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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: BB on April 16, 2010, 08:27:21 am
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Due to all this volcano nonsense, the missus and I have had to sack off our trip to the Ariège. Instead we're going to spend a long weekend on the Eastern edges doing some easy trad. We'll be staying in Hathersage, so if anyone fancies a pint let me know. It would be good to meet some of the UKB peak chapter.
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Should be some badass sunsets though cos of the high dust in the atmos. that is if it ever stops being wall-to-wall overcast.
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It's rather fucked up our planned clubbing night in London tonight as Terrence Parker (and most likely Donato Dozzy) can't fly in :(
3 hour Surgeon set as a replacement but i'm pretty un-psyched now.
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Supposed to be flying Monday, so fingers crossed it clears a bit by then, but if not c'est la vie.
Should be some badass sunsets though cos of the high dust in the atmos. that is if it ever stops being wall-to-wall overcast.
:agree: Stayed annoyingly overcast last night at sunset, then by 23:00 it had all cleared and you could see the stars.
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Supposed to be flying Monday, so fingers crossed it clears a bit by then, but if not c'est la vie.
Should be some badass sunsets though cos of the high dust in the atmos. that is if it ever stops being wall-to-wall overcast.
:agree: Stayed annoyingly overcast last night at sunset, then by 23:00 it had all cleared and you could see the stars.
Nice sunset driving over the M62 into Manc about 8pm last night....
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It's like a hazy summer day in Aberdeen, but you know it's not a hazy summer day because we don't get summers.
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Same here, Chris, it's still baltic though and the sunset was a big letdown.
Sorry it's screwing up people's plans. :(
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Its a shame its messing up peoples plans, but the positive from it is that it will force people to use the train / ferry / other ways of transport and maybe take some of the onus away from air travel...
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That would be nice. Doubt it though.
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Should be some badass sunsets though cos of the high dust in the atmos. that is if it ever stops being wall-to-wall overcast.
Especially without contrails. Pretty much every decent landscape shot I've got has got a contrail it could do without. Although once the dust has settled persistent aerosols can have the effect of weakening sunsets.
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I was reading galen's shit about dulled sunsets in 92-93 last night in GRVAAP. But have also read elsewhere they still got good colours but instead of direct alpenglow the colour would turn up quite a while after sunset and be a very diffuse affair, probably like that ridiculous light i had at the woolpacks. if we're going to get any of that shit I say bring it on.
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Hmm, be nice but I doubt it. The aerosol effect was after a much bigger eruption though, and over a very long timescale. In the short term, I think we should be in for some WILD LIGHT.
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Definitely an odd quality to it here today. Very bright, bit also a bit diffused? Have camera will go for a wander at lunchtime.
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I was reading galen's shit about dulled sunsets in 92-93 last night in GRVAAP. But have also read elsewhere they still got good colours but instead of direct alpenglow the colour would turn up quite a while after sunset and be a very diffuse affair, probably like that ridiculous light i had at the woolpacks. if we're going to get any of that shit I say bring it on.
Eruptions in this area before have been precursors to eruptions of Hekla - which is a very different kettle of fish.
Hekla is a bad ass muthafucker of a volcano with a long and violent history. It may look like a cute little lump but its blasted out shit loads (7.6km^3 of material in one eruption) in the past. If it goes (and theres evidence theres a kick ass size magma chamber beneath it waiting to go) then we could well see some significant ash fall, darkened skies let alone sunsets here in the UK (if the wind is in the right direction etc..)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Islande_volcan_Hekla_nord-ouest.jpg/800px-Islande_volcan_Hekla_nord-ouest.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla)
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Personally I wouldn't mind a 3 hour surgeon set...
Is it gonna screw up the friction anywhere?
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I reckon the top of the volcano that errupted wll be a bit slippery for a few days.
If anything the friction will improve as it will be a bit cooler for a few days. I don't think there is going to be any actual noticeable fallout though.
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Personally I wouldn't mind a 3 hour surgeon set...
Is it gonna screw up the friction anywhere?
Naa, if we get enough of it the landings will be just like snowballing ;D
(http://www.cgrove417.org/fry/science/Volcanoes/VolcanoGraphics/VolcanicAsh.jpg)
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The sky has a kind of lilac tinge here, I don't know if it is ash related or I am just confused by it being a shade of blue rather than grey. ;)
Look at this!
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/asdf25/flights2.jpg)
The website (http://www.flightradar24.com/) keeps crapping out because it's so busy, but it's worth a look if you can get on.
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Some jammy bastards called PercyB and LucyA are getting an extra day or 2's bouldering in Portugal as a result
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Some jammy bastards called PercyB and LucyA are getting an extra day or 2's bouldering in Portugal as a result
And some twat called Dolly is also benefiting ;)
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Just got an email from our neighbours, meant to be flying in from Florida tomorrow, earliest they can now get back as far as heathrow is next friday.
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Shame insurance never covers natural disaster, still at least they get an extra weeks holiday.
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My dad and brother are 'trapped' at the house in Spain, I reckon they are fairly upset about it if the gloating picture messages featuring tapas and copious amounts of drink being consumed in the sunshine are anything to go by. ::)
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Eruptions in this area before have been precursors to eruptions of Hekla - which is a very different kettle of fish.
Wrong association. Eyjafjoll's activity in the past has sometimes been related to eruptions of it's near-neighbour Katla rather than Hekla. The danger from Katla is more from 'jokalhaup' - glacier melt induced flooding - than from the direct impact of volcanic products.
The last eruption of Eyjafjoll 200 years ago actually did not trigger any eruptions from its neighbour and so far there is no evidence it will trigger anything this time either.
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Scotland's verdict on the Volcano
Sky News / I Hate Iceland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc#ws)
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Some jammy bastards called PercyB and LucyA are getting an extra day or 2's bouldering in Portugal as a result
Earliest flight we can get is next Friday ;D
Downside is it's pissing it down right now, and the insurance won't pay out. The villa owners are lovely though, letting us stay the extra week. Looks like weather getting better from tomorrow.
See you next weekend!
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Live webcam of volcano (http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/) (not very exciting really though).
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Fresh eruptions yesterday...
(http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/2010107-0417/Iceland.A2010107.1320.1km.jpg)
Supposed to be flying Liverpool-Geneva tomorrow, not looking likely!
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Andi turnip is stuck in spain,he did always say he fancied living there.think he's starting get a bit pissed off now tho.having book then re book flights.lucky tho as he stayin at his parents house.he better off than me I'm drivin around cheshire fucking oaks car park with missus.wants a birthday prez! Not lookin good for a few days at least for him gettin back .
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And she like a bear with a sore head today
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Mates were meant to fly back from Bishop today, looks like the earliest flight they can get now is 4th May.
Guess we won't be seeing you this week FD?
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My Dad is stuck in Spain - apparently Ferries / coaches / Euro-tunnel etc are 4-5 times plus the normal prices.
Think FD went via Ferry to Font.
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(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs518.snc3/27205_537064294787_309601139_2038104_514334_n.jpg)
Facebook so hopefully it'll work..
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I don't see how banning sea anemones will help get anyone home.
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No longer going to Madeira now (supposed to fly at lunch time).
Heading to Devon/Cornwall instead and popping over to Lundy for the day tomorrow :thumbsup:
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It's happy happy joy joy here at UTtowers. Living on a flightpath has never been so quiet. There was some ash on the holds at our 'hush hush' crag yesterday. Long live the staycation.
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Think FD went via Ferry to Font.
Falling Down (FD) not fatdoc (fd) - it's like differentiating grading systems :)
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My Dad is stuck in Spain
Mine too. :'( The first flight they can get appears to be 1st of May!
apparently Ferries / coaches / Euro-tunnel etc are 4-5 times plus the normal prices.
This is really pissing me off, it's just profiting from people's misfortune and need to get home. >:(
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I think we'll just have to tough it out over here for a little longer. ;D
Spent yesterday on the beach as I'd had 3 days on but will probably head out to some nice cool granite later via coffee bar and buns.
Having said that the bloody sun's just come out again so its on with the shorts and sunblock 8)
I am working as well on the laptop....
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Its suprising to find out how much we all fly really. This week was to be the first time I've ever flown for a short business trip, I didn't feel it was justified and am pretty glad its been cancelled. The empty skies over the weekend were great. Personally I'd love this to go on for a few months and give us all a lesson in just how unnecessary a lot of air travel is.
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easy to say that when your not stuck at some airport on the other side of the world
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Was up at Stanage end on Saturday, amazing skies with no vapour trails at all
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Its suprising to find out how much we all fly really. This week was to be the first time I've ever flown for a short business trip, I didn't feel it was justified and am pretty glad its been cancelled. The empty skies over the weekend were great. Personally I'd love this to go on for a few months and give us all a lesson in just how unnecessary a lot of air travel is.
Utg and JB in agreement shocker! :o
Jim - people shouldn't be flying somewhere they don't want to be - if they're stuck somewhere they want to be for a little longer than expected what's the hardship?
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Skies over the Roaches on Saturday were nice and clear, which was good as a couple of friends were getting married at the Three Hosreshoes.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4530378331_79c7324716.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/4530378331/)
Unfortunately the grooms brother couldn't make it over from Barcelona, and a few others couldn't make it either, one being stuck in Lisbon, the other on Kalymnos. The guy on Kalymnos turned round, got back on the ferry and went back for some more climbing (and is likely still there enjoying himself).
You don't have to sit in the airport waiting for the next flight (particularly when there is no indication of when that might be), just go with the flow and enjoy the windfall of a few more days in a foreign (and hopefully nice!) place.
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Quite. If it goes on for weeks there will be other ways of getting home for those who HAVE to. I tried to book trains for Grenoble this week, but it would have been 3X the cost of flying. How have we created a situation where I can afford the plane but not the train? It needs sorting and an event like this maybe just the short sharp shock required.
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if they're stuck somewhere they want to be for a little longer than expected what's the hardship?
I bet being stuck somewhere for an extra week, costing you an extra week's accomodation (booked short notice no doubt at a premium), and extra week's leave from work, and missing god knows what at home must be a barrel of laughs, especially if you're on a tight budget. I'm guessing no-ones travel insurance will cough up.
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Think FD went via Ferry to Font.
Falling Down (FD) not fatdoc (fd) - it's like differentiating grading systems :)
:)
Just trying to figure out my week ahead now, I may be catching the train to Aberdeen this afternoon...
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Shit happens, get home a week later, incurring some extra expenses or die flying back. :-\
I do think that given yesterdays test flights in various countries there has been excessive caution exercised in this instance, but I'd rather have seen that than tens of thousands of planes dropping out of the sky.
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I do think that given yesterdays test flights in various countries there has been excessive caution exercised in this instance, but I'd rather have seen that than tens of thousands of planes dropping out of the sky.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/today/tomfeilden/2010/04/is_it_safe.html (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/today/tomfeilden/2010/04/is_it_safe.html)
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Yep, thats a good thing, like I say I'd rather incur cost/wasted money than die going somewhere.
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if they're stuck somewhere they want to be for a little longer than expected what's the hardship?
I bet being stuck somewhere for an extra week, costing you an extra week's accomodation (booked short notice no doubt at a premium), and extra week's leave from work, and missing god knows what at home must be a barrel of laughs, especially if you're on a tight budget. I'm guessing no-ones travel insurance will cough up.
utg and Dave in non-agreement shocker. Read that word in bold Dave, your scenario suggests the fictitious party doesn't want to be there. JB's right - it's a sad state of affairs when flying is the cheapest travel option available.
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Snow fell in Aberdeen this morning, wonder if it's related?
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Dave and JB are both right.
Public transport is shit and overpriced. no wonder everyman and his dog has a car, its cheaper to run than getting the bus/train etc...
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if they're stuck somewhere they want to be for a little longer than expected what's the hardship?
I bet being stuck somewhere for an extra week, costing you an extra week's accomodation (booked short notice no doubt at a premium), and extra week's leave from work, and missing god knows what at home must be a barrel of laughs, especially if you're on a tight budget. I'm guessing no-ones travel insurance will cough up.
utg and Dave in non-agreement shocker. Read that word in bold Dave, your scenario suggests the fictitious party doesn't want to be there. JB's right - it's a sad state of affairs when flying is the cheapest travel option available.
Do you recon loads of people will want the cost of their holiday ballooning wildly, want their kids to miss a week of school etc? For those with nothing to rush back to and plenty of cash I'm sure its not a hardship.
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Oh n00o0o my holiday's been extended! And I've got the perfect excuse! What will I do00o0!? Get a grip Dave.
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Grip this girlfriend.
(http://kiwipolemicist.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/giving-the-finger-gorilla.jpg)
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If you fly with an EU airline, then the airline has a legal responsibility to provide you with food and accommodation until a replacement flight has been organised.
Those people desperately stranded on climbing holidays will be able to claim expenses back for their food and hotel etc, directly from their airline. Their insurance shouldn't come into it.
Good luck with Ryanair mind, just go straight to suing the fuckers
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I thought they had some getout on natural disasters though? Obviously ryanair are so tight they're probably docking their staffs wages while they can't fly.
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Its suprising to find out how much we all fly really. This week was to be the first time I've ever flown for a short business trip, I didn't feel it was justified and am pretty glad its been cancelled. The empty skies over the weekend were great. Personally I'd love this to go on for a few months and give us all a lesson in just how unnecessary a lot of air travel is.
Utg and JB in agreement shocker! :o
Jim - people shouldn't be flying somewhere they don't want to be - if they're stuck somewhere they want to be for a little longer than expected what's the hardship?
And if they're stuck somewhere they don't want to be ? ...... Because they flew there for work and are now stuck in a place where the beer is £7.50 a pint and gives you the sharts ...... What then ? .....
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I'm sure if you're there for work you'll get recompensed. If there's a real need to get back, fly to southern France then hop on a train, bus or hire a car. Then consider a job that doesn't involve flying.
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Some guy on the radio said he dropped 2.5g's on a taxi from Barcelona to Calais to get back to Glasgow, surely that's only a decision that can make sense in a chemically altered state?!
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Well I've not set off for Devon/Cornwall yet as I'm sat at my parents travel agents in Sunningdale whilst they try and help people find alternatives.
If you fly with an EU airline, then the airline has a legal responsibility to provide you with food and accommodation until a replacement flight has been organised.
Those people desperately stranded on climbing holidays will be able to claim expenses back for their food and hotel etc, directly from their airline. Their insurance shouldn't come into it.
This legal repsonsibility only kicks in once you've checked in, if you haven't checked in, you're on your own, so only people affected in the first few hours will have this to fall back on.
If you've not left the country on a holiday you'll likely be able to get most of your flight costs back as the airlines have been unable to provide a flight that you had booked on.
If you have "travel insurance" companies have a clause which means that natural disasters (or as they call them "Acts of God" :wank:) aren't covered by the policies. So you'll likely loose out on your car-hire, accommodation and so forth. Which really sucks as to my mind such unforseen circumstances are one of the reasons why you take out an insurance policy policies in the first place (the other being injuries and such like).
To rub it all in the UK body of insurance companies had a meeting a few days ago, just to reassure themselves that they're not going to be paying out, err, well I'd have been amazed if they'd have changed their minds, what was the point in meeting.
People might not want to have to stay wherever it is that they've been holidaying (or at work) and incur extra expense, but realistically what is the alternative? Trains are pretty much all booked, although the SNCF have announced 80000 extra (and more importantly cheap/reasonably priced) seats between Paris and London (read earlier on the BBC). There simply aren't alternative flights. There is no one responsible for a volcano erupting, that might be hard for people to grasp in the blame culture/sofiety that seems to prevade these days, but I'm sure the same people would be suing the arse off the airlines and government agencies if they had permitted flights when it was known that the ash cloud has the potential to fuck things
What really sucks is the hike in prices that public transport and hoteliers seem to think is ok (some of my parents clients can afford this, but others in their hotel in Egypt can't and, get this, they've been evicted by the police :o :shrug: :wank:).
Some guy on the radio said he dropped 2.5g's on a taxi from Barcelona to Calais to get back to Glasgow, surely that's only a decision that can make sense in a chemically altered state?!
Hope the poor taxi drivers doesn't get searched at border patrol on the way back.
Now, time to see if I can watch the snooker online.
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Not to worry, the navy are going to help get people back (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8628878.stm#id8620000/8629200/8629270)
In the meantime you can console yourself with an ode...
from the poet laureate (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8629938.stm#id8620000/8629900/8629938)
And in no uncertain terms should airline companies get get bailed out by tax payers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8629674.stm). They can go bleating to their insurers who will tell them the same thing as tourists get told.
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Well it all can't be that bad regards getting over the channel.
Work know I have a ticket going spare on the Eurostar tonight, posted on here as well, nobody interested at all.
it's not like I was asking for mega bucks either, just didn't want to see it going to waste.
I also booked my Eurotunnel on Friday evening for Saturday afternoon. the price was actually cheaper than I expected for travelling on a Saturday booking the day before.
I could have booked the Ferry, they were having no problems as long as it was for a car and not foot passenger.
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I could have booked the Ferry, they were having no problems as long as it was for a car and not foot passenger.
I guess that's because people don't generally take their car with them when they fly to places?
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Never tell people at your place of work that you own a car. Now a professor in my university department wants me to pick him and some other stranded colleagues up from Portsmouth and drive them back to Liverpool :furious:! Although I reckon the compensation will be generous so it might not be all bad. Apparently there are no hire cars available in the country!
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There is at least one good thing to come out of the disruption (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8629160.stm#id8620000/8629600/8629617-audio) :P
Apparently twitter and facebook have popular car-pooling trends/groups going.
@JohnM : WTF do these people not have any family to help them out. On a Profs salary they could no doubt easily afford a few nights in Portsmouth.
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I'm sure if you're there for work you'll get recompensed. If there's a real need to get back, fly to southern France then hop on a train, bus or hire a car. Then consider a job that doesn't involve flying.
You make it sound so simple ...... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: my arse off .......
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Its really not such a big deal though is it? People just can't cope without a concrete itinerary. Big deal, wait it out, do something different. Europe is not such a big place; nor a week a long time. We didn't fuckin have planes not so long ago!
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I can't believe the first thing Aled asked Moyles in that recorded conversation was "what are you going to do about clean clothes and socks" and he said "I think I might have to get them laundered in my hotel"! What a nightmare! FFS what is wrong with some people?
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Its really not such a big deal though is it? People just can't cope without a concrete itinerary. Big deal, wait it out, do something different. Europe is not such a big place; nor a week a long time.
Easy to say when the situation is not really affecting you in any big way.
For example, a colleague's brother just flew to NZ to attend a wedding, and the bride and groom are both stuck in the UK. Big deal? To them it probably is.
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It sucks, but they'll get married somewhen else, and will have a good day (see above, wedding I was at Saturday had several people missing who bride and groom would have liked to have been there, including the grooms youngest brother who was to e an usher).
Yet to hear a viable alternative to just putting up with it. And as there isn't one, there's no point moaning/bitching about it.
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A pain in the arse? Yes. A BIG DEAL? No.
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Having a few people missing from a wedding is one thing, having bride and groom missing is another.
They are accepting it, but saying it's not a big deal from the comfort of your own home / office / Iphone at your local crag is easy to say.
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So what do you define as a BIG DEAL? A dying relative for example?
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Hopefully this week (or more) without flights will make us (as a nation) re-evaluate how much we use air travel - and whether we need to use it so much. I'm as guilty as many about how often I fly for cheap trips away - but I do think its something we've got used to and this is a useful reminder that we dont 'need' to fly about as much as we do at present (well did a week ago!). Time for re-evaluation.
A healthy thing for the country and Northern Europe, especially given the impact of aviation on anthropogenic global warming. Viva la staycation.. The other healthy thing for Europe of course will be if Ryan Air goes bust as a consequence!
Its bad for all the people left in the lurch - and this will (is) reveal what shits the Insurance industry are about this. No-one will be covered - the 'act of god' is there for good reason - so that an earthquake, volcano, tusnami whatever will not bankrupt the insurance company! Airlines also have no responsibility if a flight is cancelled due to weather or act of god.
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In amongst some cool volcano pictures http://ow.ly/1AbQf (http://ow.ly/1AbQf)
Check out that craglet/boulder!
(http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/files/2010/04/volcano5.jpg)
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Likely be basalt and utter choss, but you never know...
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Likely be basalt and utter choss, but you never know...
:agree: looks cool though!
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If you fly with an EU airline, then the airline has a legal responsibility to provide you with food and accommodation until a replacement flight has been organised.
Those people desperately stranded on climbing holidays will be able to claim expenses back for their food and hotel etc, directly from their airline. Their insurance shouldn't come into it.
Good luck with Ryanair mind, just go straight to suing the fuckers
Some one told me that if you have a return booked then they must give you some compo for hotels etc BUT if you have 2 single fares booked (which is seemingly what you get with budget flights) then you are on your own
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If you fly with an EU airline, then the airline has a legal responsibility to provide you with food and accommodation until a replacement flight has been organised.
Those people desperately stranded on climbing holidays will be able to claim expenses back for their food and hotel etc, directly from their airline. Their insurance shouldn't come into it.
Good luck with Ryanair mind, just go straight to suing the fuckers
Some one told me that if you have a return booked then they must give you some compo for hotels etc BUT if you have 2 single fares booked (which is seemingly what you get with budget flights) then you are on your own
I think someones already posted this, but if you've checked in - then its the airlines responsibility. But if not then they only have to give you either another flight (as soon as they can) or a full refund. Hence these spawny geets on a school trip to China who find themselves in a 5 star hotel in Shanhai at BA's expense... (they'd got as far as the boarding gate).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/apr/19/volcano-strands-british-students-chinese (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/apr/19/volcano-strands-british-students-chinese)
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Scottish airspace at least should be opening in the morning.
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peeps i know stuck in china till the 27th and japan till the 1st. Jammy swines. Why o why didnt i go abroad.
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because you'd rather be here with me, your 1 friend :shag:
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Scottish airspace at least should be opening in the morning.
But might close again after a fresh spew. Sleet today. Lovely.
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Last night's news was hilarious, those warships nosing round the channel not sure what to do. Bring on the ash!
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I liked the clips on Radio 1 of various newsclips of people trying to pronounce the glacier.
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All through this I've been in contact with andi,at 1st he was booking flights then cancelling them.then it wud b may!!! Before he could get a flight.he has given up on planes.All this navy rescue is pre election propaganda.A few hundred ppl is fuck all.I'd fetch him from dover but all the ferries are booked up.said he can't find any info off of what to do.said its everyman for himself now.
I can't see any end to this soon.
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said its everyman for himself now.
What a great image. AndiT sycthing through the thronged holidaymakers of Calais, cutlass flashing, piling up a highway of bloated corpses behind him. Come on Andi!
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Haha brilliant.swinging his size 5 friend around in one hand and 2 size 1 nuts in the other :-)
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Just heard a plane go over to land at Manchetser. Not sure what it's doing though, apart from giving false hope to people in the terminals, as the airport is still shut till 7pm.
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said its everyman for himself now.
What a great image. AndiT sycthing through the thronged holidaymakers of Calais, cutlass flashing, piling up a highway of bloated corpses behind him. Come on Andi!
Women, children and long haired Staffordshire gritstone heroes first!
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I think he has probably pulled it all out now or its like gandalf's with all the stress.
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Half of my office ran to the window this morning and all pointed and wowed at a plane flying over... I do work in Stoke on Trent tho!
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I do work in Stoke on Trent tho!
Indeed. Pointing implies some sort of manual control over digits.
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Im sure if there where any to hand bones would have been thrown!
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj228/eddiesniper/2001-a-space-odyssey-1.jpg)
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4537844806_2604efc09a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/4537844806/)
Not a bad shot
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Bloody hell can see my 1st contrail for a week,looks like coming from the states
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Read today that even though EU regs say they've got to provide food and accom for delayed passengers, Ryanair have announced that they're gonna refund ticket prices and that's it. Apparently its ok to flaunt the law these days if you do it openly with a "fuck everybody" victorian workhouse attitude. Shouldn't really be surprised, as this is the same company that doesn't even supply its aircrew with water to drink during flights.
CUNTS!
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Read today that even though EU regs say they've got to provide food and accom for delayed passengers, Ryanair have announced that they're gonna refund ticket prices and that's it. Apparently its ok to flaunt the law these days if you do it openly with a "fuck everybody" victorian workhouse attitude. Shouldn't really be surprised, as this is the same company that doesn't even supply its aircrew with water to drink during flights.
CUNTS!
is it the same for "natural disasters" as insurance companies use that as a get out (although they didn't with my car in the floods)
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When I saw that PaulB had posted on this thread I felt sure that it would have been due to him being on
A: the only plane to fall out of the sky due to ash
B: the list of 3 people being sued for making the ash cloud
C: some grim industrial island populated by sex starved 20 stone leather clad joy-boys which doesn't have another flight out for 12 months
Thank god he's OK
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Loved every minute of it. Mostly as this ugly fucker stopped hedge-cutting directly over my pad at 2pm every goddamn day
(http://www.luftfahrt.net/galerie/photos/2003/10/1049722882_F-GSTB_Airbus-Super-Transporter-(Beluga.jpg)
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what the hell is that thing? It looks like a blimp mated with an (ugly) boeing.
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That's the Hunchback Dolphin Plane. Brought onto this earth to make pug dogs look not-quite-so-fucking-ugly mainly by being much bigger and more annoying than any lap-style dog can ever be.
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It's the Mekon's plane.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekon) for any youths who don't know what I'm talking about).
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Amazingly, Ryanair have backed down (http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair-agrees-to-compensate-ashcloud-passengers-1951007.html).
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I'm almost enough of a cynic these days to believe that they always intended to bide by the regs, but they know if they pretended for a few days that they wouldn't it'd be a lot of free publicity for them. Either way......FUCKING CUNTS.
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I wouldn't put anything past that fucker O'Leary.
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Amazing! Any kind of govt interference they don't like, they kick and scream until they're sick - natural disaster that infringes their ability to
screw the public make a profit, they expect a governement bail out -
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I1EW.htm (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I1EW.htm)
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Amazingly, Ryanair have backed down (http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair-agrees-to-compensate-ashcloud-passengers-1951007.html).
Yes, but since it's now impossible to check in online they can still skin everyone for £40 each when they have to check in at the airport, so I doubt they're too worried about paying the compensation as they'll no doubt get a large proportion of it back through scamming folk another way. :wank:
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We got back from Portugal last night having had to spend an extra week because of flight cancelations. It wasn't much of an amazing extra weeks holidays when you have the stress and expense of trying to work out the best way of getting home when there are no flights, and any that are put on could potentially be cancelled at a moments notice. If our flight yesterday had been cancelled, we would have had the joy of a 28 hour train journey to Paris (next Wednesday - earliest available) with our 2 year old sat on our laps in a standard seat - no sleeping cars on the train. Then a Eurostar to London, then a massively ocverpriced train to Sheffield and a taxi ride home to pay for, before driving back over to Liverpool to collect our car. Not my idea of fun really. We had to book all these tickets anyway as a backup plan, and have lost out big style as a result.... the refunds on tickets are normally only a percentage of what they cost (and in Portugal you can pay on a card, but you get your refund in cash - here's your 550€ Mr Bishton in 10€ notes!)
I, for one, have never been so glad to get on an Easyjet flight as I was last night. A extra weeks holiday full of stress and uncertainty, an extra grands worth of expense that you haven't budgeted for, and a load of extra hassle with work (particularly for the missus) isn't the massive jolly bonus that some people assume it might be....
WTF Gordon was doing sending the Ark Royal into the Channel, God alone knows. Maybe he just wanted to try deploying some big warships before he gets booted out?
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Maybe he just wanted to try deploying some big warships before he gets booted out?
:lol:
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apparently the budget airlines have to leave one card which they dont charge for using. Its called escape and you can get it from phones 4 u. No booking charges apparently. You pay a tenner then can top up what you want. Jims mate said.
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We got back from Portugal last night having had to spend an extra week because of flight cancelations.
Volcano shit aside, how was the trip?
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Very nice thanks. Not a huge amount of boulders, but perfect for a weeks trip..... ::) Takes a day or two for the skin to adapt to the grain, but some great little areas.
(http://www.climbnewcastle.com/news/uploads/news302.jpg)
Pic nicked off the Earls website - I've just realised why he was so keen to spot, the cheeky twat!
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HA HA! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8684683.stm) Only peanuts to them really, but its the thought that counts, cunts.
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Wrong association. Eyjafjoll's activity in the past has sometimes been related to eruptions of it's near-neighbour Katla rather than Hekla. The danger from Katla is more from 'jokalhaup' - glacier melt induced flooding - than from the direct impact of volcanic products.
The last eruption of Eyjafjoll 200 years ago actually did not trigger any eruptions from its neighbour and so far there is no evidence it will trigger anything this time either.
OK, maybe the first signs of life from next door - the first notes of the "Jaws" music may be appropriate about now.
http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html (http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html)