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15:00 / 25.07.06

Hopefully the Sandwich Adam should be home soon, so worry no more. If he is not I will return with news.

15:01 / 25.07.06

I would happily phone, order and pay for a vegetarian deluxe if I didn't have to get all my money out of the bank as soon as I'm paid to avoid them siezing it.

15:03 / 25.07.06

Hooray. Sandwich is available!

paranoidwriter waves hello

15:06 / 25.07.06

You've just give me a big happy, SP.

By the way, make sure you check the opening/closing times of your local PO. I think many of them are closed or have half day closing on Wednesday.

15:09 / 25.07.06

!

Will check. Thanks again everyone, you all rock my world.

16:03 / 25.07.06

Enjoy the cheese.

16:07 / 25.07.06

I'm all warm and fuzzy and enjoying the cheese.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:20 / 25.07.06

Best. Thread. Evar.

21:12 / 25.07.06

Eek I'm late. Glad you got a sandwich. I'm in Cardiff (till Friday anyway), and happy to help out with money, pizza or whatever you might need. I've no car, or even bike atm, so that's about as much as I can offer.

Good luck! (at least the weather's nice!)

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

21:31 / 25.07.06

Canolfan Padarn
Llanbadarn Rd, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 1HB

I saw this and my first thought was someones keyboard was broken.

Glad it worked out PS, keep us posted.

09:01 / 27.07.06

Am back now. The moneygram came through. I'm now gorging on Bailey's chocolates. Advice: After 26 hours without food, do not eat more than 20 Bourbons and a cheese sandwhich and an ice-lolly. The body responds with shock and the result is horribly digestive.

Thanks to everyone who gave advice etc. Paranoid Writer completely saved me with the moneygram idea. He gets much love. All others get special hats and a space on my body reserved for their name.

12:09 / 27.07.06

oooOOOh!

Glad yer home and fed.

13:08 / 27.07.06

Bah shame I didnt spot this before - the mighty one rules at long distance rescues!

If anyone is in a similar spot in the UK and trains are the only option a friend or relative can go to any manned station and ask for a 'silk transfer' to get a ticket to you. Its not something they advertise and they HATE doing it but have to if you state that someone is stranded. The person doing the rescue fills out some forms and pays and then you can go to the station your stranded at and say there is a silk transfer waiting for me, show some ID and you get the tickets. One of those odd quirky rail thingies left over from when it was a service rather than a business...

While Im on about trains ALWAYS ask for a printout of your journey when buying a ticket. If youu get your tickets by post or the net get one from the station you leave from before you get on the first train. If you look at the back of the tickets it will always say 'issued according to terms and conditions' not that they tell you what these are. One of them is that if you have a valid ticket to travel - they have to honour it. This means that if you get to a station only to be told there is no connecting train cos the peeps at the issuing station screwed up or the rail timetable was wrong (happens a lot) they still have to get you to your destination - ie free taxi for you. Again be prepared to have to ask for a supervisor and hold your ground (this is where the printout of your journey becomes important) but I have been taken from Peterborough to Harrogate by taxi before - better than spending the night on the streets in Peterborough and then buying a new ticket in the morning!

19:05 / 04.12.06

I realised, what with all the new peoples who have arrived since I did, that some people might not know of this thread. This worried me. As such, I call on the mighty power of *bump* to spread the word.

21:31 / 04.12.06

Well 'bump' makes me happy because I didn't know about the slik transfer. Now I want to tell everyone. Hailing the Glandmaster.

01:07 / 05.12.06

Are there any Thailand-based Barbeloids about?

I'm flying out to Thailand in a couple of days, and whilst I have money and will hopefully not get stranded, it's always nice to know that someone has "Got Your Back" as it were.

And because it's all about sharing and such, I'll happily be someone's contingency plan if they ever find themselves down and out in Autralialand.

17:36 / 05.12.06

Which reminds me of my Ma & Pa, who lived in a remotish spot. One evening, a nice looking fellow came down from the hills looking for a particular pub and found he’d got the wrong village. Mum, looking at the sinking sun, offered him shelter, and Dad concurred. So said lonely traveler got hearty food, fireside whisky and a bed, gratis.

This might, of course, have ended up as a line in Mark Kermode’s PhD. It didn’t, though, and two days later Mum got a lovely bunch of flowers.

So, yeah, glass-half-fullwise, I’m game.

20:40 / 05.12.06

How long will you be in Thailand? I'll be there for the first 10 days of January... which probably doesn't help at all...

01:14 / 06.12.06

JD > I live in Singapore (2 hours or so from Bangkok) and know some people who tend to be in Thailand reasonably often. If you do get into any trouble I can probably help or point you in the right direction. Check out popagandhi.com - she has some interesting travel content that may be of use to you.

05:24 / 06.12.06

Oh hey, I'll probably be in Singapore in mid-February.

08:27 / 06.12.06

Baz - We fly back on the 28th of December, so yeah, I'll miss you by a couple of weeks.

Thanks ciotog! I'll check out the site now. Hopefully all will be fine, but worse comes to worse I'll jump on here begging for help

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17:41 / 07.12.06

No one's been desperately affected by the wee tornado you lot had today, I hope?

17:46 / 07.12.06

A TORNADO OF WEE?!!?!

EEEW!

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

17:57 / 07.12.06

To add myself to the emergency relief list. If any Barbeloids are ever in the vicinity of Albuquerque, NM (USA) I can offer a couch and crappy food.

Ex

18:00 / 07.12.06

Is that the London tornado? I'm fine, although my roof is leaking a little. I think it was fairly localised.

(I'm having trouble getting my head round the whole idea of a 'Kensal Green Tornado' - I can't think of an appropriately small district of another city to make the comparison. It just seems so tiny and local. Like the Chalk Farm Inferno or the Brockley Blizzard or the Catford Apocalypse.)

If it's something bigger somewhere else, forgive the sarcasm...

Ex

18:05 / 07.12.06

I've just looked at the news photos and retract my mockery. Bloody hell. I do hope everyone's OK.

19:04 / 07.12.06

It´s on the news here, as well. Six people got injured, and hundreds had to leave their homes.

And also in other news, seven people, working in a hotel in London, are contaminated with polonium. There won´t be any short or long term health problems because of this, the doctors say. Two too many bad news for London for one day.

21:14 / 07.12.06

I feel sorry for the Kensal Rise tornado people. I live really near to the area which was hit by the Birmingham tornado. It's a really poor part of the city and the people there are still trying to fix their roofs over a year later. I hope that doesn't happen in London.

The council here have been rubbish with giving assistance even though heaps of the families are living below the poverty line and with no insurance. It's just been disasterous. It's never the posh bits, is it? It's always the areas where reconstruction is a nightmare and no-one can afford to do it.

21:56 / 07.12.06

It's never the posh bits, is it? It's always the areas where reconstruction is a nightmare and no-one can afford to do it.

Perhaps you could take that up with the relevant authorities?

Joking aside, what are you suggesting; that the weather's essentially class-based, and bourgeois?

22:09 / 07.12.06

It is a fascinating perceptual illusion, isn't it? But, as this good fellow (himself a scientist) points out, saying that tornadoes seem attracted to trailer parks is like saying that earthquakes are attracted to big cities.

It's the poor who suffer most dramatically in any given natural disaster, and it is in the aftermath of natural disasters that the poor are the most visible. While it is inaccurate to say that the weather targets poor people, it might be fair to say that TV camera crews do.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:05 / 07.12.06

Indeed. Lula's more general point - it's always the poor who get shafted, in effect - is quite borne out. The weather isn't class-based, but who suffers worst and is least equipped to, as it were, weather its effect often is.

09:44 / 08.12.06

Yes, sorry. Of course it's just perception, but when the tornado hit Birmingham, the only part that got really destroyed was here in Balsall Heath and Sparkhill, specifically the poorest bits with the biggest unemployment. Now it is still in tatters because there is no governmental support for a community with very little money which had damage to almost all its houses in one way or another.

11:41 / 08.12.06

It's never the posh bits, is it? It's always the areas where reconstruction is a nightmare and no-one can afford to do it.

Much like the trailer park phenomenon in North America. It is eeriely, almost lilke they are strategically placed.

I hope our 'lithers are okay in London.

14:09 / 23.02.07

Just reminded about this thread's existence. Bump. Bump.

Come to us oh wounded Barbeloids, we shall balm you.

13:06 / 03.11.07

As of this morning I am homeless. I am in London with nowhere to sleep for the next week. I can, just about, afford to get a hostel. However, I'd prefer not to have to pay such a ruddy great sum and bankrpt myself for the priveledge.

Don't suppose there is anyone in London (East London for preference) with a spare couch? I am tidy, will cook and not smell. I will supply mediocre wine and amazing dancing.

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