DL Status Updates: Statements, Obsevations & Verbal Tennis

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

Dear Cat - I've passed your details to the BBC, come the sad day David Attenborough has to hand over the batton. I'm guessing you have your own Safari suit?

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

I am currently in the Business lounge at Istanbul airport. In a couple of hours I will be boarding a plane to Guangzhou.

 

I should be back in action sometime around the 17th when I will let any of you who have entered the bingo know if any of your selection are ineligible.

 

So far I'm impressed.

 

Hope no big deaths occur and play nice.

[RadGuy 1,614]

We kinda forgot about Deathray's prediction last week.

 

So who was it? Jenny Diski?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

I am currently in the Business lounge at Istanbul airport. In a couple of hours I will be boarding a plane to Guangzhou.

 

I should be back in action sometime around the 17th when I will let any of you who have entered the bingo know if any of your selection are ineligible.

 

So far I'm impressed.

 

Hope no big deaths occur and play nice.

TK72?

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

 

I am currently in the Business lounge at Istanbul airport. In a couple of hours I will be boarding a plane to Guangzhou.

 

I should be back in action sometime around the 17th when I will let any of you who have entered the bingo know if any of your selection are ineligible.

 

So far I'm impressed.

 

Hope no big deaths occur and play nice.

TK72?

 

Yes so if it crashes you will know why I am not posting anymore.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

 

I am currently in the Business lounge at Istanbul airport. In a couple of hours I will be boarding a plane to Guangzhou.

 

I should be back in action sometime around the 17th when I will let any of you who have entered the bingo know if any of your selection are ineligible.

 

So far I'm impressed.

 

Hope no big deaths occur and play nice.

TK72?

 

Yes so if it crashes you will know why I am not posting anymore.

 

I'll keep an eye on it.

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

 

 

 

I am currently in the Business lounge at Istanbul airport. In a couple of hours I will be boarding a plane to Guangzhou.

 

I should be back in action sometime around the 17th when I will let any of you who have entered the bingo know if any of your selection are ineligible.

 

So far I'm impressed.

 

Hope no big deaths occur and play nice.

TK72?

 

Yes so if it crashes you will know why I am not posting anymore.

 

I'll keep an eye on it.

 

 

I feel safer already.

[Deathray 2,940]

But how am I going to know it's midday from now until the 17th?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

[charon 4,943]

 

Just walked into a pub for the first time this year, as I'm waiting on a bus.

 

The bastards have removed the good beers, so stuck with a Bellhaven Black. Tastes like cold shite. But still.....

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Just walked into a pub for the first time this year, as I'm waiting on a bus.

The bastards have removed the good beers, so stuck with a Bellhaven Black. Tastes like cold shite. But still.....

I've never tasted cold shite.

[charon 4,943]

Well try a pint of Bellhaven Black ©Bellhaven.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Well try a pint of Bellhaven Black ©Bellhaven.

Next time I'm in Scotland I'll look out for it.

[charon 4,943]

Hopefully the company and this pub will be salted into the ground by then.

 

 

Pub taken over late last year, they rip out the Guinness and Tennant's etc and put in Bellhaven .

 

Only pub here with a 9am license , so I hope they go bust and sell up to somebody with a clue. Cunts just want the tourist ££££

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

Playback of Turkish Airlines flight TK72 / THY72

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/tk72/#9a284c4

[Deathray 2,940]

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

 

Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years.

The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.

[En Passant 3,741]

 

 

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

 

Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years.

The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.

 

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I am also guilty of this sin to a degree even to the point of learning to fly one. Perhaps strangely however I find watching them the more interesting, once airborne I found the actual business of flying rather tedious :S.

Besides, I was rubbish, got utterly lost on my first NFT.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

 

 

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

 

Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years.

The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.

 

Definitely a few up from train spotting I guess.

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

 

Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years.

The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.

 

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I am also guilty of this sin to a degree even to the point of learning to fly one. Perhaps strangely however I find watching them the more interesting, once airborne I found the actual business of flying rather tedious :S.

Besides, I was rubbish, got utterly lost on my first NFT.

 

Surely you couldn't be that bad or you'd have crashed.

[Scraggy Taters 290]

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliogryphon is on his way to China from Istanbul.

https://www.flightradar24.com/THY72/9a284c4

Airborne 2311 hrs GMT

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT.

 

 

Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans.

 

Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting?

 

Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years.

The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.

 

Definitely a few up from train spotting I guess.

 

Nowt wrong with standing for 12 hours at the end of platform 2 at Chesterfield station waiting for a class 47 wearing a grey anorak, brown corduroy trousers and a 1982 green/black chequered rucksack containing cheese & pickle sarnies and a thermos flask of weak lemon squash.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Why would a class 47 locomotive be wearing a grey anorak and brown corduroy trousers? (Hi Toastie ) Anyroadup, in the late 70s a plane spotter aviation enthusiast friend of mine who was also a train spotter railway enthusiast needed to see just one 08 shunter to complete his having seen the entire British Railways fleet of locomotives. He travelled down to Cornwall (where it was based) from Derby every other weekend for months and finally saw it when a train in the sidings moved just a few minutes before he was due to catch the train home. He had already purchased a new registration log book in anticipation and the first entry in it was the same 08 shunter; he started all over again.

[time 8,618]

Why would a class 47 locomotive be wearing a grey anorak and brown corduroy trousers? (Hi Toastie ) Anyroadup, in the late 70s a plane spotter aviation enthusiast friend of mine who was also a train spotter railway enthusiast needed to see just one 08 shunter to complete his having seen the entire British Railways fleet of locomotives. He travelled down to Cornwall (where it was based) from Derby every other weekend for months and finally saw it when a train in the sidings moved just a few minutes before he was due to catch the train home. He had already purchased a new registration log book in anticipation and the first entry in it was the same 08 shunter; he started all over again.

You've got to admire an obsession dedication like that!

 

Back in my schooldays a couple of my contemporaries were avid plane spotters aviation enthusiasts, but being mere spotty schoolkids, they could only travel to the nearest airport (Elmdon, as was) after school and at weekends. They did produce a (badly-typed) magazine called ILS each week, which they tried to sell to us other spotty schoolkids. It was pretty much a list of aircraft reg's, types and airlines, of little or no interest to anyone else.