however avoiding a FA cup replay.
We may have nearly 2 week break before playing liverpool then Bayern in the 2nd leg.
Though if it's over already it won't be much use.
however avoiding a FA cup replay.
We may have nearly 2 week break before playing liverpool then Bayern in the 2nd leg.
Though if it's over already it won't be much use.
Shut up you boring cund.
Your avatar reminds me of the last time I had a meal in a proper BR dining car. It was breakfast, on an early morning service from Lime St to London. White-jacketed stewards, heavy silver tea service, perfect, ironed white tablecloths... it was really rather galmourous, and this must have been as late as 1983.
What happened to glamour and to nice things, f?
in my recent meeting I was told millennials are to blame.
Why have glamour when you can have an uber. not that a taxi is glamourous.
You don't even get nice tickets for flights anymore.
Oddly you can find all sorts of BR stuff on ebay. uniforms, briefcases, stationary. Not that I searched for such a thing.
Yeah, but for some reason the railways then were run as a zero sum game, so the corollary of that service was a cattle class an Indian peasant wouldn't take his goat on. Now, of course, you have the communistic alternative whereby first class is barely distinguishable from standard.
It's far to expensive these days. I'd take them regularly. I liked it when I was a kid and was always looking at that red light that shows the locks are on. or sitting on the fold down seat :cloud9:
I took one in the last year from London Bridge to Enfield. cost more than £60 it's not something I am happy to do.
They're originally designed with seats and windows matching but then Michael O'Leary comes along and demands they just cram in as many seats in as possible, so it all goes to cock.
Business class is your friend, f. For anything over 2 hours it's essential.
What do you want to be, the richest man in the cemetary?
I tried to upgrade on my Vegas flights but I was forbidden to do so. :-( Work politics.
All the wons on the virgin flight got upgraded to free. :furious: But on the funny side they got diverted to Ontario California :hehe: and on the way back their flight was cancelled completely.
I've made my flights a bit more bearable as now I take some of those nicotine lozenge to take the edge off of things.
I will be popping off out east in April and seriously considered splurging on Singapore Airlines Suites class, but it's just too much money to justify. One day. Just for the experience.
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Oh you always get a bed in business. But this is a seperate cabin, with a double bed, and the use of a shower.
Chef is on call throughout the flight and the wide-ranging menu includes lobster thermidor :hehe:
£7,500 each return. With business class at £2,500, I'd could countenance going as far as £5,000, just the once, just to have experienced it, but £7,500 is too rich for my blood.
I don't think they'd be allowed to suggest that it's allowed per se, but the bumph says, "When you’re travelling in our Suites, you’ll never have to share your personal space. Your individual cabin has its own sliding door and window blinds to give you all the privacy you want. Its spaciousness allows for a standalone bed, completely separate from your seat. A space that’s all yours. Nothing comes close."
So that's basically an invitation to get jiggy, isn't it?
Not true for air travel, I think. I can remember flying economy when the food was utterly inedible and your only entertainment was a good book or, if you were lucky, a decent view of a small telly at the front of your section which showed one movie. Even business class back then was just a larger seat and slightly better food.
Nowadays even economy passengers get their own telly with an extensive entertainment system and the food is decent and enjoyable. Business class is unlimited alcohol, flat beds, a bar to sit around etc etc
Air travel has never been better imo.
Long haul, yes - but the TV thing is mostly just a function of technology. More importantly in those days, you'd never have to pay for a drink on any flight and now you do - even on some long haul carriers.
In fairness, those long haul carriers that do charge for drinks are almost always American and thus awful, but still.
Well most airlines have withdrawn, or are withdrawing, the traditional 'free' meal on short haul economy in favour of taking extra profit from painfully expensive sangweches and so on.
I remember when flying was glamourous. One would wear a suit and tie, and get to the airport early to enjoy a silver service meal in a beautiful restaurant over looking the runway. At the specified departure time, the engines would be started by the flight engineers and then the captain would arrive, pull on his white gloves, and ceremonially accept the aircraft. Then the adventure began! Day one, Croydon to Le Bourget and then Rome and on to Brindisi. Overnight, then Athens, Alexandria and Cairo. One was accomodated at only the finest hotels, of course, many built specifically by the airline. One wore white tie for dinner, naturally. From Cairo there was a long hop to Delhi, then Calcutta, where one might break one's journey and catch up with old chums serving in the Raj. There would be great excitement if an invitation could be obtained to a ball at the governer's mansion.
Now slobs like you wear nylon football shirts on their pilgrimages to hellholes like Mgaluf and Dubai :-(
:hehe: Try it now and you'd be handcuffed for the duration and be dragged off by coppers. Bizarre.
I can think of few things as weird/sinister in my lifetime than the way in which such a relatively innocuous act has been criminalised and demonised. Terrifying, when you think about it. Now they're after plain packaging on booze :rolleyes:
They certainly didn't last year.
Mind you, when upon arrival I lit a cigarette at Jomo Kenyatta, a chap apologetically pointed towards a no smoking sign and then ushered me through an open door onto the tarmac where it was fine to smoke, right next to the fuel bowser.
Well the fight back has begun. Who knows, in a few years time, under President Trump and prime minister Farage's guidance, we might once again be allowed to make decisions for ourselves, rather than have the State instruct us when we may smoke, drink or fart. I expect prime minister Wilders will add his support.