TFK International Business Travel Thread

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Mac

A 6am flight to Stansted and no taxis or fast track. You should be off to the mugged off thread @Bandage

He has a nerve posting in the Business Travel thread.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Is there a Lemonade Stand Travel Thread we could point him to ?

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Minus 16 or so here. It’s like standing a walk in deep freeze - yet people are out jogging and cycling

[Raylan]

You wouldn’t do it to the dog
(who possessed superior project finance skills and who worked on the financing of the redeveloped Wembley Stadium)

[Bandage]

As I networked in a Wembley Stadium corporate box back in around 2013, on the halfway line might I add, I couldn’t help but think that Shane Long wouldn’t have scored that wonderful header to put Ireland 1-0 up were it not for my professional endeavours. Seamus Coleman may have been credited with the assist but it was really me. A real John “Bull” O’Donoghue moment & one I treasure dearly.

[balbec]

All downhill since. Now your life is managed by the creche.

[Bandage]

@Fagan_ODowd

There’s a Pret directly opposite the train station where business types like yourself while away hours on their laptop.

I’ve eschewed Pret for the Nero option. I spotted a Scottish banker who attended our earlier meeting making his way into Gregg’s next door.

I understand there’s bad weather back in Ireland & I hope my red eye home this evening isn’t diverted to Cork or somewhere.

[flattythehurdler]

He’s obviously on the Scottish expenses.

[flattythehurdler]

There’s always manc if you’re stuck my oul epal. I’m sitting at home feeling sorry for myself after surgery anyway. Ill lend you running kit and Claire.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

There’s always manc if you’re stuck my oul epal. I’m sitting at home feeling sorry for myself after surgery anyway. Ill lend you running kit and Claire.

What was the surgery bucko?

[flattythehurdler]

Hand.
It’s fcuking sore, but I suppose having a lad tear scar tissue out for over an hour in the way Torquemada could only dream of, it’s only to be expected.
The surgeon opined it may have been catching a sliotar repeatedly along with a busted knuckle. I told him I rarely managed to catch a sliotar in a game. " Training then" he said. For a small English gentleman he knew a lot about hurling.
General Anaesthetic isn’t very nice either.
“Right” says your man “we’ve started remifentanyl”
“I think I’m about to get sick”
“Don’t worry, we’ve started propafol”
The only thing I can really recall of the day after is waking up in a ward which seemed to have about 500 beds and Hundreds of nurses. I can only remember it for about three seconds, and I was clearly imagining it anyway, then getting picked up walking home by Matty in a lovely car.
As far as I remember remifentanyl and propafol are both so called date rape drugs…I must have been awake and conscious enough to get dressed and be allowed to leave, and I must have been awake for a good two hours or more after, but can remember absolutely fcuk all. It’s no wonder people ca t remember anything after getting a drink spiked.
Anyhow, I’ve to keep my hand in the air all the time.
I’m off the codeine today just paracetamol.
Work have been pestering me even though I was told to, and have taken all of December off
Can’t drive or do anything, but I didn’t feel.like it anyway.
Better today but.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Take it easy !

Couch, movies and a box of heroes.

[flattythehurdler]

I’m trying to watch killers of the flower moon, but I hate the white men so much it’s a struggle.

[Bandage]

Okay so you can’t drive down to Cambridge to pick me up.

Best of luck with the surgery recovery though.

[flattythehurdler]

Unfortunately not, and I don’t fancy your chances of a Train, but the offer stands

[StoneCold]

If you’re really stuck it’s roughly a 5 hour journey from Cambridge to Holyhead by train, going by Euston. You can then get the 2:15 Stena sailing to Dublin

[flattythehurdler]

Train you say?

[myboyblue]

@flattythehurdler

I’m trying to watch killers of the flower moon, but I hate the white men so much it’s a struggle.

Band of Brothers is there on SKY+. Ideal time for a rewatch.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Bandage forlornly on the platform in the bruise coloured dusk of London. His life partner will be seething.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

Hand.
It’s fcuking sore, but I suppose having a lad tear scar tissue out for over an hour in the way Torquemada could only dream of, it’s only to be expected.
The surgeon opined it may have been catching a sliotar repeatedly along with a busted knuckle. I told him I rarely managed to catch a sliotar in a game. " Training then" he said. For a small English gentleman he knew a lot about hurling.
General Anaesthetic isn’t very nice either.
“Right” says your man “we’ve started remifentanyl”
“I think I’m about to get sick”
“Don’t worry, we’ve started propafol”
The only thing I can really recall of the day after is waking up in a ward which seemed to have about 500 beds and Hundreds of nurses. I can only remember it for about three seconds, and I was clearly imagining it anyway, then getting picked up walking home by Matty in a lovely car.
As far as I remember remifentanyl and propafol are both so called date rape drugs…I must have been awake and conscious enough to get dressed and be allowed to leave, and I must have been awake for a good two hours or more after, but can remember absolutely fcuk all. It’s no wonder people ca t remember anything after getting a drink spiked.
Anyhow, I’ve to keep my hand in the air all the time.
I’m off the codeine today just paracetamol.
Work have been pestering me even though I was told to, and have taken all of December off
Can’t drive or do anything, but I didn’t feel.like it anyway.
Better today but.

When I got my first knee replaced I misread the letter of instruction and assumed I’d be in the hospital for a day before the surgery. I read the bit about fasting the day of the operation and had a giant fried breakfast in Donaghmede Shopping Centre before heading to the hospital so I wouldn’t be starving the next day when I was fasting.
When I got to the hospital and they started asking me questions and made me put on the robe with no arse in it I realised my mistake but I was too embarrassed to let on. I got violently ill during the operation and nearly choked to death on a mixture of half chewed sausages and hash browns. They gave me some quare looks when I came around.