The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

I'm so jealous of people who can just turn sleep on and off.

Read more of my posts, that should help you.

[PDH]

I'm so jealous of people who can just turn sleep on and off.

Read more of my posts, that should help you.

But you erase them too fast...

[grumbler]

I'm so jealous of people who can just turn sleep on and off.

Read more of my posts, that should help you.

But you erase them too fast...

Who are you responding to?

[CountDeMoney]

I'm so jealous of people who can just turn sleep on and off.

Don't be that jealous.  Not all of us got to pick our superpower: some of us got "narcolepsy" picked for us.      

[Grey Fox]

Apparently in French the word eventually merely means possibly rather than ultimately.
And not many native speakers are aware of this.
That's a war starting false friend that is.

That's a well known false friend actually, one which was mentioned in English classes. Though I believe some French-speaking Canadians use it with the same meaning as the Anglos.

Yeah, I use it in both ways. I didn't know that wasn't universal.

[The Larch]

It's the Daily Hail, but what the heck, it¡s funny. 

Two friends living in Newcastle and Birmingham met up in Malaga because it was cheaper to fly to SPAIN than getting the train to see each other
Lucy Walker, from Newcastle, and Zara Quli, from Birmingham, planned to meet
Rail fare between cities was £105, but Lucy found Ryanair return flight for £20
Zara got flight from Birmingham for £55.59 and accommodation cost just £10
The two trips totalling 6,000 miles were cheaper than one 150-mile train fare

[MadBurgerMaker]

That's super cheap for a 2700 mile round trip. That's similar to flying from here to Chicago and back.  How bad does flying on this Ryanair airline suck?

[The Larch]

That's super cheap for a 2700 mile round trip. That's similar to flying from here to Chicago and back.  How bad does flying on this Ryanair airline suck?

It used to be akin to cattle transport with wings, but it has improved lately. That kind of offers (round trips from the UK to random Mediterranean destinations), which are indeed dirt cheap, are not unusual with low cost airlines, that's why our coastal cities down there get filled with chavs every year. 

[CountDeMoney]

Meh, see adverts like that all the time with airlines like Southwest, which always makes you ask two questions: 

1) Wow, it's really $39 to Jacksonville this weekend?, and
2) Who the fuck wants to go to Jacksonville?

[katmai]

Jaguar fans??

[mongers]

Meh, see adverts like that all the time with airlines like Southwest, which always makes you ask two questions: 

1) Wow, it's really $39 to Jacksonville this weekend?, and
2) Who the fuck wants to go to Jacksonville?

Well both have water, not sure what else in common.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=malaga&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=3xa&channel=suggest&prmd=ivnsm&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi56e_hl8XRAhVFK8AKHdrfA10Q_AUIBQ



https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jacksonville&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=Uya&channel=suggest&prmd=ivnsm&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjItOPul8XRAhWhC8AKHcq1B6UQ_AUIBQ

[CountDeMoney]

Shut up.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Meh, see adverts like that all the time with airlines like Southwest, which always makes you ask two questions: 

1) Wow, it's really $39 to Jacksonville this weekend?, and
2) Who the fuck wants to go to Jacksonville?

Only Southwest things I've seen anymore are the $59 one way deals.   This is poundsymbol20 for a round trip. 

[grumbler]

Only Southwest things I've seen anymore are the $59 one way deals.   This is poundsymbol20 for a round trip.

There's no way that's a regular ticket, or even a regularly scheduled ticket.  Twenty quid won't pay for the marginal gas to carry the person, let alone the administrative marginal costs to book and issue tickets, etc.  Gotta be a promotional loss leader.

[Razgovory]

I ordered chicken in garlic sauce from a Chinese delivery place. I ended up with an entire bowl of Broccoli.