[IanFromHKG]

TOH, you don’t need to steal it, it’s public property…

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/DYKWIA

[PhilipHart]

Dear BT Admin,

Are there any plans to upgrade your software so that email notification opt in/out can be done on a per topic basis?

IMHO, this topic has been going for waaaayyyyyy too long, and I would happily opt out this very second.

However if I change my notification setting – which acts globally across all topics – I will no longer receive notifications from topics which do still retain my interest 🙁

Yours in hope,
Philip

[TiredOldHack]

This is aimed at rferguson, and your comments about the Royal Family.

Some years ago, Ma (God rest her soul) went to the theatre, and it was playing to a full house. But there were two empty seats behind her.

As the lights went down, there was a rustle-rustle behind her, as the seats were filled, late, and when there was enough light to see, she idly turned around to look, as you do.

And it was Her Majesty and (presumably) a lady in waiting. Ma’s jaw dropped, and HM just gave her a Paddington Bear-like stare. Ma got the hint, and hurriedly turned back.

As the interval came around, there was a short pause before the lights came up, and Ma heard rustle-rustle again, and when the lights went up, HM and LIW were gone. When she re-took her seat after the interval, rustle-rustle again, and rustle-rustle when the show ended, and somehow, there was a short pause before the lights came up. And the seats were, once again, empty.

So HM wanted to see a play, and short of transporting the whole theatre to Buckingham Palace, or closing the whole theatre for a private performance (and I’m sure some so-called celebs would prefer that), her visit was arranged with the utmost discretion. And presumably this was not a one-off.

You don’t get any more ‘celeb’ than HM, in my opinion, and this is how to behave.

[Goldielox]

In the case of Ian Poulter he seems to of shot himself in the foot and and possibly BA getting off lightly after they downgraded his nanny and left his wife to look after their four kids in business class herself. He only received £200 compensation after paying full fare for the tickets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/11022636/Golfer-Ian-Poulter-complains-after-his-nannys-British-Airways-seat-is-downgraded.html

This has caused quite a stir on Twitter

https://twitter.com/search?q=to%3AIanJamesPoulter%20%40british_airways

[DontTurnRight]

Goldielox. Assume Poulter would also have received refund of fare difference in addition to £200 compensation!!

Re Twitter,there are a lot of very unsympathetic people out there. Think before you Tweet, or have very thick skin!

[TominScotland]

Mrs Poulter could have taken the downgrade herself and left Nanny to look after the kids………

[MrMichael]

I think politicians are the worse with the DYKWIA. A Mad-LHR flight a few years ago on BA. The chap in front of me was insisting he got served first as he was in a hurry and had to rush back to the commons for an important vote. The stewardess was having none of it, and was trying to fathom from him how being served his meal first would get him to Parliament quicker. Well give his due, he had an answer to that, not an answer that answered the question, but an answer nevertheless. By being served he could get his meal over with and then do some work in preparation for his speech before the vote…..”the country depended on this” he pompously screeched. DYKWIA was the next utterance followed by the chap across the aisle telling him to simmer down and act like an honourable gentleman instead of the idiot that he was. He stayed quiet after that, and got his meal in accordance with normality, front first, he was in row 5.

I know I should not have done, but I took some pleasure in banging his seat at every opportunity, and my tray table kept sticking so really had to slam it shut! IDNKWHW ( I do not know who he was) other than I am pretty sure I never voted for him.

He is not the only politician I have come across with the DYKWIA attitude. They tend to be backbenchers with no chance of ever making it on to the front bench….

[canucklad]

Maybe we should arrange for Ian and alexpo to combine forces against this downgrading megalomaniac

MrMichael……A wee tip… I ‘ve been privileged enough to sit next to some of Scotland’s most eminant politicians…most chatted like normal people. The few who started their condescending pish,required a gentle reminder that they work for me,or in other words., my man servant. And one look at me and you know you’ve got to better in life. …. : )

[MarcusGB]

I have set with International celebrities, politicians, Authors,Journalists,and even in a lounge next to The Queen mother of Tonga and her Military Entourage, though she is simply “Royal”. Mainly either by private jet, or for security reasons people are segregated.

i agree with many comments, but TV shoves out such trash these days that i do not classify them as celebrities, just having appeared on TV.
Those with unique professional skill, known by their work, or position, have much more earned, and deserve to be treated as well as the Airline wish them to be.

But generally Celebs if they want the 1st class seats, then surely they can pay?

I often travel as a Gold member of Etihad and am allocated 1A in First class.

[AnthonyDunn]

Hmmm, in all the years, I have only ever come across this mindset from one group. Not politicians, actors or other people in the meedjah spotlight, but rather, those on the other side of meedjah: journalists.

The DYKWIA threat when they insert “…I am a journalist with…” in then attempting either to obtain what they have not paid for or in bullying you into doing something that you might not otherwise do normally leads me to dig my heels in big time. The overweening arrogance of this particular group is second to none.

[MrMichael]

Tend to agree AnthonyDunn. Many a time I have had a “I am press” threat, or another is “I will go the press” with this. My answer to all of this is always the same ” please make sure you/they spell my name correctly, last time they spelt Michael with an ea instead of ae” I then slowly spell my name out.

[TiredOldHack]

AnthonyDunn – as my posting name suggests, I’m a journo. I tend not to ‘play’ with it, mind, because what I do is business journalism and about as specialised as it gets, though I have freelanced for all sorts of people on all sorts of topics (and still do, when the spirit moves me).

The closest I get is having my international journalist’s card in the window opposite my passport in my document wallet, and that is really to signal to officialdom and bureaucracy: it can be useful.

Many moons ago, I was a ski journalist and the behaviour of some of the hacks in that sector beggared belief. Some refused to go on press junkets if they knew a rival from another journal was on the same trip, and would insist on having a trip specially arranged for them alone. Even more amazingly, the travel companies’ press offices often obliged.

And don’t get me started on the viragos in the women’s press….

[Charles-P]

I have just returned from holiday and the owner of the hotel we stayed at told me the “I’m a journalist” speech has now very much been replaced by the “I will write a bad review on TripAdviser” as the new threat.

He has had to deal with this on a weekly basis for the past few years.

[TiredOldHack]

Sadly, I think bad manners is the default state of many people these days.

It really doesn’t take much to be courteous and, from my experience, it produces better results than being shouty. Usually. There are some times when being shouty has the edge, but not many.

[Charles-P]

“Sadly, I think bad manners is the default state of many people these days.”

How very true. We seem to have developed a society that knows full well its ‘rights’ but has very little knowledge of its responsibilities. Last month I asked, politely, if the man sitting opposite me in the lounge at Brussels would take his feet off the table so I could put my cup down. He replied,
“It doesn’t say anywhere I can’t put my feet on the table” Incredible to think that some people need a sign to realise this.

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