Between two 'older' ladies, outside the bank today:
'So, where did you go, then?'
'Oh, we chose Cologne in the end. Not what we were expecting, but very nice. Very ... Parisian.'
The long delay says it all really. I'm still wondering what she WAS expecting. The Pyramids of Egypt? The Hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of Wildebeeste striding majestically across the plains ...

Maybe a few Perfectly Normal Beasts appearing from nowhere...

Hang on, just had a thought about the Minotaur- you think it'll go away if I just ignore it?

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What would Hitler think: Cologne being quite 'Parisian'.

Make the whole of WW2 a waste then, dunnit?

*snork*

Not so much as overheard, but I was once told by one checkout chick that another checkout chick was "so ignorant to the customers". Years later I am still trying to work out what she meant...

In the North West of England "to be ignorant" can imply rudeness. (ignorant of good manners, I suppose).

So to be "so ignorant to the customers" would be quite a common statement.

I've argued about this multiple times, even with the same person, and it is very common in the North-West, and now in South Wales. It's highly annoying, and when I try to explain that it's a shortened 'ignorant of good manners' I get ignored.

Grrrrrrrr. It makes no sense in the context!

Egon.

ignorant pack of buggers, arn't they.

Oz alert - when someone round here says, 'I quite fancy Dorking,' it's NOT what you think!

So you don't tie nerds to string and dangle them in the Thames?

Not at all! We use them as bait for Nessie on summer holidays, actually.

Anyone want to go to Yonkers?

Ah Dorking!


At least you could have included Scunthorpe.