Well, that didn't take long
UK airspace hasn't even been open 24 hours and already the previously clear skies over London are criss-crossed with contrail cirrus.

But on the plus side, my sister has managed to get back from the Czech Republic, and perhaps more urgently, my drummer has made it back from Holland, so our recording session may proceed as planned this weekend. WOO.

Have your loved ones come back to you from the far reaches of the globe? Or are you looking out the window resenting the iron birds that are dirtying our skies oncve more?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:37, 82 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good!
It means I'll get my Tron DVD now.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:38, Reply)

Looking forward to Tron 2 then?
Imax 3-D, the lot.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

I'm very glad they're flying again,
I don't think I've mentioned it but I'm flying to New York tomorrow.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:38, Reply)

It's a fair while since I've mentioned it
But I've stopped smoking, you know.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:44, Reply)

Did anyone know that I'm still single.
Because I am you know.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:50, Reply)

I make corsets and pole dance

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:55, Reply)

I'm smug

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

Did I mention that I like breasts?
I believe they're quite popular here, you know.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I'm a scouser with a boyfriend off the internet

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:07, Reply)

is that true?
I thought they were all just joshing you
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:10, Reply)

Is what true?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:11, Reply)

Well obviously I know you're a scouser
so the other bit
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:16, Reply)

I can confirm
I am FROM THE INTERNETZ
( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:17, Reply)

and not a geek
you make me sound like PsychoChomp
( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

I said geek
Not creepy stalking archivist depressive
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

I like this and as such have clicked to confirm the same

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

Ta like :)

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:30, Reply)

+ paperclip salesman

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:28, Reply)

That's a bit uncalled for
I don't list your perceived faults on here
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

or your spelling errors

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I was editing while you posted that.
Stop looking so smug
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:30, Reply)

I can type faster than the speed of light
your typos will never escape me!* Mwa ha ha

*except when I'm not online, or not reading your crap.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:34, Reply)

The original post is on the popular page now
so I should point out I did a mouseover in my reply.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:38, Reply)

hahahaha

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:38, Reply)

I don't care about your mouseovers anymore
if I don't read them it doesn't really have much effect.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I see what you did there ;)

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

LETS BE FRIENDS!

(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:30, Reply)

www.musicbabylon.com/artist/peter_pan_soundtrack/peter_pan/241865-never_smile_at_a_crocodile-lyrics.htm
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I reserve the right to mock you at any time.
but if I didn't like you I wouldn't talk to you.
Untwist your knickers.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Hahah
My bloomers are truly untwisted
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:35, Reply)

crocodpaedoph
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

"Is she really goin' oooout with him?"
I know he's a bit of a geek, and scottish, but yeah, it's true.
EDIT: Oh hai you!
I was just telling Kitzo how lovely you are.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:18, Reply)

"pretty women out walking a gorilla down my street...."
*joe jacksons*
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

da-dum, da-dum
*goes steppin' out*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

that reminds me of the Leader of the Pack song
Is she really going out with him?
Well there she is, lets ask her
Roota, is that djtrialprice's ring you're wearing?
Mmmhmm

I wrote them out and everything, no copying and pasting for me
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I am truly impressed!
I love that song, we haz it on our jukebox
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:30, Reply)

I could probably do the whole thing
my parents had the Best of the 60s on for every car journey and we lived far away from everything.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:34, Reply)

I'm like that with Fairground Attraction, Carly Simon. Deacon Blue and the Waterboys.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)

I might post the whole thing as a new thread

Now I feel bad for jumping on the Be Mean to CaveDuck Bandwagon. I'm sorry CaveDuck, I don't mean it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Oh don't worry about me,
I'm too busy straining every sinew to control my overwhelming desire to correct Vipros' Joe Jackson quote above, and therefore make myself look like an even greater lyric-obsessed loser than I actually am.

But you're right about Leader of the Pack, the best of the "death songs" of that era, closely followed by Terry by Twinkle.
(Cave Duck, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:59, Reply)

I ain't arsed either way really.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:39, Reply)

It's good to see that someone's managed to remain completely neutral on the matter.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)

I'm glad I wasn't in Foreign
or due to go there.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Me too
I had been thinking last week, "Bugger, I really should have taken a proper holiday and gone somewhere."

Hindsight's wonderful, though, isn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:11, Reply)

You would have got an extra week of holidays
With all paid (at least if it was in Europe or with an European airline), which doesn't seem too bad to me
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

Well, yes, the plus side
if, say, I'd followed my sister to Prague, would have been a longer holiday - panic about money and accomodation notwithstanding - followed by a brief tour of Germany, Belgium and France as I tried to get back another way.

Though conversely, my sister's solution - a 25-hour coach journey from Prague to Manchester - sounds like the least pleasant way to get around it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:18, Reply)

The airline must pay accomodation and expenses
By law.

You'd only be putting more time out of work, which might mean losing some money, but then you get paid hotels and food en Europe.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

I thought they didn't have to pay if it was a natural disaster
I thought they only had to put you up if the delay was caused by them
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

That is the insurance
But the airline must make sure you have a place to stay and food until they can take you back home. It's a European law (you see, we are not all bad) so if you're in Europe or somewhere else but are coming back with a European airline they have to pay for all that.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

ahhh
I lives and learns, thanks.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)

My step-son's on his way back from Portugal on Friday
He's a bit pissed off because I think he was secretly taken with the idea of enrolling in Portugese school but I'll be happy, if only to see Mrs Monkey's blood pressure drop slightly now she knows he's on his way.
(Pirate Monkey is not the goddamn Batman, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:42, Reply)

Perhaps my brother will shut up about his upcoming holiday to Portugal
he talks about 2 things, (1) digital/sky tv channels, and (2) his fucking holiday.

As someone who despises tv and has no holiday plans, I find it hard to care about either subjects.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:45, Reply)

I'm going to New York tomorrow

(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:47, Reply)

It's ok
you haven't been phoning me up every 5 minutes with updates from NATS and telling me your concerns about missing out on your holiday.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:49, Reply)

*phone rings*
"hey, it's Psychochomp"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:49, Reply)

"I'm sorry, but Colonel_Dracula is not in"
"please leave a message after the brain-frazzling pulse"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:54, Reply)

If you're referencing Stephen King
I don't think we want Psychochomp to have telekinetic powers
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:58, Reply)

I'm not a big SK fan, but I really enjoyed "Cell"
and it's one of his few books that doesn't get great reviews.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:00, Reply)

I really enjoyed it too
I nearly jumped out of my skin when they went downstairs and it said the rooms were dark because there were 'phone crazies' at every window *shudder*
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

I love iron bird
best of all the animals
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:47, Reply)

I like Iron Man.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:49, Reply)

I AM IRON MAN
Doo-doo-doo-do-do-dedededededede-duh-da-daa
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:52, Reply)

that line made me gush
probably only works when RDJ says it though
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Ozzy's original brummie tone doesn't do it for you then?

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:00, Reply)

shockingly the brummie accent
doesn't make it onto many women's top ten voice fantasies.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

I'd never have guessed
What about his leather trousers though?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:10, Reply)

it's what's underneath that counts
and by counts, I mean sickens me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:16, Reply)

I couldn't possibly comment
on the condition of Ozzy's underpants.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:19, Reply)

You are Nelson Muntz
AICM Ha-HAA
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:55, Reply)

nah, this volcano hasn't bothered me at all

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:55, Reply)

Blast.
I loved having a few days of no aircraft.
(JohntheDane, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:55, Reply)

You might have heard
I missed my flight to Brussels. Because I booked everything through lastminute, I couldn't change flights/hotels myself (I tried and was told they'd be happy to change the booking but had to be through lastminute). Because lastminute didn't answer the phone after hours waiting and just contacted me yesterday, the airline was unable to change my tickets for the same price and the hotel charges me for not telling them I wanted to cancel.

Lastminute is unable to defend me in front of the hotel or airline and doesn't accept any responsability.

Don't go near them. Avoid at all cost.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)

What a shower of bastards
This is the one thing that's annoyed me throughout this, actually - the agents and travel insurance companies are avoiding payouts left, right and centre. Apparently you're not covered for this sort of thing if it's an "Act of God."

A volcano is not an Act of God. It's a Fucking Act of Geology.

I realise that if the travel insurance companies actually paid out what they'd originally signed for, it would bankrupt them. But isn't that the point of insurance? You basically gamble, and bet them so much money that something will go wrong on your holiday. They agreed to gamble, they lost. Now they appear to be hedging their bets.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:09, Reply)

Exactly
I'm not going to be missing much money, £30 at max, but I don't accept paying for something that is not my fault.

I called the hotel myself more than 24h before the 1st night, and they were happy to cancel or change, but couldn't do it without lasminute. So there you are, I have to pay for their mistakes.

Worst of all is the stupid girl on the phone (Shely, really?) telling me it's not their fault because, "well, because, you know, it's not. The hotel could be more flexible too, couldn't it?"
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:13, Reply)

Yes, the hotel could be a lot more flexible
if the petty constraints of their deal with lastminute allowed them to be so. For crying out loud...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:16, Reply)

So there you are
Don't use them. I finally got tickets to go in May, but had to pay extra as the cheap tickets were gone already. And I'll have to pay extra for the hotel too.

I'm so frustrated and upset I don't even feel bored at work today.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:20, Reply)

Actually, I think I may have gone to Croatia
via a deal with lastminute, and that caused no problems (apart from some minor confusion with the hotel thinking I was supposed to be two people rather than one). But then nothing went wrong during the course of that trip, and there, I suppose, is the big difference.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

They started making me Mr in the booking
Despite me booking the flights as Miss. That should have ring the alarms.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:35, Reply)

thank fuck for that
maybe that means all the people we contracted for next week will be able to arrive on time and we can get all our $$$
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:09, Reply)

My mother is due back from Italy today
so we shall see....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I can see a lot of sky from my window
and this morning it was full of trails. It was quite pretty, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:46, Reply)

This Is A Non-Story -- But You Read It Here First
www.pprune.org/rumours-news/412863-unconfirmed-747-diversion-two-engines-shut-down-2.html

Interesting to see what Chinese whispers can start and what the truth is...
(JohntheDane, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 17:47, Reply)