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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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No idea tbh. I currently make up my holidays with the amount of toil I am almost required to continually do. If I move, I suspect I'll lose out on that.No pressure to say more than you want to.
But does it come with longer holidays than you get at present? I know you'd like that.
How so?Doozergirl wrote: »Social anxiety strikes again. I've managed to sabotage my own day tomorrow
Similar happened to me too. Regarding the do, I didn't go. Someone made what I felt was an immensely rude & personal comment in a public place. It riled me so much there was no way I wanted to spend time in the company of such people.:mad:It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Well I resolved my problems with work by going out and getting quite drunk last night on their dollar. Not messily but enough.
Well done.
I'd personally have got a tad more drunk, on much more expensive booze.... (record to date is 25K in a night when on someone else's dime, but always up for a challenge....)Today we're going to the shopping mall across the road for brekkie and will decide what happens next.
Brunch. Or Schnitz.... Whichever you run across first.;)I'm really quite weed off about this. "I've not been able to make a judgement about your performance this half year due to your illness. However, there is nothing you can do between now and the end of the year to make me want to renew your contact".
Onanists.
Fark em.
Leave an Easter Egg. I've yet to meet a good trader that can't screw their ex-boss in slow motion after they've gone.....;)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »I think it was NDG wanted a look at my garden.
If she's about, get across to my thread over there & click on a linky!
<meanders over and gets clicky on the linky>It seems to dislike certain portmanteau words while accepting others. And it said 'swive', or possibly 'sw1ve' if the mse filter is working overtime, was a non-word. Good fun, though!
"swive" is medieval for "sex", innit?Good guess!
My direct boss is quite up herself. She's habitually very rude to people in meetings. I don't necessarily have a problem with that as it can achieve things but she ofte does it to make herself feel good I think.
Oh is incredibly, amazingly good at getting people to do what he wants them to do, but does it very politely indeed. He reckons being rude just alienates people and makes them defensive, and (when he does it) being polite certainly works fantastically well.My son spent the first couple of years of his life thinking a football was called a 'kick it'. I'd put a ball down in front of him and say, "Kick it, mein Generalissimo, kick it".
Did you do the same with female Gen-let?Delightful! Somebody connected with my family had a child who thought the cat's name was "Gently".
Exactly the same here, with Isaac! Except that he thought it was "gently" in Hebrew. We were proud and fond when, ever time he touched Yossie, he muttered "gently" to himself, thinking he was reminding himself to be careful with the cat.
Then we noticed him pointing at pictures of cats and so forth and saying "gently" in Hebrew, and wondered, and the penny dropped when OH said "gently" to him in relation to a cake or a cup or something, and Isaac laughed at his idiocy in thinking it was a cat........much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Yes but understanding is limited. Also there isn't much that is useful conversationally. It is really useful that I can read the alphabet, so street signs and shop names are not a problem. Major road signs are usually displayed in hebrew, arabic, russian and english.
I've noticed that the English isn't standard across different road signs, though, so you can see one sign for "Jersualem" and another a mile later which says "Yerushalaim" or similar.
The Hebrew I hear is entirely domestic, really - connected to meals that need eating, baths that need to be got into or out of, shoes that need to be put on, etc.
Including some Arabic, too - "Yallah, Isaac! Yallah!"
(Arabic for "hurry up" I think, used in modern Hebrew)That is worrying..must be genetic amongst NP..I think NDG said her brother is going to do post grad linguistics
He is, I think - at SOAS in October....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »some Arabic, too - "Yallah, Isaac! Yallah!"
(Arabic for "hurry up" I think, used in modern Hebrew).
'Habibi'/'Habibti', with a multitude of familiar meanings (my friend - my beloved - etc) is used similarly in modern Hebrew I think.
A surprising number of words are common these days in both Hebrew and Arabic....
Just as a surprising number are common only between English and Arabic...... 'Imshi' (go away) is a word familiar to all middle east expat brats that is peculiar to Egyptian Arabic and English as spoken by British Officers and middle east expats.
The linguistic intricacies are fascinating. I wish I had spent more time learning Arabic in my youth....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Oh is incredibly, amazingly good at getting people to do what he wants them to do, but does it very politely indeed. He reckons being rude just alienates people and makes them defensive, and (when he does it) being polite certainly works fantastically well.
That's what works for me. Softee softee catchee monkey and all that.neverdespairgirl wrote: »Did you do the same with female Gen-let?
No. I learnt with The Boy!
The Girl was the one that brought the word 'unsuperble' into our family for which we will be eternally grateful. She's the football fan of the kids. The Boy reckons football is for playing. The Girl is ok with playing football but loves going to watch it.
I took her to one match and there was a Brazillian standing behind us singing some really filthy songs. He looked down and saw The Girl and immediately apologised. We chatted for a bit and then he went back to his singing only this time in Portuguese:rotfl:neverdespairgirl wrote: »Exactly the same here, with Isaac! Except that he thought it was "gently" in Hebrew. We were proud and fond when, ever time he touched Yossie, he muttered "gently" to himself, thinking he was reminding himself to be careful with the cat.
Then we noticed him pointing at pictures of cats and so forth and saying "gently" in Hebrew, and wondered, and the penny dropped when OH said "gently" to him in relation to a cake or a cup or something, and Isaac laughed at his idiocy in thinking it was a cat.....
I find it disproportionately funny when little kids correct you incorrectly.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »'Habibi'/'Habibti', with a multitude of familiar meanings (my friend - my beloved - etc) is used similarly in modern Hebrew I think.
A surprising number of words are common these days in both Hebrew and Arabic....
Just as a surprising number are common only between English and Arabic...... 'Imshi' (go away) is a word familiar to all middle east expat brats that is peculiar to Egyptian Arabic and English as spoken by British Officers and middle east expats.
The linguistic intricacies are fascinating. I wish I had spent more time learning Arabic in my youth....
You can't live that closely with others without there being some sharing of language, food etc. I saw that at first hand when working for Euro Disney: it was an amazing melting pot of nationalities and cultures and often we'd end up picking up the odd word or 2 of a different language just because they had a word that was perfect for something.
I even heard that some Scots can be observed using a rudimentary form of English. I have my doubts personally. Can you shed any light on this theory? (NB Joke: please don't set the cybernats on me!!!).
The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am about work. !!!!!!.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Now that's an obscene Posh Alert!! Two years of a regular person's household income ... turned into wee in one night!!
I suspect my record would be £10
This would be a fabulous idea. Remember that revenge is a dish best served cold ..... once your (correctly placed and fully justifiable) anger's passed ... plot, plan, plot and replot.
We can help you make voodoo dolls if that helps, too.
I reckon Hamish means 25,000 litres of Buckfast.0 -
I don't have to do anything at all to leave them with problems. There are at least 2 things that I do that nobody else actually gets how they are almost impossible. One of the contributing factors to this is that I spend a huge amount of time doing them.
The thing that is a ticking timebomb is the job that I do.0 -
I don't have to do anything at all to leave them with problems. There are at least 2 things that I do that nobody else actually gets how they are almost impossible. One of the contributing factors to this is that I spend a huge amount of time doing them.
The thing that is a ticking timebomb is the job that I do.
What they might do though is call you into the office and present you with a member of staff ... and your new role is to pass on and teach your role to this person before you leave - and to write a full procedures manual for what you do. Insult to injury.....
Of course, you know that it can't be taught as it's the culmination of years of experience as well as intelligence and insight others don't have..... but it still sticks in the craw.0
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