tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post6011041974125440486..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Snow and CambridgeGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-72541703417721308662010-01-08T17:58:49.730+00:002010-01-08T17:58:49.730+00:00Ignore your friends, Dubois. Keep up the good work...Ignore your friends, Dubois. Keep up the good work. Why shouldn't human beings talk to each other if they feel like it? If they don't want to talk they can smile and politely excuse themselves. I don't always feel like talking myself. It is manners, of course but I still don't know enough about Norfolk manners to be sure how these things go in such passing acquaintanceships. Come to think of it, I do believe it has been more friendly in Norfolk than most places.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-65255900324620635382010-01-08T17:56:24.529+00:002010-01-08T17:56:24.529+00:00I am back. I just thought about it and remembered...I am back. I just thought about it and remembered, of course, all my family talk to people on trains and planes and my partner talks to everybody everywhere and we are all Norfolk born and bred. My partner has such a broad Norfolk accent that few understand him but that is another story. How stupid of me to forget this when I made the first comment. So Norfolk people do talk, it is just all the rest who dont.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-73771845757295244382010-01-08T17:47:05.745+00:002010-01-08T17:47:05.745+00:00It's manners I like to think. I always talk t...It's manners I like to think. I always talk to people on trains and planes and ask lots of questions and enjoy a good conversation, and then get told off by my friends who find me embarrassing. I enjoy it. I am Norfolk through and through but maybe I am not typical of the breed.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-67896090008598834252010-01-08T14:38:06.005+00:002010-01-08T14:38:06.005+00:00A nice boy with a long way to go but with a fund o...A nice boy with a long way to go but with a fund of good will, Lucy.<br /><br />In my experience women are less inhibited with other women then men with men. I have only been talked to by drunken women on late night trains or very elderly women.<br /><br />I myself feel a little inhibited from talking to strange women on a train unless they're quite old. It occasionally happens but I always wonder, what if they think it's an attempted pick-up. At any rate it might seem uneasy or unwelcome. So I leave it and smile if our eyes meet then look down again. <br /><br />With men there's more likely to be a conversation in the North of England than in the South. But I've had a few good train talks over the years, nearly always with me asking the questions or moving the conversation on. Privacy and the English., I think.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-46999679501821373882010-01-08T09:40:49.906+00:002010-01-08T09:40:49.906+00:00I wish I had been in the seat behind listening.
I...I wish I had been in the seat behind listening.<br /><br />It's true abut the English and questions, but some people know how to ask the right ones. Cautiously I'd say perhaps women are a little less inhibiited than men about it. Others feel they need to overcome the aversion, but overdo it, and are intrusive and clumsy... but probably not as much as others fear to be.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com