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Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:20:59 GMT

Opening lines please for first night in a catered chalet or chalet hotel.

I've come across the usual "Hello, I'm Mark and I come from Derby..." kind of thing, although its time to panic when you get "Hello I'm Felicity and I run an art gallery in Richmond. This is my husband, Rupert....."

Its often "So, skier or boarder?" which can lead to some good banter. Especially when someone says "Boarder" and everyone else gets up and leaves the table :lol:

Drink is a good ice breaker. "Can I top up your wine?" or "What do you think of this French rubbish then?" seems to be a popular starting place. This was ok until a couple of years ago. 8 of us went in a group, 2 other couples in the same chalet for 12, first night pre dinner drinks and we are throwing wine down and opening bottles of beer and vodka, and 2 of my mates are generously pouring glasses and handing them round the table. One guy at the end, there with his Dad, declines a couple of times before steaming off to bed straight after dinner. His Dad continues to share drinks at the table, and simply raises his eyebrows.

Half an hour later or so, the guy comes back down, sits at the table again, and says "Sorry about earlier, I think theres something I need you to know. I'm a reformed alcoholic and drug user and have just come out of rehab......" Blimey :shock:

Anyone got any other interesting ice breaking moments or one liners?

Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:27:07 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Opening lines please for first night in a catered chalet or chalet hotel.

I've come across the usual "Hello, I'm Mark and I come from Derby..." kind of thing, although its time to panic when you get "Hello I'm Felicity and I run an art gallery in Richmond. This is my husband, Rupert....."

Its often "So, skier or boarder?" which can lead to some good banter. Especially when someone says "Boarder" and everyone else gets up and leaves the table :lol:

Drink is a good ice breaker. "Can I top up your wine?" or "What do you think of this French rubbish then?" seems to be a popular starting place. This was ok until a couple of years ago. 8 of us went in a group, 2 other couples in the same chalet for 12, first night pre dinner drinks and we are throwing wine down and opening bottles of beer and vodka, and 2 of my mates are generously pouring glasses and handing them round the table. One guy at the end, there with his Dad, declines a couple of times before steaming off to bed straight after dinner. His Dad continues to share drinks at the table, and simply raises his eyebrows.

Half an hour later or so, the guy comes back down, sits at the table again, and says "Sorry about earlier, I think theres something I need you to know. I'm a reformed alcoholic and drug user and have just come out of rehab......" Blimey :shock:

Anyone got any other interesting ice breaking moments or one liners?

Classic :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:29:05 GMT

"We're from Leeds and we're on a stag week...."

Help!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:57:13 GMT

That's what puts me off chalets! At least with hotel or an apartment its your choice to be sociable with other groups but always scared its going to be a nightmare with the other guests in the chalet.
A trait I have is to make opinions of others too quickly and express them too honestly. Would last about 2 mins as a diplomat.
Chalets not for me?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:07:35 GMT

"May I say Grace before we start please?"

Actually happened :thumbup:

The looks of horror around the table were a sight to behold.
An Irish Catholic priest and a very tidy skier.

Mad as a hatter, drank a lot but it never showed and after a couple of days everyone was waiting for his "Grace" which was different every day and included prayers for snow, sunshine, no injuries and there was one reference to praying for someone to be able to stay on a drag lift if my memory serves me right.

But I will always remember the looks around the table the first time he said those words.
:mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:49:28 GMT

Thanks for the topic! I'm going to be fretting about our fellow chalet guests for the next 10 months now.....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:09:04 GMT

For example....." Hello my name is Archibald and I am a spoon collector. Can I describe them to you..."

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:18:24 GMT

bedrock barney wrote:For example....." Hello my name is Archibald and I am a spoon collector. Can I describe them to you..."

or better still, can I play them for you.......

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:19:41 GMT

john987 wrote:That's what puts me off chalets! At least with hotel or an apartment its your choice to be sociable with other groups but always scared its going to be a nightmare with the other guests in the chalet.
A trait I have is to make opinions of others too quickly and express them too honestly. Would last about 2 mins as a diplomat.
Chalets not for me?

Its easy to judge a book by its cover, and like you I tend to express my own feelings quite freely. You may have noticed :wink:

All part of the fun though. Never had an issue so far with anyone in a chalet, although some of the other groups in the hotels we have stayed in needed avoiding!!!!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:41:24 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

bedrock barney wrote:For example....." Hello my name is Archibald and I am a spoon collector. Can I describe them to you..."

or better still, can I play them for you.......

Or even worse, if you just lie there I will cuddle you from behind!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:54:53 GMT

john987 wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

bedrock barney wrote:For example....." Hello my name is Archibald and I am a spoon collector. Can I describe them to you..."

or better still, can I play them for you.......

Or even worse, if you just lie there I will cuddle you from behind!

Hadn't thought of that one!

Right, Adders will be along in a minute, hes on a culling mission lately.

So, anyone else....????

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:06:58 GMT

I am not playing ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:15:53 GMT

Or Hello me and the Wife are naturists hope you dont mind.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:38:06 GMT

Hi there, is this the swingers chalet?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:01:08 GMT

Iceman wrote:Hi there, is this the swingers chalet?

Thats what I was going to say but changed it to naturists. :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:15:27 GMT

Making us nervous!!! 1st time away just the two of us without the kids or the other 14 that we normally go with. We will boar people as we will just talk about our children instead of enjoying escaping them!!!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:07:13 GMT

snowy0000 wrote:Making us nervous!!! 1st time away just the two of us without the kids or the other 14 that we normally go with. We will boar people as we will just talk about our children instead of enjoying escaping them!!!

Crumbs! What does 'boar-ing' people involve? It doesn't sound at all boring!!!!!
:mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:30:24 GMT

This is where there is a very fine line between choosing a chalet or hotel, I've experienced interesting conversations and people in both, my favourite was a club hotel in Elmau some years ago when I was allowed on a 'boys holiday' with my now ex-husband.

We were approached by another guest who simply said 'so, who's the best in your group then?' at which point none of the others said a word and they all pointed at me. Quite a random ice-breaker, or not so in this case.

Some people do have a tendency to talk far too loudly about their past experiences and where they've been and how good they are at skiing black runs which irritates me no end, I know we're on a skiing holiday, but reign it in a bit. There's nothing worse than being caught out on the nursery slopes when you've been blowing your own trumpet the previous evening.

Mr Nelly had the misfortune to be sitting next to someone of this calibre on the bus journey to resort this winter, he even got his camera out and showed him last year's photos.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:20:12 GMT

(if the ladies involved read this, I am sorry for sharing but you were so far above my "social standing", I mean no offence but I nearly died!)

The scene:
it's the second night in a "chalet-hotel". You can choose a dining time and whether you go private or shared table. We go on a shared 'stranger' table for 10.

Me & my ski buddy walk up to the table, "lady 1 " looks us up & down (quite openly) and pronounces
"oh, *you're* joining us? that's a shame I thought we might have the same dinner guests as last night".
Nice opener! Should have turned around and walked away right then.

Very shortly, during the first course, the table conversation drifts to clothing when I hear " lady 2 " speak for the first time. The first words are (not a word of a lie):
"well Kate tried to sell me three silk ones [scarfs] , "I said Kate no, that won't do, silk is no good"......Kate is lovely you know, and so is Michael..... ["lady 2" glances around the table] ... Of course we know the Middleton's so very well...."

[and goes on to discuss the other members of the family, their links, friendship and history for a few minutes; and some insights that, if true, may have national security implications so I won't share here :roll: ].

I was dumb struck (not in an impressed way), it was so out of context, what does one say to that?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:35:18 GMT

Classic Smarski !!

I assume your dining habits changed after this?

The only appropriate retort that I can think of would be a belly laugh followed by a god your pretentious or - I find it sad you have to get your status so vicariously!

Neither of which I would probably be brave enough to try but ....
:mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:41:04 GMT

OldAndy wrote:Classic Smarski !!

I assume your dining habits changed after this?

The only appropriate retort that I can think of would be a belly laugh followed by a god your pretentious or - I find it sad you have to get your status so vicariously!

Neither of which I would probably be brave enough to try but ....
:mrgreen:

Couldn't think of a suitable reply at the time, but will now be able to dine out on it for years.

Yes, dining time changed by 1 hour later every evening after, I think they were happy to have their chums back.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:01:02 GMT

I think I'd have got up and moved. Stuck up t***s.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:45:27 GMT

Tony_H wrote:I think I'd have got up and moved. Stuck up t***s.

Yes me to.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:46:14 GMT

Tony_H wrote: Stuck up t***s.

t***s... no, don't think they were "twins" :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:59:23 GMT

Smartski wrote: Very shortly, during the first course, the table conversation drifts to clothing when I hear " lady 2 " speak for the first time. The first words are (not a word of a lie):
"well Kate tried to sell me three silk ones [scarfs] , "I said Kate no, that won't do, silk is no good"......Kate is lovely you know, and so is Michael..... ["lady 2" glances around the table] ... Of course we know the Middleton's so very well...."

[and goes on to discuss the other members of the family, their links, friendship and history for a few minutes; and some insights that, if true, may have national security implications so I won't share here ].

Smartski,
I wouldn't actually do it, but in my head I'd have waited until the end of the meal and said something like:

"Thank you so much. That was most informative. I'm a journalist for the Daily ****** ..." :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:58:12 GMT

smartski wrote:

Tony_H wrote: Stuck up t***s.

t***s... no, don't think they were "twins" :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:59:02 GMT

AllyG wrote:

Smartski wrote: Very shortly, during the first course, the table conversation drifts to clothing when I hear " lady 2 " speak for the first time. The first words are (not a word of a lie):
"well Kate tried to sell me three silk ones [scarfs] , "I said Kate no, that won't do, silk is no good"......Kate is lovely you know, and so is Michael..... ["lady 2" glances around the table] ... Of course we know the Middleton's so very well...."

[and goes on to discuss the other members of the family, their links, friendship and history for a few minutes; and some insights that, if true, may have national security implications so I won't share here ].

Smartski,
I wouldn't actually do it, but in my head I'd have waited until the end of the meal and said something like:

"Thank you so much. That was most informative. I'm a journalist for the Daily ****** ..." :lol:

.....at which point you'd probably have had a drink poured over you by at least half of the dining room.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:03:54 GMT

What's up with the Telegraph?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:05:46 GMT

Iceman wrote:What's up with the Telegraph?

The cross word is too easy.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:15:42 GMT

Fair point, the star and mail are much more challenging ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:21:58 GMT

I met a really attractive lady in a chalet hotel a couple of years ago and I now write to her several times a week.

:cry: Sadly the postman brings them back as refused delivery, and she seems to have blocked me from her Facebook page, and now I have a court letter telling me to stay away from her house and work, and to stop pestering her friends :shock:

:twisted: :twisted:

Not really, but it is amazing how often this sort of thing really happens :(

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:26:33 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

Iceman wrote:What's up with the Telegraph?

The cross word is too easy.

Iceman wrote:Fair point, the star and mail are much more challenging ;)

ummm 4 across "starts with an interesting thread and quickly turns into random comments"

W........I........B.......B......L ......E

[what's happened to formating :cry: ]

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:48:26 GMT

1. Formatting is bust when I post on my mobile. Apparently the boys at j2ski towers are fixing this

2. Tony is allowed to wibble as he started the thread and he needs the practice. :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:15:03 GMT

Iceman wrote:1. Formatting is bust when I post on my mobile. Apparently the boys at j2ski towers are fixing this

ah, J2ski boys did well...it's working again now :) .

Iceman wrote: 2. Tony is allowed to wibble as he started the thread and he needs the practice. :)

fair point on both counts...

Actually I love all the wibble. Skiers are destined to wibble anyway; the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, do we take it? No, we carve lovely wibbles all the way down, but get to the same point in the end.

[edit: taking it back, the J2ski boys need more practice, it's stopped working again ;-)]

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:33:32 GMT

I'm not really a great lover of chalet holidays give me an apartment any day, you can choose where you eat and I don't really feel the need to mix with all and sundry. I do that enough at home.

But put me in a chalet full of knobs like some of the other posters have mentioned and I would love it...... I'd have an absolute field day :thumbup:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:25:35 GMT

I think it can be OK as long as there won't be any big groups that came together, in which case they will dominate and it might get annoying to put it mildly. I haven't got experience with chalet holidays and unlikely to get one, but overheard some converstaions from larger groups (usually they are loud so no avoiding it) and can imagine.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:59:33 GMT

First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:05:24 GMT

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:15:20 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:25:18 GMT

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

Found myself lumped together with a group of Teachers and families, just for a day. They spent the 1st hour on the lifts constructing a social hierarchy based on occupations. Along the lines of ...So what job do Yoouuu do?

I so wanted to say Nightclub Bouncer or Professional Assassin :twisted:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:54:33 GMT

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:19:09 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:13:13 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

It's still a rude question to ask people who you barely met. I personally don't care and quite shocked when there are people on holidays who do. Are they insecure or trying to make sure they only get 'appropriate" aquantances?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:24:24 GMT

john987 wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

haha! I told once that I was on unemployment benefit.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:42:30 GMT

I think teachers do a really hard job with little credit, they get criticised for having lots of holidays but from what I see their work life balance term time does not make up for it.
As with with all professions there is a wide range of personalities, some you will like to be with others you won't.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:00:46 GMT

john987 wrote:I think teachers do a really hard job with little credit, they get criticised for having lots of holidays but from what I see their work life balance term time does not make up for it.
As with with all professions there is a wide range of personalities, some you will like to be with others you won't.

Yes, I think you are right. It's personality that comes first and some personalities when placed in certain environments just can't help but show. A few of my friends are teachers, though 2 are Swiss and 2 Americans, and they are nothing like that. Very laid back people. I would really struggle to apply the adjective "pompous" to any one of them and can't imagine them grilling others as to what they do in life. But they do get lot of holidays:)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:39:06 GMT

Mr Nelly works in the window industry so that usually gets rid of any unwanted attention, people can be so snobbish about what job you do, I couldn't give a toss what people think about what me and Mr Nelly do, it pays for us to do all the fun things in life which is important.

Asking what you earn is a very personal question and not one I'd be prepared to answer to anyone!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:45:51 GMT

NellyPS wrote:

Asking what you earn is a very personal question

Perhaps the question tells us more about the person doing the asking :D

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:01:17 GMT

john987 wrote:

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

Now of course the cool response would have been, "oh that's jolly interesting. Class A, B or C or all three?"

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:39:30 GMT

I used to use the "I sell drugs" line - with great enjoyment and, often, perplexity from those hearing it.

I worked for a paharmaceutical company at the time :mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:27:50 GMT

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I have been asked often, usually by people who thought they had got a really good deal, only to find good old TH paid a lot less, which usually pisses them off a bit. But I've never asked first.

I'd also never consider asking someone what they earn. Its often a conversation point to discuss what people do for a living. The guy next to me in ADH was a farmer, and his GF was quiet while he was discussing the merits of milking his herd. I asked her what she did, and hes simple reply was "I get paid a s*** load for sticking my hands up his cows a****s"
Needless to say, she was a vet, not a weirdo.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:38:42 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

So, what do you earn??? ;)

JOKE

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:40:29 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

So, what do you earn??? ;)

JOKE

less than a GP more than a bin man

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:43:23 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Iceman wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

So, what do you earn??? ;)

JOKE

less than a GP more than a bin man

More than me then :cry:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:47:40 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Iceman wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

So, what do you earn??? ;)

JOKE

less than a GP more than a bin man

This is funny really because Mrs snapzzz and i have been having a big chat this week about how different people are when it comes to personal matters.
I really don't mind who knows how much i earn, if I'm ill or if i'm in debt.....i really don't care. We are all equal in my eyes, you are no better than i , we just have different lives.
Mrs Snapzzz however values her privacy massively, she reads Facebook but NEVER posts.
I suppose its just life's rich tapestry....we are who we are.

I do not care what you think of me, simple.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:50:15 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

I do not care what you think of me, simple.

Bugger !!!!!
And there was me quite getting to like you Snapzzz

Not going to bother anymore :cry:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:52:15 GMT

Awwwwwww mate, u misunderstand.

I meant 'i don't care what you think of me" as a general term.....meaning i don't care what anyone thinks of me.....

It wasn't aimed at you.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:53:49 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Awwwwwww mate, u misunderstand.

I meant 'i don't care what you think of me" as a general term.....meaning i don't care what anyone thinks of me.....

It wasn't aimed at you.

Oh no ....
Now I am not even anyone ....

:cry:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:54:13 GMT

Snappy, I am with you. The last place I worked I was open about how much I earnt (I was not the biggest earner by the way). I was then called in by HR onlt to be told that salary is personal and we should not share it. GBPGBP reflect people's skills set and people will think they are less skilled.

I have a girl who works for me. She is 'level 5'. In my team there are about 6 'level 5'. She knows what everyone earns. She earns the lowest in that band. She thinks she is hard done by - truth of the matter, she is not as skilled.

Where I am going with this, is if you share what you earn people base that on how clever/skilled you are - thats why some people dont like sharing it. Is it a fair reflection. Is a CEO more 'skilled' than me? Probably. Am I more 'skilled' than a plumber? Probably Not - I guess I would earn much more than a plumber.

It is a very sensitive topic -money always will be

I seem to have waffled there a bit. Hope you get what I mean? :roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:01:43 GMT

Iceman wrote:
Where I am going with this, is if you share what you earn people base that on how clever/skilled you are - thats why some people dont like sharing it. Is it a fair reflection. Is a CEO more 'skilled' than me? Probably. Am I more 'skilled' than a plumber? Probably Not - I guess I would earn much more than a plumber.

It is a very sensitive topic -money always will be
:

Most high earners, IMHO, have been lucky or it has been gifted to them.
I graft my bloody ass off every day and i will break more of a sweat than the likes of most of the super rich. It doesn't make them clever or skilled, some are, but many are just lucky or privileged.

Wages are rarely based on hard work.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:08:52 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Wages are rarely based on hard work.

I am going to tread carefully here, if I upset anyone it is honestly not intended.

I know what Snapzz does (virgin engineer?), you sweat much more than I do every day. However, I would argue that I work just as 'hard' but a different type.

The boys in Afganistan 'work' even harder. Harder than Snapzzz and me I reckon. They get paid less than me & snapzzz (I am assuming mate without knowing what you earn but knowing what they do).

I think it comes down to a couple of things, 1 being "supply & demand". There are a hell of a lot of people that will join the army, they can afford to pay poor salary. My mate has left the army, now works for Ericsson was a radio engineer. Gets paid a fortune - the skills he learnt in the army (and mindset) are in VERY limited supply in civvi street.

Odd.

Imagine this conversation in a chalet :roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:11:53 GMT

If anyone asks me how much I earn I can very truthfully say that I don't know. We have lots of tax deductible expenses and allowances and things and I never know which figure to use from which bottom line.

And, of course, the accountants have to work it all out, and our farm tax year ends long before the 5th April, but the cottages have to stick to the 5th April - so between skipping and hopping I have absolutely no idea! :lol:

But, hopefully, we will continue to earn enough to pay for at least one ski holiday per year, which is what really matters :D

Ally

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:13:56 GMT

That is another point, do self employed peeps such as Ally, Wickers, Tony & others kno exactly how much they 'earn'?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:20:23 GMT

Iceman wrote:That is another point, do self employed peeps such as Ally, Wickers, Tony & others kno exactly how much they 'earn'?

I don't :roll:

Same as Ally and others, different tax year ends, income from a couple of different places, all the deductables etc etc.

Never know what the tax burden will be until accountants sort out one lot of tax and then a few months later have to sort out the other lot.

Seems to work :thumbup:

I haven't had one of those jobs with a real salary, holiday and sick pay and a company pension since 1984.

Thank goodness :lol:

But self-employmentdome and small company ownership is a very different mindset to a classically employed position.

No idea which is best, easiest, etc etc etc

Just different I suppose.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:21:43 GMT

Iceman wrote:That is another point, do self employed peeps such as Ally, Wickers, Tony & others kno exactly how much they 'earn'?

I'm self employed (in a husband and wife business partnership) and I do know what i earn. It does require a spreadsheet or two being constantly updated, one logging expenses and one logging fee invoicing and predicted fees.

We're VAT registered though and I do have to keep reminding myself that the VAT is not ours to keep........

After 7 years, I've still not got used to twice yearly tax bills. So much easier when it's taken at source.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:21:56 GMT

OldAndy wrote:But self-employmentdome and small company ownership is a very different mindset to a classically employed position.

No idea which is best, easiest, etc etc etc

Just different I suppose.

Didnt know you were "one of them" ;)

What do you do?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:24:23 GMT

As little as possible .....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:29:51 GMT

OldAndy wrote:As little as possible .....

Snow dance teacher ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:36:43 GMT

Are we doing chalet practice now?

Do you think it would be okay to ask about how many children the other dinner guests have, and where they live etc.?

This thread is making me a bit nervous, in case I ever end up in a chalet and I put my foot in it and say something awful and then have to sit next to the same person at dinner all week :lol:

Bedrock Barney - you sound very efficient :thumbup: - not like me at all

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:39:54 GMT

AllyG wrote:Are we doing chalet practice now?

Do you think it would be okay to ask about how many children the other dinner guests have, and where they live etc.?

This thread is making me a bit nervous, in case I ever end up in a chalet and I put my foot in it and say something awful and then have to sit next to the same person at dinner all week :lol:

that's usually called ones spouse, partner, lover ......

well in my experience anyway :mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:43:43 GMT

I have one Kid and one wife. Im english, white, employed and that makes me number one target for the tory toffs.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:45:29 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:I have one Kid and one wife. Im english, white, employed and that makes me number one target for the tory toffs.

I have no kids, no wife. I'm English, white, have 2 homes, employed....

Makes me confused :roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:45:34 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

AllyG wrote:Are we doing chalet practice now?

Do you think it would be okay to ask about how many children the other dinner guests have, and where they live etc.?

This thread is making me a bit nervous, in case I ever end up in a chalet and I put my foot in it and say something awful and then have to sit next to the same person at dinner all week :lol:

that's usually called ones spouse, partner, lover ......

well in my experience anyway :mrgreen:

Oh - I'm not worried about HIM. He knew I was a total idiot long before we were married. It's very nice really, because I know that whatever awful thing I do/say it will never surprise/shock him. It's the OTHER dinner guests I'm worried about. The ones who haven't been warned about me beforehand :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:46:19 GMT

Gotta say I'm curious on the two homes then.....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:46:33 GMT

I'm just confused :oops:

[following on from Icy on the previous page but S & A were too quick posting]

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:49:11 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Gotta say I'm curious on the two homes then.....

One for work one for play ;)

OldAndy wrote:I'm just confused

Welcome to my world

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:50:08 GMT

Icy,
Could you pass the salt please?

And what did you say Andy, just now, about being confused? I didn't quite catch that.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:51:16 GMT

AllyG wrote:Icy,
Could you pass the salt please?

And what did you say Andy, just now, about being confused? I didn't quite catch that.

he he

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:54:30 GMT

This is too much for my pea brain :roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:57:04 GMT

Loving this banter tonight, but I have work to do :cry:

Have fun :thumbup:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:57:24 GMT

I'll just sit quietly in the corner.

Observing ......
:wink:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:00:01 GMT

Iceman wrote:This is too much for my pea brain :roll:

It's quite simple, Icy, we're doing chalet practice, in case any of us ever end up in one. I seem to remember you and Snapzzz expressing doubts about sharing a dinner table with people you don't know, in a chalet.

And I've never been in a small chalet. So I reckon we could all do with some practice.

Snapzzz - I rather think that what Icy means is that he does a weekly commute between his 2 homes. My parents used to do that as well.

Oh - Icy left the dinner table - without even waiting for dessert! His work must be very important if he's doing it on a ski holiday.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:03:35 GMT

AllyG wrote:Snapzzz - I rather think that what Icy means is that he does a weekly commute between his 2 homes. My parents used to do that as well.

*pops head in*

Yes it is ;)

*bye*

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:12:02 GMT

Iceman wrote:

AllyG wrote:Snapzzz - I rather think that what Icy means is that he does a weekly commute between his 2 homes. My parents used to do that as well.

*pops head in*

Yes it is ;)

*bye*

Not sure i get it still.......do u own two properties?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:14:53 GMT

I have my lovely 4 bedroom detached house

then I own a functional 1 bedroom studio that I use as a base when I am working away. I am selling the studio as my working arrangements are changing mid next month.

At the minute I am in my studio, but at the weekend I am in my lovely detached house :thumbup:

Does that kinda make sense?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:16:36 GMT

Iceman wrote:I have my lovely 4 bedroom detached house

then I own a functional 1 bedroom studio that I use as a base when I am working away. I am selling the studio as my working arrangements are changing mid next month.

At the minute I am in my studio, but at the weekend I am in my lovely detached house :thumbup:

Does that kinda make sense?

Yup, tells me ur loaded.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:18:43 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Yup, tells me ur loaded.

Not at all. My expenses for owning 2 homes are catastrophic

The studio has awful insulation so I am heating Skipton!

Has this thread gone a bit wibbly?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:19:08 GMT

Snapzzz,
Having 2 houses doesn't necessarily mean that poor Icy is loaded - it's more likely to mean that he owes an awful lot of money to a certain bank or building society!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:20:03 GMT

but when i sell......;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:20:58 GMT

LMAO, i get it now....it was all made clear by the name Skipton.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:21:54 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Has this thread gone a bit wibbly?

Right up ur street mate.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:22:02 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Skipton.

:roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:25:30 GMT

What do u do in skipton Icy?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:26:08 GMT

It just goes to show why it's not a good idea to ask people how much money they earn, or how many houses they own, at the dinner table. It causes a great deal of confusion :shock:

Perhaps we should stick to less controversial subjects.

What did you think of the soup, Snapzzz? I fancy it could have done with a little more fresh parsley myself.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:26:57 GMT

I don't know how old you are Icy, so at the risk of sounding like a cougar you do sound very elligible )

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:27:31 GMT

AllyG wrote:It just goes to show why it's not a good idea to ask people how much money they earn, or how many houses they own, at the dinner table. It causes a great deal of confusion :shock:

Perhaps we should stick to less controversial subjects.

What did you think of the soup, Snapzzz? I fancy it could have done with a little more fresh parsley myself.

I'm waiting for the chips

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:28:14 GMT

Dids1 wrote:I don't know how old you are Icy, so at the risk of sounding like a cougar you do sound very elligible )

Did u miss Skipton?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:28:36 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:What do u do in skipton Icy?

I work in Marketing for a company that is part of Skipton Building Society.

Great place to work. Surrounded by greenery, hear lambs in the morning & not a motorway for miles! Such a relaxing place towork. Different to the London/Leeds/Manchester that I have worked in teh last couple of years!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:30:24 GMT

Skipton is lovely. Mum lived near Harrogate for several years and we visited Skipton regularly.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:30:54 GMT

We used to camp regularly near there....grassington and beyond.....memories

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:31:34 GMT

Dids1 wrote:Skipton is lovely. Mum lived near Harrogate for several years and we visited Skipton regularly.

ICY...ur in mate.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:32:12 GMT

Dids1 wrote:I don't know how old you are Icy, so at the risk of sounding like a cougar you do sound very elligible )

1. Young enough to be a eligible bachelor
2. Old enough to be in a very lucky position to not be able to work anywhere in the world as I have no ties

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:33:59 GMT

Grassington is a great place. Our offices are about 2 miles from there. We are at the top end of Skipton.

Dids1: Come here often? ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:35:12 GMT

Iceman wrote:
Dids1: Come here often? ;)

ou have won me over with that line xxx

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:36:30 GMT

Dids has come here at least 506 times....

Snappy you come here more often at 1157 times!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:45:08 GMT

Icy,
I think you've frightened poor Dids away :lol:

She's a happily married middle-aged J2Skier, something like myself :D

And I think Snapzzz has gone off to the kitchen to look for some chips. Do they serve chips in ski chalets?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:05:39 GMT

Not frightened away.

I was packing. :P

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:14:10 GMT

She is packing to come and see me :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:40:32 GMT

Crikey. I nip out to do a couple of jobs and all this kicks off!

Not sure I'm digging the virtual chalet dinner thing. Its a bit weird, but then Ally started it so hardly surprising I guess :shock:

So we're finding out a bit about each other on this thread then? So far I've discovered Andy is self employed, Icy owns 2 places, and Snapzz votes labour. And Ally thinks she's having dinner. In MY chalet of all places.

I know what I earn as I pay myself a regular weekly salary, seeing as someone asked. But I wouldn't tell anyone how much that was. Mrs H is the main earner in the family, she pays for the house and bills etc, whilst what I pay myself I like to refer to as "lifestyle enhancement money".

Like Snapzz, I'm also in the camp of not worrying whaty people think about me. If someone doesn't like me, thats their problem, not mine :wink:

And no, you don't get chips in any of the chalets I've ever been in.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:49:13 GMT

That was a most amusing summary Tony :thumbup:

I didn't know it was your chalet we were practising in - sorry :oops:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:50:56 GMT

Well I deal in drugs lots of them and I know exactly what I earn give or take performance bonuses. Hubby has two businesses. One is a window company and the other is star wars manufacture, he's very vague on what he earns and only ever knows at the end of the year.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:51:38 GMT

AllyG wrote:That was a most amusing summary Tony :thumbup:

I didn't know it was your chalet we were practising in - sorry :oops:

Well, actually we're not REALLY in a chalet, but I was trying to play along with your virtual dinner type thingy, which I decided that because I started the thread it was my chalet. But none of that is real, so its not my chalet.

Now, can we try and be reasonably normal again?????

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:54:16 GMT

Jesus, I am confused again

Pass me another orange

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:56:45 GMT

As I said in another thread I dont think chalet holidays for me. Has any-one ever had nightmare guests? I mean kids from hell, groups of rowdy lads or lasses,the prize bore.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:04:41 GMT

RoseR wrote:As I said in another thread I dont think chalet holidays for me. Has any-one ever had nightmare guests? I mean kids from hell, groups of rowdy lads or lasses,the prize bore.

Good girl Rose, back on track without all this wibble.

Never had a problem with sharing with guests. Mind you, theres plenty of people out there saying "Do you remember that t***er who did airport runs?"

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:05:34 GMT

Iceman wrote:Jesus, I am confused again

Pass me another orange

Not until you say 'please' Icy :wink:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:06:13 GMT

AllyG wrote:

Iceman wrote:Jesus, I am confused again

Pass me another orange

Not until you say 'please' Icy :wink:

:roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:08:21 GMT

RoseR wrote:As I said in another thread I dont think chalet holidays for me. Has any-one ever had nightmare guests? I mean kids from hell, groups of rowdy lads or lasses,the prize bore.

Rose,
There was an awful man we had to share a table with once, in a chalet in Tignes. He decided, for some reason I forget - maybe because I am English, that I was responsible for his brother losing his job which was why his brother wasn't with him on the ski holiday. And it took me the entire length of dinner to persuade him otherwise. We sat somewhere else afterwards.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:10:15 GMT

AllyG wrote:

RoseR wrote:As I said in another thread I dont think chalet holidays for me. Has any-one ever had nightmare guests? I mean kids from hell, groups of rowdy lads or lasses,the prize bore.

Rose,
There was an awful man we had to share a table with once, in a chalet in Tignes. He decided, for some reason I forget - maybe because I am English, that I was responsible for his brother losing his job which was why his brother wasn't with him on the ski holiday. And it took me the entire length of dinner to persuade him otherwise. We sat somewhere else afterwards.

Why would he possibly think that and where was he from?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:22:25 GMT

Tony,
I can't remember exactly how his argument went. I just remember he was very angry with me and I hadn't done anything. It was something to do with regional unemployment and the unfair way money is distributed geographically in this country.

Basically I suppose he was just cross that his brother wasn't there and he decided to take it out on me. Anyway I did a pretty good job of convincing him that it wasn't my fault and at the end of dinner he invited us to have drinks with him at the bar. Naturally I wasn't at all keen on that idea so I made some excuse and we ran away.

And there was another man I was talking to in the chalet who droned on and on about what fantastic skiers he and his daughter were. I'm afraid I couldn't tell you the details of that conversation either as I carefully channelled most of it straight from one ear to out the other one but the upshot was that he felt his daughter was ready to start training as an instructor herself.

Anyway, the joke was that he and his daughter were having coaching lessons and we had a lesson afterwards with the same instructor. So I was very naughty and I asked the instructor if they were really brilliant skiers and he said that actually my daughter and I were pretty much up to the same standard as them except that they were a bit faster. And I am by no means a brilliant skier, although my daughter is pretty good.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:28:00 GMT

How odd. He was angry with you and you hadn't done anything? Is there a chance you MIGHT just have said something to provoke him, as I find it a little odd that a random stranger would suddenly decide that you were responsible personally for his brother losing his job?

The other bloke banging on about him and his daughter, met plenty of them in my time. Lots of people talk a good game. Maybe he believed they were that good? Or maybe he was just up his own you know what.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:19:12 GMT

Tony_H wrote:How odd. He was angry with you and you hadn't done anything? Is there a chance you MIGHT just have said something to provoke him, as I find it a little odd that a random stranger would suddenly decide that you were responsible personally for his brother losing his job?

Ally I don't suppose the fact that you sacked his brother 2 weeks before the ski holiday had anything to do with it. )

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:12:37 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Tony_H wrote:How odd. He was angry with you and you hadn't done anything? Is there a chance you MIGHT just have said something to provoke him, as I find it a little odd that a random stranger would suddenly decide that you were responsible personally for his brother losing his job?

Ally I don't suppose the fact that you sacked his brother 2 weeks before the ski holiday had anything to do with it. )

Very funny Brooksy :lol:

I think it was simply because it was very much on his mind and I happened to be sitting there - a trapped audience as it were. There was no logic to his argument - he was just angry and upset. And, of course, I WAS on the ski holiday whereas his brother wasn't.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:42:05 GMT

AllyG wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Tony_H wrote:How odd. He was angry with you and you hadn't done anything? Is there a chance you MIGHT just have said something to provoke him, as I find it a little odd that a random stranger would suddenly decide that you were responsible personally for his brother losing his job?

Ally I don't suppose the fact that you sacked his brother 2 weeks before the ski holiday had anything to do with it. )

Very funny Brooksy :lol:

I think it was simply because it was very much on his mind and I happened to be sitting there - a trapped audience as it were. There was no logic to his argument - he was just angry and upset. And, of course, I WAS on the ski holiday whereas his brother wasn't.

So was it just you and this bloke alone?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:43:02 GMT

How about "I had to get special permission from my parole officer to to come away!"

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:27:55 GMT

andymol2 wrote:How about "I had to get special permission from my parole officer to to come away!"

Ooo yes, and say you haven't had a holiday for over 10 years because you've been inside. Oh hang on, same thing isn't it?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:33:17 GMT

AllyG wrote:

RoseR wrote:As I said in another thread I dont think chalet holidays for me. Has any-one ever had nightmare guests? I mean kids from hell, groups of rowdy lads or lasses,the prize bore.

Rose,
There was an awful man we had to share a table with once, in a chalet in Tignes. He decided, for some reason I forget - maybe because I am English, that I was responsible for his brother losing his job which was why his brother wasn't with him on the ski holiday. And it took me the entire length of dinner to persuade him otherwise. We sat somewhere else afterwards.

I guess thats what he wanted...... you should have stayed there all week just to pee him off and made lots of noises when you were eating dinner :thumbup:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:35:29 GMT

I was sitting next to someone on a bus a couple of years ago, coming back from a ski holiday, and he said he'd just been let out of prison and he showed me his ankle monitoring device. It was most interesting. I'd never seen one before - only on the telly. I don't know how many crimes he'd committed in total but he'd broken into our local post office and he entertained me for ages telling me all about it.

Come to think of it - maybe I should be more careful about who I sit next to :shock: :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:20:40 GMT

We've done the hotel thing with the family and whilst it was convenient In terms of catering, we didn't have much in terms of personal space outside our rooms. Also, some of the other guests were irritating at times. I can do without that on holiday. I've done the chalet thing and really, again, it was dining with other guests that proved the downside. In the end, we now go for self-catered apartments and this works for us - not least because we have far more personal space in which to come and go. For GBP1,000 we get two bedrooms, a kitchen, and spacious lounge all to ourselves in the Swiss Alps. So it's cheaper too.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:43:48 GMT

Well, against all odds it looks like we will ne doing the chalet thing next season. Broached the subject with my dad tonight and he is up for it. Even having to have dinner atva set time with others!

Can you take your own drink or do you have to have what is provided? Sometimes I like a g+t before dinner, is this possible?

I think GBP500 inc flights fully catered was the attraction :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:44 GMT

Icy,
I've only stayed in a cheap chalet hotel. They let you buy your drinks at the bar and then take them through to the dining room.

I don't see why they'd object to you having a g+t as long as you paid for it. The more expensive chalets provide free wine with your meal, but I should think you'd have to pay for your g+t.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:02:09 GMT

Icy - you can drink your own drinks in a chalet.

This is very common, sometimes they have an honesty bar for mixers.

In a large chalet hotel if they have a licensed bar you will not be supposed to drink your own spirits etc in their bar. This is not just them trying to get you to buy their booze but actually one of the licensing rules.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:07:16 GMT

Really Andy?

I'm very surprised they let you buy your drinks elsewhere (like in a supermarket I suppose) and then drink them in their chalet. I suppose I've only been in hotels and chalet hotels where they have their own bar and you have to buy your drinks there.

I wonder if they will let people do this in the chalet in Les Brevieres - I must remember to ask them.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:10:53 GMT

It's been my experience with operators like Supertravel, Mark Warner, Bladon Lines, Total, Ski World etc over many years that it's common practice in chalets- without bars - to allow you to drink your own before dinner etc - often they have honesty bars with soft drinks, mixers and beer.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:13:48 GMT

Thanks LOTA - this forum is very helpful with these sort of queries :D

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:22:06 GMT

We always take our own T bags as well :mrgreen:

Being confirmed Darjeeling drinkers this is far less risky than relying on what is available locally.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:24:39 GMT

We always have a bottle or two of something for an apertitif in our room before supper, whether it's a hotel or chalet!!

(usually a bottle of Jagermeister, as it is the only thing that will get me out of the bath after a long day)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:42:21 GMT

Thats good then. Was concerned that I would have too have drinks in the town before dinner!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:01:18 GMT

Windowsills and balconys make great fridges donchaknow!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:21:17 GMT

Still need blocks of ice for my G&T. Warm, or semi warm is just not right!!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:34:34 GMT

If your G+T has been on a windowsill outside, it is unlikely to be warm!! And if it is, there won't be any snow, so no skiing either.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:01:47 GMT

Take a small fridge ice try with you, seems odd an Iceman that doesn't know how to get ice in sub zero temperatures -)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:12:30 GMT

Iceman wrote:Still need blocks of ice for my G&T. Warm, or semi warm is just not right!!

Stop trying to be a southerner, we all know all you Nothern Monkey's drink is Tetleys 8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:23:38 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:

Iceman wrote:Still need blocks of ice for my G&T. Warm, or semi warm is just not right!!

Stop trying to be a southerner, we all know all you Nothern Monkey's drink is Tetleys 8)

Tea or Bitter???

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:30:05 GMT

felthorpe wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Iceman wrote:Still need blocks of ice for my G&T. Warm, or semi warm is just not right!!

Stop trying to be a southerner, we all know all you Nothern Monkey's drink is Tetleys 8)

Tea or Bitter???

or does G&T stand for Guiness and Tetleys ???

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:45:40 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Iceman wrote:Still need blocks of ice for my G&T. Warm, or semi warm is just not right!!

Stop trying to be a southerner, we all know all you Nothern Monkey's drink is Tetleys 8)

Tea or Bitter???

or does G&T stand for Guiness and Tetleys ???

Grapefruit&Tizer :hunf:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:52:05 GMT

Windowsills and balconys make crap fridges make crap fridges. Bottles explode.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:08:55 GMT

Keep bottles inside and mixers/cans on balcony/windowsill :mrgreen:

Don't want the neighbours sampling the goodies.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:49:23 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Windowsills and balconys make crap fridges make crap fridges. Bottles explode.

Not just crap fridges, but make crap fridges make crap fridges :roll:

I find they simply either freeze solid, explode or dont get cold enough. Putting beer on the balcony is a great idea until you have to have a beer lollipop :shock:

Back to my question then, I can have a chosen drink before dinner without being forced to go to town? I am not bothered about paying, but is great to be able to chill after a long day with a good drink before dinner :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:38:36 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Back to my question then, I can have a chosen drink before dinner without being forced to go to town? I am not bothered about paying, but is great to be able to chill after a long day with a good drink before dinner :)

Yes

I have always taken my own booze into a chalet, its polite to inform the staff that you'll be doing that, but they wont have a problem with it. We've taken bottles of beer and spirits before, never a problem. The only free booze in the chalet is wine with dinner - some places are tight with it and will fill your glass up for you, some leave you the bottle/giraffe to abuse, others simply let you have as much as you want when you want (Skiworld from experience)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:55:19 GMT

Giraffe abuse? Not sure I like the sound of that :shock:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:28:50 GMT

NellyPS wrote:Giraffe abuse? Not sure I like the sound of that :shock:

Tony you've got some neck saying that -)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:32:50 GMT

Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:17:31 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

You were, but now I have read it you aren't :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:51:28 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

I dropped it into a conversation at the weekend :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:56:23 GMT

NellyPS wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

I dropped it into a conversation at the weekend :)

And everyone craned their necks to see who dropped the gaffe, calling a caraffe a giraffe?
I bet they had a good laff.

My attempt at a joke is so naff :oops:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:39:51 GMT

NellyPS wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

I dropped it into a conversation at the weekend :)

Messy!!

Reminds me of the time my OH put the remainder of our red vino from lunchtime into his water bottle and then went skiing. When he fell over and the lid came off he was surprised to be surrounded by people asking if he was OK. The red trail he left behind him in the snow might have had somehting to do with it. He was really upset.... but only because he'd spilt all the wine.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:43:45 GMT

felthorpe wrote:

NellyPS wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

I dropped it into a conversation at the weekend :)

Messy!!

Reminds me of the time my OH put the remainder of our red vino from lunchtime into his water bottle and then went skiing. When he fell over and the lid came off he was surprised to be surrounded by people asking if he was OK. The red trail he left behind him in the snow might have had somehting to do with it. He was really upset.... but only because he'd spilt all the wine.

:lol: :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:44:20 GMT

Dids1 wrote:

NellyPS wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

I dropped it into a conversation at the weekend :)

And everyone craned their necks to see who dropped the gaffe, calling a caraffe a giraffe?
I bet they had a good laff.

My attempt at a joke is so naff :oops:

Ever though of doing any 'rapping'?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:06:05 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:29:27 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

:?:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:04:24 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

:?:

Why :?: :?: :?: ?? :roll:

You're having a bubble?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:35:24 GMT

Iceman wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

:?:

Why :?: :?: :?: ?? :roll:

You're having a bubble?

:?:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:30:40 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

Now that I do use a lot.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:37:20 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Iceman wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

:?:

Why :?: :?: :?: ?? :roll:

You're having a bubble?

:?:

You need to get with it on "cockney rhyming slang" :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:03:36 GMT

Iceman wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Iceman wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Am I the only person who refers to a caraffe as a giraffe?

Nope, i often ask the mrs if she would like some wine to which she often replies 'Just a glass'
To which i say 'You're having a giraffe"?

:?:

Why :?: :?: :?: ?? :roll:

You're having a bubble?

:?:

You need to get with it on "cockney rhyming slang" :)

Must be the Northern version, I only know the London one :?:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:07:18 GMT

:lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:09:03 GMT

For those of the Northern persuasion "Bubble" is short for "Bubble bath" ....... Laugh 8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:17:08 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:For those of the Northern persuasion "Bubble" is short for "Bubble bath" ....... Laugh 8)

Thank you squire! :D

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:23:33 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:For those of the Northern persuasion "Bubble" is short for "Bubble bath" ....... Laugh 8)

Thanks for the translation, didn't know you were bilingual & I dont think shortening slang really works, try it yourself to see what I mean. :twisted:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:25:31 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:For those of the Northern persuasion "Bubble" is short for "Bubble bath" ....... Laugh 8)

Thanks for the translation, didn't know you were bilingual & I dont think shortening slang really works, try it yourself to see what I mean. :twisted:

My suvern mates all do the old 'bubble', 'plates' (as per wicker's other post)

;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:32:52 GMT

Iceman wrote:

brooksy wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:For those of the Northern persuasion "Bubble" is short for "Bubble bath" ....... Laugh 8)

Thanks for the translation, didn't know you were bilingual & I dont think shortening slang really works, try it yourself to see what I mean. :twisted:

My suvern mates all do the old 'bubble', 'plates' (as per wicker's other post)

;)

Your more than welcome me old china :wink:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:38:37 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:Your more than welcome me old china :wink:

China plate....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:41:40 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Your more than welcome me old china :wink:

China plate....

In cockney ryming slang you drop the second word ...... China (plate) ......etc etc

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:44:53 GMT

I know that :)

Would you Adam & Eve it I am helping out Brooksy ;)

Maybe this could be a conversation for meeting peeps for the first time in a chalet.... (to keep it on topic) :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:42:09 GMT

:shock:

Have you seen the Penelopes on that treacle on Embarrassing Bodies?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:11:44 GMT

Iceman wrote:I know that :)

Would you Adam it I am helping out Brooksy ;)

Maybe this could be a conversation for meeting peeps for the first time in a chalet.... (to keep it on topic) :)

In that case I've returned the favour in your quote -)

So mouth is now just north.
Socks are Tilburys
Ice is rats
Water is fisherman's

It works with some & not with others as the examples :(

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:32:11 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Iceman wrote:I know that :)

Would you Adam it I am helping out Brooksy ;)

Maybe this could be a conversation for meeting peeps for the first time in a chalet.... (to keep it on topic) :)

In that case I've returned the favour in your quote -)

So mouth is now just north.
Socks are Tilburys
Ice is rats
Water is fisherman's

It works with some & not with others as the examples :(

Looks like I'm the only cockney here :wink:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:25:20 GMT

mes plats de viande stylo a l'encre

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:47 GMT

Don't diss the northerners or they'l be "trouble urt mill"

Its common knowledge that northern culture runs about 20 years behind the South. You would do well to mention Jim Bowen, Cannon & Ball and Cilla Black in the early conversations when faced with one.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:30:59 GMT

scapula wrote:mes plats de viande stylo a l'encre

Change your socks and wash your plats :thumbup:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:48:57 GMT

scapula wrote:mes plats de viande stylo a l'encre

Have you been drinking this morning?

or is Wickers correct and you need to up your personal hygiene levels?

Sno4bandit - feedback please ....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:18:32 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

scapula wrote:mes plats de viande stylo a l'encre

Have you been drinking this morning?

or is Wickers correct and you need to up your personal hygiene levels?

Sno4bandit - feedback please ....

You should know by now Wickers is always right 8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:51:43 GMT

Unless he's wrong ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:55:44 GMT

NellyPS wrote:Unless he's wrong ;)

Wickers is some times left but never wrong 8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:05:10 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Don't diss the northerners or they'l be "trouble urt mill"

Its common knowledge that northern culture runs about 20 years behind the South. You would do well to mention Jim Bowen, Cannon & Ball and Cilla Black in the early conversations when faced with one.

Erm, look ere yellow belly. There will only ever be 'trouble at th'mill" get it right ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:09:24 GMT

Never go skiing baht 'at.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:12:46 GMT

Snappy, no. Please try harder

"Bat 'at"

As in the song, ilkley moor bat 'at....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:16:07 GMT

Iceman wrote:Snappy, no. Please try harder

"Bat 'at"

As in the song, ilkley moor bat 'at....

No, i meant as in the song: On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at
Never heard of your southern pansy version.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:29 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Iceman wrote:Snappy, no. Please try harder

"Bat 'at"

As in the song, ilkley moor bat 'at....

No, i meant as in the song: On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at
Never heard of your southern pansy version.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Something tells me you asked for advice off your old China google??

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Ilkla_Moor_Baht_'at

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:33:50 GMT

Google, the font of all knowledge. I must admit to enquiring as to the spelling.
I remember hearing this song at school and afterwards we all asked to translate it to english!!
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:48:04 GMT

Knew it! Saw straight through it! So what was the translation? It is cold on the moor. Be sure to wear a hat.

Bit like on t'alps baht 'at :roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:48:23 GMT

:oops:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:53:13 GMT

Iceman wrote:Knew it! Saw straight through it! So what was the translation? It is cold on the moor. Be sure to wear a hat.

Bit like on t'alps baht 'at :roll:

I think it translates as : Northerners are t**ts that speak some shi*e

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:08:35 GMT

:cry:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:07:34 GMT

And I thought the General Wibble Thread was a bit "out there"!!

How has this got anything to do with meeting new people in chalets?

Unless they are all northerners and we need to know how to communicate, I spose?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:23:05 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:Don't diss the northerners or they'l be "trouble urt mill"

Its common knowledge that northern culture runs about 20 years behind the South. You would do well to mention Jim Bowen, Cannon & Ball and Cilla Black in the early conversations when faced with one.

Erm, look ere yellow belly. There will only ever be 'trouble at th'mill" get it right ;)

Scuse me. Yellow Bellies are from Lincolnshire. He's a coal miner from Notts.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:43:32 GMT

:lol: sorry.

Snapzzz - were you born with a canary on your head?

Yes Felt - to help us all communicate in a chaelet we all need to have an appreciation of all the individual dialects ;)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:32:28 GMT

Well I'm originally from Birmingham and now live in Hampshire. Fortunately I have a neutral accent (although the brummy does come back when I visit).

I don't speak like these southerners where they add 'r's into bath and path etc, but they still insist on calling me northern, when clearly I'm not.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:42:32 GMT

I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:45:06 GMT

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:06:32 GMT

We are very decadent here with our Waitrose deliveries. Groceries taste so much better when handed over at our doorstep by a serf.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:50:15 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

Do you drive a traaactor?

My whole family (husband and children) were born in Norfolk, all except me :cry: I've only been here 25 years so i'm not even local yet

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:32:50 GMT

felthorpe wrote:

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

Do you drive a traaactor?

My whole family (husband and children) were born in Norfolk, all except me :cry: I've only been here 25 years so i'm not even local yet

Sounds like you're nearly there -)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:32:56 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

But he does have six fingers and eats spines from baguettes.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:12:10 GMT

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

Mrs W shops at Waitrose, a much nicer clientele than Asda :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:13:00 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

OldAndy wrote:

felthorpe wrote:I'm from Saaaarrrfff London but I now live in Norfolk where we all drive Toyoooter Yaaaris and goo to Tescooos

I'm from Norfolk and don't drive a Toyota of any description or go to Tescos :mrgreen:

But he does have six fingers and eats spines from baguettes.

I will have you know I have 10 fingers, 2 thumbs, requisite number of toes - all well formed and functioning !!
:roll:
Even managed to keep them all despite chainsaw and various other moving parts in close proximity.

WTF are spines from baguettes?

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:33:15 GMT

OldAndy wrote:WTF are spines from baguettes?

:thumbup:

Us northern monkeys have to rear our own animals and grow our own veg. We have a horse & cart

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:40:06 GMT

Love it -I should have been a northerner managed to marry one.From Camden Town in London me not trendy when I lived there for many years - Watford was north for me.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:41:55 GMT

Watford? That is European :roll:

The south starts at Stoke on Trent :)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:47:48 GMT

The great north south divide - Although as OH pointed out doesn't start in Watford !!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:12:35 GMT

No, thats Watford Gap, near Northampton.

Did you know Watford Gap was the first motorway services in the UK?

Anyone heard the song...."Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of crap" Caused massive issues back in the day, I can tell ya :lol:

Anyway......

North = poor people, dirty black stonework, coal mines, fat women with bleached hair in short skirts, grating accents and stupid phrases;
"our kid"; "ee by gum"; "ecky thump"; "nowt"; "reet good that was"; "why eye pet" etc etc

South = stuck up arrogant people, narrow windy country roads full of caravans, inflated prices, tea rooms, women with pony tales in tweed skirts walking like explorers, Bentley's and Aston Martin's, more grating accents and stupid phrases;
"I say old chap"; "cor blimey govnor"; "ave sam olat"; words starting with wh being pronounced like fw (try it, you'll know what I mean) etc etc

I'm from the East Midlands luckily -)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:04:26 GMT

Tony_H wrote:No, thats Watford Gap, near Northampton.

Did you know Watford Gap was the first motorway services in the UK?

Anyone heard the song...."Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of crap" Caused massive issues back in the day, I can tell ya :lol:

Anyway......

North = poor people, dirty black stonework, coal mines, fat women with bleached hair in short skirts, grating accents and stupid phrases;
"our kid"; "ee by gum"; "ecky thump"; "nowt"; "reet good that was"; "why eye pet" etc etc

South = stuck up arrogant people, narrow windy country roads full of caravans, inflated prices, tea rooms, women with pony tales in tweed skirts walking like explorers, Bentley's and Aston Martin's, more grating accents and stupid phrases;
"I say old chap"; "cor blimey govnor"; "ave sam olat"; words starting with wh being pronounced like fw (try it, you'll know what I mean) etc etc

I'm from the East Midlands luckily -)

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:55:07 GMT

I will have you know I have 10 fingers, 2 thumbs, requisite number of toes - all well formed and functioning !!

10 fingers AND 2 thumbs :shock:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:57:08 GMT

NellyPS wrote:

I will have you know I have 10 fingers, 2 thumbs, requisite number of toes - all well formed and functioning !!

10 fingers AND 2 thumbs :shock:

I blame the parents -)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:59:07 GMT

brooksy wrote:

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

Que?

Por favor meester Fawlty, I no nutheeng.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:09:39 GMT

Blimey, this thread has gone majorly wibbletastic....

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:09:59 GMT

:thumbup:

Far Queue wrote:

brooksy wrote:

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

Que?

Por favor meester Fawlty, I no nutheeng.

Por favor senor Fawlty, mi no nada.

:thumbup:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:14:59 GMT

bedrock barney wrote:Blimey, this thread has gone majorly wibbletastic....

I said that on page 25 - what has this got to do with meeting new people in chalets?

And then I got all wibblerised and joined in anyway............ It must be contagious :shock:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:18 GMT

brooksy wrote:

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

No. Just gallons of Estrella, and chavvy visitors in tracksuits.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:57:51 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

brooksy wrote:

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

No. Just gallons of Estrella, and chavvy visitors in tracksuits.

Tourists from the Midlands 8)

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:25:32 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

brooksy wrote:

And I'm in Lanzarote none of that balderdash over here8)

No. Just gallons of Estrella, and chavvy visitors in tracksuits.

Tourists from Manchester 8)

Quite

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:28:29 GMT

OldAndy wrote:
WTF are spines from baguettes?

Its from Alan Partridges assault of the East Anglian Farmers.

Watch from 1:15 on wards

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:51:41 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

OldAndy wrote:
WTF are spines from baguettes?

Its from Alan Partridges assault of the East Anglian Farmers.

Watch from 1:15 on wards

One of my hero's is Alan

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:51:15 GMT

Spines/Baguettes .......
Thank you Snapzzz - now I have a degree of understanding.
But ....

It does leave me wondering what goes on in your mind sometimes!!
:roll:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:06:38 GMT

Ahaaaa!

Got it now :lol:

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:59:24 GMT

OldAndy wrote:Spines/Baguettes .......
Thank you Snapzzz - now I have a degree of understanding.
But ....

It does leave me wondering what goes on in your mind sometimes!!
:roll:

I could sit in for a month watching nothing but Alan. He kills me every time.

Dan..Dan...Dan...Dan....Dan..Dan...Dan...Dan....DAN!!!!...................................Dan.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:22:20 GMT

"you're a mentalist!!!"

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:49:50 GMT

bedrock barney wrote:"you're a mentalist!!!"

Cash Back!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:56:25 GMT

Smell my cheese!

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:42:25 GMT

I like using on people what he does with the geordie guy, when people have accents. Scottish, particularly.
Let them speak for ages, say nothing back, and when they finish look at them and simply say "No, not a word"
We did it to our chalet host a few years back, Wallace his name was, as Scottish as Robert the Bruce. Everytime he spoke, there were calls for subtitles or someone would say something like "That just sounded like a noise"
He took it well to be fair.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:42:56 GMT

Tony_H wrote:I like using on people what he does with the geordie guy, when people have accents. Scottish, particularly.
Let them speak for ages, say nothing back, and when they finish look at them and simply say "No, not a word"
We did it to our chalet host a few years back, Wallace his name was, as Scottish as Robert the Bruce. Everytime he spoke, there were calls for subtitles or someone would say something like "That just sounded like a noise"
He took it well to be fair.

Probably just spat in your food.

Re:Meeting new people in chalets

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:07:49 GMT

PrivateBryan wrote:

Tony_H wrote:I like using on people what he does with the geordie guy, when people have accents. Scottish, particularly.
Let them speak for ages, say nothing back, and when they finish look at them and simply say "No, not a word"
We did it to our chalet host a few years back, Wallace his name was, as Scottish as Robert the Bruce. Everytime he spoke, there were calls for subtitles or someone would say something like "That just sounded like a noise"
He took it well to be fair.

Probably just spat in your food.

Well he was Scottish so it was likely anyhow -)