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Machiavella
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by Machiavella » Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:33 am
Hebe wrote:Wanna hear about my Easter?...
Poor Gal !
From the department of unsolicited advice: Should you, after this horror trip, ever leave home again, DO NOT fly Thai International ! They have become a shocking airline - except for their excellent wines - and seeing the condition of their planes, one needs every drop one can get to calm one's nerves ..
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Hebe
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by Hebe » Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:53 am
AiA in Atlanta wrote:Hebe wrote:
My dad just rang to say that the 8-DVD set of Ken Burns' baseball series that I had sent from the US for his 88th birthday can't be played in Australia.
http://www.fmylife.com/
Not a baseball fan myself, but that Ken Burn's series is worth watching. Can't he play it on a PC?
I just rang SBS and here are the instructions
Google the brand and model number of your DVD player and select "region-free". Then it tells you what buttons to press and you can play it.
I didn't like baseball either but that series was superb. He can't watch it on a PC - he has macular degeneration and needs a huge TV.
Machi - all airlines seem to have gone to crap, except possibly Emirates. I hear awful reports of BA and Qantas has become an embarrassment. Virgin is pretty good domestically, and my opinion of Jetstar is unprintable. I think our flight yesterday probably left half-full - there were lots of people left behind.
The better I get to know people, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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skippy.
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by skippy. » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:10 am
I hope this week is better for you Hebe, you've used up a years worth of bad luck over the weekend.
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Hebe
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by Hebe » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:17 am
Thanks Skip. It wasn't pretty. And I didn't even get an Easter egg.
The better I get to know people, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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AiA in Atlanta
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by AiA in Atlanta » Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:09 pm
Hebe wrote:
Google the brand and model number of your DVD player and select "region-free". Then it tells you what buttons to press and you can play it.
Let me know if that works. Always thought one had to buy a "region-free" DVD player ... anything by Ken Burns is excellent: Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Civil War ... and the one about that black boxer from a century ago, can't think of his name ...
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Howard Stinks
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by Howard Stinks » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:18 pm
AiA in Atlanta wrote:I laid a chocolate egg just for you Stink. By the looks of things too much cheese.
No thanks you can have it for dinner and a blue vain cigar after dinner.
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Howard Stinks
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by Howard Stinks » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:31 pm
skippy. wrote:Herpes Easter to you too stinky.
Herpes Easter to you too Skippy, stop kissing frogs.
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Howard Stinks
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by Howard Stinks » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:40 pm
How are you Hebe? Everything alright now? I hope things look better for you from now on.
Friday was a bad day for me, my car is a right off, so far public transport has been good, done a lot of walking as well.
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Machiavella
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by Machiavella » Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:27 pm
Howard Stinks wrote:How are you Hebe? Everything alright now? I hope things look better for you from now on.
Friday was a bad day for me, my car is a right off, so far public transport has been good, done a lot of walking as well.
What happened?
(At least you dont seem to have become an Easter Roadtoll statistic !!!)
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Machiavella
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by Machiavella » Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:00 pm
Hebe wrote: Machi - all airlines seem to have gone to crap, except possibly Emirates. I hear awful reports of BA and Qantas has become an embarrassment. Virgin is pretty good domestically, and my opinion of Jetstar is unprintable. I think our flight yesterday probably left half-full - there were lots of people left behind.
Call me prejudiced, but somehow the name "Emirates" conjures (up?) some rather unpleasant pics in my tiny mind..e.g. full-on chador, child-brides, women not allowed to travel without a male member of their family, not allowed to drive etc. And, being in love with Australia, I'm really sad to see what looks like the decline of Qantas. '
One more thing to say though in favour of Thai International: there is lots of space on their flights, so your chances of getting 2 or 3 seats to stretch out during the night are rather big.
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