Just when you thought you had seen it all in the Qantas lounge...

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But you have also replied to other posts with a why not attitude towards doing things in public like filing nails in lounges which is what @JohnK
was posting about.

Yet the original post was about filing nails. The detritus from filling nails over the carpet may be no less offensive to most (myself included) it will be completely invisible compared to cutting nails over a table.

 

[RichardMEL]

Sigh. This is like going in circles. I think the core thing is a desire for people in all places show respect for and courtesy to others in any kind of shared space(and the space itself). I don't feel that's illogical but how most reasonable people in societies across the world act and would expect others to towards them.and their environment.

 

[MARTINE]

I think its time to bail out!

Its Groundhog Day



Its Groundhog Day


Its Groundhog Day…..

 

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So is posting photos of strangers on an Internet forum without blurring their identifying features

Why? The perpetrator wasn't concerned about the act in a public place, they had no concern or understanding of their audience at the time they performed the act but knew they were doing it in a public place. Why does it become everyone else's problem to insulate them from their actions?
Genuinely interested why it should be everyone else's problem to review and edit their photos (we are not paparazzi seeking to gain from them) because of a 3rd party's lack of consideration for the consequences of their own actions. This is 2024 where social media rules and mostly doesn't hide behind unidentifiable monikers.

 

[Seat0B]

Well said @JohnK
Sadly - its the times we live in.
Why else do public spaces have the ubiquitous sign to not attack the staff; as if people have to be reminded/taught/told this is unacceptable.

I find these signs jarring. And they are ubiquitous as you say @MARTINE

 

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[JohnK]

The post I was replying to was where you said we should apply the same standards in public as we apply at home. Your ground is shifting.

And I think I have also said that a lot of people behaving that way in public do not behave that way in home.

Who leaves rubbish laying around at home?

I don't know anyone having their feet on dinner tables at hone. Yes it's possible that some have their feet on coffee tables at home but I also think is a small amount of people.

Who puts their feet up on a wall at home?

I get the feeling that many people think they can get away with anything in public as rules do not apply to them.

 

[MARTINE]

I find these signs jarring. And they are ubiquitous as you say @MARTINE

As I just got back today from filling script at the chemist I noted that …..next to the ubiquitous don't attack the staff sign …there is a new one ‘Please complete your call before coming to the Counter’
Commonsense not so common any more and borders on the supernatural for some

 

[Franky]

As I just got back today from filling script at the chemist I noted that …..next to the ubiquitous don't attack the staff sign …there is a new one ‘Please complete your call before coming to the Counter’
Commonsense not so common any more and borders on the supernatural for some

I would like to see the same sign at my Woolies checkout lanes....

 

[Wilma Ballsdrop]

SYD Qantas Club last week. Had to take a photo as I couldn't believe it. This woman spent about 10 minutes filing her nails onto the carpet.

This is what happens when you let all and sundry in and don't have or enforce standards of dress or behaviour.

 

[Mr H]

This is what happens when you let all and sundry in and don't have or enforce standards of dress or behaviour.

I agree that taking photos of people to ridicule them is rude but at the same time people have to accept that if they are in a public space they are likely to be seen, whether by people or by cameras.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Filing nails, or cutting toe nails, or putting your shoed feet onto the round tables that people put their plates onto, or throwning hand paper towels everywhere in the loos, even tho the bin is just there.
Or pooping and not flushing in the loos in the lounge.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Filing nails, or cutting toe nails, or putting your shoed feet onto the round tables that people put their plates onto, or throwning hand paper towels everywhere in the loos, even tho the bin is just there.
Or pooping and not flushing in the loos in the lounge.

Can add painting nails to the list @AustraliaPoochie

 

[Mr H]

Can add painting nails to the list @AustraliaPoochie

Really? What on earth is the objection to someone painting their nails in a lounge?

 

[Flyfrequently]

Really? What on earth is the objection to someone painting their nails in a lounge?

The "fragrance" of the polish @Mr H
YMMV

 

[TheRealTMA]

Really? What on earth is the objection to someone painting their nails in a lounge?

ah the light aroma of methy ethyl ketone and butyl acetate in the morning over your breakfast. YMMV.

I had a very stupid “person” sitting next to me on a flight some years ago in Y who thought it ok to use nail polish remover and nail polish during the flight. Not for very long I must add!

 

[Tropic]

While one does see a few unsettling behaviours in the lounge these days. I do chuckle a bit remembering old days when you would be sitting next to someone with ash mixed with food and beer stains tumbling down the front of his shirt having spent last two hours pigging out in the flightdeck lounge, and then after take off being lost in the fog of a dozen fa_s lighting up and a cacophony of "dings" for drink orders...and getting home smelling like I'd been out all nite...ah memories

 

[Tropic]

May be time to revisit the old lounge thread. The good old days when lounge time was "imbibe" time...in "real" airport lounges with real food - Flight deck and the ever so slightly posher, Golden Wing... he'll I don't think you even had to be flying to go to flightdeck from "hazy" memory.

 

[serfty]

I don't think you even had to be flying to go to flightdeck from "hazy" memory

That was even true with QP membership until around 1995. Even then it was same day travel (arrivals) access.

 

[QF029]

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I don't approve but at least it's a leg on the furniture and not a shoe.