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  • in reply to: F50/Bae 146 #532771
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    Buzz were swallowed up by the evil empire of Ryanair!

    Was this before or after Easyjet’s take-over of Go?

    in reply to: MAN MD Resigns #532782
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    Any reason why, am sure he wouldn’t just up sticks and leave, would he?

    in reply to: A380 in Singapore Airlines Livery #533701
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    Nice. Any more shots avaliable?

    Can’t wait to see her in full commerical service, personally think that it in the Virgin Atlantic livery would be fab.

    in reply to: FlyWho Update #535657
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    Congratulations to them, wish them every success and hope that it takes off… 😀

    Can’t wait to see people eating humble pie, again…after all those that continue to dought new start up airlines…

    No. They are just a Tour Operator

    I was under the assumption that they were an airline, not a tour operator… :confused:

    If not, who are they chartering the aircraft from?

    in reply to: General Discussion #357708
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    TRAINS: Virgin Trains are the best for comfort, but Midland Mainline are the best for service as they offer all passengers a complimentary cup of tea/coffee when travelling long distances (i.e London – Nottingham!)

    BUSES: I hate using the bus as you usually miss one just when you get the bus stop, they either run late, early or never at all, and it is far more noiser on a bus than on the train (depending on time of travel!), and I also find that it takes longer. dont really see the point in buses as I would proabably drive to the location…Personally, I dont see the point in bus services, as most people drive as it is more cost-effective!

    One mode of transport I would like to see more of would be trams…

    Why?

    1. Much less intrusive than conventional railways as it does not need wide sections of segregated track.

    2. Trams can climb steeper gradients and handle tighter curves, thereby fitting in around existing buildings and spaces.

    3. Disused/converted railway tracks which are no longer in use can be modifed for tram use minimising visual and noise impact.

    in reply to: Train/Bus Companies #1945889
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    TRAINS: Virgin Trains are the best for comfort, but Midland Mainline are the best for service as they offer all passengers a complimentary cup of tea/coffee when travelling long distances (i.e London – Nottingham!)

    BUSES: I hate using the bus as you usually miss one just when you get the bus stop, they either run late, early or never at all, and it is far more noiser on a bus than on the train (depending on time of travel!), and I also find that it takes longer. dont really see the point in buses as I would proabably drive to the location…Personally, I dont see the point in bus services, as most people drive as it is more cost-effective!

    One mode of transport I would like to see more of would be trams…

    Why?

    1. Much less intrusive than conventional railways as it does not need wide sections of segregated track.

    2. Trams can climb steeper gradients and handle tighter curves, thereby fitting in around existing buildings and spaces.

    3. Disused/converted railway tracks which are no longer in use can be modifed for tram use minimising visual and noise impact.

    in reply to: What is the 'official' job title of… #536064
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    Just to throw my idea into the mix, but are they not called a ‘dispatcher’?

    in reply to: General Discussion #358440
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    Watched it last night Clarkson firing the MP5 and the mini on the ski jump had me in Stitches

    Me to. That was cool, but they could of made the mini go further by stripping out the inside, and just leaving the shell…I think it would of go further then. The bobslegh and rally car race was the best bit, but still it was a quality program.

    in reply to: top gear #1946254
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    Watched it last night Clarkson firing the MP5 and the mini on the ski jump had me in Stitches

    Me to. That was cool, but they could of made the mini go further by stripping out the inside, and just leaving the shell…I think it would of go further then. The bobslegh and rally car race was the best bit, but still it was a quality program.

    in reply to: General Discussion #358445
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    It’s pure unadulterated hollywood tripe

    Is that your opinion on ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ (another Gibson film) as well?

    Ok I know Braveheart is a film, so there will be some inaccuuracies, granted, but this is just like when a book is turned into a film.

    These kind of films help to inform the present generations of what happend in the past, and encourages them to research and find out more…so that they can then come to a conclusion for themselves…well, that is how I go about it!

    It won 5 Oscars and another 15 wins & 20 nominations, and imho it is by far one of the most epic stories ever told.

    in reply to: Help Settle an Arguement #1946257
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    It’s pure unadulterated hollywood tripe

    Is that your opinion on ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ (another Gibson film) as well?

    Ok I know Braveheart is a film, so there will be some inaccuuracies, granted, but this is just like when a book is turned into a film.

    These kind of films help to inform the present generations of what happend in the past, and encourages them to research and find out more…so that they can then come to a conclusion for themselves…well, that is how I go about it!

    It won 5 Oscars and another 15 wins & 20 nominations, and imho it is by far one of the most epic stories ever told.

    in reply to: Dispatches/Ryanair (Merged) #537464
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    Has not changed my opinion about Ryanair – never flown with them and never will.

    Same here I am afraid, I will certainly not be booking with Ryanair in the near future, if at all.

    I am however flying LTN-GLA-LTN on 8/3 with EasyJet to evaluate them as part of a university project…which should be an interesting experience, seeings as I have never flown a low-cost airline before.

    About DISPATCHES Program:

    The thing which most annoys me about these kind of programs is there isnt any balance between the arugements that are put forward…

    3. Ryanair has offered the programme a live or an unedited prerecorded interview with CEO, Michael O’Leary in order to allow Ryanair to fairly respond in the programme to these allegations. The Dispatches documentary has refused all of these offers.

    I am :confused::confused::confused: by this, as I am sure it was the other way round. Didn’t Dispatches ask for an interview with him but he declined…

    in reply to: Heathrow-Gatwick shuttle?? #539227
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    Yes, it is actually a coach service run by National Express.

    http://www.nationalexpress.com/destinations/airports.cfm?t=air

    Hope this helps.

    in reply to: General Discussion #359310
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    101 Ways To Annoy People

    1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.

    2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sensual massage.”

    3. Specify that your drive-through order is “to go.”

    4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of “Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip…”

    5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

    6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. <

    7. Speak only in a “robot” voice.

    8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

    9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub”.

    10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.

    11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

    12. Sniffle incessantly.

    13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.

    14. Name your dog “Dog.”

    15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”

    16. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what YOU think.”

    17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your “astronaut training.”

    18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for “violating your airspace”.

    19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a “real hoot.”

    20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol.

    21. Practice making fax and modem noises.

    22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and “cc:” them to your boss.

    23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

    24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.

    25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a “spider person.”

    26. Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with the prophesy.”

    27. Wear a special hip holster for your remote control.

    28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment.

    29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

    30. Disassemble your pen and “accidentally” flip the ink cartridge across the room.

    31. Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice.

    32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

    33. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way.”

    34. Drum on every available surface.

    35. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

    36. Ask 1-800 operators for dates.

    37. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.

    38. Sew anti-theft detector strips into peoples backpacks.

    39. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.

    40. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

    41. Set alarms for random times.

    42. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.

    43. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.

    44. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a “croaking” noise.

    45. Honk and wave to strangers.

    46. Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange.

    47. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.

    48. Tape pieces of “Sweating to the Oldies” over climactic parts of rental movies.

    49. Wear your pants backwards.

    50. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

    51. Begin all your sentences with “ooh la la!”

    52. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.

    53. only type in lowercase.

    54. dont use any punctuation either

    55. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

    56. Pay for your dinner with pennies.

    57. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.

    58. Repeat everything someone says, as a question.

    59. Write “X – BURIED TREASURE” in random spots on all of someone’s roadmaps.

    60. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories.

    61. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, its gone now.”

    62. Light road flares on a birthday cake.

    63. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

    64. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.

    65. Demand that everyone address you as “Conquistador.”

    66. At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

    67. When Christmas caroling, sing “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” until physically restrained.

    68. Wear a cape that says “Magnificent One.”

    69. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

    70. Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling, as they read.

    71. Pretend your computer’s mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.

    72. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “no, wait, I messed it up,” and repeat.

    73. Drive half a block.

    74. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

    75. Ask people what gender they are.

    76. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back.

    77. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl.

    78. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don’t want to fall off “in case the big one comes”.

    79. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as “Feliz Navidad”, the Archies “Sugar” or the Mr. Rogers theme song.

    80. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet.

    81. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.

    82. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

    83. Change your name to “AaJohn Aaaaasmith” for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each “a.”

    84. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

    85. Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.

    86. Wear a LOT of cologne.

    87. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your “superior mental processing.”

    88. Sing along at the opera.

    89. Mow your lawn with scissors.

    90. At a golf tournament, chant “swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!”

    91. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your “imaginary friend.”

    92. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.

    93. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something
    about “psychological profiles.”

    94. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a “magic picture.”

    95. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.

    96. Never make eye contact.

    97. Never break eye contact.

    98. Construct elaborate “crop circles” in your front lawn.

    99. Construct your own pretend “tricorder,” and “scan” people with it, announcing the results.

    100. Make appointments for the 31st of September.

    101. Invite lots of people to other people’s parties.

    in reply to: Joke/Funnies Thread #1946635
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    101 Ways To Annoy People

    1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.

    2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sensual massage.”

    3. Specify that your drive-through order is “to go.”

    4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of “Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip…”

    5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

    6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. <

    7. Speak only in a “robot” voice.

    8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

    9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub”.

    10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.

    11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

    12. Sniffle incessantly.

    13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.

    14. Name your dog “Dog.”

    15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”

    16. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what YOU think.”

    17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your “astronaut training.”

    18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for “violating your airspace”.

    19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a “real hoot.”

    20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol.

    21. Practice making fax and modem noises.

    22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and “cc:” them to your boss.

    23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

    24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.

    25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a “spider person.”

    26. Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with the prophesy.”

    27. Wear a special hip holster for your remote control.

    28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment.

    29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

    30. Disassemble your pen and “accidentally” flip the ink cartridge across the room.

    31. Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice.

    32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

    33. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way.”

    34. Drum on every available surface.

    35. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

    36. Ask 1-800 operators for dates.

    37. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.

    38. Sew anti-theft detector strips into peoples backpacks.

    39. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.

    40. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

    41. Set alarms for random times.

    42. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.

    43. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.

    44. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a “croaking” noise.

    45. Honk and wave to strangers.

    46. Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange.

    47. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.

    48. Tape pieces of “Sweating to the Oldies” over climactic parts of rental movies.

    49. Wear your pants backwards.

    50. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

    51. Begin all your sentences with “ooh la la!”

    52. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.

    53. only type in lowercase.

    54. dont use any punctuation either

    55. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

    56. Pay for your dinner with pennies.

    57. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.

    58. Repeat everything someone says, as a question.

    59. Write “X – BURIED TREASURE” in random spots on all of someone’s roadmaps.

    60. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories.

    61. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, its gone now.”

    62. Light road flares on a birthday cake.

    63. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

    64. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.

    65. Demand that everyone address you as “Conquistador.”

    66. At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

    67. When Christmas caroling, sing “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” until physically restrained.

    68. Wear a cape that says “Magnificent One.”

    69. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

    70. Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling, as they read.

    71. Pretend your computer’s mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.

    72. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “no, wait, I messed it up,” and repeat.

    73. Drive half a block.

    74. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

    75. Ask people what gender they are.

    76. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back.

    77. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl.

    78. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don’t want to fall off “in case the big one comes”.

    79. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as “Feliz Navidad”, the Archies “Sugar” or the Mr. Rogers theme song.

    80. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet.

    81. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.

    82. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

    83. Change your name to “AaJohn Aaaaasmith” for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each “a.”

    84. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

    85. Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.

    86. Wear a LOT of cologne.

    87. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your “superior mental processing.”

    88. Sing along at the opera.

    89. Mow your lawn with scissors.

    90. At a golf tournament, chant “swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!”

    91. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your “imaginary friend.”

    92. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.

    93. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something
    about “psychological profiles.”

    94. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a “magic picture.”

    95. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.

    96. Never make eye contact.

    97. Never break eye contact.

    98. Construct elaborate “crop circles” in your front lawn.

    99. Construct your own pretend “tricorder,” and “scan” people with it, announcing the results.

    100. Make appointments for the 31st of September.

    101. Invite lots of people to other people’s parties.

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