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Before I first visited the US, I thought that the brown paper bags everyone on US TV used to carry their shopping home were a TV convention (like area code 555) - a way to avoid showing brands. Then I went there and discovered that these bags really existed.
Given there is an energy crisis, why is no effort being made to reduce consumption by encouraging more use of video calls? Most business travel is performative effort, not essential.
Because it's a fucking train. That's what trains do which aircraft don't. And because 1.8m people live in Kent and 1.8m people live in Essex, none of whom want to spend 40 minutes going in the wrong direction to spend...
The reason for the champagne and seafood bar is interesting. It is premium food which requires no heating and hence no ventillation, so can occupy airport real estate which other food vendors can't.
@SoVeryBritish (Good arbitrage tip - save up your reward coffees for airport use, btw). I once asked someone at Toblerone what the weird airport thing is. It just happened really early and mushroomed from there. https://t.co/GRz6Kp8p8x
Help me out here, economists. Why is it okay to burn Norwegian gas but not British gas? It's a bit like saying it's okay to be a drug addict as long as you don't grow your own.
