Manners

[RustyNut]

Good evening all,

This is a mild rant but It still amazes me how rude/odd people can be. I'm selling some bits 'n' bobs on ebay and have received a real variety of messages on my items ranging from polite to blunt to plain rude. I got a message tonight that simply said 'can you send me your number' … That was it, I wasn't greeted, he/she didn't leave his/her name and didn't explain why they wanted my number? Surely you have to be even mildly polite to begin to create a rapport with someone you've never met even if it is only through an ebay message especially if you're asking for their phone number!??

Happy Monday!

Cheers

Russ

[s4boy]

Sign of the times mate very few old skool nice people left in the world.

[europeanme]

I suppose the answer to the questions is 'yes I can...' :mischeif: and not actually sending the number.....

[andyg plym]

random i know but i find staff at mcdonalds rude !! Winds me up a treat!

[europeanme]

Sign of the times mate very few old skool nice people left in the world.

it does seem as though people have forgotten the art of dealing with each other in a civil way..
could it be the fact that technology has islolated us from the old human to human contact in recent years....

[K Simmonds]

I don't answer a lot of questions I get on ebay due to the senders lack of maners or just plain stupidity. Oh, and text style speak upsets me a great deal.

[RustyNut]

forgot about text style speak, is that here to stay do you think or just a blip in our societies' grammar?

[anthonys2]

random i know but i find staff at mcdonalds rude !! Winds me up a treat!

This annoys me to and everytime they pisss me off I feel like doing a Micheal Douglas!!!! am sure people know what i mean by this haha

[UrS4boy]

This annoys me to and everytime they pisss me off I feel like doing a Micheal Douglas!!!! am sure people know what i mean by this haha

You mean this:

[Error404]

This annoys me to and everytime they pisss me off I feel like doing a Micheal Douglas!!!! am sure people know what i mean by this haha

[Rusty]

Itz koz ure gtin old.

Text speak is the worst thing to happen to communication in my lifetime. People seem to think that they can write some sort of bullcrap code that dissolves all emotion and meaning... It's not even needed, now that most people are on unlimited texts and thus don't need to give a flying crap about the 160 character limit :corey:

If people can't be bothered to be polite then, unless you need the money, don't reply or just send them back a useless answer written in txt spk.

At least this forum hasn't fallen into the txt spk trp... and long may it last

[RustyNut]

Can we add a text speak ban as one of the forum rules?

[prj]

Can we add a text speak ban as one of the forum rules?

gss so, cn u txt admin?

[Rusty]

BANNED

[K Simmonds]

BANNED

Great stuff,.