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Quite possible! A lot of the scam industry is based in places with a European colonial past, so while the local religion might not warrant a Christmas break the culture does ... having said that, I've spoken to a few scammers with very obvious Filipino accents & Manila is very Catholic.

Did you pay it? It’s been a year or so since, due to life, I had to answer calls from unknown numbers. A year-ish of not answering unknown numbers seems to have finally taken effect, I had a call (I didn’t answer) from an unknown number yesterday but the scam calls are back down to only 1-2...

Given that you’re a coffee, I’d have thought they’d need no reminder that they’d be a blubbering heap on the ground without you?!

Expensive, or overpriced? When it was open we paid something like $400/ea for Tetsuya’s, but it was WAY better value than ~$150/ea at Rockstool Bar & Grille. You can spend ~$800 apiece at Quay if you get the fancy wine pairing. I dunno, it’s hard to put a value on the very top end of town...

My comment here is intended as a potential part-explanation rather than an excuse … but people being paid minimally to do unpleasant jobs are surely even more likely to be “grumpy” when their entire unpleasant job is being exposed to mostly people doing something that their position probably...

For the few I know IRL who go out of their way to do status-runs, it’s mostly a hobby. Switching it over from being fun, to there being an actual need that has some importance, would surely take all the fun out of it & make it too much like “work”? If it becomes "work" there's a LOT of time...

At least the regime in the US is actively fixing all the problems at their airports ... by installing pull-up bars.

They pay a lot more than train fare to travel to 1980’s Kings Cross …

It's good to see more normal people around here. It's been proven by every single study that researched the topic, all megalomaniacs & mass-murderers & tax-auditors can sleep upright (if not hanging upside-down from the ceiling).

This is a good question. My assumption is that they're stored super-duper deep-frozen on the ground, to avoid the melting which might otherwise occur between the warehouse & the aircraft ... and I guess if a galley freezer set to -4 is full of rock-solid deep-frozen ice creams then it takes...

My wife sent me an email the other day. About a bunch of links apparently. And from an email address which was wildly different to anything related to her. Someone has clearly done some sort of analysis on the names of people who have sent messages to my email address, or some sort of analysis...

When doing a lot of Y long-haul for work, my wife found that if she specified a window-seat and asked the FA not to wake her for the “meal” (which is normally something you force down rather than enjoying anyway - the cheapest $2 TV Dinner is better than Y airline food EXCEPT when they “go...

While I would agree, if you’re being forced to waste time there are worse places to waste it. :)

The drawn-out meal service at the start & end of a short-ish overnight flight suits me … yes it only leaves 3hrs in which to restlessly sit or lie there wishing I was asleep; but the less time there is to not be sleeping when I wish I was, the better!

Yes, in cultures where haggling for prices is the norm, it’s considered rude not to murder someone if you might gain even really slightly from it.

There are people that have an opinion of the social status of a business class flight which makes them think a more dressy style of clothing is required. My actual observation is that clothes in the lounge are no different to the general terminal, and the people onboard in Business are dressed...

I would consider it “I paid for it I can wear what I want” … there will be different opinions that different people have, but the reality is that attempting to sleep in clothes is an uncomfortable experience so you just wear whatever might help you be something closer to comfortable. I don’t...

One related piece of info I might chuck on the table … was chatting with a workmate yesterday, he & his wife are heading off to Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (ex Sydney) for 2 weeks over Christmas & New Year. I asked whether they’d booked way in advance to get a decent fare; he said no, actually, he’s...

But that would remove one of the staff’s most important sources of enjoyment; telling people to go to the end of the line and do it right the next time. I try to be super friendly & thankful to the staff at all times. I figure if they’re not ****s they’ll appreciate it, if they’re are ****s...

It’s possible that the guy who flew the scenic flight we took to Milford Sound only flew between there & Queenstown at that time …