Any potential flirting across social circles

Wasn’t that over about one month ago when I was in the city centre (Prague) walking from a wine bar to… which one was it… Burger King, when a trio of guys started chatting to me in a friendly way.  !

I started complaining about Hong Kong, how obsessed people were with English words like ‘prestige’ and ‘elite’ , while they seem to have absolutely no idea what the word ‘elite’ even means, or, how to use it. 

There’s a Latvian so I started blowing the trumpet about a Latvian bakery/ bread business in Hong Kong started by two Latvian engineers. There’s a Mexican speaking fluent English who also didn’t like snobbery drawing a distinction between ‘Prestige’ and stuff for the regular people of the general population. I started chatting about how harbour seals got raped by sea otters, biology is so fascinating. When was that? After about one hour of chatting. A dead duck got raped by a homosexual horny duck. And that’s a fact. The sea otter , of course, also raped a dead dog for seven days straight. It didn’t end after one or two rapes. It was going on, and on, and on. 

And then I was chatting with the guys the following night too, Czech Latvian Mexican… … … a bit like meeting people from social networking, such as, Couchsurfing.

I am wondering, was the Mexican guy flirting with me? He was complimenting me, saying that I was wearing a nice jacket. Then, complimenting me, saying I had nice handwriting. I was handwriting a very short Czech poem, I think. Or something about systems of counting in the Czech language. 

Is that what men do to flirt? Passing complimentary compliments like ‘your jacket is nice’ + ‘your hair is nice’ or whatever?

What can he do with that anyway? A visitor in Prague living in Italy / Croatia, if information he gave me is correct- I did not verify any of it. 

It is perhaps taboo/ controversial/ too shocking, that the harbour seal got raped by the sea otter, so many times. But, as a matter of fact, that happened. And, if I’m out there, socialising, befriending people, once I do it long enough, I notice that people are not all that nice- they take advantage of me, they manipulate me, they intimidate me one way or another, they use me , one way or another. That happens sometimes. Commonly. It depends on who I am dealing with. Some people never manipulate, never use someone else for something. Some people have integrity. At first, it is hard for me to tell. It is too difficult for me, to discern. It’s all such a mix. 

So, perhaps it is just nice, fun, and liberating, to intimidate (at least freak out) other people, before they go and intimidate me, undermine me. Like, I got used for resources. A strange Czech lady even asked me for whiskey+ vodka two nights ago. NO. I don’t see why she’s not going to just buy herself a bottle of whiskey herself. Plus, I don’t bother keeping that stuff at home because I just don’t drink any. So, don’t expect me to provide any of that stuff. And she gave really hilarious excuses to try to justify such a request – to ‘recover’ after doing excruciating yard work. So, she needed whiskey . So manipulative, ready to take stuff from me at my expense. Hilarious.

I am not happy about how I get treated by other people, sometimes. I wish people would just treat me with decency, common courtesy, respect, honor and common sense. Legally, not criminally. Some people did criminally undermine me in the past, yes. Perverts. There’s a bit of a fear. 

The dudes.. .  … Oh bread of Latvia… … … I had such a hilarious laugh, talking bullshit about sea otters – actually that’s not bullshit, it’s grim and gross but they did those really not very nice things to baby seals. It’s too madly boring to keep going on about things like ‘Hi, where are you from, … what’s your job, … … ‘

Yah, are you flirting? How do you flirt?

Submitting a complaint against NB Communication Ltd, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0LL, UK

To: Independent Press Standards Organisation, Community Interest Company 

Hi, I am writing to submit a formal complaint against: Promote Shetland, NB Communication Ltd, Stewart Building, Esplanade, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0LL, for an inaccuracy I can see on their website. On their webpage: https://www.shetland.org/blog/grey-seal-pups

we can see a problem. Please go to the “Otter Watching” section. There is the English sentence “Along some stretches of coastline, which I have been studying for over twenty years I have taken great pride in learning their movements, feeding area’s, holts and tracks. ” And obviously the apostrophe should not be there. It should be “areas”, not “area’s”. This is so silly. To write and publish “feeding area’s” is ridiculous like saying that “yesterday, my neighbour Joanna gave me apple’s, pear’s, banana’s, plum’s, and peanut’s”. I find the sloppy, unprofessional work of NB Communication Ltd in Lerwick, Shetland to be very disappointing indeed. It is a disgrace. Did employees of NB Communication fall asleep at their work desks? I can only imagine that management is bad there.

They are misleading the public about English punctuation. They failed to publish decent content according to professional standards of media industries. They damage the image/ brand of UNESCO. Many people are young kids at school and they are confused about when to use the apostrophe, when not to use the apostrophe. I fear that NB Communication and the Promote Shetland website are lowering standards of literacy in England, Wales, and beyond. This lack of professionalism and ridiculous use of English punctuation is damaging people. This is making readers of websites less competent at using the English language. It is going to result in more and more people who use the apostrophe when they should not use any apostrophe. And then people go and miss the apostrophe when it is necessary for them to use the apostrophe. “The area’s three beautiful lakes are often talked about among locals.” This dire mess, this chaos is ultimately going to damage businesses, the quality of staff that companies can get hold of, then it is going to damage the economy, society more broadly. What gives NB Communication Ltd the right to be so negligent, so irresponsible?  Please process my complaint and let me know about the outcome.

Does your organisation routinely impose a financial penalty upon the publisher of a website that produced inaccurate content? Wrong spelling or punctuation, stating so-called facts that turn out to be untrue, English sentences that got into a twisted mess that are not making any sense… …  

Many thanks

Dilys and friends