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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    It means the people who aren't paying extra are going to a meeting and flying back same day and don't really care about a few quid.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I'd also argue that luggage isn't a trivial cost by any stretch.

    More weight means more fuel being used. If everyone has 20 kilo bags, that's roughly 20-25% more passenger weight.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    rick_chasey said:

    I'd also argue that luggage isn't a trivial cost by any stretch.

    More weight means more fuel being used. If everyone has 20 kilo bags, that's roughly 20-25% more passenger weight.

    I think I read it costs something like £2 per flight.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    One of the advantages of flying long haul is that you can fly with pleasant airlines.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    edited May 2023
    webboo said:

    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.

    Me? I didn't use to fly much as I preferred overland travel.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    TheBigBean said:

    webboo said:

    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.

    Me? I didn't use to fly much as I preferred overland travel.
    No.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    webboo said:

    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.

    Planes don't tend to get in my way when I'm on the bus or bike or walking.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    kingstongraham said:

    webboo said:

    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.

    Planes don't tend to get in my way when I'm on the bus or bike or walking.
    Airports are undeniably inconvenient places to spend much time though.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,336
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    webboo said:

    People who complain about cars will happily fly when they go on holiday.

    Planes don't tend to get in my way when I'm on the bus or bike or walking.
    Airports are undeniably inconvenient places to spend much time though.

    Probably less inconvenient than a long queue of traffic at Dover. Though these days I do miss using Exeter Airport (currently no flights to Paris), as my maximum queue time was about 10 minutes.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    These medieval saints, even taking some pretty heavy embellishments into account, do manage to cram a hell of a lot into their short lives

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,336
    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,541
    edited June 2023
    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.
    Was thinking the same.
    Unless mine were castrated prior to purchase. :D
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    pblakeney said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.
    Was thinking the same.
    Unless mine were castrated prior to purchase. :D
    That's because they are hybrids.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    pinno said:

    pblakeney said:

    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.
    Was thinking the same.
    Unless mine were castrated prior to purchase. :D
    That's because they are hybrids.
    Yeah, well my knowledge of plants is less than that of current club culture. ;)
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,336
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.

    Orchis orchids... they seem to be more specific in France (I get corrected) whether they are 'orchis' or 'orchidée'

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orchis
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,336
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    That orchis/orchids are so named because their roots look like testicles.

    What orchids are we talking about coz...

    No.

    Orchis orchids... they seem to be more specific in France (I get corrected) whether they are 'orchis' or 'orchidée'

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orchis
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,336
    edited June 2023
    That 'sneezing' should actually be 'fneezing', but someone in the 15th century mistook the f for the old-fashioned s used at the starts of words... an eggcorn that stuck.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    That Nigel Farage is only 59, thought he was at least 10 years older than that!
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 909
    Pross said:

    That Nigel Farage is only 59, thought he was at least 10 years older than that!

    That's 309 in dog years though.
    Similarly shocked: those years of smoking Gitanes and swigging half litres of lager have fairly caught up with him.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Niggly Fartrage is a liar, Spaffer style, so his age is whatever random number he's recently spewed. Pr1ck.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    edited July 2023
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    rick_chasey said:

    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light

    Food?
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,541
    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light

    Food?
    Butler.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light

    Food?



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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Modello beer, that Mexican beer I used to pay a fortune for to get hold of to have it with my Mexican, is now the highest selling beer in the US - higher even than bud light

    You may have missed the big story but you should have ended “especially bud light”

    Personally I would have thought that the wokerati would drink it rather than red necks so expected sales to increase
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I didn't miss the story, but the premium version of corona (as it was sold back in the day) and a Mexican beer, becoming the #1 US beer I think is an incredible story.
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