just thought one used it when one is posh...

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

My cousin recommends a rsstaurant in cologne where its pitch black andyou cannot see what you are eating. We didn't go there!

Is it this one?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,322741,00.html

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i'd just get my phone out and use the light from the screen to see what it was. or a bit of flash photography for extra clarity.

not allowed, chewie

the dining room proper, where flashlights and even luminous watches and mobile phones are prohibited,

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Incidentally, why doesn't the liquids rule extend to ferries and eurostar?

It's a time factor -v- journey type. People pop on and off ferries/trains pretty quickly, when compared to planes (I'd imagine).

And - the big one.... if you blow up a plane it can then land all over the place/everywhere and cover multiple miles of destruction. If you blow up a train/ferry the devastation is limited to quite a small and identifiable area.

It's all about the impact potential of when it will happen, rather than trying to stop if. IYSWIM.

PasturesNew

There's a website potential in there: HotelFreebies.com - where people photograph/list what you get in hotels, so you can look it up.

mishmogs

ello, hope you dont mnd me popping in every now and again. You seem such 'happy' people and I thought I would join in..... if its ok that is..

anyway, when OH and me go atravelling, we tend to wonder off the beaten track and look for where the locals eat (yes I know that sounds obvious) and wherever we are in the world, we try and have a chinese meal to see if they taste the same the world over and I can report that they do (apart from in China). But getting back to eating where johnny foreigner eats, found a fab chinese in some place in Paris, only 10 items on the menu (I think) and it was in chinese so we said that, that and that please.... and in Hungary some restaurant in the hills was rather good. I kinda like the if neither party can speak the language lets just give it a go... :rotfl:

chewmylegoff

Wheezy wrote: »

Is it this one?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,322741,00.html




not allowed, chewie

it doesn't seem to mention anything about digital cameras.

chewmylegoff

mishmogs wrote: »

we try and have a chinese meal to see if they taste the same the world over and I can report that they do (apart from in China).

ha ha! was it better or worse in china? i remember eating food in thailand which was about 100 times better than what you get here in a thai restaurant, but to be fair we were staying on an island resort and they had literally pulled the fish out of the sea, gutted it, prepared it and whacked it on the coals, which is going to beat crispy fish from billingsgate any day.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

And there's a posh alert.

I never use one. I know posh people use it. But I never knew that it was used for particular reasons, formal/friendly. I just thought one used it when one is posh...

I don't think it's got anything to do with poshness.
In Germany and France for example, you would always use "Sie" or "Vous" instead of "Du" and "Tu" when speaking to a person you don't know and definitely when speaking to someone older or more senior.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

We ate well in cologne. My cousin recommends a rsstaurant in cologne where its pitch black andyou cannot see what you are eating. We didn't go there!

I've heard of it. Been to Cologne recently and toured the chocolate factory. But in general the grub was drab- cheese salad for breakfast. I love the food in Munich - lieberkasse (liver-cheese) with mustard,roll and butter. Also, weirdly loads of guys in suits getting off the train in the morning and drinking a quick breakfast lager.


I don't know where Austria and Switzerland fit in my food line, either on the fuel side or the way-of-life side.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

And there's a posh alert.

I never use one. I know posh people use it. But I never knew that it was used for particular reasons, formal/friendly. I just thought one used it when one is posh...

Bloody hell. I have lost three explanations to this so i give up.

Did however find this link which mse might prefer to me typing

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/tu_and_vous.shtml

I think one is underused. On mse that causes lots of rows.

Edit: phew, wheezy said it better than that. In my experience colleagues, and even clients and lawyers flip to the informal you quite quickly, and younger peoplpe....anyone who might wear jeans and yuse the words guys....uses the informal. For the same reaosn they wear 'trendy' jeans probably, but in makes speaking in a new language easier too. It is my universal experience that people are kind to foreign speakers. E.g. Stuffy boss expected the formal you from dh but when i noticbly hesitated over it said lets use the friendly you with a kind smile.

Dh's boss uses the informal you, but also sings at me a lot. Once you have had a sing off with your husbands boss, there is little room for the polite you.