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well, "you put in what you get out" was the basic message I am feeling...perhaps the example was a little too strong, apologies for that...but as I say, a downward spiral if you're going play tit for tat with a grumpy customer. (nes pas?)

if anything, stick to your guns, but film it (secretly if need be). At least you can prove that they are being the cooonts that you say they are. We had a psycho upstairs neighbour - well, to my then Girlfriend (Gabi) - he was nice as nice pence to me (pussy bastard). He used to come home drunk, jump up and down, loud music , washing machine on at 3 am - if we banged on the roof, he'd go ballistic. We got the police out several times, they give him the usual "be nice mister", and fuck off - then he'd just go even more bonkers. the last time he did (a Tuesday night 3am) - we just upped and left to stay at Gabi's mum n dads in Skene. We then looked for a house after that, and serendipitously found the perfect place the next day. I wish you luck - keep a log & video as much as you can - solid for prossicution, if it comes to it.

so...you were mellow, polite and nice back to this cretin shit head... not quite the same as dropping to the same level of input from the woman, which is apparently what some people think is the correct response to a twat in a shop / public space. I hope she felt like a real Charlie.

ZO! yuo sink zat voz german!....excellllent....

I was "invited" to set up a new account (a while back now) - better interest etc...blah blah. I said "I don't think so, you lot will fuck up my DD's"..."no, we can assure you that that won't happen - if it's all from a BoS account to another one - we'll transfer everythign for you, and you just have to close the other account"...."I don't believe you"..."It will be ok, rest assured"....I did set up the new account....and guess what. I still had a DD coming out of the old account. CUNTS.

I agree too (the people should say please and thank you) - but it doesn't work like that. a customer has the "right" to be a fuck head - and it's your job to be as nice to them as possible (and then they might realise they are being a fuck head). If you go off on a teen strop because someone doesn't say "please or thank you" - GET OUT OF THE FUCKING JOB and deal with the Private sector. You are on a hiding to nowhere if you expect Joe Public to be as nice as they should be!

you assume that she'd cancel the card....not with my intimidation program in full effect.

ha ha..... and you of course did nothing to cause [a?] woman to be "fucking mental"... blame it on the rag, eh. sheesh.

yes!....I was thinking that the ast time I'd used it...."no pin?....damn! I wish I'd mugged that granny at the cash machine now"....free tickets for life!

now, that is a fair and decent prostitute, if you spuff in your pants before she even gets a grip of it.

am gonna feeeeex that raht, that's what am gonna dooooo

this from someone with an avatar of Anus Harriot...how big were the letters? ho ho

we (maple) supported them when they opened the Virgin Cinema...wayyyyyy back when.

she was in with me a few wednesdays ago...mike and I were swooshing her around on the ramps when no one was in...she loves sitting on the board (coffin styleeeeee)...then she did a bit of Parkour, and got kicked out. ("the ramps are not slides" I shouted to her - 'til she cried, mission acomplished, I thought.)

that's you on the BMX....I geddit nooooo!.....I'll have to tug on a dread next time...(if i've got that right!)....

of course you would be, defence is always the first response to criticism. I found Sharon's comment to be a bit of a shame, - that you have to know, or be friends with the staff before they treat you like a "respectable customer"...(i.e. be friendly back.)...and as for saying "it's up the the customers to be friendly, to get friendly responses, surely that's not right? - It's up to the employee to be as friendly and welcoming to anyone - no matter how they are! (not nice, I know - but, it's onto a downward spiral if you are expecting your clients to be happy, before you are!)... After working in One UP ofr a long time (in the early 90's)...I'd happily plumped with the phrase: "The customer is always shite" - but you still had to smile, and be nice. (Otherwise they'd shop elsewhere)....but, I guess because the Belmont shows films that other Aberdeen cinemas don't, I guess you might think that gives you the right to treat your customers as you see fit - otherwise, they have got no where else to go?... My Advice? - get out of retail / public facing work if you don't like dealing with Joe Public.

absolutly right, there is a world of difference between moaning and making a complaint.

edit - firfox doesn't display that properly, as I'd put the "sub menu" outside the "top level" <li> tag... here's the correct code : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tests.css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>tests</title> </head> <body id="men1"> <ul> <li id="m1">one <ul class="subMen"> <li>1.1</li> <li>1.2</li> <li>1.3</li> </ul> </li> <li id="m2">two <ul class="subMen"> <li>2.1</li> <li>2.2</li> <li>2.3</li> </ul> </li> <li id="m3">three <ul class="subMen"> <li>3.1</li> <li>3.2</li> <li>3.3</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </body> </html>

what a long winded title... I've put together a neat wee "expandable" sub menu technique for a CSS ul / li menu....(if it has been developed elsewhere, I've not seen it (honest!))...I thought I'd share it with any CSS developers here...(no Idea if anyone is!)...anyway... the HTML <body id="men2"> <ul> <li id="m1">one</li> <ul class="subMen"> <li>1.1</li> <li>1.2</li> <li>1.3</li> </ul> <li id="m2">two</li> <ul class="subMen"> <li>2.1</li> <li>2.2</li> <li>2.3</li> </ul> <li id="m3">three</li> <ul class="subMen"> <li>3.1</li> <li>3.2</li> <li>3.3</li> </ul> </ul> </body> the CSS (the very basics - so you can expand on it). .subMen{ display:none; } #men1 #m1 ul, #men2 #m2 ul, #men3 #m3 ul{ display:block; } to "expand" the subs, simple change the BODY id to "men1" or "men2" or "men3" - presto! (you can obviously change the id names to suit, and add more. It's the combination of the BODY id + menu UL id that changes the subMen UL - hope it helps someone. Peep.

I like the detail of the clipped soundwaves, shows that they care! ho ho

I gathered that you were "into" ambient stuff, to an extent, I too used to moan about "whale fart music" (the very stuff you wer aluding to). But, Mike Palace is (and always has been) an excellent producer of dark ambient soundscapes, in fact, his "beat stuff" is no where near as good as his use of field recordings and drones. And I think all the "everyone's and their dogs" are on that list of free tracks!....I've no idea where to start, for fear of downloading hours of the same "droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss". But I would reccomend a listen to at least one of the Horchata tracks (but I am bias, seeing as I've worked with Mike on Videos and "tunes" before) YouTube - horchata - cyst (a beat song...after all that!)

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this is an "art house cinema" isn't it?.....what's wrong with extending the feeling of "film noir" - or the misery of a mike leigh film into the foyer?....ho ho

it's not really "music" though really... think of it as truly 'ambient' - play it in a dark room and you are transported to the place... I do agree that a lot of "ambient music" does seem easy to make, but the good stuff should make you feel something other than an expectation to disect the thing you are hearing?