Things you'd like to say, but can't

[Flying_Monkey]

Please don't tell me again how you couldn't get here to do the assessment because you couldn't get your car on the ferry. Your only equipment is a tape measure, and I told you several times to take the (free) bus which stops 5 minutes' walk from my house, and so did the bank. Now it's been two weeks since you were supposed to carry out this formality and if you don't report to the bank soon, we will not be able to get this mortgage agreed in time to order what we need before it's too late this year. And don't even get me started on the complete incompetence of the measurements you took when you finally got here, or how you asked for the plans and measurements for the new house twice after you had acknowledged receiving them from us...

How do these useless people end up in such important positions? Without them nothing can be done, but tbey can't even carry out the simple job they are supposed to be able to do.

 

[ScotiaLass]

For You ScotiaLass

I may not understand the social rules and I may be quirky. But that's me and I like who I am, even if you don't

I would like to say,if i may.I saw your Wedding photos earlier this week,and i am going to say you are BEAUTIFUL.There i said it.

Why thank you Sir!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Listening to Radio 4 Extra:

It is BACH!! You Southern idiots, you keep calling him 'Bark'!!

Even when you get the 'CH' right, you STILL say

'Barch'!!


FFS!!

 

[stephec]

Listening to Radio 4 Extra:

It is BACH!! You English twats, you keep calking him 'Bark'!!

Even when you get the 'CH' right, you STILL say

'Barch'!!


FFS!!

How positively common.

I bet you even say bath instead of barrth?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How positively common.

I bet you even say bath instead of barrth?

Of course I do, because there isn't an 'r' in bath!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Things I'd like to say, but can't... almost anything in Danish! Or at least in Danish the way Københavnere pronounce things

Especially place names/directions in Copenhagen e.g. Fredriksberg which is said Fris-beh by the locals but if you asked one they'd smile like you are a small, and rather dull, child and say "Free-Driks-Berg" using English pronunciation with a Danish accent.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'm currently packing your order. Please stop 'phoning back to add "just one more thing".

(Certain of our dealers won't order anything for a couple of weeks then when they do the package often has to be reopened two or three times before sending or even completely reboxed to cater for extra bits. which is slightly frustrating )

 

[ScotiaLass]

You charge over inflated prices and service with a scowl.
Buy local? No thanks, I'd rather burn my eyes out with a hot poker!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Tesco put down the price of a Warburton loaf from £1.25 to match the Aldi 95p when there was a great kerfuffle a while back.
This week it went back up again.
Headline grabbing price reduction back to 95p coming up perhaps?

 

[gavgav]

Will you make an effort to find out the level of work your staff are currently undertaking, and stop coming down the office expecting them to drop everything to do your "urgent" task when they already have a multitude of mandatory returns to produce and send off today that will involve the sack if they aren't done!!!!

 

[Ganymede]

Things I'd like to say, but can't... almost anything in Danish! Or at least in Danish the way Københavnere pronounce things

Especially place names/directions in Copenhagen e.g. Fredriksberg which is said Fris-beh by the locals but if you asked one they'd smile like you are a small, and rather dull, child and say "Free-Driks-Berg" using English pronunciation with a Danish accent.

The Danes love to prove that you can't learn Danish. It isn't true of course.

The trick in this case is to imagine that your tongue and lips have been anaesthetised, and say the whole thing, "Fredriksberg". It will sound like "Fris-beh" but with that crucial elusive middle syllable hinted at. Hope that helps!

 

[EltonFrog]

"Can't afford to go to Centre Parcs" you say?

"Thank heavens for small mercies, they are expensive shiteholes. For the money they charge you'd think they would get a spell checker " I'd like to say.

 

[Mandragora]

Oh, I'm sorry. Does me asking questions about things really threaten you so very much? I'll just STFU then and not point out the issues and conflicts, the problems you're going to create for yourself and us, nor will I suggest any alternatives. And then I'll sit back and watch while you slow-motion into the car crash you've set us up with. That's what I'll be doing from now on, because speaking up and trying to explain what the issues are has only led to me getting into trouble. Just saying.

 

[Lullabelle]

Apparently you are a special analyst or what ever and you have figured out that supermarkets are ripping us off misleading us with the 'special deals' gee what a genius you are, didn't figure that one out for myself

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The Danes love to prove that you can't learn Danish. It isn't true of course.

The trick in this case is to imagine that your tongue and lips have been anaesthetised, and say the whole thing, "Fredriksberg". It will sound like "Fris-beh" but with that crucial elusive middle syllable hinted at. Hope that helps!

you forgot that your mouth is also full of marshmallows, and you've had at least two beers and a Gammel Dansk chaser

Danish tongue twister that aren't tongue twisters at all just a way to make children and forenz say things in a funny accent. What is that about? Writing Slut and Fart everywhere! I Fart = In service. How does one keep straight face?

ironically if you ask a non-Copenhagener how to say it they will say a mumblecore version of frid-ricks-berh. But really fast. And, I kid you not, it varies across generations, Amager is Am-ah (last syllable gets binned) to the hipsters but something like Ah-mah-er to their grandparents. The difference is so great I though they were talking about to different places.

The other genuinely funny thing is never ask two people walking along together for directions. They will just have a friendly argument, in Danish, about the best way to get to your destination, involving which route has the best cafes, least immigrants (immigrants=criminals. Danish prisons were presumably empty before forenz were allowed in), which political party best manages the Danish economy, &c., &c. and quite possibly forget you are there and the question you asked.

But I think they are lovely people and cph is a lovely city.