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I suspect the scale of required jolts might bring the grid down …

I didn’t think my musings were worthy of their own thread, so I’ll plonk them (and associated questions) here. My wife & I a’re in the planning stages of getting a house built, so haven’t wanted to go away for extended periods as the builder’s really tardy & we can’t afford the chance of...

Yes I stopped looking for patterns in the alleged sending ‘phone number years ago, it was always spoofed and the number they used was random. I did have one instance, however, where they called a young lady who used her ‘phone for her business & they used my ‘phone number. She missed their...

Dan Murphys having a sale which made it cheaper than airside Hong Kong prices saved my backside from secondary booze stealing. Probably didn’t even visit Dan and buy that Stuff from him! :)

I’ve often wondered about this! Destruction seems so wasteful. I’d like to believe it gets shared equally around the security staff, they’re on a pretty low-level wage and it’d be nice to think they get the occasional perk.

Can I be deported? That’d at least get me on a flight … :) [knowing my luck they’d deport me on one of those disease-ridden plague ships … Princess or Carnival Cruises for example!!]

Maybe it’s also related to which airports (or countries) agreed to do it? And they figure that the 95+% coverage of travelers is enough “security theatre”?

It’s all a coordinated scam by security folk to claim all those 10c amounts back!

I flew a combo Singapore/Lufthansa fare to Frankfurt in 2021 ... because Lufthansa didn't dare venture any further than Changi towards Australia. Those Recaro-manufactured seats on the Lufthansa 747-400 were really comfy, they had no more knee-room than the SG flight (and the LH flight was...

Yes. So people would eat their stuff & leave as quickly as possible, freeing-up space for the next brainwashee for the faux-food sausage-factory.

Got an obvious scam message claiming to be from our exiting CEO looking for bank account details so they can deposit a sizeable bonus due to me being employed with the company for over 15 years. Not to divulge to others, because it’s a sensitive subject. Very much the sort of thing scams say not...

^ Really good point … Starbucks (in Oz at least) tried to encourage a “come and have an informal meeting or even do some remote work here” as opposed to Maccas preferring you consume your high-volume sausage-factory flavourless gloop & FO so the next gloop-consumer can use your seat.

Number Of Flights: 1 (return) Number Of (National or State) Borders Crossed: 0

Yeah I think on one hand there's the issue of "motivation", and on the other there's the issue of "happy side effect". The discomfort is primarily due to the lack of space, which is due to wedging so many people in. I don't know what modern aircraft seats weigh (I'll bet it's Not Much) but...

Yeah I’d fail that too. My wife ordered the non-alcoholic drinks-pairing when we were there ... somewhere between 3 & 4 years ago. They had a few interesting in-house made things included, like home-made lemonade that was more “citrus” than “sweet” & a kombucha they made themselves with a...

Probably some agreement/licensing thing to do with naming/branding as well, I checked their website and the site & the venue/signage & the menus etc have got James Squire branding & logos all over the joint!

We went about ... I'm saying about 3 years ago, could be a bit longer. Was a while after things started getting back to as normal-ish as they ever have post-COVID. Was great, we definitely got our money's worth, we very much enjoyed it! But ... there's definitely a been-there-done-that with...

I find 7+ course degustations sneak up on me ... each thing arrives, it looks like a tiny morsel & so so small ... .... but then by the time that last tiny morsel arrives, and they're feeding me the "waffer-thin mint" ... /MrCreosote

Hang on, I probably misread this ... I thought you meant it was so expensive that you got pizza instead of going to Tetsuya for future meals! But now I'm thinking you mean that you didn't roll out of there needing to unbuckle your belt & with your gut nearly exploding? How did you even achieve...