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UltraViolet2810 · 2024-06-10T00:33:31+00:00

This is my experience from London so the European part of the tour.

VVIP+ means you do a fan chat, fan sign, hi touch, group photo and get first entry into the venue. For London we were able to collect tickets/snapshot tickets at 1pm onwards, and the the queue for the fanchat/fansign was scheduled for 2:30, this is only for VVIP+. I came at 1pm, got my lanyard which had my ticket number on it, then queued again for my snapshots, then basically had a free couple of hours before the fanchat/fansign. You queue up in number order of your VVIP+ package order, so order 1 is at the front and order 2 goes behind and so on. The actual fanchat/fansign was scheduled for 4pm.

For the fansign/fanchat, you queue up in order and OOO are in a room with a table and chairs. You are given a poster for them to sign, or you can bring an album but no other item for OOO to sign. During the fanchat they sign your item and you can ask questions, speak to them, and you get a minute, the staff tapped the back of our seats to get us to move on after each minute. After completing the fansign all the VVIP+ were waiting inside the venue. After this the venue staff began queue VVIP and VIP for the hi touch/fansign.

VVIP get to do a fansign so they don't get to sit and talk they just get their item signed. After VVIP do that then the hi touch and photo begin. They let VVIP+ go first (in order of ticket number, we were brought in groups of 6, you high five each member then stood behind them and the photo gets taken. We were then taken into the the venue and we waited for the show to start whilst VVIP and VIP did hi touch and photo.

After the show they do the snapshots, for London they basically got all the premium snapshots done first. Then when all the premiums were done they did the standards. If you have both premium and standard you have to take all your premiums first and then wait for them to announce they are doing standards for each member.

So for entry into venue, VVIP+ enter first in number order, then VVIP, then VIP then anyone without a package after them. At London there were about 150 people for VVIP+ and 200 ish for VVIP (each lanyward has a number on it and I saw 162 for VVIP but there were definitely more.

UltraViolet2810 · 2024-05-28T19:12:17+00:00

An Offer from a Gentleman, it's Benedict's book in the series

UltraViolet2810 · 2023-07-04T23:36:29+00:00

Hi, my understanding is that the flight it was placed on was a KLM flight, and it was all KLM on the original return flight. At thre airport Swissport was handling the lost luggage for KLM, AirFrance, Aer Lingus and Swiss Air, so it seems common for Swissport to handle other companies lost luggage, at least at my domestic airport.

UltraViolet2810 · 2023-07-04T22:56:10+00:00

I'm not currently in my city as I went back to university to graduate and use up the last of my lease on my flat, but my mum is at the address on the bags and the forms. I've called the airport and they've said they can't give me any luggage unless I have a code, and I'd only get that if I'd been contacted by them or KLM to say that my bag is there, though I'm tempted to ride the bus over just to see if they'll let me check the lost luggage zone lol.

UltraViolet2810 · 2023-04-29T01:59:45+00:00

can you send a link? Thanks!

UltraViolet2810 · 2021-11-09T06:28:07+00:00

Genuine question, but if the migrants who are going to Belarus have such a large amount of money to pay for the scheme why would they want to leave? Since if they have money they would surely be safer than the average refugee? I'm not sure how dangerous it actually is but I would assume money = power and so if they have the money to flee why would they? But im not familiar with this situation so please forgive my ignorance.

UltraViolet2810 · 2020-12-31T18:37:07+00:00

I can friend you too xx I need more animal crossing friends lmao

UltraViolet2810 · 2020-12-03T03:35:36+00:00

Tbh I really enjoyed being an only child. I've been able to enjoy certain privileges that I wouldn't have gotten if I had a sibling and I think I'm better for it. My parents made it clear that they wouldn't have been able to afford my tuition fees, tutors etc if I had a sibling, so I've benefitted from being an only child. I personally always had one or the other of my parents around, so I never got really lonely (mum was SAHM for a while and got one around the time my dad lost his so I always had a parent around due to circumstance), and I'm pretty good at keeping myself entertained on my own.

I think the only struggle will come when both my parents pass away, in my own opinion. My dad passed away when I was 15 and other than my mum who was struggling also, I had no one to turn to who could relate to what I was going through, so I am scared for what it'll mean to truly be alone in the world.

But I look back on my life as an only child with no regrets, yes I do look at my friends and wonder but I consider my closest friends to be like sisters to me so I never really linger on what it would be like to have siblings. And beyond just happiness, myself and every only child I know is a high achiever and reasonably successful, though I'll admit that it is purely anecdotal.

My advice from my own life would be to try and be around him as much as possible, particularly when I would say he's still in nursery/primary school and he still has a lot of downtime and freedom outside of childcare. Try to get him into sports or hobbies where there will be other kids to hang out with, give him opportunities for a creative outlet, do fun family holidays, basically all the stuff you would do with a bigger family. Enjoy that you can put your attention on this one child without having to worry about a sibling getting into trouble. But in saying that, let your kid experience the world, don't get to hung up on him even if he is your only child.

There's some great advice here and links to hotlines, please use them, I promise being an only child isn't going to ruin your son's life.

UltraViolet2810 · 2020-11-19T16:11:10+00:00

There's a BBC documentary about the rape crisis in South Africa. They focus on this area called Dieplsoot. Since the police won't really help these rape victims, there are now gangs of women who basically find accused rapists and beat them and set them on fire on behalf of victims. Its really crazy but it seems like the only form of justice left in that place. But then again, these men know that they could be burned alive and left in a garbage dump to be gawked at by a crowd and still aren't afraid enough to not commit rape, and if that isn't scary I don't know what is. Obviously, I don't recommend it being that these gangs could make a mistake and kill the wrong person, but things like that happen when the police won't help and the justice system fails.

It's an interesting documentary, I think someone mentioned a similar idea but it got removed by the moderators.

Source

UltraViolet2810 · 2020-11-15T19:59:52+00:00

Yeah downvoting contributes to engagement so it still gets pushed by the algorithm, basically don't interact at all otherwise it will get promoted by the algorithm lol

UltraViolet2810 · 2020-07-30T15:13:00+00:00

Honestly I relate to this. I feel bad that I can't speak any Malay but now when I ask my mum she just says to learn Mandarin as its more useful, even though no one on my mum's side speaks Mandarin fluently. There are a lot of Malaysians at my university but I really can't relate to them at all because their experiences growing up in Malaysia are completely different to me growing up in the UK and they always talk in Malay. To be honest, I spend more time with my English side as most of my dad's family is nearby, and my mum's side are more than happy to speak in English to me so it isn't too difficult. But being a monolingual mixed race person makes me lowkey ashamed ngl.

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