Random stuff - the anything else thread
Oct 28th 2016 | 7:30 am
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Don't bother with that. Just check in and then make your way to the Fairmont airport hotel lounge and have some nice tapas and some wobbly pops while you're waiting for your boarding time.
Oct 28th 2016 | 7:30 am
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Oct 28th 2016 | 7:31 am
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Oct 28th 2016 | 10:58 am
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Things you don't like to see before flying in a couple days.
Airplanes catching fire.
Seems American had a plane catch fire in Chicago, and Fedex had one catch fire in Florida.
FedEx Plane Catches Fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport | NBC 6 South Florida
20 Injured After American Airlines Plane Catches Fire at Chicago's O'Hare Airport - ABC News
Always amazed to see people with luggage running from a plane on fire, my luggage would be the last thing I would think of let alone take the time to grab it.
Airplanes catching fire.
Seems American had a plane catch fire in Chicago, and Fedex had one catch fire in Florida.
FedEx Plane Catches Fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport | NBC 6 South Florida
20 Injured After American Airlines Plane Catches Fire at Chicago's O'Hare Airport - ABC News
Always amazed to see people with luggage running from a plane on fire, my luggage would be the last thing I would think of let alone take the time to grab it.
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Oct 29th 2016 | 9:32 am
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Oct 29th 2016 | 11:16 am
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
can any New Brunswickian expat verify the assertion on this weeks QI that there is a waterfall in St John that periodically flows upwards? And has anybody actually seen this?
Oct 29th 2016 | 12:41 pm
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Along with Magnetic Hill it's an example of a backwards province.
Oct 29th 2016 | 10:01 pm
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That sounds like the reversing falls
Along with Magnetic Hill it's an example of a backwards province.
Along with Magnetic Hill it's an example of a backwards province.
I felt much the same about the Tidal Bore of the Chocolate River...I wouldn't go to do it again on further trips to Moncton.
I loved Irish Park though, one of the nicest, well marked, trail systems I've come across...I walked for hours saw lots of wildlife but didn't feel that one false turn and I'd be lost in the middle of nowhere.
Oct 30th 2016 | 12:50 am
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I can imagine. 
I can't believe they even call it a bore (not that kind anyway 
) but people come from far and wide to actually surf it. People from the US last year and this year there were even a couple who came over from Bristol 
to ride it (nothing to do with me). But they've got the Severn Bore just up the road. 
I felt much the same about the Tidal Bore of the Chocolate River...
) but people come from far and wide to actually surf it. People from the US last year and this year there were even a couple who came over from Bristol to ride it (nothing to do with me). But they've got the Severn Bore just up the road.
Oct 30th 2016 | 1:30 am
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The automated machine at US customs and immigration didn't like me. Put a giant X across my picture.
Got sent to a human who was very pleasent and polite.
The machines were not here 6 years ago, so much easier and quicker vs the old days.
CATSA had us go through the Nexus line as the normal line was long and nobody seemed to have Nexus based on nobody being in that line.
Glad we didn't arrive 3 hours like they say, arrived in shuttle 5:45 at gate 6:05.
As long as there are no delays at LAX where we connect, should be home by 2p in the nicer city to the south.
Got sent to a human who was very pleasent and polite.
The machines were not here 6 years ago, so much easier and quicker vs the old days.
CATSA had us go through the Nexus line as the normal line was long and nobody seemed to have Nexus based on nobody being in that line.
Glad we didn't arrive 3 hours like they say, arrived in shuttle 5:45 at gate 6:05.
As long as there are no delays at LAX where we connect, should be home by 2p in the nicer city to the south.
Oct 30th 2016 | 4:54 am
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
The automated machine at US customs and immigration didn't like me. Put a giant X across my picture.
Got sent to a human who was very pleasent and polite.
The machines were not here 6 years ago, so much easier and quicker vs the old days.
CATSA had us go through the Nexus line as the normal line was long and nobody seemed to have Nexus based on nobody being in that line.
Glad we didn't arrive 3 hours like they say, arrived in shuttle 5:45 at gate 6:05.
As long as there are no delays at LAX where we connect, should be home by 2p in the nicer city to the south.
Got sent to a human who was very pleasent and polite.
The machines were not here 6 years ago, so much easier and quicker vs the old days.
CATSA had us go through the Nexus line as the normal line was long and nobody seemed to have Nexus based on nobody being in that line.
Glad we didn't arrive 3 hours like they say, arrived in shuttle 5:45 at gate 6:05.
As long as there are no delays at LAX where we connect, should be home by 2p in the nicer city to the south.
Oct 30th 2016 | 7:23 am
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It shall be a little late then planned. The last flight is delayed an hour and some change. Late inbound flight.
As they say Delta stands for Does Eventually Leave The Airport...lol
Weird how everytime I fly Delta they run late. Can't recall ever getting to the destination on schedule.
They did upgrade us to Comfort Class Coach so a tad more leg room due to the delays.
As they say Delta stands for Does Eventually Leave The Airport...lol
Weird how everytime I fly Delta they run late. Can't recall ever getting to the destination on schedule.
They did upgrade us to Comfort Class Coach so a tad more leg room due to the delays.
Oct 30th 2016 | 8:09 am
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British Airways pilot suspended for 'photos of him performing sex acts at 38,000ft' | Daily Mail Online
