The totally off-topic thread

[penegal]

Did you join them? :shock:

So what happened?

The staff kicked them off my table awkwardly. They ascertained that they are guests at the hotel and reseated them at an equivalent table.

Mainlanders ????

Mainland Chinese

First time I went to Tasmania, they asked if I was from the Mainland. Didnt have a clue what they meant for a few seconds.

lol

 

[JohnK]

The earth is flat-
PhD thesis: The earth is flat | GulfNews.com

Cosmology of the Big Bang. Love it. Love the use of capitals as if to signify this is something that indeed occurred and we need to cherish the moment. Shame someone wasn't there to document the moment then we'd all have a clear picture of our origins.

You see everyone believes in myths.

 

[Cynicor]

How very much like mainlanders. Full credit where it's due though, they're improving on the "travel manners" front at a decent rate lately.

The staff kicked them off my table awkwardly. They ascertained that they are guests at the hotel and reseated them at an equivalent table.



Mainland Chinese



lol

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Mainland Chinese

I read that as Mainland Cheese !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Denali]

How very much like mainlanders. Full credit where it's due though, they're improving on the "travel manners" front at a decent rate lately.

You think? Only last year I saw a guy peeing against a wall at Angkor Wat and spitting inside an airport in China.

We dont do buffets often, usually hotel breakfast, but when we do, one of us usually stays back to guard the table from attack.

 

[drron]

First time I went to Tasmania, they asked if I was from the Mainland. Didnt have a clue what they meant for a few seconds.

Used to work in Tasmania a fair bit.Often asked where I was from.When I said QLD one of the comments was-"so you're from the dark side."
Those who know their Star Wars would know the dark side is Boga or Bogan.
I was not amused.

 

[Cynicor]

You think? Only last year I saw a guy peeing against a wall at Angkor Wat and spitting inside an airport in China.

We dont do buffets often, usually hotel breakfast, but when we do, one of us usually stays back to guard the table from attack.

Yep. Imagine how bad they were! ;P

I meant I've seen a few decent/polite ones recently.

 

[Denali]

Watching TV last night and there was some bogan from Nowra that needed subtitles because she couldnt speak a clear, understandable sentence.

Made us laugh, considering Turnballs proposed english speaker migration rule and our own born and raised here citizen couldnt speak clearly.

 

[penegal]

We dont do buffets often, usually hotel breakfast, but when we do, one of us usually stays back to guard the table from attack.

Me neither. This was a hotel breakfast. (and one of the ones where it is generally quite clear that you wait to be seated).

Hard to have someone guard the table when travelling alone.

 

[Denali]

Hard to have someone guard the table when travelling alone.

I wouldnt know what thats like, my husband follows me if I try to leave the house with a suitcase.

Even the few work trips Ive been on, he comes with me - I dont see him most of the time but usually breakfast at least. Unless the poor petal is tired from all that touring and I let him sleep in/leave for the office.

 

[straitman]

I'm generally not someone who worries about which table I sit at in a hotel restaurant, but once you've been seated by staff and they have opened a cheque on the table, generally you can assume it is "yours" for the duration of the meal...

That is until Mainlanders show up and walk past the "wait to be seated" sign and sit on your table when you're up at the buffet.

Was it Chris Mainland:?:

They obviously thought they were doing charity work by sitting with you penegal.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Reports of a police officer killed on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

Paris: Gunman kills officer before being shot dead | France News | Al Jazeera

Will it ever end?

Nope. It hasn't in the last 5000 years so there's little hope in our lifetimes. There are too many people in the world with inconsistent or malfunctioning brain chemistry. Quite a few of whom respond to different religious or other nationalistic triggers. Or who have just been very marginalized in their youth by others with the same defects acting at a national / intercontinental level.

Just google Simon de Montforte and the Albigensian Crusade...

 

[penegal]

Was it Chris Mainland:?:

Nope, not the cheese people either.

They obviously thought they were doing charity work by sitting with you penegal.

Celebrity shock?

 

[rainbowgirl]

I read that as Mainland Cheese !!!!!!!!!!

That's what I saw as well. I had to go back and read all the posts to figure out the whole context of it. I realised there were many different forms of "Mainland" being discussed.

 

[Denali]

Elizabeth Thomas: Missing student found, former teacher arrested

Ive been checking on this case because we were in TN when it happened and it was all over the news.

So glad they found them and hopefully, with time and therapy, the young girl will wake up to herself and realise how ******* dumb she was and hopefully will get on with her life. He was criminal and I hope he ends up in jail.

 

[Pushka]

Funny story yesterday. In a Dubai souvenir type shop and was queued with some very pushy women who pushed past me despite the attendant asking me to give him my basket for service. They'd still been working out what to buy but at that instant as they'd decided they clearly thought it was their turn despite a queue in front of them. I think a mainlander with a large tour group. She was buying about $30 worth of items. Then she asked for a discount. No discount the attendant said. Frown. He totaled up all the goods and she asked again - discount. NO DISCOUNT he said. They walked out sulkily.

Then he took my basket and I said with a big smile - 'I guess there is no discount'. He smiled and said Yes. Discount. Which he did.

Then Dame O was being served so I walked out. I thought she was having issues so I walked back in. Nup. She was having a nice long chat to them. I shrugged and said she does talk a bit. He just laughed.

We've found the people attending to us here to be very friendly and courteous. We dress appropriately and think we are pleasant to them. But have observed some pretty ratty behaviour from other tourists.

 

[Hvr]

First time I went to Tasmania, they asked if I was from the Mainland. Didnt have a clue what they meant for a few seconds.

When in Tasmania I find the best way to get a reaction is to answer, Australia, when asked where I'm from.

 

[Denali]

When in Tasmania I find the best way to get a reaction is to answer, Australia, when asked where I'm from.

I also remember my first trip to Tasmania and filling up my car.

I drove into the service station, stopped my car and proceeded to exit the car and was frightened by a strange man standing at the door.
Me: What are you doing?
Him: Filling up your car?
Me: WHY?
Him: Because its my job.

Back in the old days, they use to have petrol pump attendants still.

 

[straitman]

Flew a light a/c into Flinders Island quite a few years ago. They referred to Tasmania as the mainland and mainland Australia as 'Australia'
They didn't understand why we laughed

 

[RooFlyer]

The earth is flat-
PhD thesis: The earth is flat | GulfNews.com

Easily rebutted. Although I think I'm going to have to take sea level rise a bit more seriously.