Fingers in the Salt [Not Satire]

[under the radar]

As I posted earlier, these were supposed to be replaced each amd every time.

so some people actually think that the remaining salt from previous users/'germ planters' gets thrown out (never 'recycled') ...and no establishment/restaurant shouldn't/doesn't just top up the existing supply in the bowl? dream on!! or just give the bowl a little shake side to side so the existing flakes smooth out and appear 'untouched'

 

[RooFlyer]

Have a read of TonyHancock's post at #18. In your hotel you'd be rolling your eyes if people didn't like a bed which had apparently been used by someone else.

 

[paxman]

take a knife and scoop up some salt. tap said knife with your finger to distribute over your meal. voila, nobody has to touch the salt!

 

[TonyHancock]

take a knife and scoop up some salt. tap said knife with your finger to distribute over your meal. voila, nobody has to touch the salt!

....well apart from the previous occupant at the table who has already had his fingers in the bowl.

 

[serfty]

so some people actually think that the remaining salt from previous users/'germ planters' gets thrown out (never 'recycled') ...and no establishment/restaurant shouldn't/doesn't just top up the existing supply in the bowl? dream on!! or just give the bowl a little shake side to side so the existing flakes smooth out and appear 'untouched'

When the current First lounges in MEL and SYD first opened back in 2007, I was told this is exactly what happened.

The cost a teaspoon of Salt flakes and the 30 seconds to replace it is minuscule when compared to the overall cost of providing the other ancillaries?

 

[OATEK]

When the current First lounges in MEL and SYD first opened back in 2007, I was told this is exactly what happened.

The cost a teaspoon of Salt flakes and the 30 seconds to replace it is minuscule when compared to the overall cost of providing the other ancillaries?

So, have standards slipped in the FLounge, or is this seen as an intermittent fail like the recent bread roll?

 

[TonyHancock]

So, have standards slipped in the FLounge, or is this seen as an intermittent fail like the recent bread roll?

I think it is just one of those things. For what it is worth I think the QF F Lounge experience at SYD or MEL is hard to beat anywhere in the world. Both beat the BA CCR hands down every time, and come out ahead of the CX HKG lounges....just.

 

[JohnK]

so some people actually think that the remaining salt from previous users/'germ planters' gets thrown out (never 'recycled') ...and no establishment/restaurant shouldn't/doesn't just top up the existing supply in the bowl? dream on!! or just give the bowl a little shake side to side so the existing flakes smooth out and appear 'untouched'

Are you winding people up?

What next? If someone has left fries behind on their plate then just put them in the microwave for the next person?

 

[medhead]

Oh good to see this thread has descended to absurdity.

The thing about salt is it kills living things like bugs. Don't like the idea someone else used the salt, use your words and ask for fresh.

I wonder do those scared of bugs touch the escalator hand rail? Do you hold on when standing up on buses and trains? Did you get that automatic hand disinfectant soap dispenser for you bathrooms? You know, because you don't want to pick up germs on your hands from manual dispensers before you disinfect your hands with the soap that is dispensed.

 

[TonyHancock]

Oh good to see this thread has descended to absurdity.

I believe it started in absurdity.

 

[marki]

I'm sure many remember open sugar bowls in cafes. I remember my mother once saying she was horrified to see a mother with a crying baby take the baby's dummy and plunge it in the cafe's sugar bowl before sticking it back in her kid's mouth. Yecch!

Wow ......nice

 

[medhead]

I believe it started in absurdity.

Oh, the not satire is a bit misleading then.

 

[opusman]

I wonder do those scared of bugs touch the escalator hand rail?

That reminds me of the time I was in a queue at a museum somewhere. The queue was wending its way up some stairs to the second floor, and I had my hand on the handrail as I was walking up. All of a sudden I realised that my palm was wet, couldn't work out why - and then I noticed that the child about 5 people in front of me was walking up the stairs with his tongue stuck out, licking the handrail as he went...

 

[TonyHancock]

Oh, the not satire is a bit misleading then.

I think absurdity and satire are different but obviously if you think differently will agree with you to avoid the pedantry that might follow.

 

[serfty]

... Don't like the idea someone else used the salt, use your words and ask for fresh. ...

Good idea!

 

[medhead]

I think absurdity and satire are different but obviously if you think differently will agree with you to avoid the pedantry that might follow.

I wouldn't think they are not different (edit: perhaps that should be "not not different" I wouldn't disagree that they are different). But they would seem to be closely related based on random definitions from the interwebs. Still no need to agree with me, I've not written my own dictionary, yet.

1. Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.

An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, or the state of being so.

 

[TonyHancock]

I wouldn't think they are not different But they would seem to be closely related based on random definitions from the interwebs. Still no need to agree with me, I've not written my own dictionary, yet.

I agree with you, obviously.

 

[woodborer]

I agree with you, obviously.

Is this statement absurdity or satire?

 

[medhead]

Is this statement absurdity or satire?

Or is it both?

 

[RooFlyer]

Reductio ad absurdum.