On Jet2 you stand, get your shit from the locker and disembark by row. A steward/ess walks down the aisle row by row. Very civilised.:p

And what is the point of ‘speedy boarding’? If you are lucky you get through the boarding pass check first but then with the way most airports are configured that only gets you into another holding area or worse still on to a bus. Then it’s the person with the sharpest elbows who gets to the plane first whether they have a ticket that says speedy boarding or not.

Yep, and that plane isn't going anywhere until everyone is on it.

I suppose it allows you to feel a little bit more special and self-important, while everyone else actually just thinks you are a narcistic prick, and be a selfish c nut by using too much space in the overhead baggage.

Switching the phone off at the last moment, and on again while walking with purpose towards baggage claim is another sure pointer. These twats probably have impressive linked in profiles.

I also suspect that there are one or two BBSers that match this profile. Let's see if they are butthurt enough to come on here and justify their self-important behaviour.

Never understand this, just put all the crap you need during the flight in a carrier bag while waiting at the gate and it stops the need to keep getting up and rummaging around the locker mid flight.

I don't really get annoyed about how people board planes unless I feel jostled and/or my personal space is invaded.

I do find it amusing that everyone now seems to have purchased speedy boarding, which completely defeats the purpose. :)

I'm usually travelling business class and/or have the kids with me, so get to beat the queue anyway.

PS. I recognise I have used and/or several times in this post. I apologise

No but you make sure you get the overhead locker space instead of ending with you knees under you chine with the bag fitting under the space in the seat in front of you.:p

Blackgang Chine, presumably?

We recently did some flying and we had Group 1 boarding passes for all 4 flights.

Had to fight our way through the crowds to get to the scanner to scan the boarding pass and get on the plane.

Not sure if the scanner would let people on if their Group had not been called... I suspect it wouldn't stop you.

To his credit, one of the gate agents on one of the legs was giving people hell for "gathering" at the front when it was not their turn. He was coming out with some real zingers!

Correct. I queue to make sure I'm not having to clamber 10 rows in front or behind me to get my bag when it comes to exiting the plane, which could see me being one of the last ones off the plane and in a mega line at passport control. Queue at one end, to queue much less at the other end. :p

LEarnt to pay for a window seat to avoid them having me get up. Was also annoying before when someone would need about 10 wees for an hour flight.

When people on TV or radio pronounce years as yurrs

I'm sorry you had to sit next to my wife! :D

Rather like driving, the Golden age of flying is long gone.
The nearest we get to it is arriving or leaving from Salzburg.
Aeroplane to arrivals to car park all within 50 metres. Very civilised.

City Airport is still easy to get in and out. 30 mins max

The chap from corner shop was telling me, he lives in east end, 15 mins to airport, 30 mins for security and check in, fly to Amsterdam and take the connection to Bombay and people flying from Heathrow leaving same time as him, would still be in security queue or worse in M25

With the au pair managing the kids and luggage as you peruse the expensive sunglasses and scarves.

Not for the first time on the BBS recently this...

...but we have someone posting the pricklike behaviour of others (self-important airline passengers), and then the thread moves on to show that some BBSers are those self-same people. The lack of self awareness is startling.

Pointy elbows, up from the seat and in the overhead locker before the plane has finished taxiing, and then a fast march to passport control.

I enjoy sitting and watching their frustration when there is a coupling delay and they can't open the doors.

It is akin to the bingo business speak thread when posters started to debate earnestly the real meaning of bullshit buzzword terminology....completely missing the point.

Seriously chaps...7 billion people...you are not important..even in your own heads. Unless you are in a hurry to show even more people how important you are.

People who chuff on about how much booze they drink as though it's a sign of how big their man glands are.

"Oh I had 8 bottles of wine in an afternoon".

Congratulations, it's not 1986.

...the reality is you're just topping up with whatever cheap New World shite you drank the day before and then hitting the interwebs to point out all the people you think are *****. What a life.

CPFC sending me messages/mails about renewing my season ticket, which puts me in panic mode, despite having done it weeks ago.

You got anyone in particular in mind?

:D

It originated with the birth of budget airlines, which at the time didn't offer the option to pre-select seats and didn't allocate seats, so it was a fastest first on the plane, you'd be rushing for exit rows. But now they allocate seats to everyone there is very little point in speedy boarding only for you to be stuck on the plane for longer. That said I guess some people find all the kerfuffle stressful, so perhaps they prefer to go on early and find it less of a stress.

On some airlines you also get to choose your seat as well so can get to the front or window or aisle whatever your preference

Amazing ain't it :)

That's harsh.

Do you not agree with the point I made. There seems a recent tendency for a poster to correctly point out something that makes 'a person' (hopefully not a BBSer) a bit of a prick... Then you have a few posters agreeing with the premise. But as sure as night follows day, along comes other posters actually proud of acting like the pricks that everyone before was taking the piss out of.

See above on this thread, and see the buzzword jargon thread.

FWIW. I don't post when I am drinking anymore. I am too busy enjoying the drinking and company to bother with this dumbed down version of the BBS. It isn't what it was, and the quality of poster is a shadow of the past. They let anyone in here these days. And the old timers seem to have difficulty spotting the frauds. In some cases the likes of Mr Maztastic enable them, and others are more interested in proofreading posts to get offended by words.

Did you see that Microsoft are retiring Internet Explorer and it is joining the 27 year club? The BBS is getting close to that milestone.

Yep, and now pay extra for the privilege. You can pay extra to chose bog standard seat 38B in advance - even though you are probably doing them a favour. And get charged more if you want to take more than a pencil case with you on the flight. It is a cracker this world we now live in.

Which is a boon for the likes of me who, being the possessor of the smallest bladder in christendom, likes an aisle seat:)

It is curious to sit by an airport gate and watch a line of people queueing when it hasn't opened yet.

Then 10 minutes later they start boarding for special groups and then by ranges of seat numbers.

Outside of the silly late wanker, we are usually among the last on and off a plane. With minimal luggage and seemingly very little stress.

It is also fun to arrive last at the conveyer belt and find it has only just started moving. There is some pointy elbows there..

Granted..the whole passport control thing might have been fecked by Brexit. But I suspect a lot of the self-important turkeys voted for that particular Christmas.

My bladder is fine...but I like an aisle seat on a long flight. I find it nwar on impossible to sleep.

It deters me from making more trips back.

Ahh I have always wondered why as soon as the aircraft is up the queue at the loo starts and doesn’t stop, even on a 45 min hop to Holland. They must all be fellow sufferers.

That is because they unload what they filled up in wetherspoons :)

Wither Selhurst Celtic ?

Probably guys been in the bar at the airport prior to boarding...

Ops - I see RazorsEdge beat me to it.

The complete false hope ypu are getting a goid deal on a budget airline when you see the cheap outbound flight. Then you choose the inbound of course twice the price, still in budget. Oh then like a mad fool you want to have a seat and take some clothes. We might as well go back to the old dats aleast the shit food was included in the price.

Stopping to help a few driver restart his car - blocked fuel filter - off he went on his merry way, only to then be unable to restart my own.
Turns out I'd flooded the carbs - eventually restarted after i'd called the breakdown people and sat waiting for 60 mins.
Grrr.

Carbs??? Most be an old one. I thought if you simply left them for 10 mins they sorted themselves out or is that an old wives tale?

Frustrated today with HMRC.
I received an email from them to say that they had sent a message to my account. I log on to my account to find that the message says that I have a new statement of my account. But then there is a link to find out if the statement is available. No, it's not available and it may take up to four days for it to become available.
Why not wait to send me a message about the statement when it is actually available?

You'd hate me. I have crohns disease. I could shit 10 times in an hour.

I got two messages on WhatsApp today... The first one started with "Honey"! I don't think anyone have ever called me Honey in my life... straight to delete that one.

Next one stated, "We met at a party the other day..." I don't think so! straight to delete.

Do these people think I just got off the banana boat! (Are we allowed to say that these days?)

Just don't click on any links

They don't have links in them, but I bet if I was to reply saying "I think you have the wrong person" all hell would let loose.

I would assume so.

I think I am the only person who has no WhatsApp.

I just ring and text :(

The only reason I have WhatsApp is a couple of friends in England asked me to get it/use it rather than using iMessinger (or Messages - is that the same thing?).

I believe they were getting charged per text to use Messages, whereas WhatsApp is free to use for them.

Personally it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, but if it's better for them, I'm happy to use it.

That makes sense :)

They do... but you have to recognise that is the problem and not something electrical, like the fuel pump, or a blockage etc.
Once i'd given up cranking it and let it rest it eventually started.
(Still learning how to deal with 3L of Triumph V8 :p)

Neighbours

They have stopped making it. Home and Away is still going.

When you use the "Contact Us" feature of a company or organizations website to ask a question, and they send you back an answer that does not answer your question, and in fact boarders on irrelevant.

And that is if they respond at all!

Yep those “AI” auto responses and chat bots

The term "batters" as insisted upon by the MCC this season. It really gets my back up.

It was me, just catching up to see how you are!

I'm doing fine honey! See you at the next party... :rolleyes:

Not just MCC, wall-to-wall on 5live.

I don't have it either. Relatives keep telling me to get it, and the football club puts out announcements on it, which is a pain in the arse, but I think I'll survive without it.

I asked my mate in the UK if he got charged for when I texted him using the Apple Messenger. He said he didn't, and then he started using WhatsApp to text me...

A bit confused really... do you get charged to use Messenger, or is it an Apple to Apple thing verses, Apple to Android or Samsung etc. that incurs cost?

Why do I keep getting Everton and West Ham news on my Facebook home page?

Can you send someone on Android a message via Messenger? Does it turn into a text message if they're not on Apple?

My main use for What's App is group chat, not one-to-one texts

I am not even a cricket fan and it winds me up too:D

One is a text message the other is an instant message.

I think Blackberry started the concept of phone to phone instant messages that were free. If on Iphone, your messages will be blue if they are going to another Iphone and therefore free, they will be green if going to another phone manufacturer and be classes as a text message rather than an instant message, also they will take longer to send.

Whatsapp was novel that you were able to do international calls for free over wifi. Also whatsapp had the concept of threads, groups and various other forms of multimedia being sent all for free rather than concern about having to pay £1 for a picture message. I believe whatsapp is another step in the way people communicate. For me now a call out of the blue, or a missed call not followed by a message not stating the reason for the call is poor etiquette, this changed for me when messaging became something different due to whatsapp. Also the death of voicemail is linked.

^ Thanks.

I always get a bit confused by the green or blue texts - can never remember which is which.

I have the feature switched on my phone that if the call if not from one of my contacts it goes straight to voice mail. Had it switched on for about 3 months and so far I think one person has left a message - and that was a sales pitch.

Nosey neighbours . . . when one of mine gets mail for me in error, not content with just popping it through my door they ring the bell to explain and then hand it over. WTF?

Just like the old bint in the Sun Life commercial

Whatsapp is the only widely used encrypted mesaaging app and thus is the safest way to communicate.

Jeez, this new single by Suggs & Paul Weller.

It's entitled 'Oooh Do U Fink U R' for ****s sake & it's ******* awful...

I am so looking forward to the day when Cycling Mikey gets done for something. I agree with most of what he was doing but he has become a zealot. Poor bloke sitting in solid stationary traffic paying his congestion charge. Traffic starts phone down. Drives off. But Micky reports him. 6 points and £200 fine.

..................Tories!

Owned by the Rothschilds though innit #ItWasAScam

I hardly use messenger anymore.When I was with Virgin they stopped the ability to send pictures,now giff gaff are the same.Whatsapp lets you do all sorts of stuff.The best one is phone calls abroad via wifi for free.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Using a phone even in stationary traffic is dangerous.

"The primary impairment that drivers face from using a phone behind the wheel, is the mental distraction from the driving task. Research has shown that after using your phone, it can take half a minute to regain full
attention, during which time your driving is impaired"

There needs to be studies about drivers constantly yakking to fellow passengers. And arguments. These seem to be perfectly legal but can be just as dangerous.
A few years back someone was having a barney with her daughter (I think) then reversed straight into me without looking. I could hear them through the open windows.

Christ… it’s awful. Is that what Paul Weller sings like now ? Dreadful.

Paul Weller is an absolute arse. He annoys me, although I am a fan of the Style Council.

Full title I think has sunshine as last word...
Who do you think you are Sunshine...
Chas and Dave would have done it better.

Awful title, awful song, you're right.

Have you ever met him..I did years ago around time of in the city... And you are not wrong!

He was arrogant then, God knows what he's like now! Bruce Foxton was best of them. Rick Buckler ok. But Paul Weller... Nah

"you must be fun at parties"

Such a shit argument used by absolute tools.

If this collaboration saves us from Weller's 37th solo album about the craters on the moon, flowers at the bottom of the garden and the sea reflecting in his children's eyes, then it might be a price worth paying.

Bad grass

Snitches get stitches.

I don’t have a problem with him when he does his Gandalf corner stuff and light jumping and the rest of the shit but his arrogance of being a moral crusader grinds my gears. He does it to post another vid and make more click money. He’s just so ducking run and tell teacher *****that you used to get a school. Needs his head pushed down the lav and flushed.

:lux:

Looks like someone already has:

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I wish I was there when it happened. I want someone to spend their time following him around with a camera and a big Kenny Everett finger and a mega phone shouting “look out look out there’s a Pratt about”

Isn't that Maidstoned?

As for toilet flushing - apt that he is at Lavender Hill.

TOUTS are fine though.

Have you considered that it might be you that is the problem here?

Grown men who smell of BO at work

The phrase ‘kick on’ used on here in any context to mean improve or get started.

Easy peelers that aren't easy to peel. Whoever puts the peel on needs sacking.

Any adult that smells of BO. Even outside, some people can make 100 sq ft of street stink. The malodorous feckers.

Leeds UTD fans and their massive car stickers. Why is it always them?

So no-one steals their cars? :confused:

After they lose their 2 best players this summer they will soon be down

Gary Lineker in general, but him claiming that he has been subject to racism is particularly annoying. He'll claim to be trans next if it flogs more crisps/diverts attention away from some of the more colourful rumours that have surrounded him for years.

Like a lot of these celeb aliments and sufferings, wouldn't be surprised if it was hatched out over coffee in their publicist's office.
"What can we claim next, O client of mine...?"

Please who used golfing terms whilst playing Wordle

Par for the course.

Yes. Obviously you expect it from feckless wankers like Wolfie or El Angular but it is disappointing when otherwise sensible BBSers indulge in such shite. I'll let Hedgehog off though as he is both American and extremely agèd.

:hi: :p

Over zealous dental assistants who constantly pinch the side of your lip against your teeth whilst they use the suction probe.
Dentist is drilling my tooth, the drill is squirting water around my teeth and the assistant thinks she is hoovering the front room of her house with a bloody Dyson! Not gently removing any excess water from my mouth!!!