Comments for Brissie to Brizzle

Comment on It’s been a while: know your travel rights edition by quantummoxie

quantummoxie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:55:23 +0000

Dude I wish they had something like that in the US - and I’m a libertarian. Instead corporations are given free reign to screw us in as many ways as possible while our individual liberties are simultaneously stripped away.

Comment on I condemn Larvatus Prodeo and their so called “influence” by mick

mick — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:47:13 +0000

Yea, Tigtog that’s definitely true!

Comment on I condemn Larvatus Prodeo and their so called “influence” by tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:48:47 +0000

I certainly get giddy at times at LP, but the variety of topics is definitely a large part of its attraction!

Graham’s right, that is an excellent bridge pic. Well done, Isombard.

Comment on It’s been a while: know your travel rights edition by Joe Fitzsimons

Joe Fitzsimons — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:42:29 +0000

Well, I was lucky that my plane was able to take off at all. I made it back to Dublin early on Christmas eve. Had it been canceled, I suspect I’d have been stranded over Christmas.

Comment on I condemn Larvatus Prodeo and their so called “influence” by mick

mick — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:19:08 +0000

Graham - it doesn’t make you giddy? To me a day of blogging at LP is like 10 days blogging in normal bloggy days!

Thanks for the compliment RE the bridge pic! It really is an amazing bridge and an excellent testament to Brunel!

Comment on I condemn Larvatus Prodeo and their so called “influence” by Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:58:15 +0000

Don’t give a rat’s whatsit if Larvatus Prodeo is politically influential or not …. show me another Aussie blog that can jump from Papal Shoes to Silesian History to Nightclubbing Amputees to ‘Seventies Musicians to the Democratic Primaries to Recipies to Ringing The Rapture Bell to whatever without getting giddy.

Like the photo. That’s the first time I have ever seen a long shot of that bridge. Wow!! Now that is engineering!!

Comment on It’s been a while: know your travel rights edition by mick

mick — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:03:09 +0000

Yea, it sucks when the delays are weather related. Basically you’ve got next to no rights in that situation from what I can tell.

What’s more, I think that a number of the airlines use bad weather as an opportunity to optimize their profits by cancelling flights and packing out others…

I was soooo lucky after QEC, if my plane was a little bit later I would have had all sorts of dramas.

Comment on It’s been a while: know your travel rights edition by Joe Fitzsimons

Joe Fitzsimons — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:51:54 +0000

I was vaguely aware of this, but it doesn’t always help. On my way back from QEC I got stuck in Heathrow airport due to fog. This was the 23rd of December and so the place was packed. The airlines were canceling flights left, right and center, but I was lucky to only be delayed by about 10 hours. Unfortunately the airline didn’t tell us anything, and simply pulled away all their staff, so that once you had gone through security there was noone about from whom you could get information, let alone the statement of your statutory rights (which you are entitled to, as numerous signs about the airport tell you). It seems that if the airline really wants to dodge this, they can, since your unlikely going to put in the effort to force them into action.

Comment on Escaping the cold by Joe

Joe — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:52:45 +0000

You are of course welcome here in Oxford too.

Comment on Escaping the cold by mick

mick — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:31:52 +0000

Not yet…