dealing with customers

[gene]

Winston Churchill

Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill seemed by all accounts to hate each other with a passion. At a dinner function one evening Churchill was his usual inebriated self. Churchill lived by the moto "Booze is good." Nancy Astor was, as usual, discusted with Churchill.

Anyway, this is one of my favorite quotes by Churchill:

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

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I thought Gene's remarks were both clever and funny.  Sorry if anyone was offended by them as I don't think that was his intent.

Isn't it amazing where our society has come with "offending" people. It used to be that if I was offended, that was my responsibility. Today it's your fault!

Peter Bogghosian is a professor of Critical Thinking at Portland State Universty. In a recent interview he said he had an upcoming meeting with a vice chairperson of the university. The purpose for the meeting: he was giving a class lecture and he referred to an inanimate object as "he" and he was reported to the university by a student for sexist speech.

gene

[sofadoc]

Steve, don't want to be a grammar/punctuation cop.

Back in the day before this new fangled interweb, the term "functional illiterate" was quite common.
Many people functioned quite well in society without ever having mastered even reasonably proper English spelling and sentence structure.

But then one day, Al Gore handed each and every one of those people a keyboard. He didn't add any provisions like "But you have to learn how to use it right!"
People just started mashing buttons.....and away we went.

There are many Facebook posts that I find very difficult to read. The spelling is horrible, and many sentences go on for 3 or 4 paragraphs without even so much as a comma. Somebody will make a critical remark about it, and they immediately get accused of being a "Grammar Nazi".

The poor punctuation and spelling instances on this forum is actually quite minimal. Sure, there's the occasional misuse of their, there, and they're.........where, were, and we're..........your and you're.......to and too........and there is DEFINITELY no "A" in definitely. Affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

If anyone thinks that I'm inferring that your grammar is poor, I'm not............I'm implying (you're inferring).     

[Virgs Sew n Sew]

Steve, don't want to be a grammar/punctuation cop.

Back in the day before this new fangled interweb, the term "functional illiterate" was quite common.
Many people functioned quite well in society without ever having mastered even reasonably proper English spelling and sentence structure.

But then one day, Al Gore handed each and every one of those people a keyboard. He didn't add any provisions like "But you have to learn how to use it right!"
People just started mashing buttons.....and away we went.

There are many Facebook posts that I find very difficult to read. The spelling is horrible, and many sentences go on for 3 or 4 paragraphs without even so much as a comma. Somebody will make a critical remark about it, and they immediately get accused of being a "Grammar Nazi".

The poor punctuation and spelling instances on this forum is actually quite minimal. Sure, there's the occasional misuse of their, there, and they're.........where, were, and we're..........your and you're.......to and too........and there is DEFINITELY no "A" in definitely. Affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

If anyone thinks that I'm inferring that your grammar is poor, I'm not............I'm implying (you're inferring).     

Years ago, both Bob & I posted on a Huskers fan web site.  I was one of the first women to be accepted as a knowledgeable fan, probably because I didn't fess up to being a chick until they knew I was a serious fan and didn't think that I was posting because I thought that "fill in the blank with any current player" is dreamy.  Anyway, Bob's pet peeve was not knowing the difference between lose and loose.  I don't know how many times we saw this posted:  "I sure hope that the Huskers don't loose today."  I could see Bob's BP rise at least 50 points every time lose was misspelled.  The two, to and too, your and you're kind of get stuck in my craw but the older I get the easier it is to just let it go.  Walk on by, nothing there to see attitude I've adopted.

Virginia

[sofadoc]

Yeah, forgot about lose and loose. Also choose and chose.

And it drives me crazy when someone says "I'm going to sale my car". Then they run an ad saying "For Sell".

[Darren Henry]

with me it's people wanting me to borrow them money. [If I do I am lending---they are borrowing] and people aksing (pronounced axing) a question.

[sofadoc]

with me it's people wanting me to borrow them money. [If I do I am lending---they are borrowing] and people aksing (pronounced axing) a question.

My helper never says "Can I borrow $10?"

Instead, he'll say "Can I use $10?"

In his mind, the term "borrow" might imply that repayment is expected.

[gene]

A customer wants 10 boxed cushion covers and says, "You can just whip that out, can't you?" Sure, during my lunch break.
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Business

It is NOT pronounced BID NISS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXcrpnmq8ak

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If it wasn't for pet peeves I don't think I would have anything to complain about?!? I guess I could complain about not having anything to complain about.

gene

[byhammerandhand]

don't forget about ordinance, the stuff you put in guns and cannons.

And I'm waiting for a sports interview that happens without a liberal serving of "you know."   I did some work for a professional football lineman a few years ago.  Despite being a mountain of a guy, he is fairly well-spoken in interviews.

Has this topic drifted far enough yet?

[Rich]

Well, I have to admit that for some reason, I totally missed hammer's photo. Gene's comment did make more sense after I read the sign in the photo.
But sheesh!, it's amazing the things that get the most commented on in many forums.
Rich

[sofadoc]

But sheesh!, it's amazing the things that get the most commented on in many forums.

All the upholstery topics have been beat into the ground.

[Virgs Sew n Sew]

It's a long weekend, no one is working but yet have time on their hands to kibbish (kibbitz???)  a bit.  Love the word but not Jewish so not sure how to spell it,  hope y'all get the idea.

Happy 4th of July all!

Virginia

[kodydog]

Happy Independence Day y'all

[Rich]

It's a long weekend, no one is working but yet have time on their hands to kibbish (kibbitz???)  a bit.  Love the word but not Jewish so not sure how to spell it,  hope y'all get the idea.

Happy 4th of July all!

Virginia

I grew up in Brooklyn-it's kibbitz and if you do it, you're a kibbitzer.
Rich

[Virgs Sew n Sew]

Thanks for the info Rick.  I don't like to intentionally use the wrong word.

So did you grow up a Dodgers Fan or did you "Come over to the dark side" and root for the Mets?

Virginia

[Rich]

I think the Dodgers left Brooklyn when I was still quite young. I was never much of a sports fan, but a friend that lived across the street was a die-hard Yankees fan, we used to collect baseball cards and even went to a Yankees game once.
Rich