tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post6628463470784467246..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: No More Ladies and GentlemenMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-11535934559229858552017-07-14T12:59:37.652-07:002017-07-14T12:59:37.652-07:00And apparently staff who do not fall into line and...And apparently staff who do not fall into line and continue to use the term 'ladies and gentlemen' will be taken to task over it ... Paddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112119118958158131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-5880101616878177162017-07-14T08:12:10.894-07:002017-07-14T08:12:10.894-07:00I suppose I mean that the 'Hello, everyone'...I suppose I mean that the 'Hello, everyone', as it will henceforth be heard across the Underground, will not have the reassuring effect on me that it should have.<br /><br />I fear my instinct is to plump for 'Morning' regardless of the time!Dominic Nhttp://some-definite-service.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-73539870621383993312017-07-14T07:49:23.668-07:002017-07-14T07:49:23.668-07:00I suppose I mean that the 'Hello, everyone'...I suppose I mean that the 'Hello, everyone', as it will henceforth be heard across the Underground, will not have the reassuring effect on me that it should have.<br /><br />I fear my instinct is to plump for 'Morning' regardlessDominic Nhttp://some-definite-service.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-71090614800943507792017-07-14T07:31:34.986-07:002017-07-14T07:31:34.986-07:00Well, the extraordinary thing is that I posted thi...Well, the extraordinary thing is that I posted this less than a month ago on the Irish Conservatives Forum:<br /><br />"It's often seemed strange to me that this phrase, and its constituent elements, hasn't really come under attack in our era. It seems to reflect so many things the spirit of the age hates; sexual difference, gentility, courtesy, demureness, breeding etc. etc.<br /><br />Am I overthinking? Am I getting paranoid?"<br /><br />Evidently not.<br /><br />The Guardian was actually praising it, although their commenters seemed to be universally hostile.<br /><br />I don't mind "Hello, everyone", although it's rather dull. Actually, "hello" is my universal greeting, because I can never think fast enough to remember if it's morning, afternoon, evening or night.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-37279685126474778072017-07-14T06:35:30.441-07:002017-07-14T06:35:30.441-07:00Yes, I think your position is entirely reasonable....Yes, I think your position is entirely reasonable. Ifind the replacement 'Hello, everyone' sinister, Orwellian, all the rest of it. <br /><br />I think it's not so much that someone has come up with the idea, which might be the easiest thing in the world to dream up, but that it has so suddenly been implemented, and that common sense has not restrained it. There it is, a reality, out of nowhere as far as I can tell. It drives home the impression of a culture shock inflicted on me by the capital city in whose suburbs I have grown up and spent almost all my life.<br /><br />My loyalty as a South Londoner to the suburban surface railways has been redoubled!Dominic Nhttp://some-definite-service.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com