Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

gfplux wrote: »

When I talked about being introduced to Cous Cous I actually meant the North African dish. (Third most popular dish in France).
We often have as a side "vegetable" the grains of Cous Cous heated up by pouring hot water over.
As ever Wikepedia has all the info
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cous_Cous

Don't quote will delete:

Many lifetimes ago I was in Paris and wanted to buy some hashish. I met a Moroccan bloke who got some for me and I ended going out for lunch with and his mates. I had the most amazing cous cous (that sort) out in the Parisian boondocks somewhere. I wss the only white person I saw for hours, such is the state of ghettoisation in Paris.

That was a fun lunch. I learned so much French that day too.

PasturesNew

gfplux wrote: »

When I talked about being introduced to Cous Cous I actually meant the North African dish. (Third most popular dish in France).
We often have as a side "vegetable" the grains of Cous Cous heated up by pouring hot water over.

Oh .... that's what I thought couscous was - hot water poured over, stir, wait, add a little more water/stir/wait until it's ready!!

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

Too easy:

Reds (as opposed to whites or blues)
Cat's nest flavoured gum
Miaow flavoured sauce
Plastic bag (as you claim although I note there is no link, I reckon it's a own brand jazz mag)
B@rstard nose
Pair (deo) of assorted roller skates
Monkey perfume
A basic Peruvian turkey (dinde is turkey in French)

Ask a harder one

:rotfl::rotfl:

Good logic, but I'm not in France

Generali

CKhalvashi wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

Good logic, but I'm not in France

All foreign languages are basically French with an accent of one sort or another. <<parochial Englishman smilie>>

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Actually, I'm not quite sure. Say the offer had been that you get a free gift if you spend over £150, that would be clearer.

Waitrose do an offer that you get free coffee and a free newspaper if you spend over £5. I have never assumed that the coffee and newspaper are included in that £5 spend.

So, it's ambiguous, but the odious little man at Beats may have a point.

As I was at the shop already I was willing to have it his way but he was already telling me I was a conman and we were not the sort of customers he wanted so there wasn't really anywhere to go from there.

vivatifosi

Are you in Romania CK? I was talking to one of my colleagues yesterday about how beautiful and underrated Buchares t is (I've not been, he has).

The conversation also covered how easy it was to communicate there, a because Romanian is a romance language and b because most learn English at school.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Are you in Romania CK? I was talking to one of my colleagues yesterday about how beautiful and underrated Buchares t is (I've not been, he has).

The conversation also covered how easy it was to communicate there, a because Romanian is a romance language and b because most learn English at school.

So basically extreme Eastern France.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

As I was at the shop already I was willing to have it his way but he was already telling me I was a conman and we were not the sort of customers he wanted so there wasn't really anywhere to go from there.

Be grateful there is an alternative uniform shop.

These uniform shops are mad busy at this time of year and I can understand the spend £250, return £100, deny receiving £9, expect £15 off, being totally frustrating for the shop. Not least because your £100 returns can't be sold until they are back in the shop, so having had them at home for whatever length of time denies the shop the opportunity to sell them.

Like buying Xmas gifts at the beginning of December and then taking them back for a refund around the 20th.

ivyleaf

How's your foot today silvercar?

I sprained my ankle when I was six, and it didn't get better though the hospital said it wasn't broken; in the end my mother took me to a Dr Scholl shop where they strapped it up with Elastoplast strapping.

It wasn't until I hurt the same ankle when I was 18 that I had another x-ray and it turned out that a tiny bone - I think it was called the lateral malleolus - had been broken all those years ago and there was now a gap in it.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Be grateful there is an alternative uniform shop.

These uniform shops are mad busy at this time of year and I can understand the spend £250, return £100, deny receiving £9, expect £15 off, being totally frustrating for the shop. Not least because your £100 returns can't be sold until they are back in the shop, so having had them at home for whatever length of time denies the shop the opportunity to sell them.

Like buying Xmas gifts at the beginning of December and then taking them back for a refund around the 20th.

Being mad busy I would have though it would be an advantage to have some customers buying 'mail order' to reduce the crush in the shop. Certainly my kids are far from ideal in shop customers, not good at waiting plus the tantrums over what a suitable skirt length is etc it is definitely better for them to try on at home.

I also think there is a difference between finding behaviour annoying and accusing your customers of fraud and refusing to honour your marketing offer because it is not profitable enough for you. Especially as the consequence will be they get all the stuff we bought back and it is now tempting to leave it till after the start of term so they can sit on the stock for a whole year.

A lot of the stuff we return was because the quality was quite frankly carp, the blouses were incredibly thin, the skirts did not have an adjustable waist etc where the other shop which is the same price did not suffer from. We would have kept more if it had been of OK quality.