When is a Mac exciting?

burbleflop said:
We've already met at Swansea. I'm hurt that you didn't remember!

;)

Biker meet should be a laugh, I'll head out at some point and find a nice route for us to ride.
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I thought we had, I remember not speaking to you much though! :o
 
burbleflop said:
Most of my friends can't understand how I'm so blazé about travel especially when we're trying to arrange a night out and I rattle off a list of places I'll be going to in the upcoming weeks.
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Ditto, and I agree with Freefaller, too. Travel doesn't excite me - it's a chore I have to put up with and go through to get to places I need or want to be. Oh, I like take off and landing. That's about 10 minutes of the trip. The rest, the hours in an alloy tube with the drone of engines, etc, I can do without. Flying is a necessity, not a pleasure.

If someone doesn't do it much, I can understand the novelty appeals, but one airline lounge is much the same as another, and no hotel room, no matter how good or luxurious, compares with being at home. And as for the actual flight, all that time wasted ..... shudder.

If someone invents a safe and reliable (and reasonably affordable) teleport device, you'll never get me on another airliner again.
 
I used to be quite taken by the airline lounges when I first started to have access, but the novelty part has all but gone. It's now just a more civil place to kill time than the depatures lounge, with food/drinks and other amenities (PCs, showers etc) for convenience. Still, 100x better than wandering around Duty Free for the umpteenth time with nothing to do, or trying to make peace with an uncompromisingly hard chair.

But I'm still quite enamoured with the flight itself, even after 10 years of regular longhaul travel (3+ roundtrips per year). I love passenger aeroplanes and the whole industry, while collecting air miles has become a mild addiction :o Ever since flying First Class and Business Class of world's top airlines courtesy of air miles, I was hooked :cool: ANA First Class was the first time I've tried Fugu (Blowfish) sashimi, Sevruga caviar with traditional garnishes, and Krug, at the tender young age of 18 :o
 
Sequoia said:
Ditto, and I agree with Freefaller, too. Travel doesn't excite me - it's a chore I have to put up with and go through to get to places I need or want to be. Oh, I like take off and landing. That's about 10 minutes of the trip. The rest, the hours in an alloy tube with the drone of engines, etc, I can do without. Flying is a necessity, not a pleasure.
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Yup pretty much feel the same here! Though my flight to Cuba was more relaxing since it wasn't for work, and I was with my other half and was actually going on holiday so the pain was somewhat numbed. However I didn't have pangs of excitement at the thought of flying. (I'd rather be jumping out of the plane if I'm honest :p I've actually taken off in a plane more times than I've landed - it's quite a funny way to look at things!)

Oh and duty free shops and lounges drive me to insanity - especially with all these people who are so happy and excited! I'm very much a mr.grumpy in airports I have to say. I also tend to leave it till the last minute to get there so I spend the minimum amount of time at the airport. It's SUCH a waste of time.

If someone doesn't do it much, I can understand the novelty appeals, but one airline lounge is much the same as another, and no hotel room, no matter how good or luxurious, compares with being at home. And as for the actual flight, all that time wasted ..... shudder.
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That's what gets me... all that time wasted. Last year I clocked up close to 8 days of actual "flying time" add on to that time spent in the airport and travelling to the airport - it's almost as though I'm paid to travel. It's not fun travel, it's "be sharp and awake and ready to work for 12+ hrs on arrival" travel. There is no place like home, however a nice 5* hotel does make the pain a little easier to swallow.



If someone invents a safe and reliable (and reasonably affordable) teleport device, you'll never get me on another airliner again.
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I'll buy shares in this for sure!! I think it would be a worthy invention. I'd choose this over flying every day...
 
Freefaller said:
Oh and duty free shops and lounges drive me to insanity - especially with all these people who are so happy and excited! I'm very much a mr.grumpy in airports I have to say. I also tend to leave it till the last minute to get there so I spend the minimum amount of time at the airport. It's SUCH a waste of time.
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Duty Free et al drives me nuts too. The only times I go into them is if I know I need to buy something (I'm an expert at forgetting my mobile phone charger so I end up buying one every 3 months or so) otherwise I stay well clear.

If I'm flying SleazyJet then I do get there early just so that I get some room for my carry on. For normal flights I check in online and turn up as late as I can

That's what gets me... all that time wasted. Last year I clocked up close to 8 days of actual "flying time" add on to that time spent in the airport and travelling to the airport - it's almost as though I'm paid to travel. It's not fun travel, it's "be sharp and awake and ready to work for 12+ hrs on arrival" travel. There is no place like home, however a nice 5* hotel does make the pain a little easier to swallow.
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I'm up to 41 hours so far spent on planes this year already and that figure is going to go nuts in the next 6 months or so.

Hotels don't excite me either, I'd much rather be at home, hence when I can do a trip in a single day (even if it means a 20 hour day) I will. I have sleeping problems and being in strange beds makes things worse.
 
I've flown Business Class before with my Dad when I've gone away with him on one of his business jaunts courtesy of airmiles. I'm much more used to QueasyJet though, I ******* hate that airline! I still can't see why they can't issue seat numbers instead of throwing everyone into the departure lounge and loading them like sodding cattle.
 
One More Solo said:
I've flown Business Class before with my Dad when I've gone away with him on one of his business jaunts courtesy of airmiles. I'm much more used to QueasyJet though, I ******* hate that airline! I still can't see why they can't issue seat numbers instead of throwing everyone into the departure lounge and loading them like sodding cattle.
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Maybe they intentionally overbook flights, expecting atleast one or two passengers to be unable to make the flight? Maybe some people wouldn't consider going on a flight if they knew they weren't going to get an aisle seat (or just extra leg room) before being thrown into the departure lounge?

In answer to the OP's question, macs are exciting all the time ;)
 
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