WORST CUP OF COFFEE BACK OF THE BLACK STUMP

Beth54 · Guru

RE: WORST CUP OF COFFEE BACK OF THE BLACK STUMP

03_troopy · Guru

Never mind what they call you, what about the ubiquitous ... " Yoo rite?" that p*sses me off.

golivers travels · Guru

Must admit I get more annoyed by food or drinks that are not up to scrath than the service, after all you have paid for the food or drink. Glenda

Rip and Rosie · Guru

You pay for the service too, otherwise you would just make your own at home for a much lower price.

Rosie

Weedy Pigeon · Senior Member

I thought I was the only person left on the planet who liked Dick Emery !! Check his interview with Parkinson on YouTube, a real classic.

Landfall · Guru

Dick Emery, The Two Ronnies, Benny Hill, The Carry On gang, all great comedians.

One thing the Brits know how to do, make good comedy. Unlike the Americans.

Dusty biggrin

jimricho · Guru

Life's too short to spend any of it drinking poor quality coffee, wine, or beer!

Jim

PS: I've had beer that was that bad I was glad when I'd had enough!

neilnruth · Guru

Lynnie have you heard from the owner of the Coffee Club yet? Maybe she's got the message some other way going by all the comments on here. Hope your next coffee experience is a good one.

Jack Mac · Senior Member

Hi Jim,

If you happened to be in Qld during beer stike of '77 and drank Southwark, one was more than enough. Almost (I say almost) made one sign the pledge.

Cheers,

Jack

03_troopy · Guru

Jack Mac wrote:
Hi Jim,
If you happened to be in Qld during beer stike of '77 and drank Southwark, one was more than enough. Almost (I say almost) made one sign the pledge.
Cheers,
Jack

From memory, we had a couple of beer strikes around that era usually not far from Christmas. All they served at the bar at the ipswich RSL (the old one in town) was Carlton Draught longnecks. Which cause a problem when a mate and I went for a counter lunch. The sergeant didn't believe we only had a couple of shouts each...... hic...

Jack Mac · Senior Member

Troopy, if you were drinking Carlton draught you obviously hadn't got to the desperation time most of uas had. I can't remember for sure if it was '77 or '78, but it went for months. From memory it was on during the Bne boat show in Sept. and was still going at Xmas. The best I could get was KB from the mess at HMAS Moreton and I think even that dried up. We drank some shockers that's for sure. Had to drink wine at Xmas (oh the shame).

Beth54 · Guru

Jack Mac wrote:
Troopy, if you were drinking Carlton draught you obviously hadn't got to the desperation time most of uas had. I can't remember for sure if it was '77 or '78, but it went for months. From memory it was on during the Bne boat show in Sept. and was still going at Xmas. The best I could get was KB from the mess at HMAS Moreton and I think even that dried up. We drank some shockers that's for sure. Had to drink wine at Xmas (oh the shame).

I don't recall any of this, probably because I'm not a beer drinker, but hubby of the time must have thought his throat was cut!

pauline · Guru

I have to admit I call most people love or darl and have been in customer service for many years, nobody has ever complained but maybe they were too polite...........I also refer to people as sheilas and blokes and I don't apologise for that it was just the way or time I was raised in, consider myself just a true blue aussie at heart and if I offended anyone then sorry love.

Jack Mac · Senior Member

I have no objection to being called Darl, Luv, Mate or any of the other terms where appropriate. I use the terms myself on a daily basis.I do have an objection to teenagers calling "seniors" by these terms. I'm sure none of us were brought up that way. I recently spent time as a volunteer in an aged care facility and wouldn't have dreamt of calling these very senior citizens by those terms as non-disrespectful as they me be. I always addressed them by their title (Mr., Mrs. etc.) unless they requested otherwise, or in some cases only responded to a Christian name.

Fried Rice · Guru

Hello everybody-

I am the Fried part of the Fried Rice name-and by what I can see at the moment am probably the oldest in this blog, but when I heard a much younger person say to an older man "and what are WE going to have today" I shuddered; how about madame (pronounced Ma-darm, which I find more respectful).

Felicity

Happywanderer · The Master

I certainly don't mind a person of my age calling me some of those names, darl, love etc. But not some young chick just out of school, No way.

The worst cappachino I have ever had would have to be in Elmore, Victoria.
Called into this cafe on way home from Geelong one time, quite late but too thirsty to wait till I got home an hour away.
The lady said, when I ordered, Hope it will be alright, this is my first ever attempt at making a cappachino. I should have cancelled right there, it was disgusting. Just a water cup of coffee with no froth at all.
Just a few months ago I called into Elmore again, only to meet up with my sister who was coming through from Geelong and I was coming in from Greens Lake. Said lets have a coffee before we head off to Echuca. That same cafe was closed, we had to go to the pub for a coffee. I asked why was the cafe next door closed. Oh thats the time they close every day. It was 3 pm. Afternoon tea time.

Beth54 · Guru

Happywanderer wrote:
I certainly don't mind a person of my age calling me some of those names, darl, love etc. But not some young chick just out of school, No way.

The worst cappachino I have ever had would have to be in Elmore, Victoria.
Called into this cafe on way home from Geelong one time, quite late but too thirsty to wait till I got home an hour away.
The lady said, when I ordered, Hope it will be alright, this is my first ever attempt at making a cappachino. I should have cancelled right there, it was disgusting. Just a water cup of coffee with no froth at all.
Just a few months ago I called into Elmore again, only to meet up with my sister who was coming through from Geelong and I was coming in from Greens Lake. Said lets have a coffee before we head off to Echuca. That same cafe was closed, we had to go to the pub for a coffee. I asked why was the cafe next door closed. Oh thats the time they close every day. It was 3 pm. Afternoon tea time.

Well how silly was that! They deserve to go out of business.

Cruising Granny · Guru

"Can I help you?" would be great.
NOT "Can I help yoos?" Or worse still, "What do yoos want?"
If I knew what the "doll" or "darl" thing actually stood for, like darling or doll, I might accept it. But it's pronounced so badly I can never tell.
I'm definitely no snob, but I do expect good manners when being served initially in any business premises. I don't care how old or young the staff is, nothing excuses bad manners.

Beth54 · Guru

I also don't like service people asking 'How are you?' They're not interested in how you are, and they don't listen to the answer anyway so why bother?!

When I worked in retail, the only time I said that was if he/she was a regular customer who I was genuinly interested in how they are.

Generally on the registers, I'd just smile and say Hi, and go on checking their goods through, and finish with the please's and thank you's, and end with a smile and 'have a nice day'. That's the way I was taught 40 odd years ago.