Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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I have a fair few Yorkshire friends and the saying " I say what I like, and I like what I bloody well say" is most apt.

I digress.

A short work affair in Krackow(what a truly beautiful city centre, with a remarkable square in the middle. Loved  it), was only spoiled by Tikays mentor Michael O fecking Leary's mob.

I can only presume Tikay is tongue in cheek in his praise for this horrible man, either that or he has never flown Ryanair?!

I am a Silver BA card holder, and worked hard to get there, so try and stick with BA for all the perks, but the flight to Krackow meant Warsaw then an internal on god knows what, so thought, surely Ryanair had improved since my last debacle on a return flight from Kerry after a Laddies event in Kilarney. Robbed blind for bloody everything, and I vowed never to use them again.

Anyway, the day before, my flying companion noticed in the small print that we HAD to check in online or face a £70 fine. A fine start, as I never bother checking in. Nice try, O'Leary, but we checked in and paid your poxy 4 quid for priority check in.

So, arrive on Monday at crack of sparrows and find we have to check in at desks 81-83. Priority queue as long as normal queue....grrrrr. Get to front of queue. told we are in the wrong queue. I point to board which still says her desk. "Don't know why, but it IS round the other side, you best be quick sir"........you can imagine.....

Get through the massive lines in security, which was like a free for all, and sent to Gate 81. Stand in a queue for 20 mins and then told we are being moved to Gate 40. Mass half mile ruck to get to Gate 40 to stand in another 30 min queue there.

Plane arrives and we get shoved outside to stand IN THE FRIGGING RAIN, while the plane disembarks. What the fuck is that all about, and fifteen mins later, soaked , we are all invited to walk up the steps. What the Feck! Tight bugger wont even pay for air bridges. Everyone soaked and by time we get there, half the plane sneezing. Marv.

Oh, and while we are stood in the queue out in the rain, we have the delights of seeing our luggage being placed daintily into the back of the plane......Are we buggery. Each and every case thrown in as if the luggage boys are in training for Cabber Tossing. What a bunch of tossers they are, knowing full well no one will shout for fear of getting ejected.

Not a single seat empty.

We all know its like a bloody battery chicken coup in there, but with the trolly dollies flying up and down offering snacks every ten mins, you are squeezed in so tight you cant find your bloody wallet, so miss out on all those over expensive rip offs too.

Get to other end, and colleague loses luggage. We even saw it lobbed on the plane so how can it go missing? After remonstrating with the polish luggage guy he suggests we check other carousel. Of course his case is there. Luggage guy shrugs like "well where else did you think it would be?".

It seems our experience was nothing out of the ordinary, based on similar tales from regulars on the route.

I hate to think how many times I swore about what I will do when i next see O'Leary at the races.

What a tosser.

I do hope your love of this man is purely a wind up Mr K, or my love for you will die, just a little....

I got stuck at that bit.

So no, it's not a wind-up, the man is an utter genius. All the usual moaning & groaning, & yet "all seats sold".

This report was a month ago.......



Ryanair says selling more seats per flight this year


Ryanair said in July it expected profit after tax for the year to March 2015 of 620-650 million euros.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/uk-ryanair-bookings-idUKKBN0H51ZF20140910


That must make it a contender for the worlds most profitable airline.

The man should be made a Lord, or a Sir, or something.

How can you not love him?


 

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Phil Shaw hasnt coached for us in a long time, I think he just never left officially so we havent updated the page.

The entitlement, online trolling and narcissim are a trifecta of modern day behaviours that I am truly fascinated in. Probably the biggest area you can spot all three in all their glory is internet comments.

If you ever get stuck on that desert island, this would be a great one to work through. This guy bookmarks all his favourite stories of those three things:

https://delicious.com/ramitsethi/freeloaders

This is pretty interesting stuff:

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

And to your point, yes I have never understood why people take such offence at things (like rake races) that they were never going to partake in anyway. I chat to Mr Channing about this quite a lot and he has lots to say on the subject (Recent quote: "Do they really run past Selfridges shouting you're too expensive I'm not coming in, that stuff should be free.").

I will look at those links shortly.

Phil not with you any more  explains something which I did not want to mention yesterday, as I was asked to give a reference for him elsewhere a while back. I hope he is OK, anyway, am shaw he will be.

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Yes was deffo a derby factor in the crowd Ralph, the guy said either side of 40k seemed the usual number tho to me it was something of a talking point as I was amazed at the number but I guess for him it was just another soccer match his team were playing. He didn't know what the attendance number was until I mentioned it to him which we prob wouldn't take much notice of if we went to our local match I guess.

I'm not sure re Beardsley, didn't Pele finish his career off there? I have it in my head that was the place to go for some high profile players back in the day. As you can see by the terrible grimmer and spelling I am on some rank bad internet and an iPad so haven't checked for names. It was a big deal for the Whitecaps, it seems there is a Cup called the. Custodia Cup ( that might be wrong name but was summat like that). It is a type of round robin thing between Seattle, Vancouver and I think it was Portland where the team that gets the most points from those games wins the CUstodia cup so it just played out like it meant more to the Whitecaps than the Sounders. They celebrated a lot at the end too so was certainly something important to them.

It's such a fantastic stadium and was rocking yesterday for the Seahawks v Cowboys game and I was again impressed at how the fans just mingle and sit together without a hint of trouble. Cowboys are so well supported and in an arena that is famed for its home advantage the Cowboys fans levelled that out a little with their support.

Did you travel around in the US when you had your spell in San Fran Ralph, did you have a favourite place?

I loved Vancouver Phil and would probably not have left if I could help it.

Vancouver in 1967 had a sort of mini-Haight-Ashbury on 4th Avenue with more than it's fair share of free love, marijuana, and psychedelic music. I can vividly remember Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" blaring out from one of the jukeboxes and "tourists" cruising by in their cars at weekends to look at the "freaks".

Kitsilano beach is another name that lingers in the memory from that era.

Unfortunately I got run out of town without my passport after a couple of months in Vancouver and had to climb over a barbed-wire fence to cross the border into the USA en route to San Francisco. Those were the days..

Whoa now, hold up.

You HAVE to tell us that story, even if it has to be a tad watered down to protect the guilty.

BUMPED.

No interest?

Say what?

Anyway, it matters not where you write it, just hurry up, we will soon be out of popcorn.


 

Joking aside, I don't care where Ralph writes his stories either, as long as he writes them. Truth be told they deserve their own thread.

I do think the fine detail is important though, I have quite a few questions that I would like to ask, but I'm afraid of touching a nerve.

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Yes was deffo a derby factor in the crowd Ralph, the guy said either side of 40k seemed the usual number tho to me it was something of a talking point as I was amazed at the number but I guess for him it was just another soccer match his team were playing. He didn't know what the attendance number was until I mentioned it to him which we prob wouldn't take much notice of if we went to our local match I guess.

I'm not sure re Beardsley, didn't Pele finish his career off there? I have it in my head that was the place to go for some high profile players back in the day. As you can see by the terrible grimmer and spelling I am on some rank bad internet and an iPad so haven't checked for names. It was a big deal for the Whitecaps, it seems there is a Cup called the. Custodia Cup ( that might be wrong name but was summat like that). It is a type of round robin thing between Seattle, Vancouver and I think it was Portland where the team that gets the most points from those games wins the CUstodia cup so it just played out like it meant more to the Whitecaps than the Sounders. They celebrated a lot at the end too so was certainly something important to them.

It's such a fantastic stadium and was rocking yesterday for the Seahawks v Cowboys game and I was again impressed at how the fans just mingle and sit together without a hint of trouble. Cowboys are so well supported and in an arena that is famed for its home advantage the Cowboys fans levelled that out a little with their support.

Did you travel around in the US when you had your spell in San Fran Ralph, did you have a favourite place?

I loved Vancouver Phil and would probably not have left if I could help it.

Vancouver in 1967 had a sort of mini-Haight-Ashbury on 4th Avenue with more than it's fair share of free love, marijuana, and psychedelic music. I can vividly remember Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" blaring out from one of the jukeboxes and "tourists" cruising by in their cars at weekends to look at the "freaks".

Kitsilano beach is another name that lingers in the memory from that era.

Unfortunately I got run out of town without my passport after a couple of months in Vancouver and had to climb over a barbed-wire fence to cross the border into the USA en route to San Francisco. Those were the days..

Whoa now, hold up.

You HAVE to tell us that story, even if it has to be a tad watered down to protect the guilty.

BUMPED.

No interest?

Say what?

Anyway, it matters not where you write it, just hurry up, we will soon be out of popcorn.


 

Joking aside, I don't care where Ralph writes his stories either, as long as he writes them. Truth be told they deserve their own thread.

I do think the fine detail is important though, I have quite a few questions that I would like to ask, but I'm afraid of touching a nerve.

Too right. I actually thought the detail of climbing over a barbed wire border fence was something I HAD to ask!

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Barry Carter posted this link, it really is worth a look.


http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/


The most high-maintenance customers on a poker site are usually those who ONLY play Freerolls, & have never deposited on the site.


Why has the nightly Freeroll been reduced from £500 to £400? It's a disgrace.

They feel they have an entitlement to that Freeroll.

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Again, from Barry, this......

https://delicious.com/#ramitsethi/freeloaders

I had to stop reading halfway down, it was making me so angry.

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Yes was deffo a derby factor in the crowd Ralph, the guy said either side of 40k seemed the usual number tho to me it was something of a talking point as I was amazed at the number but I guess for him it was just another soccer match his team were playing. He didn't know what the attendance number was until I mentioned it to him which we prob wouldn't take much notice of if we went to our local match I guess.

I'm not sure re Beardsley, didn't Pele finish his career off there? I have it in my head that was the place to go for some high profile players back in the day. As you can see by the terrible grimmer and spelling I am on some rank bad internet and an iPad so haven't checked for names. It was a big deal for the Whitecaps, it seems there is a Cup called the. Custodia Cup ( that might be wrong name but was summat like that). It is a type of round robin thing between Seattle, Vancouver and I think it was Portland where the team that gets the most points from those games wins the CUstodia cup so it just played out like it meant more to the Whitecaps than the Sounders. They celebrated a lot at the end too so was certainly something important to them.

It's such a fantastic stadium and was rocking yesterday for the Seahawks v Cowboys game and I was again impressed at how the fans just mingle and sit together without a hint of trouble. Cowboys are so well supported and in an arena that is famed for its home advantage the Cowboys fans levelled that out a little with their support.

Did you travel around in the US when you had your spell in San Fran Ralph, did you have a favourite place?

I loved Vancouver Phil and would probably not have left if I could help it.

Vancouver in 1967 had a sort of mini-Haight-Ashbury on 4th Avenue with more than it's fair share of free love, marijuana, and psychedelic music. I can vividly remember Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" blaring out from one of the jukeboxes and "tourists" cruising by in their cars at weekends to look at the "freaks".

Kitsilano beach is another name that lingers in the memory from that era.

Unfortunately I got run out of town without my passport after a couple of months in Vancouver and had to climb over a barbed-wire fence to cross the border into the USA en route to San Francisco. Those were the days..

Whoa now, hold up.

You HAVE to tell us that story, even if it has to be a tad watered down to protect the guilty.

BUMPED.

No interest?

Say what?

Anyway, it matters not where you write it, just hurry up, we will soon be out of popcorn.


 

Joking aside, I don't care where Ralph writes his stories either, as long as he writes them. Truth be told they deserve their own thread.

I do think the fine detail is important though, I have quite a few questions that I would like to ask, but I'm afraid of touching a nerve.

Feel free to ask whatever you want Tom.

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It would seem apparent that one or two of my more wayward readers don't know what good music is, so, in order to help their musical education, & improve their taste, I'm going to show them the way, be their guiding light, & generally put them right.

The following Music Vids are my "most watched" on You Tube in the last 12 months.   

Watch, listen, & learn.

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[Karabiner]

For some reason I can't hear any sound when I play u-tube clips on my PC.

I now realise that it's actually a blessing at times.

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