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  • Most of the time the plane is on autopilot so there's very little to do. I once heard that flying a modern jet plane is "Hours of boredom interposed by moments of terror"

    If you're flying across the Atlantic, there's no chance of running into anything so apart from sudden failure of something or a bomb, close attention to the instruments or controls is not needed. I'm not excusing the behaviour but can understand to boredom.

  • The days of The High and the Mighty, Pan Am, Imperial Airways, DC3's, Ernest Kellogg Gann, Chuck Yeager and The Right Stuff are long gone. What we have now are highly trained professional aviators flying by computer yet ready to take control if the computer or the plane stops working properly. The pay isn't as good as it used to be but the dedication is still there. So during what is at least 90% tedium, by all means let them play Snapchat or Gin Rummy - during which time I bet their eyes automatically scan the instruments with the requisite frequency.

  • I guess, at least for the time being, there are still pilots in planes, even if they are using snapchat or whatever. It won't too long in the future before pilots become a thing of the past like some of those companies you mentioned. Playing Gin Rummy is not so bad, as long as it does not involved another kind of gin.;)

  • FOR some of us, nothing can be more annoying than the self-service machines at the supermarket.

    Whether it's an "unexpected item in the bagging area" or being told to "please wait, while we verify your bags," we've all heard the familiar sounds.

    And if that wasn't enough, now someone has decided to turn the noises produced by the checkouts at Tesco into a dance track.

    It may sound like your worst nightmare come true, but Twitter user Ben Suff Donk has actually made it the till beeps almost catchy.

    Click the link (the orange writing above) if you dare to hear the dance track. Some people have too much time on their hands!

  • Click the link (the orange writing above) if you dare to hear the dance track. Some people have too much time on their hands!

    Not as good as this one:

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  • A woman says she is facing a $500 (£357) fine from the US customs agency after a free apple she was given as a snack on a plane was found in her bag.

    Crystal Tadlock, travelling to the US from Paris, said she was saving the fruit for her onward flight to Denver.

    But the apple was revealed in a random search by US border agents after her first flight landed in Minneapolis.

    US Customs and Border Patrol would not comment on the case, but said all agricultural items should be declared.

    The apple was handed out in a plastic Delta Air Lines bag. Ms Tadlock said she did not remove it from the bag, instead putting it in her baggage for the second part of her journey to Denver, Colorado.

    This is bloody ridiculous!

    The lady was given a free apple by the very same airline she was travelling on. It should be the airline who should pay the damn fine. Better still, they, the airline, should be aware of American law, especially as its a American airline.

  • Australian police say they will review how a 12-year-old boy travelled alone to Bali after he had a row with his parents and used their credit card.

    The boy, from Sydney, booked flights and accommodation online after his parents decided to cancel a holiday to the Indonesian island, the family told the local Nine Network.

    He flew to Bali via Perth, presenting only his passport and school ID.

    Bloody brat, I hope he had a good holiday...:rolleyes:

    He needs a good making, locked in his room for a month and just given bread and water. In reality, he'll probably be rewarded for his "ingenuity" by being taken on another holiday.:S

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    What's wrong? A job's a job. ^^

  • Club 18-30 holidays in decline

    Club 18-30 - a brand known for cheap holidays full of sun, sex and ridiculous amounts of alcohol - could soon be coming to an end.

    Specialising in trips to Malia, Ayia Napa or Magaluf, the brand operated with the fitting slogan of: 'It's go big or go home and only the legendary will do’.

    At its peak the company was sending around 100,000 people abroad every year and even generated a cult TV series.

    Yet millennials today favour holidays that show them in a better light on social media - with passed out drunk photos no longer the look they are going for.

    Bizarre, this story.

    I thought the decline of Club 18-30 might be due to higher morals or standards among younger people today, but the decline is for a very different reason. Young people want posher holidays to show off about on social media. Looks like Facebook trumps everything, including sex and booze fuelled holidays, who would have thought it?:S

  • A school has been criticised after a live caged tiger was unveiled to Florida students at their prom.

    Christopher Columbus High School in Miami hosted its jungle-themed prom at a Hilton hotel on Friday.

    Concerns for the tiger's welfare have been growing on social media, with thousands of people taking to Twitter, Facebook and Reddit

    Wrong, wrong, wrong.:cursing::thumbdown:

    The place for these tigers is out in the wild. This is just ridiculous., what was the school thinking allowing this?

  • I guess they're as much "tools of the trade" as a carpenter's chisels. ^^

  • Headline: Guff Justice.

    A Tesco shop assistant is demanding £20,000 compensation from the supermarket after a colleague broke wind in his face.

    Atif Masood, 42, claims the flatulent worker did it deliberately to humiliate him because he was a Muslim.

    He insists in-store CCTV captured the moment of the offending fart and it amounted to "bullying".

    But the colleague when interviewed denied parping - and Tesco dismissed an internal complaint.

    Are Muslims especially insulted by face farting? or is he playing the religeon card.

    I suppose the internal complaint would be too many sprouts.:D

  • People are only too willing to play the race card. I had an altercation over tax law with an Asian guy on a forum and he accused me of 'racism' because I had the nerve to disagree with him, so I asked if he was disagreeing with me because I am female. He didn't appreciate the irony. :)

    Mark Twain — 'Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.'

  • Are Muslims especially insulted by face farting? or is he playing the religeon card.

    I suppose the internal complaint would be too many sprouts.:D

    Keeping it on the retail theme for a second, I had my first home delivery from Iceland today. Even though I haven't slept since Wednesday night, I chirpily greeted the delivery driver with a nice welcome, "good morning, what a lovely day it is today," (it was sunny and pretty warm) and the reply I got from him was "is it?." I thought miserable sod. But he delivered cake, so nothing was going to put me in a bad mood.^^

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