On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:11:06 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\09\15 09:47, d wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year.

You must have yourself in your own killfile, then.

I'm not entirely sure of the leap of logic you used there but I'll just nod
and smile and hope you go away before you start shouting at pigeons.

B2003

On 2010\09\15 10:40, d wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:11:06 +0100
Basil wrote:
On 2010\09\15 09:47, d wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year.

You must have yourself in your own killfile, then.

I'm not entirely sure of the leap of logic you used there but I'll just nod
and smile and hope you go away before you start shouting at pigeons.

That whooshing sound ain't pigeons.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:13:31 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
That whooshing sound ain't pigeons.

No , its the realisation that your "joke" didn't work passing you by. I never
mentioned killfiling the guy because of what he said so quite how you made
the leap to your attempted gag about killfiling myself is anyones guess.

Better luck next time.

B2003

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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:29:47 +0100
"Batman55" wrote:
Irrespective of fraud and spelling mistakes, actually, if you had
taken an extra second to make sure the doddery old Oyster card
reader had woken up, there would have been no problem. A case of
more haste less speed, (or a tap in time saves nine)!

Yes , mea culpa , but these things happen. What shouldn't happen is
an LU employee deliberately try and rip off a customer.

If you're as aggressive in real life as you are here, is it possible
that you don't bring out the very best from those LU employees who have
the pleasure of serving you?

"contrex" wrote in message
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On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a
standard issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos".

but its for it's, more often than not, is!

tim

On 15 Sep, 09:45, wrote:

What shouldn't happen is an LU employee deliberately try and rip off a customer.

Whilst I accept what you say about the perceived rip off, I am trying
to fathom out just what benefit the ticket office
clerk (starts with a C but so much nicer) could have gained from this
"fraud". It would be next to impossible for him to pocket the cash
without a defecit on his balance. I don't think even you would believe
that there is any instruction issued to staff to deliberately defraud
passengers in this way. If there were, do you think that the staff
would do this without whistleblowing in the current climate ?

To be "fair", is sounds to me like two people may have wound each
other up.


Richard

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
Fat richard wrote:
Whilst I accept what you say about the perceived rip off, I am trying
to fathom out just what benefit the ticket office
clerk (starts with a C but so much nicer) could have gained from this
"fraud". It would be next to impossible for him to pocket the cash
without a defecit on his balance. I don't think even you would believe
that there is any instruction issued to staff to deliberately defraud
passengers in this way. If there were, do you think that the staff
would do this without whistleblowing in the current climate ?

No idea. I thought it rather odd which is why I mentioned it here.

To be "fair", is sounds to me like two people may have wound each
other up.

Maybe. He did keep me waiting for a long time while he chatted to his colleague
about foorball so perhaps I wasn't as genial as I could have been when he
finally decided to do his job.

B2003

On 15 Sep, 12:21, "tim...." wrote:
"contrex" wrote in message

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On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a
standard issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos".

but its for it's, more often than not, *is!

tim

I've often typoed "their" for "there" and vice versa; usually
correcting it before hitting "send" or whatever. This is because my
fingers often type a familiar word that is not the one intended, and
nothing to do with my knowledge.

It's not really any different from typing "for" instead of "of", which
I sometimes do.

On 14/09/10 09:50, d wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
On 13 Sep, 09:59, wrote:

journey fair
in their

Why don't you deign to check your spelling?

Quite obviously he was amused at what a tosser he had at his window.

LOL Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a standard
issue typo.

I think you probably have the answer there. People can make mistakes,
even with things that aren't complicated, and that they know perfectly
well the answer to, just as you did with your typos.

Maybe he was tired or unwell, or had otherwise had a bad day; such
things really affect your concentration and make it much easier to make
silly mistakes.

It's pretty unlikely he did it deliberately, as others have said.

On 15 Sep, 09:47, wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year.

Fair cop. That'll teach me. Isn't it some kind of law that any post
slagging off the grammar or spelling of another person will inevitably
contain at least one of the type of error complained of?