Airport lounge rules beaten 😁

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Hi can I have a double gin and tonic please?
Sorry we only do singles.
OK can I have a gin and tonic and a gin please?
Yes.
Me pours gin into gin and tonic
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Interrogation!!!!?

I've booked the lounge for my flight in a few weeks so I can get quietly chilled over a few wines beforehand without fighting anyone for a table in Wetherspoons. They are going to question me on what I've drunk???

I'm not having a go, just putting it this out there for others to think about as I'm guessing most people don't think of this angle.

There's a really good reason for the weight limit. If the overhead locker is overloaded, it can open on a hard landing or turbulance and there have been people severely injured (and I believe killed) by overweight luggage falling out onto someone's head.

So unfortunately, if several people all do what you did (and I understand why people do it to the extortionate amount airlines charge for hold luggage, which is another thread entirely and something I cannot justify) then you actually contribute to what could be a really dangerous situation.

I know it doesn't seem much weight, just your purse, phone and Kindle but if everyone does it with things they might not take out again to use on the flight so add to the weight, you can see the problem.

Think yourself lucky with just a snakebite refusal.
Back in the 70's many pubs would not serve women with a pint of anything - it wasn't ladylike.
Those enlightened enough to seve a woman a pint would often not allow it to be served in a jug ( beer glass with handle). It wasn't ladylike.
Didn't bother me, i preferred a vodka and lime.

Went to Mcdonald for Grandson Chicken nuggets .
Can l have 15 Chicken nuggets please.
We only do 6 or 9 or 20.
Can l have a box of 6 and a box of 9 please .
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I wasn't a student in the conventional sense but had plenty of student friends.

One of them did some impressively high quality research into what was the cheapest drink available per unit of alcohol and found that this was Lambrini. So this was his 'student house party' drink for three years of university and quite some time afterwards.

The same crazy prices for McDonalds and Burger King apply in Spain. The ordinary sites are bad, the airports and shopping centres worse.

You can have an excellent Menu del Día meal almost anywhere for about half the price. (three courses including drinks and coffee)

The burger joint’s food quality is often terrible too. The ordinary sites are usually frequented by teenagers only.

Oh come on. No-one's been killed because someone's hand luggage weighed 6.5 kilos instead of 6.

Especially as just about every other airline allows 10 kg and Easyjet's is unlimited but you're supposed to be able to lift the bag into the locker yourself.

NHS classes that much a binge drinking. I can see why they wanted to prewarn the airline.

That sounds grim 😂

We used to play a game called.............'the can game'.

You needs one of those quarter bottles of vodka and a can of coke. Open the can and take sip, then replace what you drank from the can with vodka. Repeat until both vessels were empty. Often played when i queues to get into Steam Rock/Thekla/Lakotas/Blue Mountain/Odyssey/Kickers (yes I went to Bristol uni).

You are actually joking right?!
It was 3x100 ml flutes of Prosecco, so just over a large 250ml glass of wine.
But yep, pre warn the airline about this raging alcoholic about to board 🤣

The 20 box is significantly cheaper than the 6 and 9 added together though! (Don't ask how I know)

NHS guidance ws obviously written by the MN 'more than a thimble full of sherry at Christmas means you're an alcoholic' crew because no-one's going to be unfit to fly on 3 glasses of prosecco, which is less than half a bottle of just about the weakest proper wine available, over 2 hours.

I promise you the bar staff find the rule just as irritating as the customers.

I've worked in bars that had stupid rules about that sort of thing and most of us were secretly in agreement with the customer about how ridiculous it was. I remember working in a place where you could buy a four-pint pitcher of beer more cheaply than four separate pints of beer, so customers wanting a round of four pints but who were standing up and had no table upon which to place a pitcher would - very reasonably - ask why I couldn't just pour them four separate pints for the discounted price of a pitcher, as it was exactly the same quantity of beer. I wasn't allowed to do that. So I frequently used to pour a four-pint pitcher and then just decant it into their four separate glasses for them right there on the bar. Ridiculous.

It's probably not still the case because like everything else, McDonalds has shot up in price, but it used to be that, if you wanted more than 6 nuggets, you might as well buy 20 because it was something like £2.69 for 6, £3.69 for 9 or £4.29 for 20. Mad.

But now the dog whistle for McDonalds and binge eating has been blown, so stand back for the arrival of more fun sponges.

Oh, do give over. It's about the same amount of alcohol as one large glass of red.

Fuck knows how any of us ever graduated!

@CorvusPurpureus our local offie asked us all concerned if we currently had exams. With a look!

Fuck knows how we graduated either. Training I think.

British Airways lounge was self service last time I was there( years ago got a free upgrade). I didn’t believe it as I was a naive 20 something. We both sat down and watched in case we had assumed wrongly and then tentatively got up and poured ourselves champagne. Had we paid Club Class we would have got stuck straight in as it’s sooo much money.

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Oh the half a glass of sherry at Christmas or you’d better sign up for rehab brigade have arrived early on this thread 🙄

I'd be annoyed at being served 100ml of prosecco - the measure is 125ml thus getting 6 glasses per bottle. There is no 100ml measure either - they are 25ml, 50ml, 125ml, 175ml and 250ml (1st two are used for spirits and are combined up to 75ml and the last 3 are for wine). 😉

Not everyone is a rowdy drunk after a few drinks. I’m more likely to be mellow and sleepy! Plus many people have a drink to relax them as they get nervous flying.

I once went for a Christmas meal in a restaurant doing a buy one get one free cocktail menu, so I ordered the two and passed one to my mate opposite, the waiter tried to tell us we weren’t allowed to do that and I had to drink both of them 🤷‍♀️🤣

I think we just laughed and said something like I’ll do what I like with the drinks I’m paying for and was quite confused he thought it was an issue?!

Note to self - do not fly on EasyJet with the Olympic weightlifting team.

no-one's going to be unfit to fly on 3 glasses of prosecco

The pilot might. wilfully misses the point 😄