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I vote for some EU/USA flight cancelled compensation laws.

I was in Portland and 1.75lit of 101 bourbon was like usd 28. Retail. forget DF, especially since Heinemann dropped its sub $20 lines. stick it into an unbreakable PET softdrink container and in regular checked luggage. PS the beer in Portland is full strength and superb - and organic. The...

I just had my 4th shot. AZ,AZ,Mod,Mod. Looks like the chemist used 1 shot on one vial - so wasteful, as people are not exactly eager beaver anymore. No aspiration, as the helper was 'trained in Canberra' and no knowledge of why. Appalling, 2nd rate to Denmark, but needed is I must do a covid...

Time for fed.gov to tell the airlines to get their acts together, or a European missed flight compensation scheme may appear on the books. This is overdue anyway. Refunds in less than 30 days or else backdated interest at 18-22% just like credit cards.

Seen in Portland USA. Iceberg Lettuces $1.49 USD in the shops. Whilst walking to the shops, where grass nature strips are gone - replaced by gardens - was a garden bed growing 8 organic lettuces - completely unguarded. Organic Marion berries about $5 punnet. Tis high summer and the day will be...

Thanks. I wondered how to keep my number active cheaply. There are 'Kids' emergency phone mobile plans not advertised. +1 to CapOne, and you get a free Peet's coffee for in person banking.

Ultramobile at $20 mo (plus 1$ recovery fee and 19 cents something else=31aud odd with 20 countries - same format/deal/web feel as Optus .au). It is not Chase. But Cwth bank refusing to alter my Australian phone number for phone banking just swap an 02 number with a +1 (503) number, and if they...

Carhartts rejected me at $48 any which way, pin or no pin. The place to shop for stuff that lasts. My Bankwest Platinum MC, supposed to be OS free with loan is sort of freeish. I will report my real experience, as I have trader access to by the minute FX rates. Heavy traders get spot plus 30...

Banking Woes in USA. My BankWest Mastercard platinum card is not working in 60% of shops - says invalid pin. I think the cause is USA has gone Debit for everything, and some shops are not sucking up credit fees. However BW did not email me an answer to this question 72 hours and waiting. The...

I am aware of pent up demand and oil prices. Offsetting that, is wastefulness, trying NOT to lower the number of scheduled flights - bilateral agreements and all that. Go midweek, and before a major religious holiday (Eid al-Adha) and another one. It looks like the booking engines failed to...

And this SNL clip Total B* airlines

Reminds me of a MAD magazine posting for Ads we would like to see 'Amazing memory tricks -memorize everything, forget nothing' Call (phone number blank forgotten/missing).

Absolutely you can predict sickies or unscheduled leave. The science is presently called Predictive analytics - Wikipedia. But in 1970 Walmart was running data cubes, and stuff now called AI. Airlines are operational - many moving pieces, and my other favorite OP or Operations research -...

Cant help to describe this quote when the first service station went 'Self service' .dad said, well son, self service means no service, and you can bet 'cheaper' will mean same price as before. Before we had lead additives, but the new lead free additive is still harmful (mostly to women). My...

Any way to determine how many pax on each plane taking off over the next week? As for AJ, I think the German idea to use 380's is smart. As for fuel, Air freight is presently highly profitable. I am thinking the cause is not enough staff back online yet, too many sickies. So you schedule for...

SYD-LAX one way $2000-$5000 economy - not first. London, anywhere else 3-4 times what I remember low season to be. And its just not flights to Australia but also USA east to west. Absolutely sky high as we approach 4th July. Now two weeks ago, things appeared normal. Some would say...

I would dispute at 55 days too. I bet the card company will take a bite for their trouble, and MH will not be saving money. As Amex set 60 days, that is their test for their standard, and there is probably a good reason for that timing, like Europe. You relied on those terms. ACCC or whoever...

Flat Earth Theory. Trying to get to USA before 4th July (SYD-PDX). One way $1900 to $8000 coach, was 1000 odd a few days ago. Booking engines have got smarter, and even via a vpn, it knows I have been looking. I am prepared to travel to Dubai, then US if that works out cheaper, as the via Asia...

I plan to do a SYD-PDX to see family. They may then want to annoy me by going to NYC, then Spain or Italy. I hate open jaws. I have got to be back , 2 months tops. They tell me US pricing is stable and not to pay more than $600 USD one way. I hate the deals offered in Australia, and need to...

I read something about heated operating tables, rather than ice cold slabs of steel having improved outcomes. Nursing homes that 'saved energy' by cranking down the thermostats also had higher mortality. Higher Vit D levels. As did one very big Victorian hospital. I await the UK blind Ivermectin...