When did we become so pathetic?

[rhone81]

Watching News at Ten and was appalled at the sheer number of whinging, sour-faced nanny-me-help-me-fucks moaning about the lack of help they have getting home.

"Why haven't they sent more Navy ships? It's the governments fault!"

Boo-hoo you're stuck in Spain or France or Italy. Oh dear let me pour another Chianti while I wait for flights to start again. More paella dear chap?

Shouldn't have sent any sodding ships. Hire a car or stay a few more nights. Shit happens. Muppets.

[Itchy]

And I bet they will whine about how much it cost to send the invincible over to them too (it is a lot!)
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[arry]

Hideous isn't it.

On the first day of the grounding there was some bint on Sky News twatting off about how it's the airline's fault she's stuck halfway home and they should have to pay her loads in compensation

Yesterday on the train there was an old bat saying that it was disgusting that the Govt weren't doing more about it - like what?! FFS!!

Shit happens that you can't predict, it gives you a ballache, such is life, stop looking for someone to blame!!

[GhostRider]

Yeah was talking about this the other day, we agreed that in such a situation you just ride it out on the credit card and worry about it when you get home, whats the alternative, sit in a fucking airport for days on end? Spend the same amount of money you'd pay for a cheap ass hotel and food and drink for however many days to travel across europe to get home....and do what? Probably really upset because they aren't getting their Coronation Street fix, fuck me, if I had a choice of coming home to this cack hole and say being stuck in Spain, I know which I'd fucking prefer.

It's like when the Reds and Yellows shut down Bangkok aiport 2 weeks before I was due to go, I was praying that they'd do a repeat performance when I was due to come back, yet on the news all they would do is fackin whinge.

Some people

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[The Shaggy D.A.]

The wife's due back from the States soon, and is now contemplating going to Madrid, so instead of a 150 mile round trip to pick her up from Heathrow, I might be looking at a 2,300 mile jolly. Maybe I could charge £500 a seat if anyone else desperately needed a lift back. Would be worth sticking a roof box on so I could put the extra two seats in the back, too.
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[Ichy]

I'm surprised that no one has realised how much they could make by getting a couple of coaches over to France.

Personally I'd go down the Cuban/Somali route. Get a boat, charge them £500 each for travel to the UK then dump them in the channel and go back for more.

[Itchy]

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[Marmalade]

my mrs and family stuck in portugal was going to cost £1600 for me to hire a minibus to go get em, had a group of golfers wanting to go out to portugal desperately and when i told the 8 of them it's £200 a head they looked like i told them i was going to roger their mothers.

Fine, bye. not doing it for fuck all.

Now my other half is on a coach back because they didn't want to wait for me to get there (2 days) and have paid £300 each to get to london
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[pa_broon74]

This sort of reminds me of the BA strikes, all these middle class people mithering on about how their holiday has been ruined. There are some desperate stories like the wee lad who needed to get hom for his mother funeral (A business man paid £5k for him to get home...)

But for the most part, I find the site of some over-fed face on the telly moaning away uniquely irritating. Although when some self centred solipsistic arse realised that in fact no, the world does not revolve around them; it can be quite entertaining.

I had an idea about the volcano. I thought we could send Tommy Lee Jones and a band of affable B list actors (of all ethnicities) to plug the volcano and divert the ash cloud with nothing more than good ol' 'mercan ingenuity, bravery and some road signs. While doing so, they could also reinforce a sense of togetherness between the races by having a small blond haired boy point out that due the ash cloud "...everyone is black now..."

I fucking hate that film.


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[WishayKillie]

Well it looks like my flights are all going ahead so fingers crossed it all stays good

Flying: Rangoon-Bangkok-Amsterdam-Glasgow. Looked like the main problem was gonna be getting out of Bangkok and then getting stuck in Amsterdam.
But I'm with GhostRider on this, whats the worse that can happen, I have to stay in either Amsterdam or Bangkok for a few nights I can think of worse things TBH. I wouldnt exactly be crying for the Royal Navy to come get me (which was a huge "vote for Gordon" stunt) I'd just have to be content with either cheap booze and ladyboys or cafe's and window shopping

(Although I am missing my Corrie fix . Luckly my missus recorded most of them so I'll be able to watch the lesbian kiss that i missed )
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[WildGoose]

My heart bleeds for these poor souls, who have 1 of their 6 holidays a year interrupted by an act of god, and cannot cope with the prospect that there isn't someone to blame or someone to save them.

This was supposed to be a great county once, adapt and overcome, stiff upper lip etc.

[Ichy]

I like the American/Asian airline response, 'not our problem'.

It would appear that the insurance companies and airlines are now expecting the government to bail them out by covering their costs, I think the Government should quote the Asican response.

I heard on radio 4, so it must be true, that Thompson were covering all costs, a significant amount, for anyone that had taken a package holiday with them and yet they were still receiving complaints and demands for compensation.

[Itchy]

[damz]

[swanny]

quite easy to call people whingers who wish to get home,

one of my collegues is stuck in egypt atm and has been now for 5/6 days, hes saved up for his holiday all year, and cant afford to stay there with his two kids,

- 2 small children stuck abroad
-no money
- been robbed at the airport
- loss of earnings as they cant get back to work
- kids missing school now

i disagree with people screaming for compo, but can understand why people are getting upset.
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[arry]

[Itchy]

[Hetzer]

[WildGoose]

Offtopic but what the hell, some may be interested;

[JonB]

One thing I never realised before this fracus is the way that planes really do make an impact on the sky.

I've never seen such clear days earlier this week. Look up at the sky today and there are vapour trails everywhere.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Yeah, the skies have been surprisingly clear and blue this week for something that is supposed to be full of ash so dangerous that it would be raining planes if they tried to go up there.
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