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Have We Pinnacled?

  • 19-02-2013 1:30am
    #1
    Where To
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    I've been a wee bit bored tonight, so I've been doing some number crunching. My brother is a globetrotter for his job (he's home at the min and me and him are having a brandy or two), and we've been searching flights for diferent countries in far flung parts of the world. Anyway, we have come to the conclusion that there is nowhere on earth that is more than two weeks worth of dole away from Ireland.

    When you consider the exorbitant cost of travel years ago, when people emogrigated and never came back, and the probable massive increases in energy costs in the future, is this as good as it's ever going to be for travelling and seeing the world?


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  • #2
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    You must've never seen seaquest and learned about our future underwater colonies


  • #3
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    Where To wrote: »
    there is nowhere on earth that is more than two weeks worth of dole away from Ireland.
    eh:confused:

    I can think of lots of places that you wouldn't get to for less than €700 or a heck of a lot of air miles.


  • #4
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    You must've never seen seaquest and learned about our future underwater colonies
    Is that not a BUSTED song?


  • #5
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    hames wrote: »
    eh:confused:

    I can think of lots of places that you wouldn't get to for less than €700 or a heck of a lot of air miles.
    Name one and I'll prove you wrong ;)


  • #6
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Please tell me more of this magical airline who flies anywhere for the price of two weeks dole.


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  • #7
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Where To wrote: »
    I've been a wee bit bored tonight, so I've been doing some number crunching. My brother is a globetrotter for his job (he's home at the min and me and him are having a brandy or two),

    Bravo sir, Bravo! *adjusts monocle*


  • #8
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Where To wrote: »
    Name one and I'll prove you wrong ;)

    The North Pole
    The South Pole
    Base Camp of Everest
    Hawaii
    The Mariana Trench
    Kate Mosses Vagina (you said nowhere on Earth)


  • #9
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    tripple, breasted women, swam around town..
    totally naked


  • #10
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    Where To wrote: »
    Name one and I'll prove you wrong ;)
    Paraguay.


  • #11
    Where To
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    The North Pole
    The South Pole
    Base Camp of Everest
    Hawaii
    I meant NORMAL places!!

    edit. Dublin to Honolulu, 4 weeks dole, day and a half travelling, that's not bad for the whole other side of the world.


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  • #12
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Where To wrote: »
    Name one and I'll prove you wrong ;)

    Port Stanley, Falkland Islands


  • #13
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Where To wrote: »
    I meant NORMAL places!!

    Hawaii is a normal place, its part of 'Merica


  • #14
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    In the future, we'll see people commuting to New York from London and the likes. It will be amazing.


  • #15
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Where To wrote: »
    I meant NORMAL places!!

    Hawaii seems perfectly normal to me?

    As is the South Pole- It's Summer there, I fancy a bit of weather researching


  • #16
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    In the future, we'll see people commuting to New York from London and the likes. It will be amazing.

    Cancelling Concorde was but the first step in realising this dream...


  • #17
    Where To
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    hames wrote: »
    Paraguay.
    I could go tomorrow for €700. That's not bad now in fairness. I wouldn't go from Donegal to Cork for that.


  • #18
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Where To wrote: »
    I could go tomorrow for €700. That's not bad now in fairness. I wouldn't go from Donegal to Cork for that.

    You said two weeks dole which is just about half at 376e. :)


  • #19
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    MadsL wrote: »
    Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
    Join the BA and go for free!!


  • #20
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Mince Pie wrote: »
    You said two weeks dole which is just about half at 376e. :)
    Yeah but if I properly researched it and picked the right dates I could get there for half nothing.

    Face it folks, we've never had it so good, and we never will again.


  • #21
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    Where To wrote: »
    Yeah but if I properly researched it and picked the right dates I could get there for half nothing.
    show us your rough work, young man.

    one ticket to Paraguay please, I have €376 to spend.


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  • #22
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    You said
    Where To wrote: »
    we have come to the conclusion that there is nowhere on earth that is more than two weeks worth of dole away from Ireland.

    You can't shift the goalposts now.

    Solomon islands, for less than 376 euro, please. :D


  • #23
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    We have peakened.

    The ascencion of aviation is a bit like the beating of egg whites into a stiff peak and forging an aerodynamic merangue


  • #24
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    But I'm not on the dole... :(


  • #25
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    hames wrote: »
    show us your rough work, young man.

    one ticket to Paraguay please, I have €376 to spend.
    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    You said

    and wil

    You can't shift the goalposts now.

    Solomon islands, for less than 376 euro, please. :D
    Now lads, you're taking adrunk man literally, but in the morning I will be sober and will personally escort you both to Ascuncion and the Cook Islands for no extra charge.:)


  • #26
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Where To wrote: »
    Now lads, you're taking adrunk man literally, but in the morning I will be sober and will personally escort you both to Ascuncion and the Cook Islands for no extra charge.:)

    Taxi!


  • #27
    7ofBrian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭7ofBrian


    Ill take Thailand please. I fancy living out my on koh phi phi


  • #28
    Where To
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    7ofBrian wrote: »
    Ill take Thailand please. I fancy living out my on koh phi phi
    I saw flights with British Airways a couple of Weeks ago to Bangkok for 500 return. Face it folks, the world has got tiny.


  • #29
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Where To wrote: »
    I saw flights with British Airways a couple of Weeks ago to Bangkok for 500 return. Face it folks, the world has got tiny.

    That's still more than the two weeks of 376e. ;)

    I'd like a ticket to Lima Peru please. Good man yerself.


  • #30
    Where To
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    Mince Pie wrote: »

    That's still more than the two weeks of 376e. ;)

    I'd like a ticket to Lima Peru please. Good man yerself.
    Peru, I can do for you. 200 euro Dublin to Vegas via Atlanta tomorrow morning, but get off in Atlanta. My neighbours cousin will drive you Atlanta to el paso for free.
    his cousin flies charter service to he Andes, you might have to wait a week but he get you there.

    Now, how much would your grandfather have had to give up for the same journey?


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  • #31
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Where To wrote: »
    I've been a wee bit bored tonight, so I've been doing some number crunching. My brother is a globetrotter for his job (he's home at the min and me and him are having a brandy or two),

    Do you have an office that smells of leather and rich Mahogany and a butler called Mr. Belvedere?


  • #32
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Where To wrote: »
    Name one and I'll prove you wrong ;)

    Barrow, Alaska.

    AAaaannddd... GO.


  • #33
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Where To wrote: »
    I meant NORMAL places!!

    No you didn't. ;)

    And if that IS what you mean, then that's the answer to your question. No, we have indeed not pinnacled.


  • #34
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Where To wrote: »

    Face it folks, we've never had it so good, and we never will again.

    Its all right for you.

    You've got the brandy. :(


  • #35
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Where To wrote: »
    I wouldn't go from Donegal to Cork for that.

    Indeed, you'd go for about a sixth of that.

    This thread is weird. :P


  • #36
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Ulaanbaatar


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  • #37
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    is that even a word

    no not that ^ one just there


  • #38
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    IM0 wrote: »
    is that even a word

    no not that ^ one just there

    Of course - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g293956-Ulaanbaatar-Vacations.html


  • #39
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Where To wrote: »
    ...he's home at the min and me and him are having a brandy or two,..

    Just wondering does your living room smell of old leather and cuban cigars?


  • #40
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Where To wrote: »
    I saw flights with British Airways a couple of Weeks ago to Bangkok for 500 return. Face it folks, the world has got tiny.

    500 does not equal 376 or less

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #41
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Where To wrote: »
    I've been a wee bit bored tonight, so I've been doing some number crunching. My brother is a globetrotter for his job (he's home at the min and me and him are having a brandy or two), and we've been searching flights for diferent countries in far flung parts of the world. Anyway, we have come to the conclusion that there is nowhere on earth that is more than two weeks worth of dole away from Ireland.

    When you consider the exorbitant cost of travel years ago, when people emogrigated and never came back, and the probable massive increases in energy costs in the future, is this as good as it's ever going to be for travelling and seeing the world?

    I want to emogrigate to Tory to sell dictionaries to the unadulterated.

    How many weeks dole?


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  • #42
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    IceFjoem wrote: »
    But I'm not on the dole... :(
    Give it a week or two.


  • #43
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Valetta wrote: »
    I want to emogrigate to Tory to sell dictionaries to the unadulterated.

    How many weeks dole?

    At least Too or Tree.


  • #44
    Sh1tbag OToole
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    There are absolutely loads of places you can't get to on two weeks dole.

    Also fuel costs have gone up significantly in the past 10-15 years and even the low cost airlines are getting more expensive again now. As the population continues to grow people will be restricted more and more financially and also by new laws being brought in. Wages are stagnating and prices continue to rise. Unfortunately the days of huge engined cars, being allowed to do what you like and lack of government oversight are behind us :(


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