Flying
Anyone else think that it might be quite nice for this volcano shit to go on for ages, like a few years, and see what happens? I fancy a change in society. Its all a bit loud these days. We could all get about on boats and shit, and well, I've thought it through and see no problems with it. We (as a society) would figure shit out. We've only had freely available and affordable airtravel for a generation really, we'd live without it. Yes some people would have to change their lifestyle, including me, but you know, like, change, and stuff.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:09, 21 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It might increase the price of my flat as it is now nice and quiet

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Nah.
My father lives in the US. Sorry.

Normally I have the most Luddite medieval views on stuff, but in this instance if it took a 2-week boat trip (or whatever it is) to get out to see my old boy, it would mean I never saw him again, probably.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Lazy shit.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:22, Reply)

It's less like laziness and more like
I only get 20 days' holiday a year - if it took 14 days to get there and 14 to get back I'd have to meet him for a swift pint at the port and then immediately return home.

I wonder what Nick Clegg's policy is on this? Something both radical, traditional and sensible ALL AT THE SAME TIME, I'll be bound.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:24, Reply)

He's proposing to make teleportation even more AWESOME than it currently seems.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I'm not surprised.
That's the kind of thing that 'Ultimate Wizard' Cleggsy would propose. He's so cool - nothing like a bland regional sales manager delivering an arse-achingly dull speech in the hospitality suite of a Bracknell travel tavern. Nothing like that AT ALL.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:34, Reply)

You could meet in the middle.
Somewhere like Iceland. I hear its quite nice there, and your pound should go a long way.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Oh I see....
We all have to deal with the billions of tons of carbon immisions that aircraft brings into the atmosphere each and every second, just because you can't take a month or two off work and go see your old man for one last time.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:10, Reply)

I would like to agree with you but:
1. My lass is off to teach in Ghana on 1st May and it would be very dissapointing if she could no go. For her and the kids in Ghana
2. I rather like having the proles out of Britain so I can have a nice holiday here.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:24, Reply)

HAHA
you want your mrs to go to a shit bit of the world so you can download those really big porn films you haven't had the chance to yet, as she checks your computer most evenings.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:27, Reply)

She is almost completely computer illiterate.
By choice. I have to use the internet for her when she wants some info.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:32, Reply)

For the most part yeah.
But I don't fancy an 8 week boat trip at least twice a year to get me from the UK to the Falklands to work, as opposed to the 18hr flight.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:33, Reply)

I'm with you on this,
I don't much care for flying. I try and avoid long-haul if I can.

Oddly, chatting to a former client today and he told me his company are reviewing their travel policy as since Thursday they've relied on video conferencing and phone call. With the same results as spending loads of cash sending people out to meetings.

As for those with family in the States, well I reckon we could either build a big bridge all the way to the states, or we invest in one of those little pontoons you get on some beaches. Anchor that half way across the pond and you can meet up half-way.

I bagsie the ice-cream and beer kiosk franchise.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:52, Reply)

I've often thought about that.
It could be really ace as the security restrictions wouldn't need to be that heavy- I mean, what would a hijacker do? Try to cruise a ship into a bridge? It would be like in Austin Powers where he runs over a security guard with a steamroller and the guy spends about a half minute screaming "NOOOOOOO!" before he slowly gets squished.
( Wanderer, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 17:53, Reply)

*belms* Yes they would need to be that heavy.
A transatlantic passenger ferry would take many hundreds, if not thousands of passengers. All a hijacker would need to do would be to sink one in the middle of the sea to get a body count as high as 9/11.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:04, Reply)

0.818181818181818181
isn't really a high body-count now is it?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:14, Reply)

pity the guy
who is the 0.18 remaining though
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:21, Reply)

*applauds*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 9:05, Reply)

I'm looking forward to the return of air ships and general steampunk things.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:11, Reply)

*wears cogs*

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 18:24, Reply)

I've just got back...
Flew out to the Seychelles on the 11th and was supposed to fly back on Thursday. We landed for what was supposed to be a 1 hour refuel at Zurich, but were then informed we were going nowhere.

Credit to Air Seychelles though - they put us up in a 4 star hotel until Sunday morning when they managed to get hold of 2 coaches to send us back home - a 21 hour trek through France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France again.

Seeing the white cliffs of Dover was emotional...
( snee held his breath since, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 12:49, Reply)