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Definition of "tool" from the Urban Dictionary : One who lacks the mental capacity to know he is being used. A fool. A cretin. Characterized by low intelligence and/or self-steem. No wonder you got an infringement notice - your flattery of KS offended the gentle members of this site. Next...

I proudly admit to not being a lawyer, but I thought that written consent needed to be gained to be completely in the clear when broadcasting images of the public. I doubt whether the cosy deal with the airport circumvents this right to privacy, and the producers take a calculated risk showing...

Kinda sorta on/off topic, but I totally ignored the offer of a CBA Amex because I was quite happy with my Citibank Platinum Visa (fee free for life and 1:1 points transfer to QFF). In the mail last week was a letter saying "Thanks for being such a great customer and here is a free gift of 10,000...

I suppose it's the same as catching a train - turn up a minute late and you are SOOL. But it would be very annoying if the train was delayed at the platform for 10 minutes but they shut the doors at the scheduled departure time just 'coz them's the rules. Maybe they should look at a more...

What you do to your own keyboard is your business, but I think it is perfectly reasonable for Qantas to protect their equipment and the ability of everyone to use them. Your example perfectly illustrates this.

Yes - we are so lucky that Qantas rewards our loyalty by making it nigh-on impossible to get award seats at peak times. Pity about my family being stranded in Hong Kong next January, but I suppose I will just have to stay up past midnight every day until they decide to throw some crumbs my way...

My wife had been pestering me to buy her an iPod for a while last year so I got her a 5th generation 8GB Nano for Christmas. $159 at Myer. I have never seen it cheaper anywhere else, before or since. I also recently bought the Lonely Planet Vietnam guide at 35% off ($27) when some stores...

I was getting the same error message a few weeks back when I was trying to do some award bookings. I am on XP/IE8 and the only solution for me was to cancel the session and start again. Very frustrating when you are trying to snag 3 award seats to the UK and back next Christmas. If you have...

It seems my previous post confused some people. I was just raising some issues and giving a personal example of one super-sized passenger. Here are my opinions :- Airlines should have to conform to minimum space rules for aircraft seats so that evacuations are not compromised. The...

Whenever there is a product designed for human use, there is part of the specification that pertains to the range of body sizes catered for. Now I remember seeing a picture of the world's smallest and tallest persons being sat next to each other and would guarantee you that there are no...

I had the same problem recently when trying to book a trip to the UK next December. Knowing seats would sell like hot cakes I checked the second the date became available on the award site .... and like yourself came up with exactly zip. Frustrated I rang Qantas to ask if they had actually...

I'm sure I read somewhere that around 10% of seats on Qantas planes are award seats, so that would mean around 35 per plane on the Kangaroo route. The bias would presumably favour Economy over Business and First, so maybe 20/10/5? Premium Economy is an unwelcome addition in my case, but at...

Nice of you both to avail us of your rose-coloured historical eye-pieces, but this thread was supposed to be about the Mad Monk. BTW - I can't believe that people are already looking back with nostalgia on the Howard years, but apparently there are some otherwise intelligent Americans who miss...

Thanks for your advice - wouldn't want to have to spend $$$$ to match a difficult itinerary. I have decided that Paris and Vietnam will be optional side-trips to the main game, so to start with I am simply booking SYD-LHR for 1 Adult and 2 kids. Even this has its challenges as every time a new...

Yes that was my cunning plan and that is what they had a chuckle over. So it looks like I could book SYD-LHR myself and then ring Qantas up to 5 times to add each extra leg to the itinerary as those seats come up. Or I could gamble that enough award seats will hang about for me to make the one...

I am in need of a cunning plan, and this seems like a good place to find one. I would like to take my family to the UK (London, Edinburgh), France (Paris) and Vietnam (Saigon). I would like to do this with points for as many of us as I can manage. I would like to do this over...