Season ticket sales update - latest total

[Wilko]

But are we breaking even, I thought we had no money?? Or is that just a ploy to keep us quiet?

Shh. We are trying to have a conversation about the correct way to request a coffee here. Sake.

 

[mlg57]

Sorry isn't it "How's about a coffee then Guv?"

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There are precious few places you can just ask for a coffee nowadays. Even somewhere like the Chalet Cafe, in Preston Park, one must stipulate whether you want filter or freeze dried.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

I think you have hit the nail on the head. Less staff = less pairs of eyes and less time for journalists to look over their own work because of additional demands.

Shouldn't that be fewer staff and fewer pairs of eyes...?

 

[*Gullsworth*]

HOW MANY S.T's HAVE WE SOLD?.............relax....pass me a flat white please!!!

 

[severnside gull]

We have reached 23,000 because the club gave me that figure when I asked them about an hour ago.

I keep forgetting the 1901 Johnnies -- add them on as an extra rather than include them in season ticket sales and your number makes sense -- which is absolutely phenomenal!

 

[severnside gull]

There are precious few places you can just ask for a coffee nowadays. Even somewhere like the Chalet Cafe, in Preston Park, one must stipulate whether you want filter or freeze dried.

Hmmm. I was in Malta last year and they only sold freeze dried coffee in ALL the cafes I visited. It was awful. One of the highlights of a holiday for me is sitting down in the sunshine watching the world go by and enjoying a decent cup of coffee (Americano;Long Black - no milk or sugar - it spoils the flavour) and there they were, everywhere, selling muddy water in its place. Thankfully this year's vacation was New York where the proper order of things was restored and some excellent filter coffees were enjoyed. Does the cafe in Preston Park sell both as, assuredly, I shan't visit if filter coffee isn't available.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Hmmm. I was in Malta last year and they only sold freeze dried coffee in ALL the cafes I visited. It was awful. One of the highlights of a holiday for me is sitting down in the sunshine watching the world go by and enjoying a decent cup of coffee (Americano;Long Black - no milk or sugar - it spoils the flavour) and there they were, everywhere, selling muddy water in its place. Thankfully this year's vacation was New York where the proper order of things was restored and some excellent filter coffees were enjoyed. Does the cafe in Preston Park sell both as, assuredly, I shan't visit if filter coffee isn't available.

It was more a case of... Hello, I am looking to spend north of £1.80, I would expect a cup of freeze dried for that. Give me filter, however cheap the powder might be.

Filter coffee is available in both, I think. I provide coffee, free of charge, and it is streets ahead of the lazy cafes. Drop me a line and I shall dust off the caffetierre.

 

[element]

I usually order a venti Americano 'with room' (for milk, if ya' didna ken), but one day, for the first time, thought I'd try a latte, and asked for a venti, with room The girl's eyes positively lit up as she assailed me with a withering, 'It's made of milk, sir...'

 

[MattBackHome]

Might be fixtures, might be considered spam by some, but just thought I would post this as it might be of interest.

http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/s...bion-season-ticket-sales-top-23-000-1-3958953

Really encouraging news.

SPAMtastic work.

Re: the STs - In all seriousness this is great news and a very good thread.

Now, would you be so kind as to sell me a f***ing coffee?

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Shouldn't that be fewer staff and fewer pairs of eyes...?

Absolutely, MG!
Okay, so I'd never pick up another poster on NSC for that minor misdemeanour...
BUT coming from an alleged professional journalist? Tsk, tsk!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I believe the Argus is now subbed in Southampton. It got rid of the subbing operation in Brighton.

A lot of newspaper websites are put together by interns, work experience kids and graduate trainees. And many of them neither know nor care about punctuation or grammar.


Last edited by Not Andy Naylor; Yesterday at 17:37.

If DIY subbing is good enough for NSC, it's good enough for ANY newspaper.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

... and I don't want "sprinkles" or canned whipped cream-like gloop or "artistic" drawings made from chocolate powder on my cappuccino.

And who came up with the word "latte" to describe the abomination that claims to be some sort of traditional Italian form of the beverage? It's still coffee, not milk.

 

[itszamora]

FWIW, I don't see a problem with the use of "flogged" here. Sure, it's a bit of a colloquialism. But so what?

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Could I respectfully add that, in my days as a staff hack, any or all of my editors would have personally flogged anyone who used that word in a story. Still, times change. As Lord Justice Leveson is discovering daily.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

... Lord Justice Leveson ...

LOL

Whatever that means.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Yes, dear. Like you too.

 

[W.C.]

Surely it is "MAY I have a coffee?"

If you ask "CAN I have a coffee?" then the answer could be any of:

"I don't know, can you?"
"probably"
"maybe"
"I don't know you well enough to know whether you CAN have a coffee"

So correctly, assuming you want a coffee, the question should be, "MAY I have a coffee?"

I'd like to purchase a cup of coffee please.

 

[Icy Gull]

Is there a proof reader at the Eastbourne Herald? From the Poyet is staying article:


managerial merry-go-round seems to be grinding to a half

Harry Redknapp’s departure from the Tottenham Hotspur hotseat has led to worried chatted among some sections of the Amex faithful

 

[Superphil]

I'd like to purchase a cup of coffee please.

I'd LIKE tonights winning lottery numbers, doesn't mean I'm going to get them. Whether I say please or not.