Grumpy Old Man
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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?
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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?
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!!!
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@voodoo 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?
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!!!
Out of interest …. Why wouldn’t you?
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
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.
I don't fly Qantas unless it's work enforced, they once unloaded my baggage in a two hour layover in Townsville, I was sitting having a coffee near the carousel and noticed there was one bag just looping around for about half an hour - it was mine. I went and grabbed it, took it to the counter, and the Qantas dude told me I should have left it there and that I couldn't take it on the plane. After some backwards and forwards and the arrival of the manager they eventually let me take it on. If I hadn't been sitting next to the carousel those pricks would have left it there.
I did fly business to NZ once (with vouchers from cancelled work flights) and it was great.
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo 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?
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!!!
Out of interest …. Why wouldn’t you?
It's 10 hours mate, long way. Could probably handle the drive there, but would have drive to back overnight Sat night to make it work for a family lunch Sunday
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo 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?
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!!!
Out of interest …. Why wouldn’t you?
It's 10 hours mate, long way. Could probably handle the drive there, but would have drive to back overnight Sat night to make it work for a family lunch Sunday
throw in if it's an athletics comp she'll need a day between that drive and to start running, suddenly a couple of hours travel is two days. and another home.
this country is friggen big aye.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo 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?
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!!!
Out of interest …. Why wouldn’t you?
It's 10 hours mate, long way. Could probably handle the drive there, but would have drive to back overnight Sat night to make it work for a family lunch Sunday
throw in if it's an athletics comp she'll need a day between that drive and to start running, suddenly a couple of hours travel is two days. and another home.
this country is friggen big aye.
yes, good point, that's a comp killer right there
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
no seat selection so no guarantee we will be sitting together
I thought you'd welcome the opportunity to get away from the kids?
Ha, nah, they're old enough to be easy to travel with now - don't even notice they're there. Still young enough though that you don't want them parked in between a couple of QLD bogans
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
couple of QLD bogans
i feel attacked
Cairns isn't really in QLD, you're closer to PNG than Brisbane...
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
couple of QLD bogans
i feel attacked
Cairns isn't really in QLD, you're closer to PNG than Brisbane...
dude, Cairns is closer to Port Moresby than fucking Mackay let alone Brisbane