Be Excellent To Each Other

Big jessie. She clearly didn't know where the party was.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i ... t-17674328

Hmm, Thailand is £888 return in September. That's pretty reasonable.

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TravelZoo is where it is at. We got two return flights to Singapore over New Year on Lufthansa including taxes for £769. (In total, not each.)

Was that with BA?

EDIT £479 per person using that. might have to think about using someone other than BA, although I don't think I'll cope with that.

I went out of Europe for my honeymoon, and that's it.

Don't get me wrong, I like being in odd places (and I'll happily travel for an "event"), but I spend 90% of my life not at my house, and my house has all the stuff I like in it.

I like your thinking. I spend a lot of money on my house, I want to make the most of it.

I travel a fair bit for work, so when I have a week off (as I do this week) I spend it in my flat, watching films and playing video games. Perfect.
People always ask where i'm going on holiday if I have some time off, and are always shocked when I say i'm spending it at home. I don't know why that is so shocking, I'm paying for this bloody flat, I chose it because I like it, I want to spend some time in it!

In other news, Costco run completed. £180 spent on awesome crap I didn't really need

Would you have pushed the button? I would

but Mrs Kov likes to travel, so now like to travel

I am wearing a new t-shirt today, it is blue, with large writing on it.
The writing has three words.
Those words are "I AM AWESOME"
I am, and it is.

Yes, but tits and fannys stay pretty much the same. And any new developments there are covered in the NSFW thread.

Tut.

That video is awesome though.

I've flown with Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Airlines, and Thai Air, and they've all been much better than BA. If travelling to the far east, the local airline is usually to be recommended.

I saw a man yesterday, between 18-22, he was very attractive but obviously a bit odd, as he had on pair of those bouncy stilt boots and a tracksuit that had 'Come at me bro' written across the chest and down one leg.

I shall consider this. Although the reality is I'll go wherever MrsA books. It's pointles my keeping up the pretence of having any control over my diary or arrangements nowadays.

Was anyone coming at him?

Flis, I expect.

Maybe it was his dogging outfit?

minus several million points.

The clue is was in the Lufthansa bit.

There are many other airlines I would fly with before BA. Lufthansa, Air New Zealand, Virgin, Singapore, Emirates, Etihad, BMI are all in the top drawer. The Virgin flight to Orlando was still a good one despite being a Skytrain to Disneyland.

When we did the Singapore -> Frankfurt flight on a Lufthansa A380*, we landed 15 minutes late after a 13hr 15min flight. The crew were incredibly apologetic for being late.

BA aren't in the Ryanair level of Vauxhall Conference Cuntwittery, but they aren't in the top league any more.



*Awesome plane. So efficient, it was actually a little dull.

"In Asia, no decent airline bothers to dick around anything smaller than a 747," Avi snaps. "If someone tries to pack you on board a 737 or god forbid an Airbus, run, don’t walk, away from the boarding lounge, and call me on my Sky Pager and I’ll send in a chopper to evacuate you."

MrsA wants to book something tonight. I've sent her a detailed list of my requirements:

"I wish to sit on a beach, read my book and drink cocktails. maybe shoot something".

Thank you for the air travel advice, I'll consider them, but I dislike change.

Being as my closest proper airport is Heathrow (Luton doesn't count) I always fly BA if I have a choice. I find most of the non budget airlines are pretty much the same once you are in the air, it's all the shit at either end that makes the most difference to me, and in that respect Terminal 5 easily beats the rest of the Heathrow Terminals.

From this weeks Travelzoo email

£999 St Lucia All Inclusive Beach Break w/spa (Save £650)

£359 7 Nights North Cyprus with upgrades

£289 7 Nights All Inclusive Sharm-el-Sheik with free transfers

£289 Tenerife All Inclusive Week on the Beach

I haven't clicked through to the actual deals (just looked them up on my phone).

Only go there if you want to go diving, or just sit on a beach all day - there is literally nothing else!

If you do go diving, I recommend Emperor Diving, where my sister (Tammi) now runs the dive center
And... if you want to stop the locals following you down the street trying to sell you tat, the magic word to say is 'staff', as the dive center staff never buy anything so the locals don't hassle them as much

Thanks. I daresay we'll try to go to Asia, or the Carribean or something like that. No disrespect to your sister, but I don't like diving; it's stupidly overregulated and makes me sleepy afterwards.

I thought diving had to be regulated as you know the risk of death and stuff..

I thought oxygen had to be regulated as you know the risk of death and stuff..

Well yes, you wouldn't want a tank full of that now would you?!

Anyway! I think I may have dived with your sister when I was last out there, about 3 years ago now. I'll try and find a photo.

Aye, that & just stomping out into the woods/hills are my favourite types of holiday now.

I've no patience for airports any more. They used to be tolerable, but now terrorists the shower of belmmerchants that are scared of terrorists have spoiled it for everyone

Stomp your arse down to Ingerlund this summer and swill some ale with us in Techno tents.

Zat is de plan, when is the "Pikeys rave it up in a nice quiet campsite & set fire to everything in sight" meet this year?

June 30th

No joy. Racing on the Sunday

Between the World Cup & everything else I've got on that month I'll be lucky to have money by the end of June anyway

If you're racing downhill, I'll buy you three pints if you beat my all time highest placing.

So far we have established that the Southern hemisphere is the bit below the equator, Siberia doesn't have an historical cricket culture and South America is a continent, South Africa is a country. And I'm not allowed to shoot any wildlife. I hate planning things.

Welcome home, Kern!

Nah, that one's XC. Cheaper to enter than DH & I'm skint until my wages go up.

Racing them in baggies & a purple skate lid so the leg shavers hate me already. Heaven help me if I start placing a bit better

I did a race and it had chucked it down for three days before. So I swapped my SPDs for flat pedals and wore hiking boots. Up the first singletrack climb I hoisted my bike over my should and ran up it, passing 3/4 of the field.

#glorydayswe'llthey'llpassyoubyinthewinkofayounggirlseye

Went out yesterday evening and had 3 pints of Staropramen, went home, pizza for dinner and a couple of bottles of beer. Was in bed by 2330 and up at 0630 and I'm knackered. Not sure it is the beer or the 7 hours sleep. 7 hours is enough right?

That's about 2.5 hours more than I usually get so you should be fi.......ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Er, so it's prolly the beer.

Interesting bit about North Korea

Followed by a bizarre comment:

Don't know, yet.

Has anyone seen that Caines arcade video that's doing the rounds?

It's well worth watching. It's not long and it'll make you feel good. It's a very nice story.

Is it about Bayonetta?

Yes. Minus the witch, the crazy story line and the awesome soundtrack.

Apart from that, it's just like it.

We don't eat anything that can recognise its reflection, do we? Isn't self-awareness part of the definition for sentience? Not ignoring the of describing something 90% of the human population (and quite a lot of the rest of the animal kingdom) do, or would do given the opportunity, as peculiar.

No corpses for me though - I only eat the living. Nothing peculiar in that, apparently. Logic pedant victory!

It strikes me as bizarre that under an article about a brutally repressive country, with terrible human rights records and so on, someone feels the need to comment on eating meat. I can't at all fathom it.