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Old Sep 2, 2014, 7:48 am
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Makes sense , they are all used to sleeping in the same room!
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 7:51 am
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Originally Posted by ratechaser
Eh? Speak louder please, I can't hear you little people from up here
Reminds me of the time that I walked past some people on horses who were clearly lost. I was carrying a very visible OS map but they did not deign to notice me. At least they didn't kick mud all over me.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 7:56 am
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Originally Posted by Lioneye
To help out with etiquette and ease the process of boarding etc would it help if all Golds wore a prefect type badge so that less experienced passengers could ask their advice etc?
Funny you should say that.

The prefects I knew during my school days were all blowhards.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 9:44 am
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As condition of using priority boarding, all GGLs should be made to wear gold underpants on their head, except for female GGLs (blatant sex discrimination here!).

Gold card holders should be wearing pink underpants on their head to use their priority boarding privileges.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 9:51 am
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Originally Posted by BugAlugs
To be honest having the flyertalk luggage tag used to do this. Folks would stop and ask me things

I must reattach it
Does not work, have mine attached to my roller case, and have never had anyone come up to me, mark you the same applies the other way round, have never seen anyone with a flyertalk badge, so the ping pong chat does not get off first base.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
As condition of using priority boarding, all GGLs should be made to wear gold underpants on their head, except for female GGLs (blatant sex discrimination here!).

Gold card holders should be wearing pink underpants on their head to use their priority boarding privileges.
...while Bronzes will be clearly identified as follows...

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Old Sep 2, 2014, 10:47 am
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Originally Posted by idlingbye

This thread's got me thinking: I wonder what percentage of BAEC UK-based GCH (or GGL) went to top UK independent (preferably boarding) schools?
OK, I'll stick my head above the parapet first. Millfield (if you consider it to be a 'top' school) and then Imperial College, London.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by idlingbye
This thread's got me thinking: I wonder what percentage of BAEC UK-based GCH (or GGL) went to top UK independent (preferably boarding) schools?
[Americans, kindly look away now, you really don't want to know].

Some of us went to state comps, and as a former prefect and head boy (naturally) there's very little I don't know about fagging. So these pleasures are available at public expense. I trust this reassures you.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 12:00 pm
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
Some of us went to state comps, and as a former prefect and head boy [...]
I'd always assumed that comprehensive schools with prefect systems were rare animals. I went to one (but never got close to a position of power, unless you count register monitor). The result of merging a secondary modern and a grammar school, it kept "grammar" in its name and took boarders.

Stapling one's Gold card to one's forehead is probably the easiest option. (Idea first seen on AA board some years ago.)
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Lioneye
To help out with etiquette and ease the process of boarding etc would it help if all Golds wore a prefect type badge so that less experienced passengers could ask their advice etc?
Try boarding an AA domestic flight in F, and you will never complain about the boarding experience again.

I have never come across such bad manners, ignorance, rudeness as when boarding in the US.

Why the non-priorty passengers have to block the Priority Lane with their huge fat cases and their huge fat bodies and refuse to budge when you try and politely squeeze though is beyond me.
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Old Sep 2, 2014, 1:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Phil the Flyer
Imperial College, London.
Did you hear that Imperial and LSE are going to merge?

The new institution will be called the London School of Economics and Engineering, or LSE for short.
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Old Sep 3, 2014, 5:37 pm
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
[Americans, kindly look away now, you really don't want to know].

Some of us went to state comps, and as a former prefect and head boy (naturally) there's very little I don't know about fagging. So these pleasures are available at public expense. I trust this reassures you.
A comprehensive double for me too, can't comment on the fagging though!
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