Loz

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Wittgenstein always flew Berlin Airways. Yeah, but Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel...

OK, I've managed to explain your extra charges... > 2 Adult(s): GBP 20.00 GBP 52.99 GBP 145.98 Your base fare, as expected. > Handling Fee: GBP 24.00 Admin fee - standard cheapo airline money grabbing. The practise of not including this is the advertised fares is being banned in the UK. > Pre-Paid Bag Fee: GBP 0.00 No charge as it is included in the PLUS fare you selected. > Sms Confirmation Fee: GBP 1.00 You had to actively select this. You can't blame Aer Lingus for 'sneaking' in a charge when you actively select something! > PLUS fee: GBP 68.00 You selected their 'PLUS' upgrade, which gave you free seat selection and 1 Checked bag up to 20kg free. Again you actively selected this, so you can't really complain. > Seating Fee: GBP 8.00 Aer Lingus charge a premium for the better seats on a plane. You selected these seats. You got charged extra. So, while I agree with you on the admin fee, all the other 'extra' charges were upgrades you selected. That's how the cheap flight model works - a no-frills base price and you can select extra upgrades as you require. You could have flown to Dublin for ?85 each (?73 base fare + ?12 admin fee), but you added in extras. I'm not sure you have much to complain about here, really.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I put mine in on Wednesday with the Post Office > Check and Send service, so I'll report back when it arrives! ... and it arrived today. 13 days turnaround for a straight renewal. Can't complain at that service! Also, they just posted it through the mailbox - no need to sign for it. I really hope they use a secure delivery company - the damn thing has 'Identity and Passport Service' written all over it and the envelope is just big enough to hold the passport, so it would not be too hard to guess the contents.

Silverfox - who was this with? Sometimes they sneak stuff in you don't need - what are the handling fee, PLUS fee and seating fee and could you decline them?? Did you really want SMS confirmation?

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone else find men's tennis boring? > Monotonous returns down the middle of the court > for hours on end ? > > Federer is the honourable exception. > > I'm going to bed. The second half of the fourth set and the fifth set were pretty amazing tennis. A number of corking rallies. You went to bed too early!

I must say though, Hugo, that providing the banners were not using poor taste imagery or language, I can't justify the police banning their use. Seems rather draconian to me. Tom may be barking up the wrong tree, but he has every right to be... erm... barking.

Blimey, Lita. Do you really think I am putting aside over an hour to sit through that monotone lecture??

Clowns in ED? Has anyone texted all the schools in a wild panic yet?

That's him. And Chris was a paper-boy.

This post immediately made me think of Herbert from Family Guy.

Tom Micklewright Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ethics: We maintain that forcing any animal to > perform for human entertainment is unethical and > cannot be justified. And there is where you depart from the opinions of most of the general public. Most people do not share this view. From horse racing to movies like 'Babe' to keeping pets the UK public are quite happy for animals to entertain them. I think if you could prove animals were being harmed you'd have a point, but looking at those sites, they seem high on insinuations, but low on facts. The page you pointed to trailed a Zippos circus and reported back that the horses were in the transporter for four hours (though it travelled for less than an hour), but failed to show that this is in any way detrimental to the animal.

I've not eaten horse. I've always wanted to, but never had the chance. I don't see the difference between eating horse and cow or sheep. I've eaten kangaroo and caiman alligator (Brazil), though. I'd happy recommend them both. I've also eaten piranha, but they just taste like any fish, really.

Fascinating stuff Shorty. I always love reading your posts.

modernmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Free speech is important, I thnk the case is put > really well by comedian Stuart Lee > see clip? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAfnfQtoTNA I'm not sure what Stewart Lee is complaining about here. He was the subject of a successful protest. How do the Christians differ from Tom's animal rights group, a bunch of students or the suffragettes. He seems to be more worried that their reasoning was based on religion, rather than any issue about protest and free speech.

Sol Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the guy who sold it told me it could be used in a plane, > which was not true. I still don't know where you got this information from. Why do you think it can not be used on a plane??

I'm not sure you were mis-sold anyway. Where did you get the info that a device has to have a "built in battery" to be used on a plane??

I must say, this thread has been a great ad for Zippo's circus. Apparently they are there until the 18th September. Book early - tonight was a sell-out.

You call that a horse? This is a horse... http://static.fancydress.com/resources/ecommerce/images/products/121/1/img1121/product-enlarged.jpg

If you aren't happy than make a complaint to the police complaints commission. I hope you got the number/s of the policemen. But I have to say, I think you should be kept away from the entrance. There is a line between protest and harassment, and parking your protest at the entrance counts as the latter in my book. But I am very surprised they can have a 'no banners' rule, especially if you were away from the actual area that the circus has rented.

I heard it is spread by cats. Perhaps a cull is in order?

"One more facelift on this one and she?ll have a beard" - Ab Fab I'd also put forward the entire "History Today" sketches from Newman & Baddiel. Brilliantly funny.

Creating them is not a problem. Housing and feeding the sheer numbers needed is the problem.

My biggest gripe with C4's coverage has been the complete Brit-centric nature of it (Oscar P being the one exception). Take last night. Rather than risk switching to an event that didn't have a Brit (or Oscar) in it, Claire Balding sat around for the best part of 20 minutes talking rubbish and the channel switched to three ad breaks in 15 minutes! Meanwhile, the USA/Australia wheelchair basketball semi final was taking place. The three multi-channels are a bit better, but even they are sometimes off the air whilst perfectly good non-British events go uncovered. It's like the bad old days of nationalistic Olympic coverage. Mind you, we were spoilt rotten by the Beeb's Olympic coverage.

I've been told by people who do like it that it is all to do with the tactics and plays, rather than the spectacle itself. That would mean that it would be pretty hard to get into as a newcomer. I've watched a few games on Sky Sports and Channel 5 and I'm afraid it leaves me cold. And yet the Yanks think cricket is boring. Each to their own I suppose.

pk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > >> > > If she can't be bothered, why should I? > > > > because it might avoid offending people? Sorry, but if the person you yourself quoted as publicly pushing this linguistic policing exercise can't be bothered following it herself, then I really can't be bothered. I don't try to offend people, but if people (like you) want to got out of their way to take unneeded offence then, really, that's their (and your) problem, not mine. > > > PS I hope you are going to write to that famous charity "Riding for the Disabled" and tell them to > > change their terribly offensive name. > > why do you hope that? Well, you are the one that seems to be bothered about the use of the phrase 'the disabled'. I hate to think you were being hypocritical by looking the other way on that example.