What’s on your mind?

[MmkLucario]

This is probably going to a running joke around the community, as I’ve been asking how to play Minecraft Bedrock on my Mac.

Imagine someone if recognizes me, and they say I’m the guy wanting to play Minecraft Bedrock on my Mac. Lol. 😂

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The changing night sky.

 

[AVBeatMan]

So like 8 years? My home office chair needs replacing to. But I think we’ve had it about 20 years. It just squeaks awfully. But I can’t stop it with oiling or tightening up.

One of my team had a chair at home that lost it's err, pump action thing? It just kept dropping down? Anyway, to cut a long story short, rather than go through the rigmarole of filling in work orders and filling in forms etc I just took one of the many spares in our office, put it in my car and drove it to their house. No forms, no cost, no fuss. Result. Sometimes common sense is needed.

 

[rm5]

1. I played a nice gig at a museum tonight with a vocalist. Lots of people showed up and it payed very well. It was a lot of fun!
2. Rather than being in the Discord voice channel tonight, since the other members were playing Forza, which I don't care about, I painstakingly "logged" over 150 video clips for a promotional video I'm working on—naming them appropriately, and deleting ones that don't work well.
3. It's 2:00 in the morning, and I am not tired, although I should probably go to bed...

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Glad to learn that your presence and work were both appreciated and that you were well remunerated - indeed very well paid - for your night's work.

As for your humble scribe, I headed into the farmers' market this morning and took in the bottle bank, and the French bakery where my order awaited me.

Olives, cheese, local honey, garlic, eggs, spinach, cherry tomatoes, aubergines, wild garlic pesto, some Iberico salami, and semi-sundried tomatoes were all purchased.

The season for blood oranges has come to an end, alas, for - although I had requested that some be kept or put aside for me - none were available for none had been delivered.

Tulips have now joined daffodils - I love to see them both, but - in common with blood oranges, the season for daffodils is also drawing to a close.

 

[Apple fanboy]

It must be spring as I’ve been to the tip twice this morning.
More gardening awaits after lunch. Then maybe a walk.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Individuals who insist on being served when others are already being served; in other words, queue jumpers.

Twice, this morning, (once in the French bakery, where - when I had arrived - the queue, quite literally, had extended beyond the door, and once, in the market; on neither occasion was I the person in the process of being served - I was waiting - but, on both occasions, assertive and entitled gentlemen - behind me - cut across the service to others) entitled gentlemen cut across the servers, and demanded attention. There was no apology, just a settled assumption that they would be accommodated.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Individuals who insist on being served when others are already being served; in other words, queue jumpers.

Twice, this morning, (once in the French bakery, where - when I had arrived - the queue, quite literally, had extended beyond the door, and once, in the market; on neither occasion was I the person in the process of being sevred - I was waiting - but, on both occasions, assertive and entitled gentlemen - behind me - cut across the service to others) entitled gentlemen cut across the servers, and demanded attention. There was no apology, just a settled assumption that they would be accommodated.

Did you put them in their place? I certainly would have done.

Gardening is done for the day. Now a cup of tea is sitting beside me and my thoughts are drawn to this afternoon’s important matches. A much needed three points will significantly improve my weekend.

 

[AVBeatMan]

Did you put them in their place? I certainly would have done.

Gardening is done for the day. Now a cup of tea is sitting beside me and my thoughts are drawn to this afternoon’s important matches. A much needed three points will significantly improve my weekend.

"We" got our 3 points! 😁

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Did you put them in their place? I certainly would have done.

Gardening is done for the day. Now a cup of tea is sitting beside me and my thoughts are drawn to this afternoon’s important matches. A much needed three points will significantly improve my weekend.

The first one (middle-aged, confident, entitled, convinced that his time was more valuable than anyone else's) was two places behind me - and, ahead of me, a youngish woman and a young Asian man were in the process of being served, - and he argued that he was there to pick up an advance order that had been placed by his wife.

Now, I was also there to pick up an advance order - as I do almost every week, and I would never dream of pushing ahead; occasionally, if the staff in the French bakery spot me in the queue, and if they are not exceptionally busy, and if I have paid in advance, they will hand me my bagged bread, but I would never dream of asking them to do so.

In the French bakery, no, I said nothing. There was a large crowd, - mostly women, including the staff - and I let it go and had forgotten it until the second incident, in the market, a few minutes later.

Usually, the atmosphere in both the French bakery and the market is relaxed and pleasant.

However, in the market, at one of the organic vegetable stalls, an elderly gentleman was being served, and was chatting very pleasantly with the Stallholder - and the conversation confirmed that this was his first day back with his stall since the winter break - I was next, and was waiting, and an entitled gentleman (large, middle aged, loud, confident, entitled) - who wanted quite a few things, and began gathering them - cut across us.

Then, I did demur, and remarked (very politely) that the elderly gentleman was actually being served; he seemed to have been a decent and pleasant person, for he immediately turned to me with a smile and said to me (and to the stallholder - he didn't address the queue jumper) that he was fine.

The arrogance and cheek, and entitlement of these individuals - invariably middle aged (white) men - who think that their time is worth more than anyone else's and act accordingly.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Individuals who insist on being served when others are already being served; in other words, queue jumpers.

Twice, this morning, (once in the French bakery, where - when I had arrived - the queue, quite literally, had extended beyond the door, and once, in the market; on neither occasion was I the person in the process of being sevred - I was waiting - but, on both occasions, assertive and entitled gentlemen - behind me - cut across the service to others) entitled gentlemen cut across the servers, and demanded attention. There was no apology, just a settled assumption that they would be accommodated.

I usually embarrass people in that situation by saying loudly: ‘Excuse me, do you realise we are all waiting in a queue here and it’s not your turn!’. They either apologise or get very red and angry because they’ve been embarrassed in front of onlookers for their arrogance lol. I do love an awkward public confrontation when in the right context lol. Why are these people usually men and women in their late 50’s and early 60’s though? These are the very people who taught us and demand manners. Obviously not always but an alarming majority in my experiences.

My other pet peeve is stopping to let someone pass or holding a door for someone and they just breeze past without an acknowledgment. I always say ‘THANK YOU’ and usually get one begrudgingly back .

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I usually embarrass people in that situation by saying loudly: ‘Excuse me, do you realise we are all waiting in a queue here and it’s not your turn!’. They either apologise or get very red and angry because they’ve been embarrassed in front of onlookers for their arrogance lol. I do love an awkward public confrontation when in the right context lol. Why are these people usually men and women in their late 50’s and early 60’s though? These are the very people who taught us and demand manners. Obviously not always but an alarming majority in my experiences.

My other pet peeve is stopping to let someone pass or holding a door for someone and they just breeze past without an acknowledgment. I always say ‘THANK YOU’ and usually get one begrudgingly back .

I'm laughing at your apt observation: Anyway, I suspect that it is because these are the very people who are at the apex or summit of their careers and/or professions and they think that they can order the world to their whims, or compel their surroundings to adapt to them and respond to their needs.

They think that the rules that govern behaviour - those unwritten but understood rules that we call manners - don't apply to them, and that they don't need to abide by them if it doesn't suit them.

You don't find people from minorities behaving like this, or youngsters, or less well off individuals, or or - for the most part - women, but, as you say, there are clear and obvious exceptions. And people who were brought up to think of others - people with some manners - don't behave like this.

Today's pair were both confident, middle class, middle-aged - impatient and entitled - men. No apology, just an assumption that they would be accommodated. And they were.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I'm laughing at your apt observation: Anyway, I suspect that it is because these are the very people who are at the apex or summit of their careers and/or professions and they think that they can order the world to their whims, or compel their surroundings to adapt to them and respond to their needs.

You don't find people from minorities behaving like this, or youngsters, or less well off individuals, or or - for the most part - women, but, as you say, there are clear and obvious exceptions. And people who were brought up to think of others - people with some manners - don't behave like this.

Today's pair were both confident, middle class, middle-aged - impatient and entitled - men. No apology, just an assumption that they would be accommodated. And they were.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there regarding these people probably being arrogant and self important within their careers and this reflects in public. I like the ones who go red and shake their heads before retreating, firmly in the belief it’s you who is the rude young person who has dared to question their cheeky and audacious manoeuvre lol.

By the way these are the same people who will not let you onto a slow moving roundabout or when lanes are merging and do the ‘if I don’t look at them, they are not there’ routine. There’s that awkward period where the traffic has stopped and you are nearly in front of them staring directly at the side of their head whilst they sit there praying for the traffic to start moving again, refusing any politeness whatsoever.

I need this vent, I went to IKEA this morning to get a few bits for the house and would have loved to have walked through swinging a Kendo stick at all the slow moving aisle cutting swine that sought to ruin my morning.

 

[KaliYoni]

Individuals who insist on being served when others are already being served; in other words, queue jumpers.

I usually embarrass people in that situation by saying loudly: ‘Excuse me, do you realise we are all waiting in a queue here and it’s not your turn!’. They either apologise or get very red and angry because they’ve been embarrassed in front of onlookers for their arrogance lol.

As a North American, I feel that the queue expectations and the reaction to challenges to queue jumping are uniquely English. Here, there's a good chance somebody who is publicly admonished by a stranger would get angry and belligerent. And my spouse, whose mother is from North Yorkshire, is always complaining about people's "lack of queuing skills".

What do either of you think? Do you find line-waiting behaviors to be radically different when you're outside of England or the UK?

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For anybody interested, these are two books about English manners I've enjoyed:

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior

Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of - which over the...

www.amazon.com

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They ...

www.amazon.com

 

[Apple fanboy]

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there regarding these people probably being arrogant and self important within their careers and this reflects in public. I like the ones who go red and shake their heads before retreating, firmly in the belief it’s you who is the rude young person who has dared to question their cheeky and audacious manoeuvre lol.

By the way these are the same people who will not let you onto a slow moving roundabout or when lanes are merging and do the ‘if I don’t look at them, they are not there’ routine. There’s that awkward period where the traffic has stopped and you are nearly in front of them staring directly at the side of their head whilst they sit there praying for the traffic to start moving again, refusing any politeness whatsoever.

I need this vent, I went to IKEA this morning to get a few bits for the house and would have loved to have walked through swinging a Kendo stick at all the slow moving aisle cutting swine that sought to ruin my morning.

IKEA on a bank holiday weekend? I’d sooner swim with sharks after a dry shave with a blunt razor.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

As a North American, I feel that the queue expectations and the reaction to challenges to queue jumping are uniquely English. Here, there's a good chance somebody who is publicly admonished by a stranger would get angry and belligerent. And my spouse, whose mother is from North Yorkshire, is always complaining about people's "lack of queuing skills".

What do either of you think? Do you find line-waiting behaviors to be radically different when you're outside of England or the UK?

----------
For anybody interested, these are two books about English manners I've enjoyed:

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior

Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of - which over the...

www.amazon.com

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They ...

www.amazon.com

There’s definitely a difference and it’s noticeable when we go abroad to places like Spain where Brits mix with other nationalities like Italians and Germans on holiday where the concept of queuing seems to be alien. I remember going on a Royal Caribbean cruise back in 2010 which was around the eastern Mediterranean and a good proportion onboard were American, British, German and Italians. It was quite common to see queues for buffet areas and coffee machines and the odd argument where someone had just waltzed down the front and cut in. The reactions were usually disbelief anybody would even challenge them lol.

The risk of challenging someone is they will get angry, but then they don’t care that they are making you angry by being rude in the first place, so there is that.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Pondering recipes for dinner.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Happy Easter!!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Happy Easter!!

Many happy returns.

And a warm welcome back.

 

[AngerDanger]

The phenomenon of an old thread being resurrected by a spam newbie account, people replying to the OP, the newbie's comment getting deleted, and the impression left that longtime users randomly remembered a thread from half a decade ago.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The phenomenon of an old thread being resurrected by a spam newbie account, people replying to the OP, the newbie's comment getting deleted, and the impression left that longtime users randomly remembered a thread from half a decade ago.

I doubt that they (long time users or members) remembered a thread from half a decade ago.

Rather, - as much of what appears online is exceedingly ephemeral, I suspect that our memories treat it in much the same way.

In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that we would have a better chance of recalling a headline from a (print) newspaper that is over a decade old, as we would have in being able to remember a thread from long ago.

 

[Apple fanboy]

The phenomenon of an old thread being resurrected by a spam newbie account, people replying to the OP, the newbie's comment getting deleted, and the impression left that longtime users randomly remembered a thread from half a decade ago.

What to expect in the iPhone 6 thread been resurrected again? 😛

 

[AngerDanger]

What to expect in the iPhone 6 thread been resurrected again? 😛

And you wouldn't believe which succulent it smells like!

 

[compwiz1202]

I'm laughing at your apt observation: Anyway, I suspect that it is because these are the very people who are at the apex or summit of their careers and/or professions and they think that they can order the world to their whims, or compel their surroundings to adapt to them and respond to their needs.

They think that the rules that govern behaviour - those unwritten but understood rules that we call manners - don't apply to them, and that they don't need to abide by them if it doesn't suit them.

You don't find people from minorities behaving like this, or youngsters, or less well off individuals, or or - for the most part - women, but, as you say, there are clear and obvious exceptions. And people who were brought up to think of others - people with some manners - don't behave like this.

Today's pair were both confident, middle class, middle-aged - impatient and entitled - men. No apology, just an assumption that they would be accommodated. And they were.

And this is why I am usually even more upset with the business. They need to put the rude customer in their place. If that would happen enough, I would stop patronizing them and tell them why. And I would also patronize them more if they put the rudes in their place.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Pondering recipes for dinner.

Homemade Tomato Soup accompanied by a prosciutto crudo sandwich with 3 cheese on buttered brioche bread and strawberry jam.