When the waiters bring you your food with their thumbs sticking in it - and proceed to lick their thumbs as they walk away. When they stand right behind you shouting into their telephones for half an hour, or upwind of you smoking cigarettes and spitting into the street. When they take forever to serve you but then swipe your plates and drinking vessels away before you're actually finished with them. When they refuse to serve you because your silence is interpreted as arrogance, but when you do actually call them it is regarded as impatience and they refuse to serve you anyway. When they insist on speaking the only three words of English they know after you've already demonstrated your ability to converse in the local vernacular. And when they pretend not to understand you when you converse in the local vernacular so they can practise the only three words of English they know. When they kick the table right next to yours because there was a cat or a dog lurking nearby - or a beggar, which is worse.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
rowan wrote:When the waiters bring you your food with their thumbs sticking in it - and proceed to lick their thumbs as they walk away. When they stand right behind you shouting into their telephones for half an hour, or upwind of you smoking cigarettes and spitting into the street. When they take forever to serve you but then swipe your plates and drinking vessels away before you're actually finished with them. When they refuse to serve you because your silence is interpreted as arrogance, but when you do actually call them it is regarded as impatience and they refuse to serve you anyway. When they insist on speaking the only three words of English they know after you've already demonstrated your ability to converse in the local vernacular. And when they pretend not to understand you when you converse in the local vernacular so they can practise the only three words of English they know. When they kick the table right next to yours because there was a cat or a dog lurking nearby - or a beggar, which is worse.
When does your contract for the Istanbul Tourism Authority end?
I do eat in the cheapest places, to be honest. Soup and a plate of dry beans or rice and chicken goes for the equivalent of about two pounds here, and it's actually good - but the waiters are frequently awful; untrained and underpaid; invariably nephews or kids of the owners' friends or whatever; decked out in their scruffiest T-shirts and torn jeans.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
Fecking Americans taking liberties with the spelling of Her Majesty's English, swapping esses for zeds and dropping vitally important ewes!
Typical snobby English, etc. ... still cant accept that some of their own were tired of taxation and separated from the herd to start their own country. (juat kidding Sarg, you know I love ya more than my luggage)
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
Fecking Americans taking liberties with the spelling of Her Majesty's English, swapping esses for zeds and dropping vitally important ewes!
Typical snobby English, etc. ... still cant accept that some of their own were tired of taxation and separated from the herd to start their own country. (juat kidding Sarg, you know I love ya more than my luggage)
SerjeantWildgoose wrote:
Fecking Americans taking liberties with the spelling of Her Majesty's English, swapping esses for zeds and dropping vitally important ewes!
Typical snobby English, etc. ... still cant accept that some of their own were tired of taxation and separated from the herd to start their own country. (juat kidding Sarg, you know I love ya more than my luggage)
rowan wrote:When the waiters bring you your food with their thumbs sticking in it - and proceed to lick their thumbs as they walk away. When they stand right behind you shouting into their telephones for half an hour, or upwind of you smoking cigarettes and spitting into the street. When they take forever to serve you but then swipe your plates and drinking vessels away before you're actually finished with them. When they refuse to serve you because your silence is interpreted as arrogance, but when you do actually call them it is regarded as impatience and they refuse to serve you anyway. When they insist on speaking the only three words of English they know after you've already demonstrated your ability to converse in the local vernacular. And when they pretend not to understand you when you converse in the local vernacular so they can practise the only three words of English they know. When they kick the table right next to yours because there was a cat or a dog lurking nearby - or a beggar, which is worse.
Coco wrote:
Typical snobby English, etc. ... still cant accept that some of their own were tired of taxation and separated from the herd to start their own country. (juat kidding Sarg, you know I love ya more than my luggage)
Sarge is not English fiend.
She's a fiend, alright!
I've been called some things!
Porky... Hush you.
Sarg... My apologies for assuming you were English. I am a fiend.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.