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Post by whothingie on Feb 19, 2024 1:25:40 GMT -5
My first air tickets had no use by dates and the return to nz could be routed anyway as long as I kept going forward. Arrived back with 3 unused tear off tickets.
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Post by groo on Feb 19, 2024 3:15:08 GMT -5
Yes. And with 30,000 Qantas frequuent fler points you cound circumnavigate Australia, with numerous stopovers.
Today those points would get you a toaster.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 19, 2024 3:51:24 GMT -5
Yes, I did the around Australia thing thanks to Mum and Dad's points.
Sydney - Perth- Broome- Darwin- Sydney.
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Post by whothingie on Feb 19, 2024 20:42:46 GMT -5
My sights getting worse. Just killed a sliver of spinach with three bursts of fly spray. My excuse. It was in the dark corner of the kitchen.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2024 22:54:22 GMT -5
i had collected enough miles on pan am to go to moscow then pan am was sold to delta lost a lot of miles
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Post by groo on Feb 19, 2024 23:33:07 GMT -5
Bummer, tzarine . I'm getting too old to use up all of my Qantas ff points on travel, so I'm blowing them on vacuum cleaners, laptops etc. When Jetstar was starting up they were offering $29 legs, so we flew Sydney, Melbourne, Launceston, Adelaide, Perth and home again for $145 each.
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 20, 2024 3:23:54 GMT -5
We may have to do the same groo, but because we are beginning to hate Qantas (for various reasons). Most of our points are from linking to our amex cards. Maybe one more return journey to Melbourne, though.
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Post by groo on Feb 20, 2024 3:38:20 GMT -5
Agree, W3. Even travelling overseas I normally opted for a budget airline - overall I felt that I was getting a better deal and booking Qantas ff could be rather a hassle.
Air Asia flyng in to OOL made trvael to Asia and even points beyond a cakewalk.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 20, 2024 6:42:00 GMT -5
Oh yeah I used to use American Airlines points for flights all the time, but then I stopped traveling for work and AA points became useless.
AA, you don't seem to care that if your points don't accumulate quickly enough for the average traveler to be able to get a free flight, that average traveler is going to stop prioritizing your carrier when they want to fly someplace.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 22, 2024 0:37:44 GMT -5
you used to drink this all the time
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 22, 2024 6:27:30 GMT -5
Ugh yes.
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Post by groo on Feb 22, 2024 17:08:30 GMT -5
I didn't, but I do remember cold duck.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 22, 2024 17:40:43 GMT -5
Cold Duck! I thought it was great when I was 14 years old
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Post by groo on Feb 22, 2024 17:49:17 GMT -5
There used to be a cheaper ripoff called "Cold Bear" or "Dead Polar Bear" or something - had a polar bear on the label.
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Post by psw on Feb 23, 2024 0:26:22 GMT -5
And for a while there was Ripple - a couple of different flavors. Vile.
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Post by groo on Feb 23, 2024 0:34:53 GMT -5
In Ontario we were under the watchful governance of the LCBO and the Brewers Retail and such frippery was frowned upon. We had to sneak across the creek to Detroit or Buffalo for such decadence.
Hopefully, Ontario's liquor laws have changed. They were antedeluvian.
In Australia there was Barossa Pearl, a very sweet roseish carbonated or if you were very sophisticated there was Leo Buring's sparkling Rhinegold or Seppelts Ben Ean.
I do like that scene in "The Muppet Movie" where Kermit, on a dinner date with Miss P, orders sparkling muscat, sealed with a crown seal.
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Post by groo on Feb 23, 2024 0:58:32 GMT -5
I also like the 1948 "spinner" Studebaker in that movie.
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Post by sophie on Feb 23, 2024 11:05:18 GMT -5
Wasn’t there a silly song by Monty Python about Proffery pearl wine? Or is my aging memory misleading me?
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Post by tzarine on Feb 23, 2024 11:17:02 GMT -5
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Post by Webs on Feb 23, 2024 13:54:03 GMT -5
Boones Farm, Bartles and Jaymes, Mateus
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Post by psw on Feb 23, 2024 14:40:08 GMT -5
Mateus empties were favored for candlesticks because they were more squat in shape and less likely to get knocked over.
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Post by sophie on Feb 23, 2024 15:08:01 GMT -5
I did a charity shop drop off today, and the last of clothes I wore prior to retiring were in there.
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Post by Webs on Feb 23, 2024 17:35:11 GMT -5
Mateus empties were favored for candlesticks because they were more squat in shape and less likely to get knocked over. And you had to use really drippy candles to get them to melt all over the bottle.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 23, 2024 20:46:41 GMT -5
I bought a bottle of Mateus for my 90-year-old friend the other day. I was feeling nostalgic.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 23, 2024 20:51:42 GMT -5
Mateus empties were favored for candlesticks because they were more squat in shape and less likely to get knocked over. And you had to use really drippy candles to get them to melt all over the bottle. the drippy candles were also @ italian restaurants w checkered tablecloths
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Post by groo on Feb 23, 2024 21:06:11 GMT -5
....... but they used chianti bottles.
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Post by groo on Feb 23, 2024 21:29:24 GMT -5
I bought a bottle of Mateus for my 90-year-old friend the other day. I was feeling nostalgic. It's really not a bad drop.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 23, 2024 22:34:10 GMT -5
youd get spumoni @ those restaurants w the drippy candles
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 24, 2024 6:21:22 GMT -5
Ah the dust-encrusted drippy wax. What was the appeal, I wonder
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Post by jimm on Feb 24, 2024 15:04:39 GMT -5
Every second family had chooks in the back yard.
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