Grumpy Old Man
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@Nepia this! we've been over a couple of times once we were able too after COVID including xmas just been....and now we thought it would get in early and book flights for next xmas...over $2k from melb to chch
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It's crazy how expensive it used to be to call long distance. I remember working at a call centre in Brisbane while at uni and there was a guy who worked there in the evening exclusively to pay for long distance calls to his girlfriend in Sydney. I suggested they just chat on the internet and he looked at me like I was insane.
My old man is German and every call to Deutschland was basically Hello, how's everyone, goodbye in less than 5 minutes.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia this! we've been over a couple of times once we were able too after COVID including xmas just been....and now we thought it would get in early and book flights for next xmas...over $2k from melb to chch
I don't bother going back at Xmas time due to the cost - although it would be nice to go back for Xmas hangi.
One thing I did get cheap was my flights, as AirAsia is now flying Syd - Auk, and I have a bunch of Covid credits with them that I could partially use. To make me more grumpy though they can only be used on actual ticket cost (not fees etc) even though they were for ticket AND fees.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
It's crazy how expensive it used to be to call long distance. I remember working at a call centre in Brisbane while at uni and there was a guy who worked there in the evening exclusively to pay for long distance calls to his girlfriend in Sydney. I suggested they just chat on the internet and he looked at me like I was insane.
My old man is German and every call to Deutschland was basically Hello, how's everyone, goodbye in less than 5 minutes.
Yeah I vaguely remember calls to my Grandparents in Scotland….
Lots of awkward pauses and pardons and crackling and disconnections and apparently it cost a fortune.
My boys can video call their grandparents whenever they want ( all NZ based but still, doesn’t matter where in the world they are )
As an ex telecom salesman I remember yarning to the real old school managers…..
( This is back when I thought these phones were flash )
Apparently brick phones cost thousands and each call ( in the 80s ) was about $5.50 a minute !
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
over $2k
What the... we're looking at booking some for £1800... maybe you should see if you can go around the world and throw in a second destination!
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@chimoaus when I was living in the UK with the old dial up modem, my pc picked up a virus and what it did was turn off the modem sound so you didn't hear it reconnecting to a premium rate site.
Fortunately it was the 2nd to last bill before I came back to NZ, was like £400 or something extortionate, I rang them up (with my best Aus accent) and told them I wasn't paying and they would be better off trying to stop this happening in the future as I was heading g home to Aus next week and they wouldn't find me...
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@taniwharugby oh yeah, a virus eh
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@Bones it was, you catch them visitng dodgy sites...
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones it was, you catch them visitng dodgy sites...
So tell us how you stumbled on to The Silver Fern then?
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Flights are fucked right now. We are booking flights to Brisbane for my daughters athletics comp in April. Return flights are $750pp, a cheeky $3,750 for a fucking 1hr flight, get fucked Qantas and your slimy leprechaun leader
Sorry for the language, and yes, I know I shouldn’t have had [so many] kids
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
Surely Jetstar or Virgin had something cheaper? -
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
Surely Jetstar or Virgin had something cheaper?If you're prepared to fly shitstar, you get what you deserve.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
It's crazy how expensive it used to be to call long distance. I remember working at a call centre in Brisbane while at uni and there was a guy who worked there in the evening exclusively to pay for long distance calls to his girlfriend in Sydney. I suggested they just chat on the internet and he looked at me like I was insane.
My old man is German and every call to Deutschland was basically Hello, how's everyone, goodbye in less than 5 minutes.
My first career was in Telecoms with the NZ Post Office. The tech was hugely expensive to maintain then and the capacity tiny - the average bandwidth of a household broadband or 5G connection would be about 10 times that between Wellington and Auckland then and about 200 times that between NZ & Europe.
But if you were in he know, you could call anywhere quite cheaply. God I miss the days of phone phreaking & Blue Box hacking.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
Surely Jetstar or Virgin had something cheaper?If you're prepared to fly shitstar, you get what you deserve.
I think I'd risk it to save $650.
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Alan Joyce and Qantas can get entirely fucking fucked. Shit service. Huge expense. fluffybunnies
I have to take the milk run to get to NZ next week. 3 fucking flights!!
And yeah @Nepia i have resigned myself to never having christmas in NZ again, the cost is ridiculous when compared to going anywhere else, completely unjustifiable.
but hey, Qantas shareholders are happy aye? And that little midget Irish fuck got his juicy bonus. So i guess absolutely fuck everyone else.
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@mariner4life Anyone holding shares in Qantas either doesn't pay attention to their portfolio or is in it short term. They've got an ageing fleet and no capital investment to speak of in fixing that. This little Irish fucker is driving it into the ground to get his bonuses and then hand over a steaming pile of shit to the next poor sod.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
Return flights are $750pp
Da fuq, from where?
Sydney to Brisbane
Surely Jetstar or Virgin had something cheaper?Indeed they do Neps!
Jetstar is offering to transport us for just $2200 - a bargain!
Of course, said flight allows us zero baggage, just 7kgs of carry on, no seat selection so no guarantee we will be sitting together, no Qantas FF points or status credits earned, and of course no meal or snack
To get those things included, the price falls out at $2,620
Might just load the car up and drive!!!
