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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
The implied "auto-godwination" was said in jest.
I do know quite a few Germans who talk about Bavarians being uppity, stuck up and rude. I certainly found people in Munich to be rather surly, pretentious and full of themselves far more than the inhabitants of any other large European city. However, I had no problems with people in other regions of Germany - people in Hamburg especially seemed pretty cool, as did general attitudes there. Madrid seemed very user friendly to me, btw. |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Earl Evleth wrote:
On 8/12/05 14:36, in article 1h796y0.v3ea8ftv5a5aN%this_address_is_for_spam@yah oo.com, "David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy" wrote: Earl Evleth wrote: Berlin "poor service" and got 23,100 hits Paris "poor service = 137,000 hits London "poor service = 235,000 hits Rome "poor service = 87,000 hits New York"poor service = 268,000 hits So Berlin is low on this poor service test. Of course these google test are unreliable, but I don't know another course. It's not just unreliable- it's dumb. But can you suggest something different? No, but I don't have to. This is a newsgroup- not Statistics 101. I'm much more interested in personal anecdotes and tales than what google fishes up, or what the latest dumb op-ed piece says. [] All this shows that my method is reliable in giving you whatever you want. Which is why it's dumb. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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I didn't find an excess of surliness and bad attitudes in Berlin, for that matter I didn't find attitudes and surliness in Paris to be especially bad. For whatever reason, I find Paris much friendlier now than I used to. I don't think it's a change in me, but I could be wrong. For people spending a bit of money, it's always been fine. My grandparents went in the 80s twice on long weekends, and said they were treated very nicely, but my grandmother told me that grandfather was spending a lot, and tipping a lot! -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Des Small wrote:
[] If _I_ was picking user-unfriendly places, I'd personally go for Barcelona, and my anecdotal evidence would strongly favour Madrid. What was wrong in Barcelona? (I've never been to Madrid, so can't compare.) -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:56:23 +0100, Earl Evleth
wrote: On 8/12/05 14:36, in article 1h796y0.v3ea8ftv5a5aN%this_address_is_for_spam@ya hoo.com, "David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy" wrote: Earl Evleth wrote: Berlin "poor service" and got 23,100 hits Paris "poor service = 137,000 hits London "poor service = 235,000 hits Rome "poor service = 87,000 hits New York"poor service = 268,000 hits So Berlin is low on this poor service test. Of course these google test are unreliable, but I don't know another course. It's not just unreliable- it's dumb. But can you suggest something different? Opening your fridge door to stop global warming? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
"David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy" skrev i meddelandet news:1h796y0.v3ea8ftv5a5aN%this_address_is_for_spa ... Earl Evleth wrote: On 8/12/05 12:49, in article 1h7920s.v2zq151i6drs9N%this_address_is_for_spam@ya hoo.com, "David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy" wrote: The writer was confusing Paris with Berlin. I found Berliners very nice. It's not an effusive friendliness- and I found them quite laid back- which is not to say reserved. Could be. I never had a problem there either. Nor in Paris! That did get me curious, however, so I googled Berlin "poor service" and got 23,100 hits Paris "poor service = 137,000 hits London "poor service = 235,000 hits Rome "poor service = 87,000 hits New York"poor service = 268,000 hits So Berlin is low on this poor service test. Of course these google test are unreliable, but I don't know another course. It's not just unreliable- it's dumb. Paris "awful city" get's half the hits roughly that London "awful city" gets. So Paris must be half as awful, right? However, Paris "excellent city" also gets half the number, so it must be half as excellent, no? Or perhaps, just maybe, one city generates more hits _in general_. But, do go ahead, and use google hits as a test... (London "excellent food" gets more hits that Paris "excellent food" too, for the same reason.) I guess that's right. There are good reasons to understand why Paris gets more hits than Berlin as there are more visitors to Paris. And there are good reasons to understand why N.Y and London receives more hits as "poor service" happens to be the language used in those two cities. |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Lennart Petersen wrote:
"David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy" skrev i meddelandet news:1h796y0.v3ea8ftv5a5aN%this_address_is_for_spa ... [] Or perhaps, just maybe, one city generates more hits _in general_. But, do go ahead, and use google hits as a test... (London "excellent food" gets more hits that Paris "excellent food" too, for the same reason.) I guess that's right. There are good reasons to understand why Paris gets more hits than Berlin as there are more visitors to Paris. And there are good reasons to understand why N.Y and London receives more hits as "poor service" happens to be the language used in those two cities. It's probably more the fact that there are simply more hits for London than for Paris, about twice as many. New York has over twice as many than London. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Following up to Earl Evleth
Berlin "poor service" and got 23,100 hits Paris "poor service = 137,000 hits London "poor service = 235,000 hits Rome "poor service = 87,000 hits New York"poor service = 268,000 hits So Berlin is low on this poor service test. Of course these google test are unreliable, but I don't know another course. you need to adjust that to per 1000 English speaking visitors and then Google in all the other languages maybe! I would be amazed if Paris wasn't worse than London for poor service. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Following up to Earl Evleth
But on French google, Paris gets 97,200 to London's 9,660 using "bonne cuisine". how many people talk about London food in French? There are only 187 hits for "bonne cuisine" Melbourne :-) -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test
Following up to David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of
besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy If _I_ was picking user-unfriendly places, I'd personally go for Barcelona, and my anecdotal evidence would strongly favour Madrid. What was wrong in Barcelona? (I've never been to Madrid, so can't compare.) Catalans are known to be more serious than other Spaniards, for instance when Brazil won a match in the world cup there was a mass samba down the Ramblas. Miserable gits. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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