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» Flirting
I've never had a bad tally of chatting up girls..
...but only when I'm sober. I'm a sloppy mess when i'm drunk.
That aside, my girlfriend of 4 years is half-Japanese. Her mum's side of the family are all from Japan, and after some encouragement, I was persuaded to learn some basic Japanese. To date, I can only speak very basic conversational formalities, but its nice to be able to say hello and have a simple chat in an unusual language.
Anyway, all this is preamble to a recent epic failure in the world of flirting. I was down in London staying over at my sister's former home in Greenwich the night before flying to America on holiday, and I decided to go out and pick up some food for dinner. I took a wander close to her apartment, before spotting a nice looking little sushi den that had a takeaway sign in the window. Entering, I strode up to the (not at all unattractive) young asian woman stood in full kimono next to the counter, before deciding to impress her with my (not at all impressive) grasp of the Japanese tongue.
My next words were: "Konbanwa, watashiwa nanika tabetai des.."
which roughly translates to "Good evening, I'd like something to eat please" in English.
The girl blankly stared at me, and without skipping a beat replied "I'm Chinese."
The next 20 minutes waiting for my sushi to be prepared were a little awkward.
Length: The Great Wall...
(Thu 18th Feb 2010, 22:12, More)
I've never had a bad tally of chatting up girls..
...but only when I'm sober. I'm a sloppy mess when i'm drunk.
That aside, my girlfriend of 4 years is half-Japanese. Her mum's side of the family are all from Japan, and after some encouragement, I was persuaded to learn some basic Japanese. To date, I can only speak very basic conversational formalities, but its nice to be able to say hello and have a simple chat in an unusual language.
Anyway, all this is preamble to a recent epic failure in the world of flirting. I was down in London staying over at my sister's former home in Greenwich the night before flying to America on holiday, and I decided to go out and pick up some food for dinner. I took a wander close to her apartment, before spotting a nice looking little sushi den that had a takeaway sign in the window. Entering, I strode up to the (not at all unattractive) young asian woman stood in full kimono next to the counter, before deciding to impress her with my (not at all impressive) grasp of the Japanese tongue.
My next words were: "Konbanwa, watashiwa nanika tabetai des.."
which roughly translates to "Good evening, I'd like something to eat please" in English.
The girl blankly stared at me, and without skipping a beat replied "I'm Chinese."
The next 20 minutes waiting for my sushi to be prepared were a little awkward.
Length: The Great Wall...
(Thu 18th Feb 2010, 22:12, More)
» Annoying words and phrases
As a marketing manager for a small company...
... one of my responsibilities at work is creating brochures full of flowery rhetoric, a task which I quite enjoy because it lets me at least somewhat flex the creative muscle (through Adobe Indesign, Photoshop & Illustrator), at work. Another similar role which I undertake is to regularly craft eloquent press releases on our latest new product launches or project successes.
I do all this listening to last.fm or some other streaming music station on my headphones.. Why?
Because every time I take them off, I hear our cretinous sales girls two desks over, referring to our new video encoder hardware as "us new codecs", or their PC as a "'puter". (Said how it sounds... like poo-ter)
Our company creates technical solutions project by project for some of the most prominent sites in our field in the world. We have a fantastic, SEO optimised website, professional product and solutions based literature and a great product set.
We get lots of enquiries.
The vast majority of which fail to materialise into orders (at least in the UK office), because of the profound inability of our sales staff to speak their native tongue.
(Sat 10th Apr 2010, 20:27, More)
As a marketing manager for a small company...
... one of my responsibilities at work is creating brochures full of flowery rhetoric, a task which I quite enjoy because it lets me at least somewhat flex the creative muscle (through Adobe Indesign, Photoshop & Illustrator), at work. Another similar role which I undertake is to regularly craft eloquent press releases on our latest new product launches or project successes.
I do all this listening to last.fm or some other streaming music station on my headphones.. Why?
Because every time I take them off, I hear our cretinous sales girls two desks over, referring to our new video encoder hardware as "us new codecs", or their PC as a "'puter". (Said how it sounds... like poo-ter)
Our company creates technical solutions project by project for some of the most prominent sites in our field in the world. We have a fantastic, SEO optimised website, professional product and solutions based literature and a great product set.
We get lots of enquiries.
The vast majority of which fail to materialise into orders (at least in the UK office), because of the profound inability of our sales staff to speak their native tongue.
(Sat 10th Apr 2010, 20:27, More)