h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Admittedly, customers are to be ignored & snubbed. I mean, how dare they interrupt a phone call. That's just shocking

Anne, I was a croupier for 25 years. My chefs de salle would have shot me in coram publico.

Pit, I dread to ask the English translation of the previous post, but I'm going to anyway

Croupier - casino, roulette. Chef de Salle - stupid nincompoop or my boss and pope, depending on point of view.

As a croupier, do you get tips, or is it a flat rate? , I'm just nosey. If you don't want to answer that, it's fine

Cheers Pit, but 'corem publico' appears to to untranslated in your last post. Can you possibly elaborate?

Not so petty hate: Itches that won't go away!

Why not refuse to pay and walk out without paying? That might put an end to their phone call. When apprehended, say: Oh, sorry, I thought you didn't want paying as oyu were showing no interest in me.

(Another PH of Anne OMally) - People like me who have a good idea after the event)

In coram publico - right in front of the public eyes.

Our pay - we have the old Frech system. The house doesn´t pay us, the guests do. Hitting a full number, you get 35:1, and you are expected to say "one for the boys". Newbies who don´t know that, or cheapskates who don´t do that get a good talking to by the regulars - and a young´un who is as unfriendly as to make a guest say "nothing"...you won´t like to be wearing his shoes.

Petty hate -

Finishing off the end of a cup of coffee - and getting little chunks of limescale in your mouth!!

Taking a jug of milk out of the fridge for a cup of tea, pouring it in and as you begin to sip it, realise the milk was off (Then looking closely at the jug and seeing the lumps of green fur!

So what? It's all natural.

PH: people saying "it's natural" when they mean "it's healthy".

"Here, Socrates, drink this -- it's all organic."

"Sir - if you were my husband I´d poison you tea" (female PM)

"Madam, if I were your husband I´d drink it" (Winston Churchill)

Reminds me of the other classic put down, but I don't remember who said it:

Lady someone or other: Sir! You are drunk!

Him: And you, madam, are ugly! But I shall be sober in the morning!

Someone must know who said what.......

See above. The same two.

Corrections to above....

Lady Astor wanted to poison Winston's tea....

Bessie Braddock (Liverpool MP with a face like a bag of nails) was the 'ugly' onr referred to by Churchill...




GT

...and if anyone knows what "ugly" means, I guess Churchill did.

KB!!!

BTW........Your QI dead now?????





GT

I´m very fond of old Sir W. Not only was he absolutely nonPC when plastered, in his Service days he carried a German sidearm.

Folderol2 - I can beat that.

My daughter was a pain for saying she didn't like her food, when she just didn't want it. One morning she complained her cornflakes tasted horrible. I was fed up with hearing moaning every mealtime so told her to shut up and eat.
You're ahead of me here, aren't you...?
Yes, five minutes later I noticed the lumps in my coffee.

Moonhogg -

A very recent pat hate - last night actualkly.

Over the last few days a smell has arisen in the kitchen - a sort of gone off cream smell - sicky, cheesy, orrible. Eventually tracked it down to the back of the fridge/freezer where there's a sort of large drip tray built into a space, that catches residual moisture fom de-frosting. It obviously isn't pure water 'cos the 'liquid' smelt like cheesy gone off cream mixed with sick

Why don't the manufacturers say in their blurb about mainenance that you might get a smell from the back of the fridge that makes you want to vomit?