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That's 1/6 of a pint for those who don't do metric so is fine, cheers.

Call me a tight git, but I will not spend a penny once through security. Because liquids are banned from flights they have ramped up the cost of bottled drinks once you are past security. I take empty plastic water bottles and once through security fill them up in the bogs. This year i'm thinking of putting a dash of orange cordial in each bottle - would this meet security requirements r.e liquids?

There is that, but the person is quite independent and doesn't require a wheel chair, just not to be cajoled in a scramble. Have bitten the bullet and paid the speedy boarding fee's. Do you just show the booking confirmation email (it doesn't say nothing about it on the boarding passes i've printed out)?

I've found this since making the booking, which annoys me because i'm usually good at organising such things. What did it was BMI Bady going out of business and the subsequent rush to reorganise flights.

The thing is one member of my group has bad arthritis (is a blue badge holder) and although can walk would easily be knocked over if people start shoving to get past and for this reason the scramble sounds dangerous to me. I wish i'd known about all this crap before i booked with them.

i've just been reading some reviews of this swindle. it would seem that the system works ok unless you are bussed to the plane. do they use buses at Gatwick?

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I like to have a meal on the plane and all that, and after booking with easyjet found it was no more expensive for the route i'm taking with BA. I'll use them or Monarch (who I like) in the future. After reading The9's comments then i'm gonna reluctantly stump up for speedy boarding. F/ck having to queue up at the gate ridiculously early.

Will avoid it then. I take it you have to be at the boarding gate early then to avoid having to sit next to strangers?

I have made the mistake of booking to fly with easy jet. I didn't realise until the other day that they do not allocate seats and instead it is a free for all. I've now got to pay 20 quid person for speedy boarding to avoid the scrum. Never again.

Great stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVdwh0J9tI

The majority of people in this country are stupid so it is of surprise it was so well received. Style over substance sums it up. In the same way that special effects and over dramatisation and political correctness of films is the vogue to the detriment of telling the story. That's why i much prefer documentaries that stick to the facts. That ceremony could have been a master piece, but instead it was cheesy politically motivated nonsense.

I'm right in what i'm saying. The vast majority may disagree, but this does not alter the fact that i'm right.

It clearly should not have been given airtime because it was about as relevent as the Green Party is today. And quite frankly it's inclusion was an insult to the thousands of members of the armed forces who stepped in following the G4S shambles.

On it's own you could brush it off as being a reference to the flower power era, but then you add on the bizarre inclusion of shami chakribati, the ridiculous portrayal of victorian Britain, the whole multi cultural message throughout and the whole event was designed as left wing propaganda.

If you are being serious one can only assume you were p/ssed up or didn't watch the ceremony. Do you support CND?

They could have had a scene like that, followed by a scene highlighting the abolitionist movement led by Wilberforce. In fact such a scene would have educated the world on our historical position in being at the fore front of abolishing slavery. That would have been better than dressing a black man in a top hat and portraying him as a victorian industrialist.

All of whom would not have had any cause to comment if the event had not been politicised. To portray Britain as being left wing was factually incorrect in both a current and historic context.

My view is not of how Britain should be, my view is of how Britain actually is and how Britain was. Are we or are we not a Nuclear power? Are we or are we not reliant on our Nuclear deterrent to be a permanent member of the security council?

What are you rambling on about? Everything i've stated is factual to the event. I've already said that ceremony had spectacular sets, but anyone who thinks the content (and how the content was executed) was spectacular is clearly of an x factor/bgt intellectual ilk. The bulk of the event was left wing tree hugging propaganda. Instead of the CND thing (which so few people actually support) wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have paraded a nuclear missile on a mobile launcher alá North Korea? Britain is after all a nuclear power. That's the only reason we still sit at the top table of United Nations!

I would compare the ceremony with the film adaptation of C S Lewis's opium induced chronicles of the mythical land of Narnia. In the book the story was profound and true to the biblical and social parable of the world as it was then, but once the socialist and politically correct brigade of the 21st century got their grubby mitts on the story and changed it for film the whole story was lost and it was a diabolical insult to such a great work, and that ceremony was a diabolical insult to our nation. - the portrayal of victorian Britain - the cnd thing - shami chakribati carrying the flag Three aspects that were ridiculous and utterly cringeworthy. A lot of people appreciated the spectacle and rightly so, it was spectacular, but once you actually scratch beneath the visual display it was shoddy politically correct marxist propaganda. Aiden Burley got it spot on. And to think thedelldays is waxing lyrical about it given the cnd scene which clearly was a statement against his line of work and thus a swipe at the whole armed forces. You couldn't make it up. And people are calling for the director to be knighted ffs

Southampton, like all cities, is a dump and a place to visit only when necessary safe in the knowledge that you don't have to stay there once you've done what you went there to do.

The anthems weren't bad, but not as good as this would have been, but of course this would have been totally unsuitable to the left wing slant of the whole occasion, hence why the BBC ditched it much to my dismay.

I don't think anyone really cares tbh

Well Andy, how many days and how many medals now?