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Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?

Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.

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Adam
Adam
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Belgium does that too. you email and you get a reply saying "when can we phone you" rather than taking the fact I filled in my phone number as +32 00000000 as a hint.
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Adam
Adam
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On the other hand, my medics do email, which is nice compared with the UK.
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Sion [main]
Sion [main]
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@pseudomonas I'm also currently trying to deal with a Welsh piano mover with the same problem.
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Sarah Brown
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@Adam Yeah, see, I'm not getting as far as the "you get a reply" part.
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Sarah Brown
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@Adam Anyway, whenever French people ask for my phone number, I give them the +351 one.

That's got to terrify them, right?

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knirirr
knirirr
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@pseudomonas those replies are indeed annoying. "We couldn't get through to you please call us" is another tedious variant I get quite often.
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Patrick Lam
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I do speak Québécois, but I had a bit of an epic trying to phone stores in France and seeing if they had the rope that I wanted...
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bovine3dom
bovine3dom
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yeah. especially small businesses. I've given up sending emails.
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Sarah Brown
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Update: Tried texting one.

Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!

Thank god!

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GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
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What does blue indicate?
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Trash Witch
Trash Witch
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blue means iMessage on iPhone. So it indicates the person is an apple user. Don't know how that means anything.
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Rachel Greenham
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@GreenSkyOverMe means they're both using the Messages app on an apple device (iphone, ipad, mac). secondarily, that they can confidently send other media eg: photos, videos to each other; it doesn't depend on phone networks to work (once each end knows the other is on iMessage, it just goes over internet) and is secure (end-to-end encrypted)
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