Top tip No 17 in a seemingly endless series

deadmail.TakeThisOut@burnt.org.uk wrote:
> If you find yourself late (due to flights being delayed) at Paris,
> Charles de Gaul and decide it seems like a good idea to use one of the
> taxi bikes do not say to them "It's alright, I ride bikes all the
> time. You won't scare me so go as fast as you can, I'm in a hurry".

"I've heard you guys are pussies..." Then tap him on the shoulder and make
hurry-up gestures.

> If you do they'll manage to carve through the snarled up traffic on
> the Peripherique in next to no time; including spells at 140km/h on
> the hard shoulder (well, what passes for one- looked more like a
> gutter...) and filtering through quasi static traffic at 80-100km/h.

I had a Nigerian minicab driver take me from downtown Manhattan to JFK in
similar style once.

> I was particularly impressed by how well a goldwing filters- its
> mirrors are a little higher than most cars so it passes through gaps
> nicely.

You're welcome to have a play on the Black Pig sometime.

> What I wasn't impressed by was the heated seat; no warning so I
> wondered if my bladder or bowels had let go.
>
> All in all though, recommended. 40km in 32minutes through hideous
> traffic; 70 euros (plus generous tip.)

Cheaper than skydiving...
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tOn Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:57:59 GMT, "platypus"
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>> If you do they'll manage to carve through the snarled up traffic on
>> the Peripherique in next to no time; including spells at 140km/h on
>> the hard shoulder (well, what passes for one- looked more like a
>> gutter...) and filtering through quasi static traffic at 80-100km/h.
>
>I had a Nigerian minicab driver take me from downtown Manhattan to JFK in
>similar style once.

Ditto Thai taxi driver in Bangkok four years ago when I found myself
out "on the wrong side of the river" after dark.

I wasn't impressed by him kicking a colleague and I out of his cab in
some back street and laying something which was like the Thai Argos
Catalogue of naked women out on his bonnet and asking us which one we
wanted.

"No, we really just want to go back to our hotel where we shall sleep
alone"
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BGN wibbled:

> tOn Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:57:59 GMT, "platypus"
> <monotreme RemoveThis @blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> If you do they'll manage to carve through the snarled up traffic on
> >> the Peripherique in next to no time; including spells at 140km/h on
> >> the hard shoulder (well, what passes for one- looked more like a
> >> gutter...) and filtering through quasi static traffic at
> 80-100km/h.
> >
> > I had a Nigerian minicab driver take me from downtown Manhattan to
> > JFK in similar style once.
>
> Ditto Thai taxi driver in Bangkok four years ago when I found myself
> out "on the wrong side of the river" after dark.
>
> I wasn't impressed by him kicking a colleague and I out of his cab in
> some back street and laying something which was like the Thai Argos
> Catalogue of naked women out on his bonnet and asking us which one we
> wanted.
>
> "No, we really just want to go back to our hotel where we shall sleep
> alone"

I think we've experienced the same taxi driver - although throw in a
couple of near death experiences and you have it

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deadmail DeleteThis @burnt.org.uk wrote:


> All in all though, recommended. 40km in 32minutes through hideous
> traffic; 70 euros (plus generous tip.)

Heh, I've always fancied a crack at that, but have never found the
correct excuse.

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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:43:23 +0000, deadmail DeleteThis @burnt.org.uk wrote:

> BGN <nickmooney DeleteThis @spamcop.net> wrote in message
><v1i2s3dq9im6lcng38f56kfqrupqa9cost DeleteThis @4ax.com>:
>
>
>>BA, like other airlines, give priority to their Long Haul routes as
>>they're a lot more difficult to change.
>>
>>If there's any delay which risks cancellation of a Long Haul flight
>>they'll kill off one or more of their domestic flights, and after that
>>will kill off Short Haul.
>>
>>There's limied space to sit aircraft at the London airports so they'd
>>rather have a load of Long Haul capable aircraft charging £900 a seat
>>sitting around ready to go in a few hours than a selection of Domestic
>>aircraft with seats starting at less than £30 ready to go.
>
>Ah, thanks that was my suspicion. Doesn't change the snottogram I sent
>BA asking for compensation though.

My TTG featured this story today (Travel Trade Gazette, industry rag)
Perhaps not directly the fault of BA, but it looks like the figures
might have been fiddled for a while to meet queue targets by not
counting the queue from the end!

""
BAA will be accused of hiding “disastrous” levels of customer service
at its London airports in a Channel Four Dispatches programme this
week.

The Spanish-owned operator claims it meets CAA targets for queuing
but, according to the Sunday Times, the programme claims to have a
leaked document which claims it does not count from the back of
queues.

BAA faces fines if it fails to meet its queuing targets, but it also
faces a growing campaign against the expansion of Heathrow it says it
required to meet demand with a proposed third runway now opposed by
all three main candidates for London Mayor.

BAA has denied that it manipulates queuing measures, which were
allegedly described as “arbitrary” by consultants Booz Allen Hamilton
in the document Dispatches claims to have.

The results of passenger surveys will also come under the spotlight in
the programme after Heathrow claimed to be rated as four out of five
even during last summer’s high profile problems following the
discovery of an alleged bomb plot.
""
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deadmail.DeleteThis@burnt.org.uk wrote:
> If you find yourself late (due to flights being delayed) at Paris,
> Charles de Gaul and decide it seems like a good idea to use one of the
> taxi bikes do not say to them "It's alright, I ride bikes all the time.
> You won't scare me so go as fast as you can, I'm in a hurry".
>
> If you do they'll manage to carve through the snarled up traffic on the
> Peripherique in next to no time; including spells at 140km/h on the hard
> shoulder (well, what passes for one- looked more like a gutter...) and
> filtering through quasi static traffic at 80-100km/h.

So that was you, the frightened bloke on that slow 'Wing?


> I was particularly impressed by how well a goldwing filters- its mirrors
> are a little higher than most cars so it passes through gaps nicely.
>
> What I wasn't impressed by was the heated seat; no warning so I wondered
> if my bladder or bowels had let go.
>
> All in all though, recommended. 40km in 32minutes through hideous
> traffic;

Just about average

70 euros (plus generous tip.)

.... and a pair of pants

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