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[fettoken]

Never been to. Checking some images; looks like a total dump.

 

[Moriath]

Schipol has a sudo irish bar in it. And a museum. Thats about it. Usually miles to walk. Hate t1-4 at heathrow. T5 is nice.

Berlin airport is cool cause its small. But i heard they are gonna move it outside the city that will make it pish.

I do like madrid airport. If i have to like one. But generally i dislike airports.

 

[Lamp]

Windows 10 Smartscreen Filter

I've disabled it... But my laptop won't let me download a file I need to root my tablet. So apparently I can't disable it.

Is it MY laptop or Microsoft's?

Can anyone tell me if its possible to properly disable Smartscreen Filter then reinstate it after my files have been downloaded?

 

[Edmond]

Fucking wide awake, can't sleep!!!

 

[Bodhi]

Schipol has a sudo irish bar in it. And a museum. Thats about it. Usually miles to walk. Hate t1-4 at heathrow. T5 is nice.

Berlin airport is cool cause its small. But i heard they are gonna move it outside the city that will make it pish.

I do like madrid airport. If i have to like one. But generally i dislike airports.

Schiphol also has a Casino in it now. And cheese. Lots and lots of cheese.

I'd say of all the airports I've flown through its probably my favourite, but like you say, it's a bit like saying chlamydia is my favourite sexually transmitted disease.

Can I also nominate nighttime motorway closures? It's just taken me 4 hours to get from Luton to Stafford, leaving at 11 in the evening. 2 of those were to get onto the M1.

After getting up at 4 to catch the flight out, you could say it's been a long day.

 

[Tom]

I'll take most of those airports over Manchester, an airport the council seem to think is something to be proud of (they own it). The place is fucking horrible. Extremely cramped check-in areas, security isn't too bad but once you're through you end up in what can only be described as an Arndale centre from the 1980s with not enough seats, every one of them occupied by some tanorexic tracksuit-wearing nobber. It's horrible.

I like Barcelona airport tbh.

 

[Scouse]

Fucking wide awake, can't sleep!!!

It's 12:59am. What you doing in bed already you gay!

It's 02:39 here. I got up at 8, ten miles on the bike round yosemite, had breakfast, eighteen mile hike up to a snow-closed half dome (had to stop 500 yards short of summit because of conditions) and a six hour drive back to LA.

Just spent the last hour browsing the web. Sleep gives you cancer Vivian.

 

[DaGaffer]

what what what? Schiphol is a shithole

I used to like Schiphol, but my last visit changed my mind, getting from EU to non-EU for connecting flights is a pain in the arse, and its all looking a bit thredbare these days. And KLM lost my luggage, because they're French now.

 

[Lakih]

Agree with @Tom Barcelona Airport is nice. So is Heathrow T5 and what i've seen of Chicago O'Hare Airport. The place is crazy big but still easy to get around in.

 

[DaGaffer]

Schipol has a sudo irish bar in it. And a museum. Thats about it. Usually miles to walk. Hate t1-4 at heathrow. T5 is nice.

Berlin airport is cool cause its small. But i heard they are gonna move it outside the city that will make it pish.

I do like madrid airport. If i have to like one. But generally i dislike airports.

Actually Heathrow T2 is alright now since the refurb. Decent food, plenty of shops and seats and security is fairly slick.

Stanstead used to be a good bet because it was easy to get in and out quickly, but they've fucked it up with their IKEA-fied duty free and stupid signage.

Singapore is the only airport I've ever actually enjoyed spending time in. They actually have options if you want to sleep (proper lie down recliners) and the bar in the middle is great because it has an outside terrace. Good shops as well.

 

[Moriath]

Actually Heathrow T2 is alright now since the refurb. Decent food, plenty of shops and seats and security is fairly slick.

Stanstead used to be a good bet because it was easy to get in and out quickly, but they've fucked it up with their IKEA-fied duty free and stupid signage.

Singapore is the only airport I've ever actually enjoyed spending time in. They actually have options if you want to sleep (proper lie down recliners) and the bar in the middle is great because it has an outside terrace. Good shops as well.

I havent been there sonce t2 opened. But i hate the i ternal road network around the t1-3 in heathrow.

 

[Gwadien]

Actually Heathrow T2 is alright now since the refurb. Decent food, plenty of shops and seats and security is fairly slick.

Stanstead used to be a good bet because it was easy to get in and out quickly, but they've fucked it up with their IKEA-fied duty free and stupid signage.

Singapore is the only airport I've ever actually enjoyed spending time in. They actually have options if you want to sleep (proper lie down recliners) and the bar in the middle is great because it has an outside terrace. Good shops as well.

East mids is SO bad for this.

 

[Gwadien]

Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War

This...

The BBC oddly running pro-Irish very anti-English shows.

Call me old fashioned or what ever, but this just seems damn right bizarre, down to the language used in the documentary.

Stuff like 'England was at war' - No, Britain was at war.

Views? Or am I just being old fashioned?

 

[fettoken]

Semi-retarded headlines from a semi-respectable newspaper in Sweden which reads "Coca-Cola does not believe in taxing sugar"..

 

[DaGaffer]

Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War

This...

The BBC oddly running pro-Irish very anti-English shows.

Call me old fashioned or what ever, but this just seems damn right bizarre, down to the language used in the documentary.

Stuff like 'England was at war' - No, Britain was at war.

Views? Or am I just being old fashioned?

Its always preferable for the Irish to pin imperialism on the English and leave the Scots and Welsh out of it (even though NI was mainly settled by Scotsmen); and in Ireland's case, the place was an English colony before it was a British one; which is why you sometimes get that language, even if it is inaccurate.

That actual show is an RTE production and given the centenary of the rising its inevitable that everywhere is awash with shows and books about 1916; most of which is romanticised hogwash. Which isn't to say the British weren't a shower of cunts after the Rising, but given what was going on in France their reaction wasn't exactly surprising, even if it was also tactically stupid.

 

[Gwadien]

Its always preferable for the Irish to pin imperialism on the English and leave the Scots and Welsh out of it (even though NI was mainly settled by Scotsmen); and in Ireland's case, the place was an English colony before it was a British one; which is why you sometimes get that language, even if it is inaccurate.

That actual show is an RTE production and given the centenary of the rising its inevitable that everywhere is awash with shows and books about 1916; most of which is romanticised hogwash. Which isn't to say the British weren't a shower of cunts after the Rising, but given what was going on in France their reaction wasn't exactly surprising, even if it was also tactically stupid.

Don't get me wrong, Irish independence is a wonderful thing - in that matter, any group of people that want independence should be able to achieve it. (If that makes them feel better - but borders on predominantly religious grounds today is meh.)

My problem with the show was that there were parts of it that just seemed totally ridiculous - especially since the UK and Ireland are meant to be working more closely together... As an Irish viewer, I'd imagine that I would view that as Brits are cunts, since they totally wiped their hands of the fact that they fought during WW1 and that barely mattered, and then massacred down a bunch of kids that got off boats to fight 'the germans' (as it is repeated in the show)

I also got the impression that the Women who's sons and husbands were fighting in WW1 were also demonised by the show, saying 'Lol, they're anti-revolutionary, that didn't want a free Ireland!'

Home Rule was slow, and bureaucratic, but I honestly believe over time that Ireland would have achieved its independence without going to such extreme measures.

Also parts like 'America condemned the executions' - Well yeah, they're a Country born from a revolution, that's fine and all, but in order to make friends again, you need to accept mistakes which were made, on both sides.

I just feel that the Irish don't celebrate the fact they got independence, they celebrate the fact that they managed to embarrass the 'English' and frankly, it's backward for improved relations.

OH AND AS A FINAL POINT.

Something on the lines of 'Ireland was invaded in the 12th Century by England.'

Okay, whilst that's probably technically true, you actually got invaded by the French.

I feel like @Job

 

[fettoken]

You are Job but with better sentence composition.

 

[Gwadien]

You are Job but with better sentence composition.

If I didn't enjoy your responses to '#Apartmentgate' that would warrant an ignore.

 

[DaGaffer]

Don't get me wrong, Irish independence is a wonderful thing - in that matter, any group of people that want independence should be able to achieve it. (If that makes them feel better - but borders on predominantly religious grounds today is meh.)

My problem with the show was that there were parts of it that just seemed totally ridiculous - especially since the UK and Ireland are meant to be working more closely together... As an Irish viewer, I'd imagine that I would view that as Brits are cunts, since they totally wiped their hands of the fact that they fought during WW1 and that barely mattered, and then massacred down a bunch of kids that got off boats to fight 'the germans' (as it is repeated in the show)

I also got the impression that the Women who's sons and husbands were fighting in WW1 were also demonised by the show, saying 'Lol, they're anti-revolutionary, that didn't want a free Ireland!'

Home Rule was slow, and bureaucratic, but I honestly believe over time that Ireland would have achieved its independence without going to such extreme measures.

Also parts like 'America condemned the executions' - Well yeah, they're a Country born from a revolution, that's fine and all, but in order to make friends again, you need to accept mistakes which were made, on both sides.

I just feel that the Irish don't celebrate the fact they got independence, they celebrate the fact that they managed to embarrass the 'English' and frankly, it's backward for improved relations.

OH AND AS A FINAL POINT.

Something on the lines of 'Ireland was invaded in the 12th Century by England.'

Okay, whilst that's probably technically true, you actually got invaded by the French.

I feel like @Job

Actually you've just given a potted history of how the Irish themselves have felt about things before, during and after independence. You're almost certainly right about Home Rule, but it had been snatched away before, so there's always the belief in Ireland that the British could and would have gone back on their promises anyway. Plus, there was simply a section of Ireland that didn't want to be given independence, they wanted to take it, which was why they had a civil war over the Free State.

Its interesting for me because I can see the romanticised version of events taught in schools over here (and it is romanticised because its the single most important thing that's happened here in history) and in the UK its barely known, mainly because WWI looms so large in our history of the period.

And yes, you're right about the Normans, but there's also a second part to that; there was no "Ireland" at the time either.

 

[Gwadien]

Actually you've just given a potted history of how the Irish themselves have felt about things before, during and after independence. You're almost certainly right about Home Rule, but it had been snatched away before, so there's always the belief in Ireland that the British could and would have gone back on their promises anyway. Plus, there was simply a section of Ireland that didn't want to be given independence, they wanted to take it, which was why they had a civil war over the Free State.

Its interesting for me because I can see the romanticised version of events taught in schools over here (and it is romanticised because its the single most important thing that's happened here in history) and in the UK its barely known, mainly because WWI looms so large in our history of the period.

And yes, you're right about the Normans, but there's also a second part to that; there was no "Ireland" at the time either.

I did an entire module on Home Rule at College, but I guess that's the point - higher education - not mainstream education, even that was about how we were absolutely wrong in everything we did and the Irish were absolutely right.

 

[DaGaffer]

I did an entire module on Home Rule at College, but I guess that's the point - higher education - not mainstream education, even that was about how we were absolutely wrong in everything we did and the Irish were absolutely right.

To be honest, in the case of Ireland we were a lot more wrong than right; but they've also had direct experience of how their own "betters" can (literally) abuse the population, and I think Britain is less of a bogeyman now. Personally I've never had any negativity about being a Brit in nearly eight years here (touch wood).

 

[old.user4556]

I see your Shannon and raise you a Luton. Absolute fucking toilet. I dislike it even more than CDG.

I see your Shannon and Luton, and raise you Beauvais - what a shithole. I had the misfortune of flying Ryan Air out of there when I was in France.

Someone mentioned T5 at Heathrow - stunning place.

 

[Bodhi]

T5 is nice but makes the criminal mistake of not having a smoking area, which sucks if you have an upcoming 11 hour flight and want to load up on nicotine.

I'm flying again on Monday, and as a demonstration of how bad Easyjet were, I've seen I'm flying Air Chance and I'm thinking - at last, a proper airline.

 

[Gwadien]

To be honest, in the case of Ireland we were a lot more wrong than right; but they've also had direct experience of how their own "betters" can (literally) abuse the population, and I think Britain is less of a bogeyman now. Personally I've never had any negativity about being a Brit in nearly eight years here (touch wood).

I suppose it primarily depends when you're from..

Frankly, it's this kinda shit that makes me not like the people who don't like us for no apparent reason/or old redundant reason - and it was obvious from that documentary that it was 50% nationalism 50% slagging off Britain, whereas if you look at similar American stuff, it's primarily about the Americans, not about the British.

Because you know, they've moved on.

 

[DaGaffer]

I suppose it primarily depends when you're from..

Frankly, it's this kinda shit that makes me not like the people who don't like us for no apparent reason/or old redundant reason - and it was obvious from that documentary that it was 50% nationalism 50% slagging off Britain, whereas if you look at similar American stuff, it's primarily about the Americans, not about the British.

Because you know, they've moved on.

"Moving on" isn't really a thing in Ireland, but then us Brits aren't exactly innocent either; two world wars and one World Cup anyone?

 

[Gwadien]

"Moving on" isn't really a thing in Ireland, but then us Brits aren't exactly innocent either; two world wars and one World Cup anyone?

Hmm...

I think the 2 world wars and 1 world cup thing is a bit more of a laugh really, more of a 'we won' and Germans do take it as a joke, I've rarely played games for instance with a German which takes offence to it.

Whereas the Irish wouldn't accept it as a joke as much, I mean, you can make IRA jokes with NI people, but that's about it, they wouldn't start making jokes about the famine for instance, it's all super serious stuff, weird, since the Germans don't have a sense of humour at the 'persons of the British Isles' do.

 

[DaGaffer]

Hmm...

I think the 2 world wars and 1 world cup thing is a bit more of a laugh really, more of a 'we won' and Germans do take it as a joke, I've rarely played games for instance with a German which takes offence to it.

Whereas the Irish wouldn't accept it as a joke as much, I mean, you can make IRA jokes with NI people, but that's about it, they wouldn't start making jokes about the famine for instance, it's all super serious stuff, weird, since the Germans don't have a sense of humour at the 'persons of the British Isles' do.

Making jokes about the famine is akin to making jokes about slavery to black Americans; and you don't make holocaust jokes with Germans. But you can make jokes about the British running the place for 700 years no problem. Irish people get more offended when you point out that lots of "uniquely Irish" things are exactly the same as the UK

 

[Bodhi]

"Moving on" isn't really a thing in Ireland, but then us Brits aren't exactly innocent either; two world wars and one World Cup anyone?

Certain sections of a certain part of the UK haven't got over a big scrap in a field 700 years ago....

 

[Moriath]

Two ww and one world cup isnt like genocide or mass famine. You dont poke fun at etheopians.

 

[Gwadien]

Making jokes about the famine is akin to making jokes about slavery to black Americans; and you don't make holocaust jokes with Germans. But you can make jokes about the British running the place for 700 years no problem. Irish people get more offended when you point out that lots of "uniquely Irish" things are exactly the same as the UK

Germans don't take their identity from the British though, it seems the Irish seem to have their identity ingrained into the fact that they're 'former Brits'

I guess that's because when you take away religion, that's pretty much what they are, hence why they try and grasp onto their dying language and 'culture' in resistance to modern culture; I'm sure if you ask the vast majority of people below the age of 40 if they care about 'traditional Irish stuff' they'll be like lol no, but education will still cause them to be anti-'Engritish'