I need to go to my Maw’s to drop off everyone’s presents and then the old man’s on the way home. Will probably nip into the shopping centre in Dundee to buy a couple shirts/polos for the next week. Can’t imagine it will be too busy, presumably it’ll be more grocery stores that are for folk getting last minute stuff. Then it’s getting pissed, eating food, beating the missus’ family rotten at quizzes and watching football/ponies for the next week
From the shopping or Gates' jizz? I'm aiming to get the former done early doors to avoid the zombie like Christmas shoppers.Originally Posted by Manc
Christmas Day stream incoming?
A pished Yev opening up Ł500 worth of packs pls
Daughter's got chickenpox, which has scuppered our plans somewhat. All avoided getting Covid, but she has to go and get chuffing chickenpox.
I was fine after booster 3. I think it only impacts the weak like manc.
Pigs in blankets for dinner.
I'm a twit
People just never seem to mind. I think they’re fucking insane.
They’re at a few fancier bits than they used to with things like a separate sheridans cheese shop and all in-store, but for regular groceries here they’d be on a par with Tesco on price and their clothes would, like Tesco, be a good step below M&S in quality.
A lot of people would be starting to turn away from Tesco here because so much of the produce is foreign. Dunnes, SuperValu, and the two Germans would have substantially more local stuff.
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24 hours in and it's that way for me too. Result.
I had some side effects after the booster but I was told it was more likely as it was a different jab (Pfizer) than the first two (AZ).
My first two were AZ as well, with this one Pfizer. Given I also haven't noticed ever having COVID maybe I'm just superb at handling things that come out of a lab.
AZ was horrible for my first two but Pfizer for the booster was just a sore arm and a bit of a headache the day after.
My family used to love a pub quiz. We once did poorly at one in East Dulwich (probably over Christmas) and my dad sulked and basically stormed off IIrc. The only time I've ever won a pub quiz was also incidentally in London (East Dulwich again) when it was just me, my sister and her very intelligent Chilean friend.
Incidentally, I've sent my dad your football quiz to get his teeth stuck into over Christmas. I think he'll use it as an excuse to be unsociable at my cousins' house on Christmas Day.
So thanks for that.
Flitting between Yorkshire and the north east as I do, I barely batted an eyelid.I count at least three accents in that.
I watched Blackadder's Christmas Carol earlier and it was far worse than I remembered. I think I smirked twice. I've wondered for a while whether the series was actually crap, since I loved it when I was a teenager, so maybe it was. Oh well.
'LadBaby' needs killing. I thought he was a tosser anyway, but him getting all indignant about that (admittedly pathetic) Boris Johnson song proves that he actually takes it all far, far more seriously than he would otherwise admit.
Is that something they did after Back and Forth?
Is ladbaby not some fat bird?
"How did you make your millions, dad?"
"Well, we made sausage rolls-related covers of pop classics for 25 years."
Dante's vision of hell just got a tenth circle.
I haven't watched Christmas Carol for a while but whenever I last watched the actual show I still enjoyed it. A lot of other writers/comedians driving the "thingy thing" ... er... thing... into the ground probably doesn't help it on rewatches now.
Just made it back home. Charles de Gaulle is an appalling airport. Luckily the taco food truck next to the highway on the way back from the airport was open (the lad working there didn't seem too happy about it), so I am set for the night.
CDG is truly the worst airport I've ever been to. Iirc they've since fixed it but the first time I went there it had no signs as the original architect had sued to say that any signage would 'destroy the artistic integrity of his design'.
Worst airport? Must be a fred in that for the boring holiday hours.
Boring? Consider it done.
They managed to make the whole going through security thing even more annoying the Americans do, which I thought was impossible. Made my gate as they were giving the last call on the speaker.
Then I had to sit next to a stinky French hippy for eight hours.
I thought your wife was staying in France for Christmas?
CDG has nothing on Naples.
Maybe on the former, no on the latter. Over at my Sister's and may kip over if the alcohol flows all day, but if not I'll drive back and get on it.
Is CDG the one that had the roof collapse?
Might pop on a Mister Bean's Merry Christmas later.
The telly is so bad at Christmas. ET was on earlier. E fucking T. Who exactly is that for?
The only time I've been to CDG we were given two different terminals so had a bit of a faff but don't remember it being too bad. I don't remember too much of an issue with Naples other than the trek to the train station.
Actually, the first time I flew home from Naples the airline missed up the seating and families were split up all over the plane.
Berlin's airport was also fucking atrocious. I've never been but I expect Yemen has similar standards.
I'm guessing you were at Tempelhof and not Brandenburg.
I remember landing in Tempelhof and being stunned at the awful signage, so I walked behind this assertive German couple (at a respectable distance, of course) who were on the same flight in the hopes they would lead me to baggage claim.
Instead they led me directly out of the secure area, at which point they turned around and walked back in with an understanding glance from a security guard who then proceeded to prevent my own re-entry.
Had to wait four hours to get that damn luggage.
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Warsaw Modlin the worst I've been to.
It's a budget airport for budget airlines. Thankfully Wizzair stopped flying there.
One tiny shop, no seats (so you get loads slumming it on the floor). Also, two times in a row I went there was a bomb scare where the whole place had to be evacuated. They called the bomb squad only to discover someone had put their bag of sandwiches down at security.
There's also a shit overpriced restaurant just outside and it's on the outskirts of a small town so you're fucked if you've got a long wait.
I think only Ryannair use it now.
Schonefeld was also hell on earth. Tempelhof is now quite a pleasant park. You can walk along the runway pretending to be a plane.
Best I've been to is probably El Prat in Barcelona. Just a really solid one. As a local, Schiphol really is great for the size as well.
Prestwick is by far the saddest airport I've ever been to. This was about five years ago but there was maybe 8 flights, all Ryanair, departing that day. Place is massive, derelict and has the same carpeting it must have done 30 years ago.
Apparently Elvis was once there briefly, his only UK visit, and the only thing of note is the place is a themed bar and random bits of shite memorabilia.
I've only been to three airports and none of them felt shit. I kinda like how quick it is to get airside at Newcastle. Heathrow is massive and Newark took forever to get out of.
The shittest airport is Stansted.
The end.
Reopening clubs, eastern European whorehouses and the end of the culture war are all nice but the real treat to COVID ending is Shindig's travel tales.
They won't let you travel with the IS flag, will they?
I dunno, it's generally pretty efficient in my experience and not that bad to get to. Definitely better than Luton. Most minor UK airports are basically the same, the only thing that varies is how long it takes to get to from the city it's meant to serve, and queue times.
It's irritating that they will likely beat the consecutive record next year. It will be held up as a massive achievement when actually no-one cares about christmas number one anymore, it's the musical equivent of Celtic giving it large winning all those titles while Rangers were out of the SPL.
Everytime I've used Stansted it's been terrible. Baggage being the main problem. We waited for nearly 2 hours last time.
We use Gatwick where possible. Unless Southend is an option. Southend is amazing. There's fuck all there. Check in and security take about 45 seconds. Then you grab a pint and you can see your gate and plane from your seat.
The smaller the airport the better it is.
The last year I cared about was when Rage Against the Machine took it. A truly great moment in history.
At the point when they were doing up Dubai to turn it into the giant shiny shopping centre it is now we went through on the way to visit my dad wherever he was working at the time. It was a proper tip. All temporary walls and scary looking food stalls. Then coming back we were gritting our teeth for more of the same and stumbled goggled eyed into this palatial space because they'd opened it up. The outgoing trip probably wasn't the worst airport I've been in but it felt it by comparison.
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