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The pilot talked about surviving the storm, or surviving the teenage girls?

I have found that not trying to bring a machete onboard, and then not trying to use the plastic butter-knives to hack off the feet of the people putting them on the bulkheads, has resulted in a lot of not-confrontational air travel. Leave that for the airline-branded machetes that the flight...

My wife flew out of Sochi straight after the Winter Olympics demi-recently (2014 I think) ... lots of applause when the flight landed in Switzerland as pax knew they were now safe from the Russian regime. Weeks of drunk uniformed 16yo gun-toting mini-Hitlers barking unexpected random...

I have seen this done ... a while ago, prolly a couple of years, and interestingly given @DejaBrew's comment it was actually in Bunnings. I don't know what had been going on, I noticed the quite angry sounding woman at the service desk (a few checkouts over) who had been being fairly demandy...

I have a vague recollection that there may have been a ban on high-vis in the QF domestic J lounges a few years ago, my better-half lost her P status nearly a decade ago now ... but anyhoo, in the Way Back, it was REALLY noisy in the SYD QF domestic J lounge as a whole bunch of flourescent site...

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. :(

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...

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

After they were taken out of service?

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...

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?

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...

@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?

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?

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...

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?

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...

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.

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...

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...