clever emirates marketing

[Ken Gargett]

this is rather clever. certainly better than being filmed pouring half a flute of undrunk champagne back into the bottle.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jAF2hZxdFRE

the cricket one is even better.

 

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[El Presidente]

The Qantas stewardesses had a great routine as well but they couldn't fit through the gate onto the ground. 

[Ken Gargett]

34 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

The Qantas stewardesses had a great routine as well but they couldn't fit through the gate onto the ground. 

and while speaking of the stumbling wombat, may anyone who has ever had anything to do with them be condemned to an eternity of hell - accompanying that with a whitney houston soundtrack, warm sauv blanc and their own food. and thanks to that food - specifically a dish laughingly called lamb biryani (the closest that dish ever got to any lamb was if the hairy-armed "chef" was wearing a woollen beanie), which came with something supposedly resembling rice. thanks so much for the small rock which split my molar. i'll be thinking of the wombat as i sit in a dentist's chair all thursday morning.

qantas have me on a list where they ask you to review their performance. i'm saving up for this one (really does beg the question of why you'd have me on such a list - i can only imagine that bruce allen has a twin and he is running the place).

[El Presidente]

 Gordon Ramsay

""There’s no fucking way I eat on planes,I worked for airlines for ten years, so I know where this food’s been and where it goes, and how long it took before it got on board."

[Ken Gargett]

13 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

 Gordon Ramsay

""There’s no fucking way I eat on planes,I worked for airlines for ten years, so I know where this food’s been and where it goes, and how long it took before it got on board."

as a law student, i worked as a wine waiter in various establishments. trust me, i did not eat out again for a long time. years. humans must be a seriously resilient species because how the hell we have not been wiped out by food poisoning is beyond me. what went on was so disgusting.

i still remember a waiter having a plate slide off his tray and straight into the garbage. "chef", a kiwi about the size and shape of danny de vito, with a blond afro and hawaiin shirts, came around and picked out every piece and 're-plated'. out it went to the punter.

i did not last all that long there. was cleaning up one evening - stuff in garbage chomper and cutlery in some slop sink, one after the other, when i got so bored i happened to swap without thinking. cutlery went into the garbage chomper, massive crunching, fused the kitchen and sent a big electrical shock through the water in the sink. sadly, "chef" was elbow deep. he did not take it well. 

[Ken Gargett]

9 minutes ago, toofargone said:

Ha!

Dad used to work as a delivery driver around Sydney back in the early 70's. One of his weekly runs was to an Chinese restaurant. Anyway he pulled up in the back alley to deliver the seafood. He trolley's it in through the back gate and is met with the owner sitting on the outdoor potty  doing his business with a bowl between his legs while he and his wife peeled the prawns.

He hasn't eaten Chinese ever since.

exact same story from my old man from a different location.

dad was appointed to the licensing commission many years back - always thought it odd as he never drank (and was such a stickler for the rules when that happened, for our 21sts, he actually sought a licence for the evening to serve drinks to our guests and until a few days before, looked like mine would be dry - mates would have killed me).

he and the other commissioners would visit places all over Qld (remember him telling me about one aboriginal reserve where an elder showed him the croc they had in a big pen - they had the thing for decades and when dad asked how old it was, this guy, very old himself, said no one knew but it was already a full grown very large croc when it took his grandfather when he was a tiny boy, about 80 years earlier - but i digress) and one them did a chinese place in cairns. perfect. but he forgot something and went back. there was the grandfather sitting on the can and having a crap while he peeled the prawns. very unhappy when they were closed down.

[99call]

This is how I imagine Ken's choice of inflight meal, Minus the Ray Liotta brain fricasse obviously. Whats the wine Ken? was is a savvy choice by Dr Lecter?

 

[Ken Gargett]

16 minutes ago, 99call said:

This is how I imagine Ken's choice of inflight meal, Minus the Ray Liotta brain fricasse obviously. Whats the wine Ken? was is a savvy choice by Dr Lecter?

 

have seen that. anything hopkins does is fine with me but what always fascinated me (the strangers sitting near me when i first saw 'silence' perhaps less so as i got quite agitated) was that the famous line in the film about lima beans and a nice chianti was changed from the book - there it was an amarone but apparently the producers felt that people being idiots, they would have no idea what an amarone was.

[El Presidente]

2 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

people being idiots, they would have no idea what an amarone was.

My favourite Pinot!

 

[Ken Gargett]

9 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

My favourite Pinot!

 

i seriously despair.

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, toofargone said:

It could be worse!

if only you knew! the number of times whipcrack has asked for a pinot and derided it and asked for another. i serve a shiraz without telling him and he is happy. whipcrack loves pinot, provided it tastes nothing like pinot.

[El Presidente]

5 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

i seriously despair.

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, toofargone said:

Isn't a written rule not to knock what your host is serving? I guess when it's free it's good   Have you actually tried serving him a pinot?

asked for a pinot and derided it. is that not clear?

[99call]

This has got me wondering now, what CC Hanibal would go for. 

Dunhill Atados?  or something more inconspicuous? Petit Coronas del Punch?

 

[99call]

14 minutes ago, toofargone said:

With a lovely wrapper of human skin.....

Wow, wow, wow (English for stop a horse) Lecter is never gruesome, for gruesome sake, I think on the other hand, If he saw someone stub out a vintage Fundadores two inches in,............he would follow them home, and would force them to eat cognac soaked tobacco until they died of nicotine/alcohol poisoning

[oliverdst]

7 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

this is rather clever. certainly better than being filmed pouring half a flute of undrunk champagne back into the bottle.

 

 

I heard it was the end of a flight and the girl was doing it just to be easier to discard the undrunk champagne. It makes sense.

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, oliverdst said:

I heard it was the end of a flight and the girl was doing it just to be easier to discard the undrunk champagne. It makes sense.

Heard it was the beginning of the flight, during boarding. Either way, I've seen the stewardesses do it before on other flights (flying business class).

[oliverdst]

1 hour ago, Fuzz said:

Heard it was the beginning of the flight, during boarding. Either way, I've seen the stewardesses do it before on other flights (flying business class).

Disgusting

[Fuzz]

7 minutes ago, oliverdst said:

Disgusting

[oliverdst]

48 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Dont you think it´s disgusting?

[99call]

4 hours ago, oliverdst said:

Dont you think it´s disgusting?

more than disgusting, in the days of swine flu, bird flu, general global bugs, It's massively unprofessional in putting the customer at risk.  With antibiotics reaching almost weapons grade in there evolution by continent, to create a 'loving cup' in a champagne bottle of backwash.........well that's pretty shoddy.

More to the point...........which dirty buggers, have not been finishing their champagne!!!???  this is what ejector seats are for.

[Ken Gargett]

10 hours ago, oliverdst said:

I heard it was the end of a flight and the girl was doing it just to be easier to discard the undrunk champagne. It makes sense.

O - they have a sink. do you think it is easier to pour from a flute back into the tiny neck of a bottle or into a sink? to me, that is the least plausible excuse.

a few years ago, i was near (sadly not in) cathay business and i saw a stewardess pour a full bottle of just opened roederer down the sink (she had opened it for a customer but they announced landing before she had a chance to serve him any). apparently i let out an involuntary squeal (frustration, horror?). she came over and told me that airline regulations forbid them landing with opened bottles. had to be full and sealed or empty (no idea if that is true but clearly she believed it). which would make the idea of landing with bottles that "are easier to discard" even more silly.

[oliverdst]

35 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

O - they have a sink. do you think it is easier to pour from a flute back into the tiny neck of a bottle or into a sink? to me, that is the least plausible excuse.

a few years ago, i was near (sadly not in) cathay business and i saw a stewardess pour a full bottle of just opened roederer down the sink (she had opened it for a customer but they announced landing before she had a chance to serve him any). apparently i let out an involuntary squeal (frustration, horror?). she came over and told me that airline regulations forbid them landing with opened bottles. had to be full and sealed or empty (no idea if that is true but clearly she believed it). which would make the idea of landing with bottles that "are easier to discard" even more silly.

I dont know. Something to do with discarding the liquid out the airplane and not inside. Maybe weight/fuel/money or, and that would be plausible, environment stuff.

Just what I heard.

[Ken Gargett]

2 minutes ago, oliverdst said:

I dont know. Something to do with discarding the liquid out the airplane and not inside. Maybe weight/fuel/money or, and that would be plausible, environment stuff.

Just what I heard.

oliver, pouring it back into the bottle does not change the weight on the plane but you've hit the nail on the head with "money"! spot on!

[oliverdst]

3 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

oliver, pouring it back into the bottle does not change the weight on the plane but you've hit the nail on the head with "money"! spot on!

Lol

You are right.

I assumed the plane was about to land and then discard the extra weight.

I will check If I can find more info about it.