What cheeses me off

[p--and--t]

due to raisins

Thats a new reason for cancelling i haven't come across before

 

[JessicaTam]

Oh there are lots of funny stories about naming your children by the first thing you see after birth and cannot repeat here.

Nice lemonade though.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thats a new reason for cancelling i haven't come across before

ha!

now corrected

 

[VPS]

Nice lemonade though.

Why do you say that two dogs

 

[Pushka]

A few years back I was standing at the ticket counter buying a ticket for the subway in Shanghai and working out what notes to use to pay for the ticket.

Meanwhile an elderly slender woman, maybe 1/2 my weight, and very much shorter than me, approached the counter, hip and shouldered me out of the way and screamed a demand in Chinese at the seller grabbed a ticket and wandered off as I, stunned, try to process what just happened.

Don't try rationalise it but do the same. It's not considered impolite.

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Why do you say that two dogs

Yup. Lemonade - I don't get it

 

[Flyfrequently]

WCMO
Went to Woolworths to pickbup a $500 apple gift card the points from Wooleorths landed in 1 hour but the card didn’t work, left it to the next day then phoned apple, after uploading pictures I then had to upload a 2nd time
Don’t lose anything until the money is there
The envelope
The card
The docket from supermarket to say loaded
The receipt with the credit card details.
Eventually well next day rexeived an email with another code but had to be manually added by apple support
2 phone calls, 45 minutes and 25 minutes and finally there $500 on the apple account

Heard this on Melbourne radio this morning @Bundy Bear , it is happening fairly often.
It has been labelled "scam" with the explanation being somehow the correct barcode numbers are taken/lifted.....

I would say Woolies is very much aware of this, and it was with Apple gift cards.
Glad you have a resolution.

 

[Gremlin]

The name Siobhan. It's a tricky one. Best left alone. Sister in Law worked in Emergency and met all kinds of people. She asked one mother her child s name. See oh Bahn was how she said it. SIL asked her to spell that. Siobhan was the spelling. SIL may or may not have said - the correct pronounciation.

Celtic names are tricky.

Little Miss Gremlin has a Celtic name and we've always used the Welsh pronunciation. She has spent quite a bit of time in Ireland where her name is also very common but their pronunciation is quite profoundly different. It took her a while to learn to answer to her 'Irish' name when people were talking to her.

FWIW, even though 'Shiv-awn' is the most common pronunciation, as it is traditionally considered an Irish name and that is the Irish pronunciation, I have met a 'See Oh Bahn' who is Scottish Gaelic.

Of course, 'See Oh Bahn' is also likely to be the correct pronunciation if they're Bogan Strayan.