Recent content by Honkie

Maybe these girls (?) have the answer...........

Old enough to know better, but young enough to say "Ah F**k it! Stuff the rules and lets go for it" every once in a while.

Polled in the 51 - 100 category (all female) The last one of those became the missus, faithful since we starting dating up to this very day. Had a good time prior though   ;D  ;D  ;D Once did a comparitive survey with three colleagues of all the different nationalities of women we had all...

So are the airports are trying to operate way above their design/throughput capacity during peak times or they usually well below capacity during regular periods and don't bother to staff up when the holiday rush kicks in? Just curious Cheers

How great is the US of A ?? An international view - from the outside looking in...... Used to be considered great. Observations lately are not so good and getting worse. On the evidence of the past few years, the downhill trend is accelerating and recent events have only increased the pace.

.....and why is Baseball / Softball an Olympic sport? Given that most participants are stationary for extensive periods of time and very very few other countries have even the remotest interest in it?

I presume this was a US internal flight? So why so long at the airport? Mine was an international flight, so I had to pass through an Immigration Control 4 times and still didn't spend more than 2.25 hours in the airport IN TOTAL.

I never expect much from airline catered food, if it's a longer flight I usually bring my own. This flight was only a little over an hour so it wasn't a problem:  but the coffee, juice and fruit were all pretty good. Suprisingly the "house red" on the flight back was quite palatable too.  ;)...

Flew on EVA - only a short flight from Hong Kong to Taipei, aircraft was a B747 Out and back in the same day. Left home at 9:30am Check in at 10am Depart 11:10am Arrive Taipei 12:45pm Through Immigration, in Taxi and in office downtown by 2pm Meeting for 2.5 hours In car at 4:30pm, at airport...

It was an old attempt to encourage more women participants - get a version of sweeping up and mopping on the events list. ;) (Blue touch paper lit.....now going to stand well, well back.............!!!!!)

I know this is an odd topic, but I thought I would report that today I ate my in-flight "meal" using a real, good, old fashioned stainless steel fork AND KNIFE. Given the food is usually prepared to the texture and consistency of boot sole, it is about time that they stopped adding insult to...

Smoked a fair amount in my "youth" back home and still enjoy a joint when I go to Europe - flying on KLM via Amsterdam I put a half day between connecting flights in Amsterdam to head downtown. Helps towards the recovery from a 12 hour flight (that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!)  :P In a...

Maybe your man Rush is one of the following 20%............ • Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the Earth. Seventeen percent believe the Earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005). Or maybe he just thinks the world revolves around him......

A couple of "factoids" to put US health and medical provision to THE WHOLE POPULATION into persepective (facts kindly provided my colleague, who happens to be American and an excellent researcher) - all from various official US statistical sources OR the NYT) • The World Health Organization...

CFB - in true "Newbie Pollster" fashion, you are a category or three missing. I polled as "Not retired yet, mortgage" - more accurately I am "Not retired yet, mortgageS",   three to be exact. In US$ equiv's Residence: 290k o/s  value 1mill Rental #1:  256K o/s  value 510k Rental#2:   438K o/s...