You've been spending too long on the Internet, Geoff: using typestyles, smileys, and the like to convey any sort of subtlety is far inferior to the universal practice of expressing yourself clearly. In this case, your rider "but I think we've established that this is not a problem" suggests a complete absence of irony.
The point about paying more for a shared experience is well-taken. I'd actually go further than mere price: with rare exceptions (there's a particularly wonderful pizza/pasta place on Drottningsgatan in Stockholm), I'll pick somewhere cheap and scruffy if I'm eating on my own. This is probably even more self-defeating than a price judgement, but it makes sense to me because (no matter what the price) I don't want to be sitting in a five-star restaurant eating wonderful food and thinking "I wish X was here..."
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Re: Corsica
Date: 2010-10-16 11:26 am (UTC)The point about paying more for a shared experience is well-taken. I'd actually go further than mere price: with rare exceptions (there's a particularly wonderful pizza/pasta place on Drottningsgatan in Stockholm), I'll pick somewhere cheap and scruffy if I'm eating on my own. This is probably even more self-defeating than a price judgement, but it makes sense to me because (no matter what the price) I don't want to be sitting in a five-star restaurant eating wonderful food and thinking "I wish X was here..."