American "lady" in Starbucks...LONGPORT??
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Was she with a guy in a fez and bowtie?Sounds like a brand of cigarettes that would have been marketed to women in the 80's. Do you think she was a time traveler from the 80's that thinks starbucks is a futuristic cigarette store? Everyone knows that time traveling female smokers from the America of the 80's are rude, especially when they have jet lag and haven't had a cigarette yet.
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To continue the stereotypes..its very unusual to see American tourists in Ireland NOT wearing bumbags (fanny packs). Also, they tend to wear FAR too much clothing and rain jackets all the time...even when its actually sunny and warm..THOUGH i will say, the younger tourists do tend to avoid the fanny packs..but any pub in west Clare on a summers evening is full of fanny packs (and no bad thing either!)0
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Thank you treetop57 for clearing that up!
Also:Absolutely can not let the comments pass.... "sounds Canadian"..... are you kidding me. If a Canadian bumps some one at the grocery store accidentally ..... both people are apologizing each other. That was just uncalled for:-(
I live in Maine and we do this a lot here too (we are so close to Canada that may have something to do with it). It's so ingrained in my behavior to be polite to everyone that it's still a shock when others don't act this way. Like if I hold the door for someone and they don't thank me.
RE: the fanny pack thing. My mother still uses one as it's the perfect size for day trips (camera fits nicely along with id, a little cash and a credit card) but it's worn slung over the shoulder, not around the waist.0 -
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Google long pour espresso and you'll get your answer.
However, I think a lot of Starbucks here in the states would have also said no as I don't think it's common language for many baristas or customers. I'm happy when the one I go to the most gets my one drink up in under 5 minutes and I'm the only one there.0 -
In the US, we say LINE. Geez! You darned Brits.
Anyway, I have no idea what a longport is. Never heard the word.
Yeah but "standing in line" isn't the same as "queueing". Stnding in line is just an effective way of processing a number of people fairly on a first come first served basis.
Queueing is a combination of one part standing in line, and five parts an exercise in barely suppressed emotion. The thinly veiled but unspoken outrage of people queueing when faced with a queue jumper, or unnecessary delay, or sudden closure of the till you're queueing for, requires skill, sensitivity, judgement, and minutely controlled reflexes to ensure that tutting, rolling eyes, stiffening of shoulders, pained sighs and looking daggers at the back of the offender are loud enough and pronounced enough to be satisfying to the aggrieved queue member, yet discrete and barely perceptible, except to immediate neighbours, in order to avoid embarrassment or any kind of scene. The skill required in joining a queue far far outstrips the skill required to join a line! Being able to correctly identify the last person in a queue is a key skill. So is working out whether the person standing just a foot or two away and not quite exact centre in relation to the person in front, and possibly looking to one side instead of ahead, is actually queueing or just happens to have got too close without noticing. Advance queueing involves judging how long to stand behind that person before saying "Sorry, but are you in this queue?" or whether to risk being a queue jumper by passing them, at the same time as maintaining your position as "next in the queue" without being jumped by the person behind.
It's really quite an art!
Not the same thing as standing in line at all.
Also, fanny packs are very rude! Our (I can barely bring myself to say the word! I'm so embarrassed!) *fannies* are anatomically different to yours, being located elsewhere, and are not in any kind of pack-carrying position. So I'm forced to sit here stiffening my upper lip and rolling my eyes every time I read it.
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Why don't you ask the girl working? It sounds like she knew what one was.0
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Why don't you ask the girl working? It sounds like she knew what one was.
I was waiting for my drink at the end of the counter.0 -
To continue the stereotypes..its very unusual to see American tourists in Ireland NOT wearing bumbags (fanny packs). Also, they tend to wear FAR too much clothing and rain jackets all the time...even when its actually sunny and warm..THOUGH i will say, the younger tourists do tend to avoid the fanny packs..but any pub in west Clare on a summers evening is full of fanny packs (and no bad thing either!)
Most of the American "travel experts" recommend wearing fanny packs to guard against Gypsy pickpockets which are apparently rampant in Europe ;p. Here in 'murica our robbers just stick a gun in your face if they want your stuff, so I haven't seen anyone wearing a fanny pack in years.0 -
Also, fanny packs are very rude! Our (I can barely bring myself to say the word! I'm so embarrassed!) *fannies* are anatomically different to yours, being located elsewhere, and are not in any kind of pack-carrying position. So I'm forced to sit here stiffening my upper lip and rolling my eyes every time I read it.
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My American best friend lives in Lakenheath right now. Her husband is Air Force. She discovered the *other* meaning of fanny shortly after she moved there. She kept commenting on all the fanny packs (yes, it's true! Though I haven't seen one state-side in years!), and her little old gentleman neighbor gently told her that she should stop calling them that. She was mortified! :laugh:0 -
American here who has no idea what are longports, and offering my deepest apologizes for my fellow citizens. Not all of us are that entitled spoiled brats. All though it is becoming more of a common experience here. I think we need another good depression to wipe the stupidity from our country.
I lived overseas and enjoyed every minute the only time I kind of whined is when I realized the rest of the world doesnt love ice quite like America.0 -
This is gonna drive me crazy. She was saying something but probably not longport.
Maybe something from the little deli section?
Good point maybe you miss heard and the whole of UK because of her thick unintelligible American accent.0 -
I have a question....was her rudeness that she asked the lady at the counter a question before stepping into the queue or was it that she proceeded to yell at her henpecked husband?0
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http://www.wiredblack.com/coffee-tips.html
Look under "lungo."
She probably would have gotten what she'd wanted if she'd explained to the barrista. Starbucks will do just about anything if they physically can.0 -
I'm American and I have no idea what a long port or long pour is. But I come from the part of the US that where Dunkin Donuts is more popular than Starbucks (despite my profile pic, LOL).
It seems to me that if it really was a "long pour" as demonstrated in the pic above, the poor barista would burn him or herself as there would be a lot of hot coffee splashing around. But what do I know? I liked my coffee iced.
On a side note, as an American I would like to sue someone for the right to watch Sherlock when you Brits get to instead of having to wait for it to come out on Netflix. It is totally unfair.0 -
In the US, we say LINE. Geez! You darned Brits.
Anyway, I have no idea what a longport is. Never heard the word.
Yeah but "standing in line" isn't the same as "queueing". Stnding in line is just an effective way of processing a number of people fairly on a first come first served basis.
Queueing is a combination of one part standing in line, and five parts an exercise in barely suppressed emotion. The thinly veiled but unspoken outrage of people queueing when faced with a queue jumper, or unnecessary delay, or sudden closure of the till you're queueing for, requires skill, sensitivity, judgement, and minutely controlled reflexes to ensure that tutting, rolling eyes, stiffening of shoulders, pained sighs and looking daggers at the back of the offender are loud enough and pronounced enough to be satisfying to the aggrieved queue member, yet discrete and barely perceptible, except to immediate neighbours, in order to avoid embarrassment or any kind of scene. The skill required in joining a queue far far outstrips the skill required to join a line! Being able to correctly identify the last person in a queue is a key skill. So is working out whether the person standing just a foot or two away and not quite exact centre in relation to the person in front, and possibly looking to one side instead of ahead, is actually queueing or just happens to have got too close without noticing. Advance queueing involves judging how long to stand behind that person before saying "Sorry, but are you in this queue?" or whether to risk being a queue jumper by passing them, at the same time as maintaining your position as "next in the queue" without being jumped by the person behind.
It's really quite an art!
Not the same thing as standing in line at all.
Also, fanny packs are very rude! Our (I can barely bring myself to say the word! I'm so embarrassed!) *fannies* are anatomically different to yours, being located elsewhere, and are not in any kind of pack-carrying position. So I'm forced to sit here stiffening my upper lip and rolling my eyes every time I read it.
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She's obviously Australian. Get it right.
She was wearing a bum bag (fanny pack) :laugh: definitely a yank!
Incorrect, Yankees live in the North of the US while fanny pack a purely hillbilly/redneck garment.
Yank - 1. A term used by the British to describe all Americans.
Yank
yaNGk/
noun
noun: Yank; plural noun: Yanks
1.
another term for Yankee (sense 1 and sense 2).
LOL when Americans say yank they are reffering to male self love.
Oh and OP another thought I'm glad that she didnt take out a semi automatic weapon and gun you all down as us Americans are known to do. Could have been close though after all you didnt have her longport.0 -
The lesson I'm getting here is that one bad fashion accessory from the 80's has forever tarnished a nation's image with the rest of the world. Damn you fanny pack!0
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Bump because this is funny and interesting all at the same time.
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She's obviously Australian. Get it right.
She was wearing a bum bag (fanny pack) :laugh: definitely a yank!
*gasp* People still use those??? :noway: Don't label the rest of us by her!!0 -
I have a question....was her rudeness that she asked the lady at the counter a question before stepping into the queue or was it that she proceeded to yell at her henpecked husband?
She barged in to the queue, she was rude to the member of staff and her poor old husband.0 -
Hmmm. Can't be Canadian. The only time I have every heard another one say "Oh my gaaaad." was mockingly immitating the (southern) American stereotpe, plus- we are reknown the world around for our insane amount of courtesy.
I have never heard of a Longport. I am guessing its related to the hybrid store one poster mentioned. Up here we have certain grocery store chains with Starbucks shops in them, but if you go to another province or city they don't.0 -
the lovely people on MFP educated me on why fanny pack is such a funny word. I would still use it though if I was traveling just to brighten someone's day.
Oh here honey stick it in my fanny pack. It's full isnt it? Yeah you gotta really pack it in my fanny pack what with all the cameras and change in there.
Then ask clerks in the store to wait a second while you look in your fanny pack and ask the waiter at restaurants if it's OK to put your fanny up on the table.
Oh the fun I could have!0 -
She's obviously Australian. Get it right.
She was wearing a bum bag (fanny pack) :laugh: definitely a yank!
Incorrect, Yankees live in the North of the US while fanny pack a purely hillbilly/redneck garment.
Yank - 1. A term used by the British to describe all Americans.
Yank
yaNGk/
noun
noun: Yank; plural noun: Yanks
1.
another term for Yankee (sense 1 and sense 2).
LOL when Americans say yank they are reffering to male self love.
Oh and OP another thought I'm glad that she didnt take out a semi automatic weapon and gun you all down as us Americans are known to do. Could have been close though after all you didnt have her longport.
Or yanking something...like a chain or rope. It is not ALL *kitten* over here.0 -
the lovely people on MFP educated me on why fanny pack is such a funny word. I would still use it though if I was traveling just to brighten someone's day.
Oh here honey stick it in my fanny pack. It's full isnt yeah. Yeah you gotta really pack it in my fanny pack what with all the cameras and change in there.
Then ask clerks in the store to wait a second while you look in your fanny pack and ask the waiter at restaurants if it's OK to put your fanny up on the table.
Oh the fun I could have!
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Or yanking something...like a chain or rope. It is not ALL *kitten* over here.
No sometimes its mutual.0 -
I know I am grasping at straws, but could this "ugly American" be referring to, what some of us here in the U.S. refer to as a Long John? (no, not long johns as in the long, winter underwear) It is a creme-filled pastry that is longish. (Hence, the name) It usually has chocolate frosting top with either a custard or creme filling. Maybe longport is a regional name for a long john. Like I said, just grasping at straws.0
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asked dh who used to be a barista...and i see this has already been covered, but she was probably trying to request a long pour. although why a person would want one ...i dunno. i prefer a short pour, aka a ristretto. 0
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Was she with a guy in a fez and bowtie?Sounds like a brand of cigarettes that would have been marketed to women in the 80's. Do you think she was a time traveler from the 80's that thinks starbucks is a futuristic cigarette store? Everyone knows that time traveling female smokers from the America of the 80's are rude, especially when they have jet lag and haven't had a cigarette yet.
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