The Queens, reps and the patter.

Rowland

Member
Got a similar call once while stood next to the dryer and I was in a playful mood when the caller suggested that we touch base I asked him what he wanted to touch in my most local yokel voice he kept on about touching base I said we don’t know each other well enough for things like that young man what with the dryer going flat out me saying don’t touch me young man he hung up and I never heard from him ever again
 

egbert

Member
Livestock Farmer
What's a rep? We don't have them round here anymore
(could do with some though, the dogs are hungry)

I'll ring them -or email so there's a record- when I want to buy.....otherwise they're better off not bothering me.
 

Johnnyboxer

Member
Location
Yorkshire
More often than not I am operating noisy machinery or working with noisy animals when people ring, so I can't hear them anyway.

What happened to ringing in the evening on the landline and actually organising or planning the next day's work as used to happen in the old days here?

I remember those days, answerfone (americanism) messages and primetime evening farmer calling at 6-7.30pm to organise the days & week ahead
Good old days
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Isn't it funny how we are all different.
I personally think texting us rude and pointless, when a 30 second call would be both civil, and get the point across.
I agree, one text is OK, but an entire conversation?
Reminds me of 'The Cone Of Silence' from Get Smart :headphone:

But then, as per the OP, a phone conversation with some reveals why they text - they just have such a limited grasp of grammar, how to construct a sentence without cliché, buzzword, or some filler :banghead:

I often feel their entire thought process has been condensed to "awake now" :whistle:
 

DRC

Member
Listen to interviews with "experts" on tv or radio. It appears to be compulsory to place so at the beginning of any explanatory sentence. Would rather scrape my nails down a blackboard than listen to a shpeel starting "so".
There was a particularly bad one on Jeremy vine this week, talking about fracking .
 

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read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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