That small but vocal minority probably don't travel further than the bowls club or wherever their place of gossip lies. So no issue there with having to use other hospitals.
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That small but vocal minority probably don't travel further than the bowls club or wherever their place of gossip lies. So no issue there with having to use other hospitals.
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Nah, you're not missing anything. It is just a very nice open air lounge. CX lounges are of course better - as in better food and better showers (if you can get a shower or cabana). But then again HKG is CX's home. JL lounge is probably on par, but JL lounge has no showers. In saying that, I think the showers in the QF J lounge are larger than the F ones.
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At least the F lounge now has showers, a considerable improvement on the previous partitioned QP.
And I've found that at certain times of the day that there can be queues for CX showers, but that you're likely to easily find one in the QF lounge. Very handy.
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I have to say I'm surprised you'd use the QF lounge when the CX ones are far better.
Generally if you can get into the lounge of an airline that calls the airport a home port it'll be far better. CX/HKG, BA/LHR, QF/SYD/MEL etc.
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In my opinion it is much quieter (as it is frequented by people who respect others and do not speak loud to one another) and more relaxing than the CX lounges and unless things have changed since opening it is the only one of the lounges in HKG (QF, Wing, Pier, Cabin) to have bottled beer.
Beer in a can just does not taste the same....
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Just had FaceTime with Shrek, he's in the SYD Flounge en-route to HKG. The wireless Internet is down there also and they are handing out Ethernet cables at the desk. He's flying CX and on check in they offered him big dollars to downgrade J -Y on rtn, unlike the true Scotsman he is he refused 
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Plus it can’t be re-sealed with a screw top
Just had FaceTime with Shrek, he's in the SYD Flounge en-route to HKG. The wireless Internet is down there also and they are handing out Ethernet cables at the desk. He's flying CX and on check in they offered him big dollars to downgrade J -Y on rtn, unlike the true Scotsman he is he refused
Did you do FaceTime between iPhone’s or was a mac also involved?
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MBP ( Shrek ) to iPhone 4 ( me) it was surprisingly good, better than Skype. We are going to trial it while he is in Vietnam.
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I just had a 'LOL' moment. I was walking down to Sainsbury's and a kid was looking down at the ground at something as I was walking past, noticing that I was wearing only shorts/t-shirt/thongs (which gets me some really funny looks here given that it's "cold" right now, I love it!). I heard him say "Mum:!: Why is that man wearing slippers!? :shock:". So that answers the other question; over here they call them slippers.
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I got a laugh out of:
Social Media Sobriety Test
It's a firefox plugin to help control PUI issues. When you visit Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc etc during the times you configure you have to go through an online test to check that you're not drunk.
Sad thing is that while I was playing with it, I ended up failing the test several times even when sober!
Social Media Sobriety Test
It's a firefox plugin to help control PUI issues. When you visit Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc etc during the times you configure you have to go through an online test to check that you're not drunk.
Sad thing is that while I was playing with it, I ended up failing the test several times even when sober!
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Exactly! Apparently everyone else thinks it is ....
I didn't really get cold until early Dec. I'm sure if I checked posts here I would be able to find the actual date!
Now that will be cold!
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I’m going to have to get my mum to install it on her MB, as we usually use iChat, but would love to see if there’s much difference.
Did you try the whole 'turn the phone sideways and the app on the MBP turns too' thing? I suppose you wouldn’t notice, but it looked so cool in demo.
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Were any Australian banks bailed out like in the US? If they were, the government should step in and limit how much they screw people over, if not then it really comes down to the fact that they’re a business and have shareholders and do the best for them.
However at the same time, ~$5 billion profit is pretty good however you look at it, they don’t need any more than that… but then you have to remember the taxes the banks pay on all that money supposedly gives us new roads and schools and stuff… so it’s hard to pick a side.
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Now arrived into the UK on QF29, long flight, the food decent, no upgrade from Qantas but fluked a spare seat beside me.
BA First lounge isn't to bad but not as good as the Sydney First lounge.
Lot of BA planes here and what is with the 150ml cans of coke.
Mobile Western Perimeter Rd, Hillingdon, Greater London TW6 2, UK
Now arrived into the UK on QF29, long flight, the food decent, no upgrade from Qantas but fluked a spare seat beside me.
BA First lounge isn't to bad but not as good as the Sydney First lounge.
Lot of BA planes here and what is with the 150ml cans of coke.
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