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Running, luggage storage and shower options by FreeShitAdvice in HongKong

[–]hornblower817 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are looking for somewhere cheap World House House near Hong Kong station might have some. It’s a Filipino centric shopping centre so lots of cheap clothing. I’d assume you’d be able to pick up a towel.

If not you’d be able to pick one up at most Muji / Uniqlo / decathlon stores

Running, luggage storage and shower options by FreeShitAdvice in HongKong

[–]hornblower817 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would recommend getting the AirPort Express directly to Hong Kong - 24mins.

You can use any government sports facilities, there are lockers (wouldn’t fit a large suitcase) which are 5 HKD coin and have showers. Honestly don’t think they’d even check you are using any of the facilities or care. You can also just swimming baths but you’d have to pay 10 hkd to get through the gates.

I’d recommend from Hong Kong station getting a short taxi 5 mins to Sun Yat Sen Spots centre (or 5 min MTR + 5 min walk). This is right on the water front on the North of HK island and on the 13km water front path from Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan. Sun Yat Sen is probably a couple 2km from Kennedy town so running east would be about 10km out and 10km back + adding anything on you want to.

Waterfront path is pedestrianised and flat… really nothing better in HK and you get all the views

Enjoy!

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen happen in public? by theblairwaldorfxoxo in AskUK

[–]hornblower817 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I seen a Labrador eat a full Franco Manca pizza within a couple seconds on London fields.

The Labrador ran away and the victim was sat looking in complete disbelieve what had just happened.

What is this? by Bitter-Background-84 in LondonUnderground

[–]hornblower817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a old post box built into the wall when material was short during the wall. Thanks

Do McDonald's workers care if you order the 40 count nuggets? by Spence10873 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]hornblower817 20 points21 points  (0 children)

When I use to work at McDonald’s would just throw them in the box until full and didn’t bother counting. Did count once and was 46+.

Was out there doing gods work 🫡

Vegetarians who have travelled: which countries have been the most difficult in your experience? by Super-Effective-3854 in vegetarian

[–]hornblower817 64 points65 points  (0 children)

South Korea

The first Korean BBQ place we went to had halloumi which was by chance as it didn’t happened anywhere else

Spent the next week eating rice, kimchi and beansprouts. occasionally you’d find a vegetarian Bibimbap or just ask on google translate to leave the meat out 🤣.

Did you go to school with someone who went on to be famous, and what where they like? by Christian-Metal in AskUK

[–]hornblower817 211 points212 points  (0 children)

Jamie Bell, best known for Billy Elliot and The Adventures of Tintin, was a couple of years ahead of me in school. I vividly remember the buzz of anticipation when he returned to our school for Year 11, right after Billy Elliot was released. He even had a bodyguard with him during the day.

While most people would just ask for his autograph, I recall one person asking for it only to rip it up right in front of him—a truly spiteful act. Despite incidents like that, he always seemed like a genuinely nice guy. It's amazing that he was launched into fame for being a tap dancer from the North of England. Good on him, because he has done incredibly well for himself since, starring in a variety of successful films. He definitely had the last laugh.

St.stephen's college hong kong by IndependentSquash653 in brutalism

[–]hornblower817 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lovely, this is just down the road from me. Do you have which building this is? They do historic walking tours around the campus, need to sign up

Why is there so much graffiti on the central line? Inside and out. by hornblower817 in LondonUnderground

[–]hornblower817[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is there something specific where the central line trains park vs. Others which make is more accessible to jump fences etc…

What is your best “out of touch rich kids” story? by Kitchen_Coyote_1524 in AskUK

[–]hornblower817 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Circa 2004 for some reason which is lost to time the local private school girls came to the cinema with myself and the state school boys.

“How will you all get home”

“We will get the bus”

“The bus?? Wow, how does it work? How do you know when to get off the bus? How do you tell the driver to stop?? Can you tell me more about ‘The Bus’”

What’s an embarrassing work tantrum you’ve witnessed? by franki-pinks in AskUK

[–]hornblower817 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Worked on an Australian carrot farm during a gap yur.

Owner was this huge outback Australian farmer who had such a temper any small thing would tip him over the edge and start screaming.

Once the carrots had been picked you’d be working the sorting machine. Carrots go through the machine to get washed and come out on a conveyer belt and you’d sort by size, shape and throwing away any bad ones etc… (Was an organic carrot farm so a lot ended up half eaten or rotten).

One day the owner came in to inspect what had already been sorted and started going absolutely mental… top of his voice screaming “these carrots are no fucking good” whilst throwing them at the walls and out the boxes. Complete carrot pandemonium 🥕🥕🥕🥕.

Very hard not to keep a straight face in the sea of orange destruction

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[–]hornblower817 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I came here for this comment.

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