The totally off-topic thread

[JohnK]

This thread should now be renamed the AFF weight loss thread as it's no longer OT :!:

And what is wrong with weight loss? I have put on 2kgs with yesterdays flight delays and golf today....

 

[JohnK]

I have multiple bets with mutiple people that I can get down to 100kg by the end of the year.

Good luck. I am sure you will be able to achieve it comfortably.

If desperate I become a vegan for a couple of weeks-how these people make it a permanent lifestyle escapes me.Fine for about 10-12 days then the dreams start.At 14 days just got to have some meat.

Totally agree. A number of years ago I fasted for Greek lent where you do not eat red meat, OK to eat shellfish like oysters, lobster, calamari etc and at the end of ~7 weeks I was sick. Meat needs to be in our diet....

 

[nlagalle]

....how about another set of ten questions? Answer any or all, just like usual.

61. You're participating in a trivia quiz competition. The topics are:
Sports, Film & TV, Geography, Australia, History, Science, Literature, News & Current Affairs
Rank the topics from your most preferred/strongest to your least preferred/weakest.
62. What is the best hotel in the world that you have stayed at?
63. If you could get complimentary top elite status for an airline which is not a member of any of the three major alliances (oneworld, Star Alliance, SkyTeam), which airline would it be?
64. Skydiving, Gliding (hang gliding/paragliding), Hot air balloon, (non-military) Helicopter, Water plane, Air blimp, Concorde, Military aircraft (any type).
Of these, which ones have you experienced in the air?
65. Do you eat (beef) steak? If so, what is your favourite cut of steak and how do you normally like it cooked (i.e. blue, rare, well done, etc.)?
66. What is your favourite food/dish? Can you cook/prepare it?
67. Can you speak any languages apart from English? If so, list them, indicating your level of fluency.
68. What are the hottest and coldest (climatic) places you have been to in the world?
69. You're the proud owner of a new personal Boeing 737-800. How would you outfit it? (You can ignore cost considerations. No, you cannot just sell the aircraft...)
70. In your opinion, what is the best way to deal with a cold and/or flu?

61. Current Affairs, News, Australia, History, Geography, sport, Films & TV, literature

62. Hard to say, The Westin in Melbourne was pretty good for me.

63. Hard to go past One World for me

64. Skydiving: 300 jumps over 5 years, Did a lot of camera work, competed in a team as well.
Hangliding: not yet
Water plane: plan on getting an endorsement
Hot Air Balloon: Over Melbourne back in 1991.. loved it
Air blimp: Never got in the Whitmans blimp, only few next to it once.
Concorde: Walked through Concorde 002 (the test place), and missed out on a ride in 1999..
Military aircraft: I am owed a ride in an F/A-18 for doing a poster print, have yet to take it up.
(OK I love all things aviation)

65. Has to be medium rare, and i quite like my porterhourse or Rump. But really any steak is good!!

66. Too many choices. Love Italian and Thai and yes i can cook both.. Thai green curry...

67. French - basic.

68. Middle of WA where it got to 47-48 degrees. Coldest was somewhere in Austria.

69. Fit it out as a business jet with a nice lounge area, sleeping cabin and perhaps a small theatre

70. Skydiving used to fix it... i always said it was the extreme cold that killed it off!

 

[bambbbam2]

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[Keith009]

Totally agree. A number of years ago I fasted for Greek lent where you do not eat red meat, OK to eat shellfish like oysters, lobster, calamari etc and at the end of ~7 weeks I was sick. Meat needs to be in our diet....

I abstained from meat entirely during Lent 3 years ago. No meat for 40 days, i think I had a few dreams of amazing meat dishes... I've since then chosen less ambitious means of abstinence.

 

[Bundy Bear]

....how about another set of ten questions? Answer any or all, just like usual.

61. You're participating in a trivia quiz competition. The topics are:
Sports, Film & TV, Geography, Australia, History, Science, Literature, News & Current Affairs
Rank the topics from your most preferred/strongest to your least preferred/weakest.
62. What is the best hotel in the world that you have stayed at?
63. If you could get complimentary top elite status for an airline which is not a member of any of the three major alliances (oneworld, Star Alliance, SkyTeam), which airline would it be?
64. Skydiving, Gliding (hang gliding/paragliding), Hot air balloon, (non-military) Helicopter, Water plane, Air blimp, Concorde, Military aircraft (any type).
Of these, which ones have you experienced in the air?
65. Do you eat (beef) steak? If so, what is your favourite cut of steak and how do you normally like it cooked (i.e. blue, rare, well done, etc.)?
66. What is your favourite food/dish? Can you cook/prepare it?
67. Can you speak any languages apart from English? If so, list them, indicating your level of fluency.
68. What are the hottest and coldest (climatic) places you have been to in the world?
69. You're the proud owner of a new personal Boeing 737-800. How would you outfit it? (You can ignore cost considerations. No, you cannot just sell the aircraft...)
70. In your opinion, what is the best way to deal with a cold and/or flu?

61. Geography, News & Current Events, Sports, Australia; Science; Film & TV; History, Literature(I hope I never have to choose literature)
62. I don't have any that make the list; I keep hearing about some great hotels that QF009 and other Fters/AFFers stay in and I haven't even stayed in anything that I consider note worthy.
63. Virgin Blue as I probably could use their lounges when traveling in Australia.
64. Hot Air Balloon only.
65. Sirloin medium to well.
66. Pizza and Rissoles with vegetables, not at the same time. (The Qantas version came close not perfect) Yes I could cook both, but I would rather someone else does the cooking.
67. Studied French in high school for 3 years. so a little.
68. Brisbane over 40 a few times(well I live here); Sapporo Japan -8c middle Jan 07
69. Fit it with SQ A380 style business class seating.
70. Go and buy the best medicine for the job to kill it, and take pain killers; no use feeling miserable.

 

[anat0l]

Re: Another installment of random questions for the IPOT* initiative

Almost broke my rules....here are my answers to the previous set...

*IPOT = Inflation of Posts that are Off-Topic

...

51. A list of the ten most visited cities in the US (in alphabetical order):
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, Washington DC
Rank them in order of priority of visiting, starting with the city you want to visit first.
52. If you had to live somewhere else in Australia apart from your current city/town of residence, where would that be?
53. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay/Singaporean
Rank these cuisines in order from your most favoured to least favoured.
54. In your opinion, what is the most useful benefit from having status with an airline FFP?
55. Describe the longest transit journey you have ever undertaken which was not a flight (e.g. train trip, bus ride, cruise, etc.)
56. By what means do you normally travel to get to work/uni? And normally, how long would it take (from out of the door to in your office/campus)?
57. Name up to three full cost (not low cost), non-defunct carriers which you will never consider flying either in the near future or ever. (For a bonus point, give reasons.)
58. Where in the world have never been to before that you would like to go to next?
59. Money and necessary health reasons aside, would you ever consider going into outer space? Why/Why not?
60. What is your favourite oneworld, QP or QP-associated Lounge outside Australia?

51. New York, Washington DC, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando.
52. Melbourne
53. Japanese, Chinese, Malay/Singaporean, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean
54. Lounge access. Next to that would be priority phone service and premium check-in.
55. There are probably a few car rides I can't remember since I was too young. There were also car rides we often had when in Malaysia, such as driving from Kota Bharu to Kuala Lumpur. That probably doesn't count for longest, since we did take breaks. One time, though, driving from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Bharu took about 10 hours. I can't think of another longer trip.
56. Two buses to get to uni. In good traffic and the smallest amount of transfer time, 45 minutes. In bad traffic, about 1h 40min or higher.
57. Garuda, Aeroflot, almost any African airline. Safety, obviously.
58. Scandinavia. This will have to come some time after my Nov Euro trip.
59. Yes indeed! Would be a blast.
60. In my very limited experience, that would have to be WLG (domestic) QP, which unfortunately will be closed soon-ish. I hope that my travelling this year will show me more and better QPs and F lounges (well, probably nothing will beat our SYD or MEL F Lounges).

 

[Flashback]

As I have posted, this thread had inherent stability once it reached the critical state of covering every possible topic in some manner.

So any post will be topic to one or more posts and off topic to the remainder.

For reference, please see posts #1 through #3439.

Oh, and happy birthday Daniel ... I guess you are now into your 25th year ...

Cheers! Thankfully only 24 though :mrgreen:

 

[drron]

Cheers! Thankfully only 24 though :mrgreen:

Ah youth.But Serfty is right.You have completed your 24th year and now starting your 25th.Think about it!

 

[Flashback]

Ah youth.But Serfty is right.You have completed your 24th year and now starting your 25th.Think about it!

Shhh! Too early to be thinking :shock:

 

[drron]

Shhh! Too early to be thinking :shock:

True 24 is way too early to start thinking!

 

[anat0l]

True 24 is way too early to start thinking!

Gee, doc...NOW you tell me. (says yours truly who in less than a fortnight will no longer be 24)

 

[wallacej]

Ah youth.But Serfty is right.You have completed your 24th year and now starting your 25th.Think about it!

Not only that, but after your next borthday, you will be into your 26th year - so there you have it, you hve gone from 23 last week to thinking about being in your 26th year this week.... and yes - it is still to early. And this whole end of daylight savings thing is not helping matters.

 

[straitman]

it is still to early. And this whole end of daylight savings thing is not helping matters.

At least our curtains are safe from fading for the next 6 months :!:

 

[NM]

Ah youth.But Serfty is right.You have completed your 24th year and now starting your 25th.Think about it!

And to put it another way, he is now closer to mid-30s than 15.

 

[wallacej]

I am in the melb Dom QP if any one else is here? Back airside corner near bus lounge entry

 

[Flashback]

And to put it another way, he is now closer to mid-30s than 15.

Can I go and sulk in the corner now?

 

[straitman]

Can I go and sulk in the corner now?

Nah :!:

Just go and have a beer and grow old gracefully like the rest of us

 

[Flashback]

Nah :!:

Just go and have a beer and grow old gracefully like the rest of us

Sold! (to the man in the red tuxedo) :mrgreen:

 

[straitman]

Sold! (to the man in the red tuxedo) :mrgreen:

... and it's your shout :!: