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    Worse than feet on bulkheads

    I don't like carrying around headphones with enough mass to have an effect ... they probably wouldn't even notice if I started beating them with my earpods. :(
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    Worse than feet on bulkheads

    Let me clarify then … they’re generally people over about 60, yelling into their ‘phones on speaker; so if you’re anywhere near them, you get to enjoy both sides of the conversation.. People watching a video without headphones are normally under … I’d say about 30-ish. But I see/hear that a...
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    Plane Spotting London

    Pretty cool though … they must cost an absolute bucketload to keep airworthy, impressive that one was …
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    Plane Spotting London

    After they were taken out of service?
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    Worse than feet on bulkheads

    The “noisy on ‘phones in public” category is all baby boomers anywhere near me … for some reason they all want to have lengthy conversations on Speaker Phone setting, yelling into the mic at the end of the ‘phone. It’s most prevalent among elderly folk with Asian & Indian backgrounds, but still...
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    Plane Spotting London

    You mean a classic 70’s ‘plane in original livery? Or are BA doing the “classic livery” thing QF did, and this was a BA ‘plane?
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    Airfares to US to drop?

    I suspect, especially given all the comments I’ve read & heard about their TSA & CBP over the years, that Bad Things have always been happening to people entering the USA, it just wasn’t newsworthy before the Orange Menace (“chill out, guy!”) started making really loud noises about That Sort Of...
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    Scams like these

    @VPS I’m totally guessing, but maybe it didn’t actually come from that address, it’s just been manipulated to look like it did?
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    Airfares to US to drop?

    What’re the chances a $9.50 coffee in HNL is better than Blend 43? I assume it’s possible to get proper coffee in Hawaii, but how likely is it? And in Venice, are all those bodies you see floating down the canals baristas who made bad coffee?
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    Airfares to US to drop?

    I think we all appreciate the … calling it “politics” is doing politics a disservice … let’s say the “situation” over there, it’s hard not to have friends in the US in these global times so it’s hard not to be worried about the implosion of the place our friend (and family) are trying to live...
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    Dublin to Sydney on a budget help required.

    I could take a bit of a stab at that, with some parameters … where’s the accommodation, is it public transport or rental car, and will the young’uns be wanting to play in surf or will something a bit calmer be preferable?
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    Dublin to Sydney on a budget help required.

    Good to hear it's all sorted! :) The Santa thing ... honestly I have zero idea, what you'd like makes absolute sense but it's just never occurred to me before! Are they of an age where they'd be satisfied by just going to a shopping centre and sitting in his lap (that's the only...
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    Tips on maximising annual leave to go overseas?

    I find that my employer is pretty lax with forcing annual leave on us … if I keep saying I’ll do something about it “next month” then I can keep kicking that can down the road ‘til I have enough annual leave … and then they’re grateful when I take it.
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    Airfares to US to drop?

    The published number likely depends on where in the buy vs sell cycle Trump and his minions & puppeteers are at … whether they’re trying to tank the US economy to make things cheaper to buy, or boost it in order to sell at a high-point. But it’s hard to know what their goal is ‘til after...
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    Worse than feet on bulkheads

    I know it’s not a valid excuse for them, but in terms of a cause, I think a lot of people have developed ignorance of what’s going-on around them as a coping mechanism … I think it’s become cultural in high density countries (imagine actually NOTICING everything that was going-on with the 30-odd...
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    Airline livery update - who needs one?

    But then they’d know … It puts me in mind of when Air New Zealand were wet-leasing an A340 from who-knows-who, and it was flying into Sydney super-frequently, I’m gonna say daily. A340’s were already kinda “dead”, so with zero livery it was a regular weirdburger!
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    Airfares to US to drop?

    It makes sense! Everything he does & says is a test … failed businesses, dealing with all his lies & criminal activities, all the selling-out of his country, it’s all a test! Back to the topic, my aunt & uncle (she is Strayan, he has a US passport but moved here at about age 5 so has a Strayan...
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    Airline livery update - who needs one?

    Exactly why it needs updated livery! 😁
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    Airline livery update - who needs one?

    This airline:
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    Scams like these

    Most of my Indian workmates have extremely good English. You pick-up that they're not engineers that've been brought-up in Oz (remembering "I are a engineer") based on style & colloquialisms, not based on speeling & grammar. Apparently the official language of the primary & tertiary education...
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