Comments on: Flower Smellers & eavesdropping!

By: Vienne

Vienne — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:29:59 +0000

Hello Go! Smell the Flowers! It’s me, eavesdrop writer, chiming in to say thanks for the mention here on your wonderful blog. I like the question you pose about women’s listening skills. Personally, the fact that I am nosy allows me to process multiple conversations at once! I don’t know how much my gender or my listening skills factor in.

By: gareth in China

gareth in China — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:05:49 +0000

Its better than battering them with their phones prior to carrying out the rectal insertion mentioned previously.

I did belt one a few years ago, he dropped like a brick clutching his jaw, but that was because of something else. Trouble was he had a mate in the bar I hadn’t seen so I got a very brave punch on the back of the head prior to them both being thrown out. Leaving is better.

By: lemmyfrommotorhead

lemmyfrommotorhead — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:59:02 +0000

So GIC - you’re not a big fan of loud Americans in China then? No eaves droping, just leaving the bar! OMG.

By: gareth in China

gareth in China — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:47:36 +0000

Can’t say I do that, then again all the conversations here in Changchun are in Chinese so its pretty easy to ignore.
If I go to Shanghai I do tend to find that I need to leave certain bars, either that or ram a cell phone up some fat yanks arse - ‘It’s like sooooo mad here Chip, you would naaaaaaaaaaaat believe what I saw yesterday, it was like sooooooo wild man’ either that or some junior clerk talking about a ‘major investment’
Shut up you calorie rich, self centred gimp.

By: MsRebecca

MsRebecca — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:52:05 +0000

It’s really difficult when someone is “OH MY GOD-ING”, and “SHUT UP!”, “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?” How can you help but listen, especially someone shouting on their cellphone in a quiet little Italian restaurant..

By: Writeontheinternet

Writeontheinternet — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:47:18 +0000

I’ve done that before. It’s really hard not to listen in sometimes and on occasion I just sort of feel like, ‘well, if you’re going to talk that loudly in public people are bound to eavesdrop!@!!’.