Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Serial_Apologist]

Hiya ahinton,

Whenever I hear 'your call is important to us' I immediately feel that I am being lied to. If a call was important the company would staff it appropriately. They are really saying is ‘your call is not important to us’ otherwise they would have answered it promptly. I find it so predictable how quickly companies, as such as insurance companies, answer calls to their sales department far quicker than their customer enquiry/complaint lines.

Including i.m.e. the customer complaints departments of insurance companies!

[Flosshilde]

I'm sure we used to go over to The Wigmore Hall but now it's just Wigmore Hall - actually I thought that was a deliberate name change like Kennedy. We still sometimes go over to The Lighthouse though.

Do we get reports from Houses of Parliament or Commons, though?

[Radio64]

Depends on PM .. or if Queen is passing through.

[Lento]

"Thankyou for the pleasure of your company" when said by broadcasters to their assumed listeners, especially when the programme has been pre-recorded.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Thankyou for the pleasure of your company" when said by broadcasters to their assumed listeners, especially when the programme has been pre-recorded.

I always think "thank you for the company of your pleasure" is more polite.

[Serial_Apologist]

When the recorded messages end and I get a real, live human being, I thank the person profusely for being there, and let him/her know that I was rapidly losing the will to live.

I'm surprised Teamsaint has not been on here, reminding us rightly that making us complicit with their failings is how they soften us up!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Thankyou for the pleasure of your company" when said by broadcasters to their assumed listeners, especially when the programme has been pre-recorded.

It's a complete lie, as the presenter is alone with a microphone, apart fromnthe odd technician making an occasional appearance.

[teamsaint]

I'm surprised Teamsaint has not been on here, reminding us rightly that making us complicit with their failings is how they soften us up!

As my forum post count is embarrassingly high for a person with a full time job and lots of music still to discover, I feel confident in handing over my duties to you from now on , 12 tone.

(I think we were all softened up a long time ago now....)

i wonder why they never use minmalist music on those lines while we wait to be patronised/fobbed off/cut off/ whatever?

[gamba]

Where's your Zimmer ? ( my wife ) I refuse to use it -after all I'm not 100 yet !

[soileduk]

Absolutely.

[french frank]

Absolutely.

I prefer that to other commonly heard intensives!

[ahinton]

Hiya ahinton,

Whenever I hear 'your call is important to us' I immediately feel that I am being lied to. If a call was important the company would staff it appropriately. They are really saying is ‘your call is not important to us’ otherwise they would have answered it promptly. I find it so predictable how quickly companies, as such as insurance companies, answer calls to their sales department far quicker than their customer enquiry/complaint lines.

Indeed so!

[Flosshilde]

i wonder why they never use minmalist music on those lines while we wait to be patronised/fobbed off/cut off/ whatever?

If they did no-one would notice when the same bit of music came round for the 6th time

[Hornspieler]

Summink (Something)
Vunnerable(Vulnerable)
Guvvermant(Government)
Gonna be(Going to be)

All heard in the past week by BBC Newsreaders and Reporters

RIP Lord Reith

Hs

[Nick Armstrong]

Watch out for Febbry now we're in that month...