Egg and Cress

Have you ever traveled BA, Flybe or actually caught a train?? Time zones? - very confusing

tonrob

I do 90% of my flying on BA (3 or 4 return trips to the UK per year plus some EU flights) and I've traveled by train across America, Europe and various parts of Asia, Australia and New Zealand. None of that was terribly confusing. Must admit I've never had the pleasure of Flybe so can't comment on how they represent time zones in their timetables.

CAdreaming

Im going to take this off topic but Im allowed as it was my topic to start with
Tonrob im not sure but do you fly to Teesside and if so which route? I had a nightmare journey from SF to Manchester via JFK then train to the boro last week - couldve got to the moon quicker
I might go from SF via Amsterdam next time but its so expensive
If its not you who is the boro boy then no worries

Ah now think i am mixing you up with Yorkieabroad!!!

snowbunny

Oh dear lord not another timezone.... what it really cocks up is computers. Because they all have to be updated, and since many businesses don't like to update for fear of breaking things, they don't remember how to do it.

I did not sleep the entire weekend that the US daylight time switch was mucked with because I was working helping everyone update their computers. Venezuela's little prank, on the other hand, did not cause a blip.

tonrob

But not really a biggie in the grand scheme of things, right? Once it's fixed it's fixed? I was more taking issue with the usual standard of twaddle that the plonker who brought it up posts on here.

tonrob

Even when I fly the Teesside flag so proudly at the bottom of each of my posts?

zargof

Plus I'm sure you've crossed the border from England to Wales several times without a problem and Wales is what 200 years behind...

lyonsden1193

Slightly off title.. how did I know I was back in Blighty....

Dustbin men in Southampton were on strike! City centre looked like a pigstye
Petrol was 1.32(gbp) per litre (ouch!)
NOTW was in the news for doing something wrong!!
The cooked breakfasts tasted great
Nobody needed me to repeat anything!!!
Fresh air and a breeze (no stale dead air like in memphis)
Marks and Spencers
Fresh cream eclairs
Real cups of tea
and sitting on the M25 at rush hour going nowhere!

CAdreaming

Ah so thats what that little red dragon is !!! I thought i'd seen it flying in the boro!!!

Lothianlad

All the computers I work on, at home and at work, are automatically updated timewise when the UK switches to BST at the end of March each year and then back to GMT again at the end of October.

You know what the British public are like over the simplest of changes - they whine and whinge and as this is a very tiny country geographically they may not get their heads round any clock time difference between Scotland and England and subsequent amendments on all time schedules. Anyway, it's all academic - it just won't ever happen. It's too daft for words.

Lothianlad

And many Welsh people are grateful for it.....they nip over the border to England, see what it's like, then nip back into Wales again and thank heaven for being 200 years behind, vowing never to make the same mistakes.

zargof

I don't understand, the English have never made any mistakes.

Lothianlad

This begs the question - why even bother wasting your time responding to what you consider twaddle posted by someone you consider to be a plonker?

Lothianlad

I think the official medical /psychiatric term is "denial".

lyonsden1193

Thats not true. we forgot to put a toll booth on both sides of the Severn bridge!