Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Gosh. It’s years since I’ve flown anywhere but I’ll certainly bear that it mind if I ever have to in the future.

 

I think you showed admirable restraint by not challenging the jobsworth on her tone and attitude frankly, @hailbopp, though possibly in these authoritarian times that is enough to get security called to deal with you.

 

You are absolutely correct @ViewAhead. God knows what happened to “ the customer is always right”. I think back on when I ran my own business which was pretty successful and think I would have gone bankrupt if I treated my customers the way I was. Wow how things have changed and NOT for the better. A please and thank you appear almost to be seen as a weakness nowadays. I am just so lucky to live out in the countryside with no immediate neighbours to potentially cause me grief. The only grief I normally get is from some creature intent on destroying my garden.

 

I don't fly anywhere these days, I don't like hassle and airports seem to the most confusing places on the planet these days.
I've heard all kinds of things about Ryanair and seen the nasty little prat that runs it on the TV.

 

I don't fly anywhere either for many reasons - pollution, fuels subsidies but also the time wasted getting to and from airports and then more lost for security processing, baggage handling and so on, the price and poor quality of refreshments in airports and a generally poor attitude from airline and airport staff. I get that pay and conditions are no longer as glamorous as they were decades ago and I get the bad employers like Ryanair but that shouldn't stop staff being polite.

Thes days I don't want to fly round the world or across the pond and I like the journey to be part of the holiday with time for stop offs plus boot space for any shopping I do. Can't bring a case of wine or olive oil or cheeses or a paella pan home on a plane unless you own it.

 

I've only been on 1 plane and that was a by plane with all the mod con's like the small foot prints on the wing so you know where to stand and not put your foot through the wing we had a jump suit and the pliot said if you going to be sink pook into the front of your jump suit as i don't want it in my face when flying

 

Something I have only just spotted, look at all the varying weights.

 

Thanks for explaining TLA but it's getting a bit beyond a joke ( ABBAJ anyone ? ) when an acronym is used for an acronym.

 

Pete it's not just the weight how much have they gone up?
I like peanut M&Ms but the weight has gone from 260g to 200g but price has gone from £2.20 to £3.50 so they stay in supermarket

 

ABBAJ is a Julia package that provides a way to symbolize time series data using the Adaptive Brownian bridge-based aggregation (ABBA) method.
What does that mean not the foggiest fortunately.

 

I thought you didn't read posts like that.

To me it was just not worth bothering with.

 

I often wonder when they do the, so called, inflation figures if this kind of stuff is taken into account.
Who misses the odd 5 or 10 grammes over 6 months or so.

I can remember when they were called "Treats".