Where would you choose to be for the next 12 months? If you could be Whisked Off on a Magic Carpet, all expenses paid, Where would you Be?

[StreetCowboy]

5 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

 

 

That was his point.  When you're dredging up The Two Ronnies, Monty Puthon, Billy Connolly...
Back in the day, we had all some of us been away from the Old Country for a bit of a while, and one of our visiting compatriots brought a video tape, or a DVD or one a gramophone record or whatever was in vogue at the time, of a show that he assured us was the canine cobblers of current British humour - it was called "The Fast Show", if you are old enough to remember that.   

I am with Oldhippy.  British humour was dead then, and Dr Frankenstein could not have revived it.  A ad rehash of old stereotypes, without the humour of archaic nostalgia.

If you want British humour, ask your grandad.

[Saraburi121]

Boracay, Philippines if it were the same as 15 years ago.  Waded from the boat onto the beach with your bag, no boat pier.   Would love to go back if it were the same as it was then. 

[DBath]

1 hour ago, StreetCowboy said:

It's a long time since I've flown with them, but I always thought Cathay Pacific were the best.  HK was a great airport to transit.  If I had a choice, I would take Cathay over a carpet any day.

Back in the day, I'd opted to go to the Philippines for the Calcutta Cup.  I met by chance a colleague at the airport "Haway, Cowboy! You know the flights are all delayed because of a coup in the Philippines?"

"Aye, well, I do now", and time ticked slowly by.
We got away a couple of hours late, and the nice folks at Cathay gave us a HK$ 20 beer voucher to use while we waited for our connection at Chek Lap Kok.
"Aye, right, that's not going to get us a can of Tsing Tao at the food court, and the flight is not leaving till 3 am (or some other heathen small hour of the morning, I forget the fine detail)"
Top airport, by the way, Chek Lap Kok, and very well served by the MTR.
We checked through immigration (plenty of time to spare) and strode purposefully to the MTR desk.
"See day tickets?  Can we come back after midnight on a day ticket?"
Anyone with four hours to transfer flights who does not pop into Tsim Sha Tsui for a skinful is not making full use of the MTR.  Prudently we took the penultimate train back to the airport, for fear of mishap, and we still had hours to wait,  By this time the food court was all closed.  And we still had our HK$20 scarcely-a-can vouchers...
We went to the lounge.
"We're booked on the sadly-delayed 1110 to Manilla departing at 03godknowshwen, and they gave us these beer vouchers.  But the food court is all closed.  Can we use these in the lounge?"
"NO"
"Well, Ive got a magic silver card"

"Naebautherpal, inyego"
"Yes, but then my buddy would feel all lonely down here..."
"In you go!"

I was struggling to get to the pub on Burgos Street before they closed around 0600 am, and the Calcutta Cup the following day was a bit of a blur after the anthems,  A shame, really, as we won, and while it's nice to win when you're the better team, it's great to win when you're not.

I have other fond memories of Cathay Pacific, but that is my fondest, and most oft-repeated.  Unlike Cleopatra, I have never travelled in a carpet.

Cathay Pacific was my first trip in Business Class aboard a non-US carrier and it was noticeably a step up. I had flown First Class on Continental back in the day NY-CDG, for free, when my ex-wife was a flight attendant with them. They had very expensive everything, including caviar, pate, wine and champagne. They were every bit as good - even better than - present day CP and Singapore Air. Fast-forward back to CP, I’ll never forget how nice their lounge at HKG was with incredible food and expansive windows overlooking the tarmac - puts every US lounge I’ve ever been in to shame. 

[DBath]

1 hour ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

 

 

BRILLIANT!! GRIT!!

[lazygourmet]

Cruising Europe in my camper according to EU red zones map.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, DBath said:

I really liked KLM, had never flown them before. I love those little houses they give you at the end of the flight. Each one (there are 85 or so) is fashioned after an actual home. In the US Delta is hands-down the best airline by far. Internationally, I’ve only flown Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Korean Air and United. I’ve found Cathay Pacific were far superior compared to all of the US Airlines I’ve flown (and I’ve flown all of them).  FYI, I’m an American (please forgive me for that), but I know great when I see/feel it.

I too liked Cathay, but I needed non stop from the UK to LOS, so it was Thai every time for me.

Perhaps BA flew non stop, but after one flight with them I swore to never, ever fly BA again. I'd have flown Emirates, except they stopped on the way.

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, Saraburi121 said:

Boracay, Philippines if it were the same as 15 years ago.  Waded from the boat onto the beach with your bag, no boat pier.   Would love to go back if it were the same as it was then. 

Agree. I almost went in the 90s, but had discovered LOS and didn't go anywhere else. The Philippine nurses I worked with recommended it. However, I saw a photo of it pre corona and could hardly see the sand for the horde.

I think they had to close it to tourists because they had destroyed it.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

That was his point.  When you're dredging up The Two Ronnies, Monty Puthon, Billy Connolly...
Back in the day, we had all some of us been away from the Old Country for a bit of a while, and one of our visiting compatriots brought a video tape, or a DVD or one a gramophone record or whatever was in vogue at the time, of a show that he assured us was the canine cobblers of current British humour - it was called "The Fast Show", if you are old enough to remember that.   

I am with Oldhippy.  British humour was dead then, and Dr Frankenstein could not have revived it.  A ad rehash of old stereotypes, without the humour of archaic nostalgia.

If you want British humour, ask your grandad.

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment.

People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

 

[DBath]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I too liked Cathay, but I needed non stop from the UK to LOS, so it was Thai every time for me.

Perhaps BA flew non stop, but after one flight with them I swore to never, ever fly BA again. I'd have flown Emirates, except they stopped on the way.

I only flew Thai Airways once, 2 years ago, during my first trip to Thailand; BKK to Koh Chang via Trat. It was a small plane, but the food was better than anything I've ever had on a US domestic flight in coach that was served on a pre-packaged tray - and for a 40 minute flight!

[DBath]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment.

People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

 

Word...my brother.

[puck2]

Where? I

In the seventh heaven

 

 

 

 

(https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/im-7-himmel-seiler-pascal/19933769)

Edited August 10, 2021 by puck2

[oldhippy]

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment.

People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

 

To understand the extremes of the "woke establishment" or PC behaviour, you only need to look  back at the extremes of the pre-woke establishment, or, more simply, talk with a muslim.

 

The extremes of the "woke establishment" and PC rules are ridiculous, but surely you have heard of the universal law of Action and Reaction.

 

Personally I feel like I am caught between a rock and a hard place.

 

 

[Sparktrader]

21 hours ago, DBath said:

Yeah, obviously....and I really don't care one way or the other.

Yeah ok

[Sparktrader]

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment.

People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

 

Correct poke fun at everything. Thats real comedy!!!@

[DBath]

2 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Yeah ok

I’m glad you agree. Hopefully that marks the end of our conversation, though you seem the type who must always have the last word. So feel free to make a closing statement. 
 

Just don’t expect me to reply, okay?????

[DBath]

2 hours ago, oldhippy said:

To understand the extremes of the "woke establishment" or PC behaviour, you only need to look  back at the extremes of the pre-woke establishment, or, more simply, talk with a muslim.

 

The extremes of the "woke establishment" and PC rules are ridiculous, but surely you have heard of the universal law of Action and Reaction.

 

Personally I feel like I am caught between a rock and a hard place.

 

 

What I find fascinating, if not confusing, is back in the day it was always the leftists crying and whining about freedom of speech. Yet today, it seems they’re the ones dead set on squashing it. 

[Sparktrader]

9 minutes ago, DBath said:

I’m glad you agree. Hopefully that marks the end of our conversation, though you seem the type who must always have the last word. So feel free to make a closing statement. 
 

Just don’t expect me to reply, okay?????

Strange. You say you dont care then keep responding lol

[Sparktrader]

7 minutes ago, DBath said:

What I find fascinating, if not confusing, is back in the day it was always the leftists crying and whining about freedom of speech. Yet today, it seems they’re the ones dead set on squashing it. 

1960s lefties were hippies who enjoyed life

2020 lefties are just whiners who hate everything

[DBath]

3 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

1960s lefties were hippies who enjoyed life

2020 lefties are just whiners who hate everything

Well, perhaps I was wrong about you. This is certainly a step in the right direction. 

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, DBath said:

Well, perhaps I was wrong about you. This is certainly a step in the right direction. 

Perhaps you have no idea about me lol

[Sparktrader]

1960s hippies climate yeah man lets get high

 

2020 lets shut down all the factories and scream climate murder

 

Modern left are mad.

[DBath]

8 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Perhaps you have no idea about me lol

I have no doubt. I know very little about you and likewise you about me.
 

I often try to make that point with those whom I’ve only shared a few snarky comments.

 

That’s two things we agree on…we’re on a roll!!

[DBath]

9 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

1960s hippies climate yeah man lets get high

 

2020 lets shut down all the factories and scream climate murder

 

Modern left are mad.

True, I was in early middle school during the 60’s with friends who had brothers fighting in Vietnam. Then you had the whole “flower child” thing going on. 
 

Fast-forward to now and you have, well, it’s just whacky, BATSHlT craziness from the left. 

[Sparktrader]

5 minutes ago, DBath said:

True, I was in early middle school during the 60’s with friends who had brothers fighting in Vietnam. Then you had the whole “flower child” thing going on. 
 

Fast-forward to now and you have, well, it’s just whacky, BATSHlT craziness from the left. 

Hendrix

Stones

Marley

 

Vs climate change nutters who listen to Katie Perry lol

 

 

[HeijoshinCool]

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment.

People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

 

.

 

I'm half Brit, half Yank, and funny....

 

Many people have told me I'm a half wit.

[DBath]

17 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Hendrix

Stones

Marley

 

Vs climate change nutters who listen to Katie Perry lol

 

 

What a bunch of safe-space seeking snowflakes...relating to them - for me - is hopeless. Then sometimes I think, was it like this for my parents and grandparents? Did they think the same way about some of the things my generation did? I can't imagine it could have been this bad for them. 

 

As far as Hendrix and The Stones...still the best - along with a few others from that era.

Edited August 10, 2021 by DBath

[DBath]

5 minutes ago, HeijoshinCool said:

.

 

I'm half Brit, half Yank, and funny....

 

Many people have told me I'm a half wit.

Don't listen to them, just be you!

 

My ex-boss is British and we've become quite good friends over the years. I hated working for him, but we always have a gut-splitting time when we get together for beers or whatever. We always managed to maintain our friendship, even now that I'm retired. Few friends have I ever had who are as loyal as that guy.

 

I can remember when I dated my first wife we used to watch Monty Python Saturday nights at her parents house and is was great - those are some good memories. I wish I could say the same about being married to her...

[Alwaysthailand]

Anywhere, as long as its in Thailand.  Definitely NOT UK, prefer HELL first.

[HashBrownHarry]

On 8/6/2021 at 4:07 PM, ExpatOilWorker said:

Ellesmere Island sounds interesting,  but Koh Tao will have to do for now.

Very nice

[malthebluff]

On 8/9/2021 at 7:53 AM, ExpatOilWorker said:

That is a pretty desolate place, not even a palm tree to sit under.

Since we are just dreaming, I would like a few days exploring Pitcain Island and walk in the footsteps of Fletcher Christian. 

I been there went with  a supply ship a long time ago now