What's on your mind?

[Hime-Chan]

I get it that British people are polite, but while waiting for the administration to pick up the phone, STOP APOLOGISING EVERY 15 SECONDS!!!!
I'm not kidding, I timed it! It makes me want to hit someone
"thank you for your patience at this time, we are currently busy..." "we apologize for the inconvenience" STOP
STOP
*mad twitching*

[Kleene Onigiri]

I didn't get to Illegibilus

Aww D: *hug*



OMM: Aaaaah! *excitednervousbreakdown*

[MoonRaven]

I didn't get to Illegibilus

Aww D: *hug*

OMM: Aaaaah! *excitednervousbreakdown*

*hugs back* :<

More packing....

[Stopwatch]

I get it that British people are polite, but while waiting for the administration to pick up the phone, STOP APOLOGISING EVERY 15 SECONDS!!!!
I'm not kidding, I timed it! It makes me want to hit someone
"thank you for your patience at this time, we are currently busy..." "we apologize for the inconvenience" STOP
STOP
*mad twitching*

Sorry ^^;.

[Iwamoto Yuri]

I get it that British people are polite, but while waiting for the administration to pick up the phone, STOP APOLOGISING EVERY 15 SECONDS!!!!
I'm not kidding, I timed it! It makes me want to hit someone
"thank you for your patience at this time, we are currently busy..." "we apologize for the inconvenience" STOP
STOP
*mad twitching*

Sorry ^^;.

It's ok stoppie! It's not your fault!

[mangaluva]

I get it that British people are polite, but while waiting for the administration to pick up the phone, STOP APOLOGISING EVERY 15 SECONDS!!!!
I'm not kidding, I timed it! It makes me want to hit someone
"thank you for your patience at this time, we are currently busy..." "we apologize for the inconvenience" STOP
STOP
*mad twitching*

Sorry ^^;.

It's ok stoppie! It's not your fault!

It's a culturally ingrained thing... and we apologize for that

[Hime-Chan]

I get it that British people are polite, but while waiting for the administration to pick up the phone, STOP APOLOGISING EVERY 15 SECONDS!!!!
I'm not kidding, I timed it! It makes me want to hit someone
"thank you for your patience at this time, we are currently busy..." "we apologize for the inconvenience" STOP
STOP
*mad twitching*

Sorry ^^;.

It's ok stoppie! It's not your fault!

It's a culturally ingrained thing... and we apologize for that

Having a record apologizing every 15 seconds is frustrating and hypocritical

[MoonRaven]

minimafiaah!

[Commi-Ninja]

I can't speak for Europeans, but Americans certainly don't. I don't think it's a cultural thing here so much as an individual thing. That said, some regions of the US are more known for their behavior one way or another (like 'southern hospitality'), but it doesn't mean everyone or even a majority think that way.

I have been told by customers, usually from out of the country, that the people I work with are generally nicer/more pleasant to deal with than other people they've encountered, so that's something I suppose.

[mangaluva]

It depends on where you are in the UK, of course, but especially in tourism or any customer service job, all speech contains an extremely high ratio of "please/thank you" XP Most customers respond likewise, but of course you still get plenty of rude assholes who ignore you or talk on their phone the whole time or are just "gies some crisps" and then leave without a word the split second they have their purchase. For the most part, though, the phrase "thank you" comes up a LOT in any transaction in a shop or restaurant XP

OMM: I have never felt more patronized in my entire life. Thinking about politics is too difficult, so I should just get back in the kitchen and wait for my husband to tell me to vote no!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=71 ... =2&theater

[konco]

does anyone know, why the thread of openings & endings raw excelent quality must write a password to access it?

[Iwamoto Yuri]

Dutch people are certainly not known for being polite.... We're sooner the cheese eating tulip loving direct people who travel a lot and enter a lot of stores only to buy nothing.
As a Dutch person, I can assure you those last two are accurate.

Anyway, how people react depends on certain factors that differ per country and region. Masculine vs feminine and all that. I actually had classes about that, so I could talk about them for a while.

[Stopwatch]

OMM: I have never felt more patronized in my entire life. Thinking about politics is too difficult, so I should just get back in the kitchen and wait for my husband to tell me to vote no!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=71 ... =2&theater

...it says that's going to air on TV . I'm just going to go ahead and agree with this comment on the video: "This is the first time I have ever commented on anything to do with the referendum because frankly I find all the nasty (often personal) comments from both sides extremely off-putting but this advert is actually quite offensive in its implication that women don't even know who the First Minister is and will only put 2 minutes thought into a life changing decision."

(Plus, no facts were even stated. If all the Yes and No ads are like this I'm pretty lucky to have avoided so many of them thus far.)

As for the cultural politeness thing, not sure if I've mentioned this before somewhere on DCTP, but Britain is more commonly associated with "negative politeness" whereas places like the US are more often about "positive politeness". It's actually quite interesting to look up. That may just be for me though ^^;.

[mangaluva]

It aired on TV last night. People here are exploding over it, especially women, as you can imagine--as you pointed out, most of us are affronted by the idea that we don't even pay enough attention to know who the first minister is, that politics are too difficult to understand, and that literally the only argument that needs to be offered is "FOR THE CHILDREN" and we'll all swoon across our kitchen floors. You're right, the Better Together campaign runs entirely on emotive rhetoric and no facts.

For a long while, there's a pair of adverts that've been running in cinemas before movies, one Yes and one No. The No one is a group of four astonishingly unspotty teenagers standing in a room entirely draped in St Andrew's Crosses throwing out disconnected and meaningless phrases like "we can have the best of both worlds!". The Yes one, at least, had hard statistics about what percentage of the UK electorate Scotland makes up, the improvements in the NHS since control of that was devolved, public approval of Trident, etc.

The No campaign is built entirely on fearmongering and it's just insulting.

[Iwamoto Yuri]

they need to make up their minds then...