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Season ticket sales update - latest total
- Thread starter Brighton Breezy
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Superphil
Dismember
but you can PURCHASE a ticket!
You CAN if you LIKE, however, I MAY. ;-)
ifuhatepalacestandup
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this thread is just pathetic grown men arguing over how to ask for a fuckin cup of coffee
They get free contraceptives in the 1901 club? No wonder the club is losing money.
severnside gull
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Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Anyone interested in learning 'Brighton culture' should read this thread, it sums up NSC and Brightonians perfectly......I can't think of any other football forum that could produce a thread like this.
Well done.
Well done.
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KJP
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All I want is a proper cup of coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot,
I may be off my dot, but I want a proper coffee in a proper copper pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots, they are no use to me!
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!"
I may be off my dot, but I want a proper coffee in a proper copper pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots, they are no use to me!
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!"
severnside gull
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I have now read this thread very carefully from first to last and I must say that I am surprised that in every case the interrogative debate is assumed to commence with the customer ("can I/may I have/get......a cup of coffee?") whereas the Americanisation of the service industries generally (and specifically the whole "coffeee shop experience" industry) demands that it is the role of the "Barista" to instigate the conversation with a polite "What can I get (for) you today....?" not forgetting that they should also end the conversation with the obligatory "Have a good day" - a closing statement which, in America is generally meant whereas it has lost something in its transatlantic journey so that in an English context it is invariably as plastic as a new Crystal Palace season ticket holder.
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This thread is unreal. We have been told that we have sold 23,000 season tickets, so you might expect the thread to develop into:
a) why hasn't the additional income gone on better players or
b) Ernest joining the thread and saying that Dick Tight and his lap dogs have pocketed the additional income
c) that we need a bigger ground
d) how poor Palace season ticket uptake has been and we are so much bigger.
but no, its a debate on grammar, the state of journalism ( and thank you WJ for letting us know about season ticket numbers, I at least was interested) and how to buy a cup of coffee.
Has NSC collectively gone mad?
a) why hasn't the additional income gone on better players or
b) Ernest joining the thread and saying that Dick Tight and his lap dogs have pocketed the additional income
c) that we need a bigger ground
d) how poor Palace season ticket uptake has been and we are so much bigger.
but no, its a debate on grammar, the state of journalism ( and thank you WJ for letting us know about season ticket numbers, I at least was interested) and how to buy a cup of coffee.
Has NSC collectively gone mad?
*Gullsworth*
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Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
I haven't read it all but it's "I'll have a coffee" (please is optional, although i'll always use it), I've got the money, you're selling the product, it's not up for debate. "may I have..." f*** me it's Oliver Twist. Can I get/have...? it's a stupid fuckin question if you're in the shop that sells said item.......how many season tickets have we sold anyway?
Icy Gull
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It's just - "One coffee please" what's the point of putting "I"ll have" in front of "one coffee please", it's blindingly obvious it's you that's gonna have it..
How do they know you have the money? How do you know there is coffee available (just missed last orders, run out of coffee, broken machine, etc)?
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
I agree
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
because a) I've got a tenner in my hand and b) the bloke in front of me is having a coffee with no problems therefore i'm not anticipating any
cyrilthesinik
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- Oct 15, 2011
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Reading all this has made my head hurt...bruv
Maybe he had the last of the coffee, maybe it is simply some coffee looking beverage that isn't actually coffee., and maybe the person serving isn't staring at your hand, instead making eye contact and not assuming you haen't got the money in your hand for another purpose (about to pay a friend the money you owe them, for example).
What's with the asking for it anyway?, I tell 'em. 'Two regular lattes for here, one with one shot please'.
I've asked it so many times now that they just give me the two fingers when I walk in.