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30.10.2019, 10:28
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Almost everyone makes hand gestures whilst talking. Probably the most famous exponent of recent times is the very un-Italian Tony Blair.
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Not to mention the Trumpet
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30.10.2019, 10:31
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | |  | | | I keep asking myself if Italians don't have a problem with it, why do you?
From Wikipedia
| | | | | I personally didn’t see it as racist but did find the use of national stereotypes in order to make a point rather ridiculous.
Actually this whole thread has become rather ridiculous now and has moved very far away from the original topic.
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30.10.2019, 10:33
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Actually this whole thread has become rather ridiculous now and has moved very far away from the original topic. | | | | | The original topic is ridiculous as it was. 
Tom
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30.10.2019, 10:40
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | I personally didn’t see it as racist but did find the use of national stereotypes in order to make a point rather ridiculous.
Actually this whole thread has become rather ridiculous now and has moved very far away from the original topic. | | | | | Sorry Mum!
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30.10.2019, 10:42
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I noticed the new setup in Geneva last night..
Basically the same ashtray on the platform but it now has a sign on top suggesting the smoking is allowed within 2m of the sign.
It was working in that the area around the sign was very popular but jeeze, it really concentrated the aroma. Fail as far as I'm concerned.
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30.10.2019, 11:58
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | No you're absolutely right.
I'm going back to not bothering to respond to a certain member's posts as they seem intent on baiting me and it looks like they achieved it today.
Here's some "Bernard Manning" style "humour" to leave you all aghast at stereotypes: | | | | | TBH I laughed at this. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I thought it was funny.
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30.10.2019, 12:05
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | TBH I laughed at this. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I thought it was funny. | | | | | That Catherine Tate sketch is funny. I showed it to some Italians once and they thought it was very funny.
I don't think it's mocking the foreigners but the general British ineptitude* with foreign languages.
* I'm going to get accused of using stereotypes again which some people find offensive.
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30.10.2019, 12:18
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | Sigh, there's none as blind as those who will not see.
Ask Linford Christie if he thinks the black man with massive cock trope is positive. Even if you think you are being positive or complimentary, it isn't always so. | | | | | As if that were even remotely comparable to stating that Italians "speak with their hands".
Just to clarify for you: it isn't.
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30.10.2019, 12:31
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Basically the same ashtray on the platform but it now has a sign on top suggesting the smoking is allowed within 2m of the sign. | | | | | Isn't the ashtray located ONLY at one end of the platform, so that all smokers concentrate in a small area, which is easy to avoid? That's exactly what they did in my main station.
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30.10.2019, 12:32
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Isn't the ashtray located ONLY at one end of the platform, so that all smokers concentrate in a small area, which is easy to avoid? That's exactly what they did in my main station. | | | | |
Not at Zurich HB
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30.10.2019, 13:00
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| Quote: | | | | | As if that were even remotely comparable to stating that Italians "speak with their hands".
Just to clarify for you: it isn't. | | | | | You just compared them. Quickest self-own in history.
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30.10.2019, 14:00
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | ... so that all smokers concentrate in a small area, which is easy to avoid? | | | | |  
Just an aside, OH taught me Greek hand gestures (single and double handed Moutza) so that I know when the mother-out-law is really angry, and so I know that some common UK hand gestures can be seen as offensive there.
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30.10.2019, 14:03
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Just an aside, OH taught me Greek hand gestures (single and double handed Moutza) so that I know when the mother-out-law is really angry, and so I know that some common UK hand gestures can be seen as offensive there. | | | | | Oh yes... the old "pende bires, parakalo. Nai, pende!" pitfall...  |
30.10.2019, 14:21
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.....anybody got a light please ?
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30.10.2019, 14:24
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| Quote: | | | | .....anybody got a light please ? | | | | | I miss the Singing Postman.
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30.10.2019, 14:41
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Just an aside, OH taught me Greek hand gestures (single and double handed Moutza) so that I know when the mother-out-law is really angry, and so I know that some common UK hand gestures can be seen as offensive there. | | | | | For some odd reason, Germans view the hand sign for 'OK' as extremely offensive.
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30.10.2019, 15:05
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Isn't the ashtray located ONLY at one end of the platform, so that all smokers concentrate in a small area, which is easy to avoid? That's exactly what they did in my main station. | | | | | Not in cornivan, geneva.. There are a few, spread out, at least the one i was near last night was well under cover and near to the lift, nowhere near either end.
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30.10.2019, 15:23
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | For some odd reason, Germans view the hand sign for 'OK' as extremely offensive.
Tom | | | | | Are you sure? I thought it means "Ok" in Germany, just like in the anglo-american world, vs "asshole" in Italy.
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30.10.2019, 15:31
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | For some odd reason, Germans view the hand sign for 'OK' as extremely offensive.
Tom | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | Are you sure? I thought it means "Ok" in Germany, just like in the anglo-american world, vs "asshole" in Italy. | | | | | In Ticino, the sign for OK is a stiff, extended right arm with a click of the heels.
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30.10.2019, 15:41
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | In Ticino, the sign for OK is a stiff, extended right arm with a click of the heels. | | | | | Dude, you've watched the Wizard of OZ too many times!
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