Some people have no manners
Aug 7, 2009, 12:50 pm
#197
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: IAD, and sometimes OMNI/PR. Currently: not far from IAD, but home will always be SAN (not far from the "touch my junk and I'll have you arrested" Memorial TSA Check Point) even if I'm not there so much these days.
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I have been a long time lurker on Flyertalk and by my username you can all guess who I am . . .
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. . . Once again I am really sorry for the trouble I caused today.
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. . . Once again I am really sorry for the trouble I caused today.
Aug 7, 2009, 1:44 pm
#198
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: IAD, and sometimes OMNI/PR. Currently: not far from IAD, but home will always be SAN (not far from the "touch my junk and I'll have you arrested" Memorial TSA Check Point) even if I'm not there so much these days.
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Posts: 5,076
No doubt 
This is what you get posting in a grumpy mood post night flight from a lounge half drugged up on sleeping pills.
I still think my 'nemesis' should get some flak for slobbing around the computers and peaking over my shoulder
I am now in the GF work + entertainment area and I'm carefully scanning the room for each letter I type.
This is what you get posting in a grumpy mood post night flight from a lounge half drugged up on sleeping pills.
I still think my 'nemesis' should get some flak for slobbing around the computers and peaking over my shoulder
I am now in the GF work + entertainment area and I'm carefully scanning the room for each letter I type.
Over your shoulder, you say?
Aug 7, 2009, 1:46 pm
#199
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The text on the flyers?
"Dear Car Owner/Driver,
Noticing Your Car beeing parked here leeds us to think there is a misunderstanding. This area is designated for shoppers with a physical handicap. Customer with other disabilities are requested to use regular parking area"
I just wished he had told me about this ploy, as I would have liked to see the faces of those reading that flyer.
"Dear Car Owner/Driver,
Noticing Your Car beeing parked here leeds us to think there is a misunderstanding. This area is designated for shoppers with a physical handicap. Customer with other disabilities are requested to use regular parking area"
I just wished he had told me about this ploy, as I would have liked to see the faces of those reading that flyer.
Aug 7, 2009, 3:50 pm
#200
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,775
You have just reminded me of a prank we played on a night shift in the computer room at the Shell Centre at Waterloo. Shell's new colour copier was used to print a few hundred tickets and, in the wee small hours, we applied them to loads of cars, vans, trucks and coaches in the Waterloo area - even a train or two overnighting in the London Terminus got one under the windscreen wiper! The message was written by our Systems Analyst (IBM 360) and was unmistakeably British, but this example of plagarism for the US Market is all I can find. THe references to the "herd of elephants" and the "fleas infesting your armits" are unmistakeably the remarks of the original author though - and he wrote it in the early 1970's.
Well - we found it funny and so did London Weekend Television - but no one ever found out who did it!
Well - we found it funny and so did London Weekend Television - but no one ever found out who did it!
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Aug 7, 2009, 6:01 pm
#201
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: DFW
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I will be flying my first BA First Class this month, LHR/DXB/LHR.
Isn't Sleeper Service something you can request? If you don't request it, can you get a dinner on-board?
Please forgive me for interrupting this enthralling thread.
Aug 7, 2009, 6:07 pm
#202
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brit stateside
Programs: BA Exec Club, various other pittances
Posts: 218
Sleeper Service is only applicable to Club World (Business) flights. It's designed to maximise your sleep onboard and instead of the usual meal service you dine in the lounge beforehand. Then, when onboard, you'll be offered cookies / something quick with the view in mind of sleeping early and keeping disruption to a minimum.
You can't request it as certain flights are listed as Sleeper Services. If you don't eat in the lounge generally you won't be able to get a full meal onboard.
If you're travelling in First the full meal service remains.
You can't request it as certain flights are listed as Sleeper Services. If you don't eat in the lounge generally you won't be able to get a full meal onboard.
If you're travelling in First the full meal service remains.
Aug 7, 2009, 6:11 pm
#203
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: DFW
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Sleeper Service is only applicable to Club World (Business) flights. It's designed to maximise your sleep onboard and instead of the usual meal service you dine in the lounge beforehand. Then, when onboard, you'll be offered cookies / something quick with the view in mind of sleeping early and keeping disruption to a minimum.
You can't request it as certain flights are listed as Sleeper Services. If you don't eat in the lounge generally you won't be able to get a full meal onboard.
If you're travelling in First the full meal service remains.
You can't request it as certain flights are listed as Sleeper Services. If you don't eat in the lounge generally you won't be able to get a full meal onboard.
If you're travelling in First the full meal service remains.
Y'all may now return to your regularly scheduled posting.
Aug 10, 2009, 7:28 am
#204
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Anyhow you are supposed to save her from falling and that is nonsense as how many of us weak, innocent, suceptible and credulous Demoiselles have not fallen for the likes of some of them here. I mention no names.
Aug 10, 2009, 11:21 am
#206
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Cookies are always good, especially the ones with white chocolate chips.
Aug 10, 2009, 1:31 pm
#207
Join Date: Oct 2007
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^ x 2 for the cookies with white choccy chips. They went just perfectly with the hot chocolate (also excellent) on my Sleeper Service.
As for printing, I've not read all the pages on this topic because my brain went to bed without me an hour ago, but while appreciating that one can use the lounge facilities on offer (and yes, printing out 100 page docs seems reasonable enough for this music biz/violinist type) - one should ALWAYS quickly inform those around you sharing the shame printer that you are about to embark upon this and do they want to pint off a single page before you get started... That way, problems and aggravation are neatly solved and you radiate an aura of being a kind and considerate person...
Hmm I think the 3/4 bottle of AtoZ Oregon white last night is taking effect so time for me to follow my brain to bed for a nap...
As for printing, I've not read all the pages on this topic because my brain went to bed without me an hour ago, but while appreciating that one can use the lounge facilities on offer (and yes, printing out 100 page docs seems reasonable enough for this music biz/violinist type) - one should ALWAYS quickly inform those around you sharing the shame printer that you are about to embark upon this and do they want to pint off a single page before you get started... That way, problems and aggravation are neatly solved and you radiate an aura of being a kind and considerate person...
Hmm I think the 3/4 bottle of AtoZ Oregon white last night is taking effect so time for me to follow my brain to bed for a nap...
Aug 10, 2009, 2:15 pm
#208
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No Darling you are supposed to catch the lady on her way down. I learned this and many other things at my Swish Finishing School.
Anyhow you are supposed to save her from falling and that is nonsense as how many of us weak, innocent, suceptible and credulous Demoiselles have not fallen for the likes of some of them here. I mention no names.
Anyhow you are supposed to save her from falling and that is nonsense as how many of us weak, innocent, suceptible and credulous Demoiselles have not fallen for the likes of some of them here. I mention no names.
Bringing some peace negotiations to the table, I'll compliment you both on beeing right. Going up a flight of stairs, the man walks first, for discretion as tjisseh states. Going down, however, you are right. The man walks first, for security reasons. Also the risk of observing the occasional ankle sustantially lower.
What really caught my eye was the referral to your education. My first association to Swish was some sort of fast track, But us less educated need to learn, so I consulted Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish
but wasn't sure I'd been enlightened - basket ball?
Aug 10, 2009, 3:10 pm
#209
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland
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What really caught my eye was the referral to your education. My first association to Swish was some sort of fast track, But us less educated need to learn, so I consulted Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish
but wasn't sure I'd been enlightened - basket ball?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish
but wasn't sure I'd been enlightened - basket ball?
Aug 10, 2009, 5:46 pm
#210
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Seattle
Programs: BA GGL & LTG, EK Silver, HHonors Lifetime Diamond; Proudly Mucci Free - total nonsense
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Imagine the shock, horror, and pain to humanity if the poor guy had dared to open the blind on his window mid-flight.
Some people need to chill out sometimes. Life's too short for unwarranted stress.
Some people need to chill out sometimes. Life's too short for unwarranted stress.