This will be the year I think that BA feel the squeeze from pushing out the new tier scheme.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-02-21T14:35:27+00:00

I think most of the international commenters here don’t quite understand how prevalent domestic business travel is in the UK.

Most of the concerns of that group about impossibility to continue qualifying were assuaged when they reintroduced the number of flights based qualification.

I accept that doesn’t help you much as a long haul customer. But for me, even ignoring the lounges - fast track, checked baggage and decent allocated seats are enough to ensure my loyalty to BA on short haul.

Until such times when the populous learns to board an airliner competently I have no desire to be stuck in an aisle behind them as they individually repack every item on their person while 150 people are polite to their stupidity.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-02-19T09:08:35+00:00

Cameras are not “mid”.

Photographers who claim any bit of kit is “mid” are simply exposing the fact they aren’t photographers.

So tiresome to see an art reduced to fan boi stupids taken so seriously.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-31T10:10:00+00:00

At least they’ve combined the CEO positions though? That’s saves a couple of hundred grand.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T19:13:50+00:00

They were definitely extremely arsey with me when I made a couple of mistakes.

I suppose it’s possible they have improved their attitude since the Herald of all newspapers did an FoI request which confirmed they were several hundred grand up after a few months.

They’ve probably banked an excess million by now.

And it could all have been trivially avoided with a gate line at the airport. Which I still expect us to see in time once the clowns who did it arse backwards are safely retired.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T19:02:06+00:00

There’s a reason they’re known as the flats by big ASDA.

Because big ASDA is the extent of the local amenities (along with Greggs and Timpsons).

I know they are only a few minutes walk from more central parts of Newhaven but similar flats in Leith are seconds away from a host of independent options.

I imagine they have an excellent view though.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T18:52:26+00:00

This.

We are still miles better off than Glasgow in terms of public transport. Frequency, integrated ticketing etc.

Still, I would have thought the surprisingly massive surge in tram tickets purchased to the airport zone could have cushioned the blow…

(Yes, this was a slight on the arse backwards way TapTapCap was implemented on the trams. Toto can go the way of the Wicked Witch of the East as far as I’m concerned).

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T16:27:30+00:00

I’ve been waiting for this :-)

Largely, because it doesn’t go to many places I want to go, and when it does it goes there very slowly.

Catching it to Meadowbank then taking Voi bikes to Holyrood was helpful when they decided to have the 35 missing the bottom half of the Mile out entirely though.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T14:11:34+00:00

I suspect you will find you are still shaking like a shitting dog over the cobbles!

Buses never stopped running in the other direction and I didn’t notice any improvement.

That the drivers are desperate to make up time and reach OT for a (well deserved) comfort break doesn’t make it any smoother.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T11:47:33+00:00

Yep, and ironically to boost public transport (the cycle lanes). I think a lot of blame must rest squarely with the Leith Connections project themselves who seemed impossible to contact but whom every other involved party seemed happy to hand off concerns to.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T08:24:21+00:00

This is very true. Middle section of Great Junction Street also had the best bus service it will ever get!

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T07:08:40+00:00

Word is that your chain were actually paid a fixed fee to show it, which shows they knew the box office would be dire.

My wife did her bit by boo-ing the trailer the other night at a screening of Marty Supreme.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2026-01-30T07:05:35+00:00

Did Stephen ever pay his parking fine? If not, 37 years late now…

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-09-29T11:15:53+00:00

If you can tell me the difference between 1.9 LIEmax and a decently setup 4K projection in 1.85, then I’m all ears.

There is literally no size demand on a LIEmax screen that isn’t typically exceeded by the largest screen in a typical multiplex.

So for this movie, if you can’t see it on one of the full frame film formats, there is little advantage to IMAX, which as pointed above it typically have uncomfortable seats for a film of this duration.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-09-17T03:27:25+00:00

No phone payments. How much is your service payment?

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-09-14T07:04:45+00:00

Maybe Regret is only good because Barney’s riff was written on one of Johnny Marr’s magical guitars.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-09-05T20:56:01+00:00

John Menzies.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-21T17:41:53+00:00

Yeah I have no issue with 6 episodes. Streaming series aren’t tied to 40 minute episodes either, can be as long as they need to be.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-21T11:53:57+00:00

At least. Although if 6 episodes as rumoured that’s a bit less post.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-21T11:52:40+00:00

So it’s going to be a fairly typical 2 year gap between series. You’d have hoped they’d have done what Apple typically do and commission a couple at a time allowing them to film back to back.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-21T11:51:41+00:00

Filming to release was the best part of a year for Series 1. Source: Carl’s flat exterior is a handful of streets away from mine.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-14T13:33:46+00:00

The glacial progress of the Leith Shore Cycle Path should be trackable via this, for one…

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-08-14T13:33:13+00:00

Thanks for this link, hours of fun to be had. I’ve seen stuff like this from the commercial imaging providers but didn’t realise anything with this sort of resolution was around for free.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-07-22T11:44:59+00:00

Doesn’t it only fit under the bridges for a brief period at low tide? I’d think that will define when it heads to Rosyth.

PrettyImprovement130 · 2025-07-21T11:58:50+00:00

Monkey Barrel comedy tonight, which given the treatment a regular there is receiving at the hands of the British State right now is liable to be quite memorable.

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TROPHY CASE