November 18, 2008
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Drelingue drelingue.
Allô oui?
Allô, bonsoir, Monsieur Lausanne_Guy. Je suis Yvette de Bleudebleu de l’Institut XYZ. Puis-je parler à Madame, s’il vous plaît.
Madame est décédée.
Oh. Je suis navrée.
Il y a deux jours. Madame est décédée il y a deux jours.
Oh uh oh ah oh er oh...
Ce n’est vraiment pas le moment.
She couldn’t disconnect quickly enough.
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Will she call back when the moment is better?
When my father was in intensive care (dying) that very same hospital called me about an appointment my father had that day and I told them he was in intensive care and the lady on the phone laughed. She really wasn't very tactful.
One of my... Someone I know has just got a part-time job doing that. It is, apparently, a horrible job - full of hostility and insult. So I figure I got rid of her in the nicest way possible: it was effective, gave her a bit of drama and something to talk about when she got home.
I could hardly keep from laughing. The sounds from the phone... Choking and horrified.
Well "I" didn't refrain from laughing! I'm usually more like a polite "Yes, who are you, what do you call me for, I'm not interested/I don't need your stuff" and if they insist, then it's more like "What the hell is wrong with you, don't you listen to me when I talk to you" followed by a soon afterwards abrupt end to the conversation which can be initiated from either end. I have to say though that in the last years, I've received hardly any calls asking to speak to "la maîtresse de maison". But if ever I do, I'll give it a shot!
We have a no-pest-call list we can subscribe to since September, like Americans have had for some time, but I haven't done so yet. Besides, there are so many exceptions I'm not sure it's even worth it.
I have no doubt it's a horrible job and I have a mountain of sympathy for those who are stuck having to resort to them. But I'm not sure I have to extend this sympathy beyond an unaccounted for polite refusal to be pestered by the companies they represent.
En passant, you may be interested by this program aired on Nov. 14. I'm not sure if it will still be available on the site after Friday (I can't find any link for past programs of the current year).
ryc: not sure will watch out next time i watch the ad x
There were a few episodes of Le petit Silvant on (our) TV5 this weekend. I found out there's also a bunch more on the TSR site. I like his kind of absurd humo[u]r. His imitation of Karl Lagersfeld just got me bursting out laughing.
I like the blue Xmas tree in la Palud.
Hey, that's a nice metro Lausanne has just given itself!
Just read about it googling about La Palud. It has the same technology as ours (on tires) and with narrow carriages (wagons?). Ours it like that to deal with denivellations (tires) and to allow for pronounced curves (narrow), what can't be done with rail. Of what I see between the Lausanne-Flon and Ours stations, it's pretty curvy over there too, and going from 373 m to 711 m is quite a steep ride for a metro. 
They are replacing in a few years most of our wagons which are 40 years old. Supposedly, the new ones will permit to walk from one to another like yours. I like that (especially that here each train has 9 four-door wagons except on one line which has 6. More people to carry. 
I just went to watch this show I had missed and thought that maybe you'd like to have a first hand look at the type of humor we have here. http://www.radio-canada.ca/television/3600_secondes_d_extase/espace_video/index.asp
Marc Labrèche is something like Silvant, but more elaborate (read "flyé" or "capoté" in Québécois, maybe "dingue" in Vaudois??). This show is on air each Saturday at 20h00 I think. I always miss it but the previous week's episode remains available on Radio-Canada's site until the new one airs. This one was particularly good, and in tune with my last post about our ridiculous current political limbo (at the federal level) and the ridiculous provincial election we had on Monday. It will probably only be available until this Saturday. Clips from previous episodes are available though. Forget the drunk mouse (rarely makes me laugh), but high voltage André Sauvé is to die for, so is spaced-out Paul Houde (check the Nov 1st clip on the US elections
).
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