Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

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borcy

5,128 posts

62 months

Monday 15th April
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paua said:
StevieBee said:
trackdemon said:
borcy said:
Does any really eat avocado toast? Is it a thing?
Yes, HTH
With a bit of crispy bacon and poached egg as well. Lovely!
Whitebait for me ( can't fault bacon & egg, either)
Everydays a school day spin

popeyewhite

21,170 posts

126 months

Monday 15th April
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Cotty said:
Zarco said:
Trustmeimadoctor said:
Are you all super short being able to put luggage under the seat?
I could maybe do it for an hour at a push
Its a little rucksack I'm referring to. It sits under my legs/behind my feet most of the flight.
Im six foot tall and had no problems putting a 30L rucksack under the seat on a trip to Lisbon, Portugal. Its about 2 & 1/2 hours, just right to watch the film The Martian on my phone.
My 27L non-rigid rucksack fits under the seat in front and leaves enough space for my feet either side. I did have a rigid back 30L but found space for my too tight.

Cotty

40,222 posts

290 months

Monday 15th April
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popeyewhite said:
My 27L non-rigid rucksack fits under the seat in front and leaves enough space for my feet either side. I did have a rigid back 30L but found space for my too tight.
I recently bought an Osprey Farpoint 40 Backpack. I think this will be overhead storage only.

captain_cynic

13,153 posts

101 months

Monday 15th April
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Cotty said:
popeyewhite said:
My 27L non-rigid rucksack fits under the seat in front and leaves enough space for my feet either side. I did have a rigid back 30L but found space for my too tight.
I recently bought an Osprey Farpoint 40 Backpack. I think this will be overhead storage only.
The brilliant thing about backpacks is that they're deformable. So if you don't fill it, you can still smoosh a 40L farpoint under the seat

Maybe I'm just an idealist but I firmly believe that everyone should be able to fit one peice of hand luggage in the overhead bins and airlines need to start enforcing limits to make this happen.

trackdemon

12,290 posts

267 months

Monday 15th April
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StevieBee said:
trackdemon said:
borcy said:
Does any really eat avocado toast? Is it a thing?
Yes, HTH
With a bit of crispy bacon and poached egg as well. Lovely!
yup, solid go-to breakfast/brunch is that. Delicious. I like to whizz up the avo with a blender, seasoning with a bit of chilli salt pepper, maybe lemon juice or tabasco instead of chilli.

Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

25 months

Monday 15th April
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In light of current Middle East tensions, the price of fuel is likely to increase. I have two questions, firstly how much of this increase is potential price gouging by the fuel companies/oil producing nations? Seeing an opportunity and exploiting it, if you like. And secondly, with war becoming increasingly likely in the late 1930s, did similar happen with rapid price increases of food/fuel? Obviously rationing prevented mass panic bulk buying and I suspect the mindset of the general public was very different to today's me me me society, but were there sharp rises in the cost of living?

I remember being told that despite rationing, there was no shortage of petrol, it was always available. But of course, there were far fewer motor vehicles in use. Also, cigarettes were widely available too.

EBRANDON1

294 posts

10 months

Monday 15th April
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Cotty said:
popeyewhite said:
My 27L non-rigid rucksack fits under the seat in front and leaves enough space for my feet either side. I did have a rigid back 30L but found space for my too tight.
I recently bought an Osprey Farpoint 40 Backpack. I think this will be overhead storage only.
Recently done three weeks in Indonesia with one of these and was really good. Ended up checking it in for the long haul flights as didn't want to risk getting to the gate and then being held up on the size of it etc but on the shorter flights around Indonesia was pretty relaxed and put it in overhead storage.

The straps fold in and zip away which is handy when being moved about the airport and stuff.

StevieBee

13,486 posts

261 months

Monday 15th April
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
In light of current Middle East tensions, the price of fuel is likely to increase.
That's not a given. Almost all of Iran's oil exports goes to China and Isreal's oil production is very small. If things escalate then wider supply lines may be affected but at the moment, there's no reason to think we'll see big hikes the price.




Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

25 months

Monday 15th April
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StevieBee said:
Jordie Barretts sock said:
In light of current Middle East tensions, the price of fuel is likely to increase.
That's not a given. Almost all of Iran's oil exports goes to China and Isreal's oil production is very small. If things escalate then wider supply lines may be affected but at the moment, there's no reason to think we'll see big hikes the price.
I didn't actually say a big hike. But fuel has already increased by 10p/litre in my area over the last two weeks.

Frimley111R

15,913 posts

240 months

Monday 15th April
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captain_cynic said:
The brilliant thing about backpacks is that they're deformable. So if you don't fill it, you can still smoosh a 40L farpoint under the seat

Maybe I'm just an idealist but I firmly believe that everyone should be able to fit one peice of hand luggage in the overhead bins and airlines need to start enforcing limits to make this happen.
Many years ago a friend of my father-in-law took a petrol lawnmower on the plane as hand luggage!

RizzoTheRat

25,949 posts

198 months

Monday 15th April
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When did diggers all get rotating "wrists"?

Any time I see any roadworks now they all have them, but I'm sure it's a relatively new thing. Presumably somebody came up with the idea and every single manufacturer and operate realised how useful it was and it's become ubiquitous in a short space of time?

Roofless Toothless

6,086 posts

138 months

Monday 15th April
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Halmyre said:
You're allowed to store small bags under the seat in front, are you not? I've never had any bother.
The seat in front? Surely it goes under your own seat. The passenger in the foremost seat hasn’t got a seat in front and would have to use his own seat to stow away luggage, and so on all the way to the back of the plane.

hidetheelephants

27,619 posts

199 months

Monday 15th April
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
In light of current Middle East tensions, the price of fuel is likely to increase. I have two questions, firstly how much of this increase is potential price gouging by the fuel companies/oil producing nations? Seeing an opportunity and exploiting it, if you like. And secondly, with war becoming increasingly likely in the late 1930s, did similar happen with rapid price increases of food/fuel? Obviously rationing prevented mass panic bulk buying and I suspect the mindset of the general public was very different to today's me me me society, but were there sharp rises in the cost of living?

I remember being told that despite rationing, there was no shortage of petrol, it was always available. But of course, there were far fewer motor vehicles in use. Also, cigarettes were widely available too.
Coal was privately owned in the UK prewar, so subject to usual market forces and in the latter half of the 1930s the rearmament spending plus post-crash recovery would have seen a fair bit of inflation, cushioned to an extent by being exporters; 1938 production was 231m tonnes and consumption 181mt, production declined through the war due to conscription and by 1945 there was only a small surplus which was presumably exported to europe. Road fuel price seems to have remained stable across the 30s with a slight dip for the depression and even into the war, although that will have been totally distorted by rationing and price controls, plus pool petrol was mostly ditchwater. Tax on fuel increased sharply through the decade so supply must have been rising rapidly to avoid big price rises, 1930 was 1/4.5p for a gallon with 24% tax, by 1939 1/8.5p with 44% tax.


Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

25 months

Monday 15th April
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Thank you. That's interesting.

popeyewhite

21,170 posts

126 months

Monday 15th April
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Roofless Toothless said:
The seat in front? Surely it goes under your own seat. The passenger in the foremost seat hasn’t got a seat in front and would have to use his own seat to stow away luggage, and so on all the way to the back of the plane.
On flights where I've sat at the bulkhead I've been instructed to use the overhead lockers.

audi321

5,471 posts

219 months

Monday 15th April
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Roofless Toothless said:
Halmyre said:
You're allowed to store small bags under the seat in front, are you not? I've never had any bother.
The seat in front? Surely it goes under your own seat. The passenger in the foremost seat hasn’t got a seat in front and would have to use his own seat to stow away luggage, and so on all the way to the back of the plane.
It’s supposed to go under the seat in front of you.

The passengers in the foremost seats have to stow their luggage in the overhead lockers as they’re going to be exit seats.

Newc

2,000 posts

188 months

Monday 15th April
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
In light of current Middle East tensions, the price of fuel is likely to increase. I have two questions, firstly how much of this increase is potential price gouging by the fuel companies/oil producing nations? Seeing an opportunity and exploiting it, if you like. And secondly, with war becoming increasingly likely in the late 1930s, did similar happen with rapid price increases of food/fuel? Obviously rationing prevented mass panic bulk buying and I suspect the mindset of the general public was very different to today's me me me society, but were there sharp rises in the cost of living?

I remember being told that despite rationing, there was no shortage of petrol, it was always available. But of course, there were far fewer motor vehicles in use. Also, cigarettes were widely available too.
There are a couple of inputs to petrol prices - base oil price, refined product price, and shipping. They can act independently - theoretically you could have $1 oil, but all the world's refineries are broken so petrol goes to $10 a litre, or all the crude carriers are nabbed by pirates so shipping is $100 a barrel, and so on (I'm exaggerating but you see the point).

Spot crude can easily move up (or down) by $10 and, even with all other things equal, that can move the UK pump price by 5p-10p. So sure, as we have all seen, pump prices sprint up and float down, but your biggest risk of price gouging remains filling up with V-Power at a motorway services.

The moving average price of oil has been constant for about 100 years, inflation adjusted, but it is prone to whipping about very sharply around that average.

WW2 petrol shortages depend on who you're asking. Fuel production actually increased through the war but first priority for all supplies was the military. Essential civilian ('key workers') use was heavily rationed and private use was banned after the US joined in at the semi-finals stage.

Cotty

40,222 posts

290 months

Monday 15th April
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EBRANDON1 said:
Cotty said:
I recently bought an Osprey Farpoint 40 Backpack. I think this will be overhead storage only.
Recently done three weeks in Indonesia with one of these and was really good. Ended up checking it in for the long haul flights as didn't want to risk getting to the gate and then being held up on the size of it etc but on the shorter flights around Indonesia was pretty relaxed and put it in overhead storage.

The straps fold in and zip away which is handy when being moved about the airport and stuff.
Like me you have obviously looked into the Farpoint 40 in great detail. I have watched the Youtube reviews and seen people live out of one for weeks. Its probably the top rated carry on backpack currently available. Probably overkill for my needs but nice to have.

Alickadoo

2,247 posts

29 months

Monday 15th April
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Cotty said:
I recently bought an Osprey Farpoint 40 Backpack. I think this will be overhead storage only.
£114!

What are you saying that Osprey is £106 better than this?

https://www.sportsdirect.com/gelert-backpack-sn42-...

Trustmeimadoctor

13,346 posts

161 months

Monday 15th April
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Honestly osprey bags are far better than that
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