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[diddly-dee]

disasterplan, on Mar 29 2010, 02:49 PM, said:

...but what about Hull? Or is that pushing it too far?

There are some things that you just can't reasonably ask another human being to do and, alas, going to Hull is one of them.  I mean, eating out in Hull consists of a portion of 'spicy chips'?!?!? WTF is it with 'spicy chips'?  They put the grit that, anywhere else, goes on the frozen roads in inclement weather winter on their chips ffs.  No wonder there was a shortage of grit this winter, it's all those salad-dodgers in Hull overdoing it on the spicy chips.

[diddly-dee]

diddly-dee, on Mar 29 2010, 03:13 PM, said:

There are some things that you just can't reasonably ask another human being to do and, alas, going to Hull is one of them.  I mean, eating out in Hull consists of a portion of 'spicy chips'?!?!? WTF is it with 'spicy chips'?  They put the grit that, anywhere else, goes on the frozen roads in inclement weather winter on their chips ffs.  No wonder there was a shortage of grit this winter, it's all those salad-dodgers in Hull overdoing it on the spicy chips.

Having just re-read that, i probably owe the good people of Hull an apology.  It is a nicer place than Sc**thorpe.

[sifi]

Having lived in Hull for a few years, I would say the West Bank really isn't that bad at all.

[disasterplan]

diddly-dee, on Mar 29 2010, 03:14 PM, said:

Having just re-read that, i probably owe the good people of Hull an apology.  It is a nicer place than Sc**thorpe.

Ahh, Scunny. My favourite trivia night question: how many football teams can you name whose name includes a body part...

[LondonTom]

diddly-dee, on Mar 29 2010, 04:14 PM, said:

Having just re-read that, i probably owe the good people of Hull an apology.  It is a nicer place than Sc**thorpe.

But have you bin to Southampton is the real question?

Edited by LondonTom, 29 March 2010 - 03:53 PM.

[Toilet Duck]

tonyblair, on Mar 29 2010, 03:41 PM, said:

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and the difference is...??

Tickets are individual things and can therfore be quantified as such. If I have a pint of beer and drink some, I have less than a pint, but if I once had five pints and now have 4 I have fewer pints of beer...

[Breeze]

Toilet Duck, on Mar 29 2010, 04:19 PM, said:

Tickets are individual things and can therfore be quantified as such. If I have a pint of beer and drink some, I have less than a pint, but if I once had five pints and now have 4 I have fewer pints of beer...

There's about a billion molecules in a pint of beer (give or take a beer molecule    ) if you drink some we have fewer beer molecules than we had before, ergo we have fewer beer molecules  

I'm wondering if being a living language that the form of 'less than' you are talking about is in common usage and is therefore essentially correct. I'm also wondering if the only people who give a toss are English graduates as certainly maths grads would think any number < 2500 is 'less than' 2500.

[Dukeicon]

Breeze, on Mar 30 2010, 03:37 PM, said:

There's about a billion molecules in a pint of beer (give or take a beer molecule    ) if you drink some we have fewer beer molecules than we had before, ergo we have fewer beer molecules  

I'm wondering if being a living language that the form of 'less than' you are talking about is in common usage and is therefore essentially correct. I'm also wondering if the only people who give a toss are English graduates as certainly maths grads would think any number < 2500 is 'less than' 2500.

In 2008 Tesco changed their express till signs from "10 items or less" to "up to 10 items" because someone pointed out it was not grammatically correct.

Edited by Dukeicon, 30 March 2010 - 02:49 PM.

[disasterplan]

Dukeicon, on Mar 30 2010, 02:49 PM, said:

In 2008 Tesco changed their express till signs from "10 items or less" to "up to 10 items" because someone pointed out it was not grammatically correct.

You sir, are brilliant.

[crazyfool1]

id go from the west bank as long as it hadnt been bailed out by the government  

[Thatmax]

I'm now pretty nervous about getting tickets : (

I guess I will just go for the Bristol or London coach package right off the bat.
Any suggestions on which would be a better idea? I have my student accommodation in Bristol so either would be convenient.

[diddly-dee]

Thatmax, on Mar 30 2010, 06:25 PM, said:

I'm now pretty nervous about getting tickets : (

I guess I will just go for the Bristol or London coach package right off the bat.
Any suggestions on which would be a better idea? I have my student accommodation in Bristol so either would be convenient.

I think you'd be better off trying the London option;  there's likely to be more coach capacity leaving from London (but admittedly more demand as well).  Seetickets don't have their own coach fleet but 'contract hire' any old herbert with a PSV and a charabang to take people to glasto to give their profits a boost - as such, there's probably more space 'coach capacity' in the metropolis anyway as badger buses and a few other transport providers local to Bristol run a bus service from Bristol to the festival off their own bat and don't bother letting seetickets have a cut so there'll be less 'available' for seetickets to book on the cheap (and anyone who had the misfortune of travelling back on a seetickets coach in 2007 will know exactly what I mean by doing it 'on the cheap') and that seems to be the guiding principle of seetickets.  I'm not sure how it works this time (as I'm sure when i went with them there wasn't the option of just getting a 'single' to the festival but it was a 'return' coach ticket) but, whether you go from Bristol or London, just get the single ticket to the festival and make your own arrangements (either get a lift, national express, hitch, or a local service bus) to get back to Bristol or London.  As seetickets just contract out the services to any old muppett (including sole traders with just one coach who have no incentive to do a decent job in the way an employee of national express might) then you could end up booked on a coach run by someone who simply doesn't give a damn about a departure time, know the route, or even bothers to wait for his scheduled passengers if his glasto-trip is a one-off booking and he wants to get back to wherever to take a coachload of pensioners to the seaside for the day.

[disasterplan]

Traffic there and back from London will probably be more of an issue...