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#1    Althalus

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Posted 31 January 2003 - 06:45 PM

                                                LONDON (Reuters) - People are losing patience with forming an orderly queue, an academic has found in a four-year study.

David Stewart-David spent a total of 92 days standing in 2,000 queues to discover why the British so readily stand in line.

In his report "The Stressful Queue" he said the old British reserve in accepting queues was disappearing.


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Posted 31 January 2003 - 10:11 PM

                                                that dude needed 92 hours of standing in line to figure that out?  i don't even live in the UK and i could relate that tidbit of information for ya smile.gif                                                
if there was a meteor,
adrift amongst space,
set about on a collision course
not with Earth, but my face...
i wonder if id even know,
at what time i might,
be passed off like an old style
and by the meteor be smite?

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Posted 01 February 2003 - 02:50 PM

                                                Where I work the idea of forming a queue does not cross the mind of some people and if they have to wait a micro second they would riot                                                

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Posted 02 February 2003 - 06:48 AM

                                                i don't know why but the way you word things, Emmy, is so british that it kind of excites me   tongue.gif                                                
if there was a meteor,
adrift amongst space,
set about on a collision course
not with Earth, but my face...
i wonder if id even know,
at what time i might,
be passed off like an old style
and by the meteor be smite?

- me, 1997

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Posted 02 February 2003 - 10:50 AM

                                                see, i told you people'd like you emmy.   smile.gif                                                
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Posted 02 February 2003 - 02:42 PM

                                                
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i don't know why but the way you word things, Emmy, is so british that it kind of excites me


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