Banter TRTT Part 14: 2022 Goodbye (To 2023)

[edgie]

No, travel is not a luxury.


I’m also baffled how those things you list would make it a luxury?


Might as well call housing a luxury cause it’s dearer than a dog kennel.

Flight takes a lot of investment to make happen, a lot materials, resources, skilled people, space and land.

I am against profiteering as much as anyone, but choosing to fly, is a luxury. It's the most first world way to travel long distance.

 

[backtozero]

 

[philthy05]

Flight takes a lot of investment to make happen, a lot materials, resources, skilled people, space and land.

I am against profiteering as much as anyone, but choosing to fly, is a luxury. It's the most first world way to travel long distance.

1. They make billions of dollars profit as return. No one, absolutely no one is arguing that a company making little to no money is price gouging or taking the piss for taking tax payer handouts.

2. Flying isn’t the fastest way to travel long distance, it’s the only way.

People just don’t have days or weeks free to travel to places they need to be. On a plane on got to the hospital less than an hour before my mum went into surgery.

I can’t get a week off work to drive to Adelaide? Who the hell can do that?


The absolute gall of these companies to stand behind capitalism and market forces and it costs what people are willing to pay, but then demand a socialist model of handouts when it suits them then switch back to their capitalist hat once you hand over the money.

 

[Jonts]

The amount of tax payer money funded into Qantas over the years the government should own the bloody thing

 

[edgie]

You miss the part where most people don't have to be using air travel to attend to urgent things?

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[Sleezy]

Oh ok.

Taking the most expensive, risky, fastest, technology advanced way of travel shouldn't be considered a luxury?

Fastest - yes.
Most expensive - debatable.
Risky - Not in the slightest. Every other form of transport (bar trains maybe?) is more dangerous that flying.

 

[Schulzenfest]

You miss the part where most people don't have to be using air travel to attend to urgent things?

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You miss the part where not everyone lives their life confined to a redneck hick town and lots of them do need to travel regularly and/or urgently?

What's your suggestion for the non-luxury way for people to travel overseas? Get on a first fleet tallship and have the trip take 6 months each way? Swim?

 

[sobrave]

You miss the part where not everyone lives their life confined to a redneck hick town and lots of them do need to travel regularly and/or urgently?

What's your suggestion for the non-luxury way for people to travel overseas? Get on a first fleet tallship and have the trip take 6 months each way? Swim?

Both barrels

 

[Janus]

 

[dirty2]

Reverse parking is the most useless driving skill to learn and does not make you a good driver

****s me off driving in gawler and some dick head decides to reverse park and we (me and 18 other cars) have to bloody wait...

 

[Festerz]

This ongoing discussion of housing and interest rates really belong in the politics thread IMHO.

And in any case, as the 2007/8 US subprime mortgage crisis showed, the idea that the Australian housing market is just like the US housing market is a simplistic comparison with many flaws.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[edgie]

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What's your suggestion for the non-luxury way for people to travel overseas? Get on a first fleet tallship and have the trip take 6 months each way? Swim?

Absolutely. That sounds like an actual experience, rather than a 747 to take selfies of landmarks for a week before taking a 747 back home again.

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[Contested Marx]

Absolutely. That sounds like an actual experience, rather than a 747 to take selfies of landmarks for a week before taking a 747 back home again.

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Selfies of landmarks are just regular photos

 

[snozulu]

 

[backtozero]

Nothing beats the morning commute like realising the giant huntsman is on the inside of the windscreen, not the outside.

 

[Contested Marx]

Nothing beats the morning commute like realising the giant huntsman is on the inside of the windscreen, not the outside.

I've got a childhood memory of dad putting the sun visor down on the way to school, huntsman just sitting there right in front of his eyes. We were doing 80 down Lonsdale Highway

All he said was "right" and calmly waited until we stopped at the lights and flicked it out the window with a piece of paper

I would have just panicked and driven into oncoming traffic

 

[backtozero]

I've got a childhood memory of dad putting the sun visor down on the way to school, huntsman just sitting there right in front of his eyes. We were doing 80 down Lonsdale Highway

All he said was "right" and calmly waited until we stopped at the lights and flicked it out the window with a piece of paper

I would have just panicked and driven into oncoming traffic

Luckily I was only pulling out of the driveway so it wasn't hard to pull over, grab a baseball cap I had in the back seat and grab the sucker. Still not fun but the kids were amused.

I had my own spider experience on the lonsdale highway though in an old car. Rolled down the window and some sort of big arsed orb spider, one of those ones you see in the garden, started dangling in front of my face. Pulled over quick smart and bailed out over the passenger seat.

 

[dirty2]

My mate still gives me shit every now and then... Driving had a spider start dangling in front of me... I pull over quick smart.. and in between yelling at him to kill it and hyperventilating he had a good ****ing laugh.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Nothing beats the morning commute like realising the giant huntsman is on the inside of the windscreen, not the outside.

I had a giant huntsman give birth in the air vent of my old toyota corona back in dickities.
There would have been no less the 1 million tiny spiders covering the entire surface area of the car, both inside an out. A flamethrower was required

 

[backtozero]

I had a giant huntsman give birth in the air vent of my old toyota corona back in dickities.
There would have been no less the 1 million tiny spiders covering the entire surface area of the car, both inside an out. A flamethrower was required

You win.

 

[JimmyBC]

The lesson should be don't park near gumtrees

 

[afl2004]

 

[snozulu]

I had a giant huntsman give birth in the air vent of my old toyota corona back in dickities.
There would have been no less the 1 million tiny spiders covering the entire surface area of the car, both inside an out. A flamethrower was required

My uncle blew our letterbox up in mossvale in the 80's because there was a funnel web spider living inside. It's funny because he used to always act macho but shat himself when he opened it.

 

[edgie]

Nothing beats the morning commute like realising the giant huntsman is on the inside of the windscreen, not the outside.

Good reason to take a mental health day and use it to visit a dealer

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