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Post #186,956 by tuberculosis 12/14/04 1:38:38 AM 8/21/07 12:41:18 PM Reply	In France Being able to circumvent the system is essential to survival. There are too many regulations to follow them all. Attempting to do so results in gridlock. All progress is made by getting someone to circumvent the system for you. The line thing is an extension of this facet. If you are clever (and daring) enough to work around the regular queue and get away with it then you deserve the rewards for your ingenuity. Thus, line cutting is an understandable extension of the culture. I can't judge it, really. That's just how it works. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:41:18 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #186,957 by pwhysall 12/14/04 2:05:02 AM Reply	Meanwhile... ...here in the UK, we are, quite simply, the world's best queuers. It has been said that even if he is alone, an Englishman will form an orderly queue of one. And it's true. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]
Post #186,959 by Meerkat 12/14/04 6:03:06 AM Reply	Agreed We Australians can queue (pensioners at a smorgasbord a notable exception), but from the evidence I've seen/heard, the UK has turned it into a kind of art. Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #186,973 by drewk 12/14/04 9:12:21 AM Reply	More on queuing Start [link\|http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20040503.html\|here] and go on for a bit. (SFW, as long as you remember not to spew coffee on the monitor.) === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #186,962 by Arkadiy 12/14/04 7:40:38 AM Reply	Wow. You just described Soviet Union to the dot. -- It is illegitimate and utterly intolerant to impose such a view upon anyone, even upon yourselves. -- [link\|http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/\|The Belmont Club]

Korean Courtesy - (Arkadiy) - (7) - Dec. 7, 2004, 01:31:59 PM EST

Dunno about Korea... - (inthane-chan) - Dec. 7, 2004, 02:35:33 PM EST

Koreans are French? - (daemon) - Dec. 7, 2004, 05:56:33 PM EST

In France - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:41:18 PM EDT

Meanwhile... - (pwhysall) - (2) - Dec. 14, 2004, 02:05:02 AM EST

Agreed - (Meerkat) - Dec. 14, 2004, 06:03:06 AM EST

More on queuing - (drewk) - Dec. 14, 2004, 09:12:21 AM EST

Wow. You just described Soviet Union to the dot. -NT - (Arkadiy) - Dec. 14, 2004, 07:40:38 AM EST

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