"I'm sorry. I didn't realize no one had ever bothered to educate you about social niceties. Expressing a need for easily obtained information by implication rather than direct request allows the respondent to demonstate common courtesy by volunteering the information. Since you seem to have no awareness or understanding of common courtesy, I'll be sure to use only imperative commands in the future."
I have duly marked your post, Matt, and I have a strong feeling that I'll be using it, probably within the next 24 hours.
Yeah, I know, Matt. It's crazy.
Wait, wait, Dana! Where are you getting this Jonathan Creek? Is it new? Broadcast?
I think I'd go with "Okay, just wanted to make sure you knew." He's not going to efficiently give you the time, anyway, so you might as well conclude the exchange and ask someone else. Who might answer civilly, and then you could thank them civilly, and there you go.
I think I'd be tempted to ask him every five or ten minutes, and every time he said, "Yes," I'd respond, "I'm so proud of you!" in that overly cheery voice some people use on toddlers.
Liese, I have recently discovered the show and am working my way through it using
ahem, certain means. Getting toward the end now, though.
I was your chatty co-worker, Steph, but university, where I got a big rotation of exposure to people, few of whom had time or inclination to get used to my literalist and sophist quirks made me drop it.
The knowledge that you guys can never be as streamlined and logical as I always am is just something I'll have to savour smugly but internally. Externally I play your little games because I'm
that
good.
Many of my co-workers might be categorized as "Super-Agreeable" but it's a cultural difference rather than a personality disorder -- British-businesslike and American-businesslike are two very different critters.
Ah. Okay. It is a long-held love. It is a bond between the SO & I, because he loves the mysteries and I love the Creek. I must have missed the sidecar, though.
Feral girl found in Cambodia
She was lost for 19 years and has completely regressed to an animal state. Since she was lost when she was 8 then she would've developed language and they might be able to re-socialize her. If they go feral before they develop language then the brain cannot be rewired.
Liese, of course
you love the Creek! What's not to love? There is everything to love. The sidecar was a very brief bit, but I'm easily amused.
I need to go get food. motivation is at zero, but my mood is starting to decline.
