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Can you normally get 4 award seats on the same flight to Europe as each other, these days?

It was rigged, and I have proof - I voted for you just over 20 million times, meaning that there’s no way (given the voting-age population of Australia) you couldn’t have rightfully and righteously won!!

Shoes off is that … shoes on is, IMHO, people ‘round here pretending to be outraged. Not putting your shoes on someone’s wall is still pretty much the norm, I guess, even for Millennials & Gen Y? Now I think of it, the vast majority of the population wouldn’t know what a QF PEY arrangement...

While I really, truly have a solid sense of not caring … to me, it’s different if there’s a piece of thing which says “put your feets here” as opposed to there being a wall which convention says you shouldn’t put your feets on.

It’s not revolting like the people with their shoes & socks off … but it is a bit rude, albeit towards a public transport provider so we don’t care much. I mean if someone came to your house & put their shoes on your wall like that, you’d be pretty annoyed … but because it’s just a bus with...

I don’t think Tandy even exists any more!

I very confidently stated this about BNE about 5yrs ago, based on circa-2010 experiences with QF (when they NEVER used the rear stairs regardless of weather - which had me flying VA where the 2nd-last row was always available when I was booking flights a few days before travel), so of course...

Ah cool, ta, thought you might’ve seen ‘em.

Probably an over-simplification more than a myth … ‘tis why rather than typing lots more words I thought I’d better attach a linky, which I think is useful alongside your linky to find a nice set of sheets. :)

@markis10 what plugs do they use for those 110/200 3-phase outlets on aircraft? Ever since I started carrying around devices that go through a reasonable amount of juice (you could last for weeks on a set of AA’s for your Walkman!) I’ve wondered about those standard Australian wall plugs you...

Look at thread count in your sheets, the higher the better, I believe they cheat these days but you want a “real” count of over 1000. Sheet Thread Count Explained: What is thread count and why does it matter? Probably needs at least a dozen iterations of washing & “soaking in human oils” (ew!)...

I doubt I can appropriately portray how little that offends me …

Some chargers are very cheaply made & don’t control the DC output voltage very well. The transformer in the cheapest chargers works by having a certain number of coils on the input side & a certain number on the output side, reducing the AC voltage by a fixed ratio, and then simple electronics...

It would depend on fitout I imagine … some USB ports can charge just as quickly as the wall-wart can, but others can only provide relatively low current so won’t charge that fast (my work Windoze laptop has two USB-C ports, the one that’ll charge my iPad at full wall-wort rate has a little...

A Japanese workmate goes back for hols about once per year … she was shocked by prices the most recent time, Japan just isn’t used to prices increasing much (or wages) … she was also somewhat surprised watching just how much sheer time overseas customers are causing which she’d never seen on...

Not having travelled extensively, I was somewhat stymied by the need to state where I was staying upon entry to the UK in 2012. All the details were buried in a folder I’d shoved in my checked-in bags … immigration could’ve been a lot more lengthy/troublesome if they hadn’t cranked-up the...

There’s definitely a Thing about not giving visas to criminals, all those US hippity-hoppity people that commit crimes to become more famous and promote their hippity-hoppity … ahem, “music” … they struggle to get visas. But that’s long before arriving at the border. Straya does seem to err...

Whether or not they succeed with their goal of getting rid of that annoying need to garner votes (42% of the way towards dictatorship as of today: Project 2025 Tracker), you do have to wait & see whether that happens before knowing whether it’s the same big risk buying tickets. Wait ‘til that...

If you were someone considering paying money for tickets going there, safest assumption you make would be that the same could easily happen to you, and go elsewhere instead. When the heads of the organisations in charge of That Stuff are openly saying they don’t care about the illegality of...

Unsubscribing does nothing good, running the risk of installing malware or putting you into the next step of the scam … however, unfortunately, if they’ve sent you an email which didn’t bounce that’s enough of a confirmation - they know it’s a real address. It’s a case of more damned if you do...