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01.02.2013, 17:09
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I really don't get it why some people who sent me a PM don't reply anymore after I sent them a message back. Is it because I mentioned the fact that I am Croatian after they enquired about my nationality? Do they think I am some sort of asylum seeker?
This really pisses me off. Rant over.
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01.02.2013, 17:12
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST
OooooK. At least they're helping you from hitting your 4 PM a day limit...
You should lie and tell them you're Swedish. That's what the rest of us do.
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01.02.2013, 17:13
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST
Or tell them you're the former Miss Croatia:
Best advice: Just go to the social events on EF and meet people in person.
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01.02.2013, 17:14
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That might work!
(jag talar lite svenska) | Quote: | |  | | | OooooK. At least they're helping you from hitting your 4 PM a day limit...
You should lie and tell them you're Swedish. That's what the rest of us do. | | | | | | 
01.02.2013, 17:14
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST
I am Swedish.
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01.02.2013, 17:15
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | I really don't get it why some people who sent me a PM don't reply anymore after I sent them a message back. Is it because I mentioned the fact that I am Croatian after they enquired about my nationality? Do they think I am some sort of asylum seeker?
This really pisses me off. Rant over. | | | | | Ok, let's come down. This is nothing about where you are from. I get these people too and they ask a question, get an helpful answer and can't manage to spit a little thank you afterward. Some people have simply bad manners.
And I don't bother to answer people with 0 post anymore.
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01.02.2013, 17:16
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | I am Swedish. | | | | | | | The following 4 users would like to thank olygirl for this useful post: | | 
01.02.2013, 17:17
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Well in my case they were interested in a friendly banter or something since they were asking personal questions. It wasn't about getting an answer about anything in particular.
But I guess you're right people are probably just rude. | Quote: | |  | | | Ok, let's come down. This is nothing about where you are from. I get these people too and they ask a question, get an helpful answer and can't manage to spit a little thank you afterward. Some people have simply bad manners.
And I don't bother to answer people with 0 post anymore. | | | | | | | This user would like to thank SwissSurfer for this useful post: | | 
01.02.2013, 17:18
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | Well in my case they were interested in a friendly banter or something since they were asking personal questions. It wasn't about getting an answer about anything in particular.
But I guess you're right people are probably just rude. | | | | | You've never been on a dating website, have you?
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01.02.2013, 17:19
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I tried it once. Never again!! | Quote: | |  | | | You've never been on a dating website, have you? | | | | | | 
01.02.2013, 17:27
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | Ok, let's come down. This is nothing about where you are from. I get these people too and they ask a question, get an helpful answer and can't manage to spit a little thank you afterward. Some people have simply bad manners.
And I don't bother to answer people with 0 post anymore. | | | | | Yeah, happened to me too. I recently translated two little documents into French for a girl here, and she never even thanked me. Some people take everything from granted | | The following 9 users would like to thank Mélusine for this useful post: | | 
01.02.2013, 17:42
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, happened to me too. I recently translated two little documents into French for a girl here, and she never even thanked me. Some people take everything from granted  | | | | | That's just plain rude, not you, but the person you did the translation for. It really doesn't take that much time to write a pm saying thanks.
Mind you I've long believed that if you give somebody a hundred franks and never see them again, then it was probably worth it.
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01.02.2013, 17:45
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I know what you mean, I asked about buying some stuff before from a seller and never got a reply back. It was obvious they thought I was a terrorist with a sole mission of exploding on meeting and having my family raid the rest of their apartment.
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01.02.2013, 17:45
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Simply..TTIUWP
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01.02.2013, 17:48
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | Simply..TTIUWP | | | | |  English?
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01.02.2013, 17:49
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | English? | | | | | Need to get more urban Nil: Urban Dictionary: TTIUWP www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TTIUWP
This Thread Is Useless Without Pictures, used on forums when a picture/photo is wanted to show what the poster is talking about.
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01.02.2013, 17:50
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| | | Re: People not replying to messages after contacting me FIRST | Quote: | |  | | | I am Swedish. | | | | | I like Swedish Fish.
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01.02.2013, 18:29
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I tell people I am Croatian all the time, mostly because I am 50% Swedish and got tired of having to explain why my grandfather dropped the umlaut from his last time when he snuck across the Canadian border into Minnesota inside a case of Molson beer. much easier to simply tell them that he dropped the "ic" from the end of the name when he emigrated to Sweden.
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01.02.2013, 18:54
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01.02.2013, 18:59
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Last edited by mirfield; 01.02.2013 at 19:06.
Reason: Changed nothing, but now you'll get a PM :)
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