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Althalus
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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Bizarro
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
emmy
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
Bizarro
i don't know why but the way you word things, Emmy, is so british that it kind of excites me tongue.gif
Althalus
see, i told you people'd like you emmy. smile.gif
emmy
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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


Oh my sir, please spare my blushes blush.gif
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