Originally posted by Joe King:
Helping someone out does give a good feeling - even giving someone directions gives me a small buzz. Maybe "being nice" could be the new recreational drug - we could all go out and spend our free time helping people out and being nice...
Yo, man, I'm so like, totally, chilled out dude on this "nice". Its, like, rad, man....![]()
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
Watched a D-Day film in colour last night. One GI said of the English -
They give the worst directions imaginable finally ending with "You cannot miss it!".
Some things don't change!![]()
Originally posted by Joe King:
Directions is one of those areas in which many humorous miscommunications can happen between Americans and Britons. I know someone who had the following conversation with an American tourist:
American: "Excuse me, how do I get to Leicester Square?"
Briton: "Its that way"(points).
American: "How many blocks is that?"
Briton: "What?"
American: "I said, how many blocks is that?"
Briton: "We don't have blocks in this country."
American: "What?"
Briton: "I said, we don't have blocks in this country - our towns aren't made in grids".
American: "Why the hell not?! OK, how long will it take us to get there?"
Briton: "Only 5 mins."
American: "Pah, you English always say things will only take 5 mins, but its always longer!".
When you start adding in things like the whole pavement/sidewalk confusion, then directions get complicated. Probably especially so because English roads are bendy and have odd names.
The directions situation before D-Day was probably complicated by the fact that the government removed all the road signs in the south of England in case the Germans invaded - we didn't want to give them any hints about which way to go![]()
[ June 07, 2004: Message edited by: Joe King ]
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
HT: Watched a D-Day film in colour last night. One GI said of the English - They give the worst directions imaginable finally ending with "You cannot miss it!".
Colour? Why do you British have to be so pompous as to insert extra letters into the words of our language?
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
Originally posted by Steve Wink:
Plus we don't know where Lye-cester Square is. Unless its near Lester Square...
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
Originally posted by Joe King:
I heard about someone who was asked by a Japanese tourist for directs to "Loogerborrooger". It took them ages to realise that the tourist meant Loughborough.
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
Originally posted by Nanhesru Ningyake:
Hey I impulsively indulged in one today. I was visiting this fancy mall in Bangalore called 'The Forum' - with a distinctly Western ambience. There was this aged woman who had apparently never been on an escalator
Pourquoi voulez-vous mon nom?
Pourquoi voulez-vous mon nom?
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by soumya ravindranath:
mone ??![]()
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Originally posted by soumya ravindranath:
Is that true, do we go so much out of our way and send people upstairs just to make ourselves happy ?![]()
....i just handed it to her and walked away. 3 months since it happened, never thought about it after that.
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