I'm a member on a number of travel related forums and it never ceases to amaze me how little research people do (read that as no research). The latest is somebody asking where the best place to park in 'Cotswold' is, as they want to make a day trip from London in February with 2 young children.
I agree KT53 … when working I discovered a colleague (in her late twenties) had no idea of NSEor W. No idea of which direction to head in order to drive from Norwich to Birmingham … when I suggested that it might be ‘due East of here’ that was accepted unquestioningly 🤯. When I explained that meant she’d end up in the North Sea she asked how you could get to the North Sea by travelling East?!?!
I asked how she intended to drive to Birmingham? She said she’d use her Satnav … I asked what she’d do if that system was incapacitated for some reason … did she have a road atlas in her car? No … never had one … she’d phone her Dad. 🤯🤬
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lol Dove, that reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my American colleagues some years ago. Their level of general knowledge was astoundingly low, somehow she thought that London and England were in different parts of Europe. Also she was convinced that Scotland was “too small” to show up on her sat nav or a map. When I asked her if she researched for her trip to Europe she just said “it’s not that big I’ll just ask the person in the train station”, she had plans to visit 5 countries and only spoke English…..
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
An American working in Brussels on a 3 yr assignment to a senior position in Exxon asked his British boss (my friend's OH and a good gardening friend) if Paris was worth a visit before he went home and could he and his wife do it in a day.
In the 80s I saw a tiny press article about 2 Americans heard on a coach coming bacl form a trip to Windsor castle - "Well, it's all very nice but I wouldn't have built it so close to the airport".
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
To be fair, many people in the UK are just as clueless. I once had to bite my tongue when I heard somebody talking about a trip to Blackpool they had been on when somebody had asked if that was the Atlantic Ocean they were looking at. They went on to say the questioner was stupid not to know it was the North Sea. Sadly they weren't joking.
Similar experience. Travelling across Europe 1972 - arrived in Rome at the Youth Hostel there. Dormitory style - an American girl putting her stuff away asked us where we were from. "New Zealand" we chorused. Oh! She said "What part of the States is that?"
There’s a very confused generation out there … not long ago I was assured that the term I was using was actually written ‘pre-Madonna’ (you have to say it out loud) and not the rather obscure operatic term I wrote it as 🤣
Also, on a musical quiz programme, when asked to name an American singer-songwriter the contestant named an artist called Simon Garfunkel … 🤭
And its us older folk who are accused of confusion 🤯 😂
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Still no fridge engineer, they now say they will come tomorrow. I wasted an hour and a half chasing up at various call centres. If they had come when originally promised we might have saved some of the foods, but not now.
Apart from Charles I, has a UK royal ever been taken to court?
I personally believe that no one should be above the law and should be prosecuted in the same way. Leaders should not be above the law - to me the law should be applied more stringently to those who hold power. Isn't that done the lower down the chain - ie a PC who is convicted is sentenced according to their role as an enforcer of the law.
Given evidence circulating then, shouldn't an investigation into certain public figures have been instigated way back?
If you’re thinking of Prince Andrew, isn’t there a problem deciding if any laws have actually been broken and where … and would a statute of limitations apply? If reports are correct, his behaviour appears to have been reprehensible … but reprehensible behaviour does not always a crime make.
With my child protection hat on, I want to know what action might be considered against Ms Guiffre’s parents and others similarly involved, for child neglect or even child endangerment.
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In the 80s I saw a tiny press article about 2 Americans heard on a coach coming bacl form a trip to Windsor castle - "Well, it's all very nice but I wouldn't have built it so close to the airport".
‘pre-Madonna’ (you have to say it out loud) and not the rather obscure operatic term I wrote it as 🤣
Also, on a musical quiz programme, when asked to name an American singer-songwriter the contestant named an artist called
Simon Garfunkel … 🤭
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.