the third world - Heathrow airport

On May 9, 8:50 am, erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <1178655696.594656.146...@e51g2000hsg. .com>,
>
> Iceman <oneofc...m> wrote:
> > Anyone who complains about airports like Heathrow obviously hasn't
> > spent any time in real Third World airports.
>
> Heathrow was a pain, but nowhere near as bad as CDG.


Heathrow and CDG don't have packs of unlicensed taxi drivers hassling
you. They don't have airport staff who ask for bribes to do their
jobs. You don't have to worry about your checked bags being opened
and looted. They don't have endless delays for no reason. And there
are some stores and some minimal places to eat or get a drink if
you're stuck there for a couple hours. Fly into Guadalajara or Seoul-
Kimpo or almost any Indian or African airport and get back to us.

"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote
in message news:d9si43t3q1b2vka996ui63q7q7leseomte@...
> Make credence recognised that on Mon, 14 May 2007 22:48:13 GMT,
> "William Black" <william.black@.uk> has scripted:
>
>>
>>"Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
>>news:f2an8e$hg9$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
>>> William Black wrote:
>>>
>>>> Texas remains the most foreign place I've ever been to...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You must either be joking, or you haven't been around much!
>>
>>Nope.
>>
>>I've travelled quite a lot.
>>
>>Texas remains almost completely alien to me. The people are nice but not
>>on
>>the planet in any meaningful sense.
>
> Whilst I agree that Texans are quite alien, Japan completely outranks
> anywhere else I've seen for foreignness.
>
> Ex-pats frequently refer to it as Mars.

I've never been to Japan.

I'm told it can be very odd indeed.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:

>>Seriously, an airport's offering transportation for the crippled,
>>lame and lazy is well and good. It isn't that I object to, but
>>the clash between these motorized carts and foot traffic. It's
>>fundamentally the same objection that some have to those Segway
>>things.
>
>
> The only place I've ever seen a Segway was at Schiphol (used by the
> security guards). They seemed like a good idea for that situation.
> Do other airports use them?
>

I think that it is a more generic complaint about folks using motorized
vehicles in pedestrian areas.

In article <bogus-1AC3B7.14262516052007@news.news.demon.net>,
Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@purr.> wrote:
>
> The only place I've ever seen a Segway was at Schiphol (used by the
> security guards). They seemed like a good idea for that situation.
> Do other airports use them?
>

Yes. BWI the police use them to zip around. Puts them up higher and lets
them move faster.

Deeply Filled Mortician writes:

> Don't you think they'd rather walk?


Of course I do. My complaint isn't with the passenegrs
of the carts, but with their drivers who expect the crowds
to part before them like the Red Sea.



Geoff

--
"As Tim would never say about your kind, you
need to be put to death." -- Steve Thompson

Deeply Filled Mortician writes:

> Lest I moan, having to live in a world with cripples,
> old, and useless folk it's a price worth paying, even
> though I'm unlikely to be one.


You're just chock-full of dewy-eyed compassion, aren't you?

Someday society will reach some sort of tipping point, and
there'll be a burn-off of useless eaters.



Geoff

--
"As Tim would never say about your kind, you
need to be put to death." -- Steve Thompson

On 22 mei, 15:31, geo...@lava.net (Geoff Miller) wrote:

> Sometimes simply staying alive at all costs isn't properly a
> military person's highest objective. 'Course, you've probably
> never served in the military, which would go a long way toward
> explaining your inability to grasp this.

Tell us more about your military service Geoff - was it the Marines?

Or perhaps some other less perilous branch?

B;