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Post by lazybones on Jan 6, 2021 11:35:44 GMT
We have a BT engineer coming today. Do I need to shake him by the hand when he leaves, locking eyes and making it clear that there is a folded £10 note being pressed into his palm?
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Post by amipal on Jan 6, 2021 11:36:33 GMT
I would tip a takeaway driver, though I don't do it so much these days because it's all online. I look after people who give me good service. That's what I say when I give a tip. Locking eyes and pressing my money firmly into their hand. When we get a Chinese takeaway delivered, the price is usually a couple of quid short of a round thirty big ones. So being the generous type, as the delivery driver begins to reach for his money belt, I say “don’t worry about it”. And I know that he can now afford to put his kids through university. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 6, 2021 11:45:43 GMT
Making Meatloaf for dinner tonight, my mum used to make a great one I've yet to achieve that level.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 11:50:57 GMT
We have a BT engineer coming today. Do I need to shake him by the hand when he leaves, locking eyes and making it clear that there is a folded £10 note being pressed into his palm? BT engineers are pretty well paid. Plus it's an elbow bump at most, no touching. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 6, 2021 11:58:32 GMT
Tipping is just another black box of social etiquette that we don't need - who / when / how much? It's a recipe for inadvertently causing offence. See also: hugging and kissing as forms of greeting or farewell. One of the best things about covid has been the universal adoption of the curt nod from several metres away.
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 6, 2021 12:03:59 GMT
What about bus drivers? Dentists? Accounts? The assistant in the co-op?
Where does it end?
I'll tip a takeaway if it's not late. I don't tip the window cleaner or milkman all year, but do give a Xmas tip. My barber charges £9 (I don't have much hair) so I give him a tenner.
It's a minefield and no mistake.
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 6, 2021 12:05:05 GMT
Tip THIS.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 12:13:40 GMT
It doesn't appear to have a tip.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 12:15:07 GMT
TenthEnemy
How are you and the PM/SO?
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 6, 2021 13:02:05 GMT
I don't tip; it's not my responsibility to make up the pay packets of the bloke or blokette who I happen to see; added to which, shielding precludes getting within 2 metres of anyone except the poor bastards who treat me. Them I talk to and find out stuff about them and research gifts that they won't be likely to either find or buy for themselves AND it takes me a lot more time, effort and money than patronisingly giving them a couple of quid. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2021 13:06:45 GMT
I put my bins out on a Wednesday. That’s the tip the bin man gets.
My mum always did the Xmas tip in an envelope - I think I’ll revive that for next year.
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 6, 2021 13:07:21 GMT
So if your deliveroo charge for delivery you tip as well?
Currently going through my Lastpass vault deleting a pile of old accounts. It's a homage to failed, monetised or bought over dot-coms... Posterous, scrubly, smalldemons, traqr, handcent.. the list goes on
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 6, 2021 13:28:24 GMT
As for the Tory M.Ps who want timetables on the progression of reduction of the number of infected vs the increase in the number of infected AND the capacity of the NHS to deal with the effects ofnfuckwits expressing their freedom to do what the fuck they want, without consideration for anyone else, should be made severally and individually liable for the additional deaths that their criminal desire to remove measures to curb the spread of this fucking disease will be responsible.
There's more mutations coming and every premature relaxation of restrictions creates precisely the conditions for not only the spread of new strains, but the CREATION of new mutations.
Cuuuuuuuuunts!
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Jan 6, 2021 13:34:12 GMT
Which is the forza with the top gear track? afternoon Forza Motorsport 4 and soon (supposedly) Forza Horizon 4 |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 6, 2021 14:07:51 GMT
Meatloaf made now to make Pepper beef for tomorrow's dinner, which is basically shin of beef covered in cracked pepper and cooked in red wine for 3 or 4 hours.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 14:13:22 GMT
We are making good progress.
Raccoon City will be out of lockdown in a few days.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 14:22:59 GMT
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Post by scamander on Jan 6, 2021 14:51:10 GMT
one of the advantages about having a podcast is that waiters and delivery drivers will tip you not to talk about it with them.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 6, 2021 15:11:36 GMT
TenthEnemyHow are you and the PM/SO? I've only just talked to him and he's a bit short of breath and again on oxygen, but otherwise okay and had a peaceful night. He's seen a doctor earlier who (unsurprisingly) said that they would take things one day at a time. He might be able to get her to phone me later to give me more information, but I was just relieved to hear from him. The worry is, of course, as the US President put it so eloquently, that " it does a tremendous number on the lungs". He's frustrated that is yet another setback on his quest to get home, though the old chap in the bed opposite his has it worse, because he was looking forward to going home after 18 months in that place, and now this. He's also worried that I could get it, but so far I may have dodged it. Only time will tell. My sister in law works as a biochemist in the lab of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and she was telling me that although the Covid testing is very reliable for a positive diagnosis, it is notoriously unreliable in delivering negative test results. As she put it, it's "almost as bad as flipping a coin". The grandchildren's parents now think in hindsight that (like you yourself) they and the kids might have had it early last year. The estimate of 1 in 50 people (excluding hospitals and care homes) having had a case of Covid last week no longer surprises me. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/one-in-50-people-in-england-had-covid-in-week-to-2-january |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 15:24:44 GMT
Well that's not great, but not terrible.
Hope he gets better soon.
I was a covid survivor before it was fashionable. Well probably.
I haven't had a test for antibodies as it required parting with £100 and going to Nottingham*. There didn't seem to be much point as it wouldn't change anything. I.e. I might still be a carrier. Plus I wouldn't necessarily be immune to any variants and am still required to obey the rules.
If it wasn't covid it was something similar I have not had before.
I was vaguely ill for a week from 22 Feb 2020 and pretty much ignored it. then actually ill for a couple of days then got better, well before the first lockdown.
I was pretty much patient zero.
I probably picked it up at the football. Brentford at home on 15/2 or possibly at Barnsley on 11/2.
* The £100 wasn't the issue
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 6, 2021 15:53:58 GMT
tenthenemy sending you and the Pref.Mam. all my thoughts and other good stuff. I think me and the Pref.Mam* might have caught Covid in March, we were laid low** for a week, with partial symptoms, as Sheep said that is rather irrelevant now as it seems you can get it twice and still pass it on so minimising contact with other people*** is still the order of the day. *My Pref.Mam. **Of course her first and then me. ***Basically only people who give**** us food and booze. ****sell/deliver
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 6, 2021 15:57:45 GMT
On another note, we've changed our brand of stock cubes, we were using Knorr but for some stupid reason they removed the colour coding from the packaging, so if, as we do, you just bung them all in a tin you can't tell which is which.
OXO it is.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 6, 2021 16:05:12 GMT
DR (formerly Danmarks Radio) and DR2 were a feature of my childhood because the Danish border is very close to us and there is a sizeable Danish minority. It has always been fairly quirky, but it was very good for learning English, because unlike on German television where all foreign film gets dubbed into German, Danish television uses subtitles for films and television series in English unless they are part of their children's programme on men who can't control their penis. It was also good for learning to read Danish. Speaking Danish, on the other hand, is pretty much impossible. My brother claims to be able to, but I don't believe him. This leads to a severe communication problem throughout the Danish speaking population, so when the programme got commissioned most likely nobody had a clue what it was actually about and now somebody has æg on their face. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 16:05:56 GMT
Keep the thoughts, no matter how kind. Just send the good booze.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 6, 2021 16:12:13 GMT
Having been to Copenhagen I can confirm no one actually speaks Danish.
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