• ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to Jay911
    Jay911:
    The London directions: There must be something really important at Imperial Wharf.
    Canary Wharf, I could undestand, though. All sorts of strange wibbly-wobbly spacey-wacey stuff going on up there. I can see how easy it would be to get turned around in the wrong direction.

    I'm particularly impressed how Google managed to return results for an entire sub-category that happens to be a top-secret organisation.

  • (cs) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    abigail:
    Isn't it faster if you use Emirates Air Line to go from Clapham Junction to Clapham Junction? [image]
    Let me guess. The Emirates one takes you via Highbury?

    It likely gets you much closer to your destination than Ryanair.

  • (cs) in reply to Dale
    Dale:
    If you look at the image, the problem appears to be that there are two stations in the system, "Clapham Junction" and "Clapham Junction #nrc". I'd love to know what "#nrc" stands for.
    (Checks Acronym Finder for likely expansions)....

    Nobody Really Cares

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    BTW, Jeff was already at a hub, LAX. Expecting a commuter flight to a nearby airport would be reasonable
    Really? I don't generally hear of flights between airports that are *that* close to each other, even if both are major airports. Perhaps *especially* if both are major airports. (I've flown out of both a million times, but I would never even imagine that there'd be flights from one to the other. I imagine they'd tell you to take a cab, or even a train if you weren't in a hurry.)

    Are there actually any flights between any airports that are that close together?

  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    Are there actually any flights between any airports that are that close together?
    There are flights between Phoenix and Tucson, about 120 miles apart. Friend of mine likes to tell about the time his job required him to take such a flight; he pretended to drive to the airport in Phoenix and instead just drove all the way to Tucson. Given the time to check baggage and traverse security on each end, he was able to be about Tucson an hour sooner than the people who actually got on the flight, and he saved money on the car rental too.
  • BushIdo (unregistered) in reply to abigail
    abigail:
    Isn't it faster if you use Emirates Air Line to go from Clapham Junction to Clapham Junction? [image]
    Yeah, wheelies or other people withmobility restrictions get this "Go form A To B by A to B to C to B" a lot. Otherwise you might not get out of the train, because it's the wrong side, where there is no ramp or you might get out of the train, but can't get out of the station etc.
  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    QJo:
    Hmm ... turkey, roast taters, leeks, stuffing, onions, cabbage, grave, CHOCOLATE? Yeeuk!

    Oh, you know what I mean: "gravy".

    Here I was thinking you like your meals with an accent!

  • (cs) in reply to wlao
    wlao:
    ...and they taste way better than Crunch frog.

    Constable Clitoris et one of those!

  • FFS (unregistered) in reply to Banfa
    Banfa:
    No that is actually the minimum value of a 16-bit signed integer

    No, not even that. It's the minimum value of a 16-bit signed integer [b]using a 2's complement representation[b].

  • varg (unregistered) in reply to Stan Rogers

    Of course it does - it gets you from Greenwich to Docklands, close to the City Airport, i.e. is the shortest flight you can get with Emirates ever.

    http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/23828.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Air_Line_(gondola_lift)

    Ryanair can take you to Stansted or Luton or Southend-on-Sea, places that are designated "London airport" by quite generous application of the term. And the some.

    CAPTCHA: illum. Because we all need to be illuminated.

  • (cs) in reply to varg
    varg:
    Of course it does - it gets you from Greenwich to Docklands, close to the City Airport, i.e. is the shortest flight you can get with Emirates ever.

    http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/23828.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Air_Line_(gondola_lift)

    Ryanair can take you to Stansted or Luton or Southend-on-Sea, places that are designated "London airport" by quite generous application of the term. And the some.

    CAPTCHA: illum. Because we all need to be illuminated.

    Oh, that's awesome. There's something called the "Emirates Air Line", sponsored by "Emirates Airlines" but completely distinct from it. That's not going to cause confusion at all...

  • (cs) in reply to MrBester
    MrBester:
    I do like how it takes 4 mins to get to Imperial Wharf from Clapham Junction but only 6 mins in reverse...
    Downhill, perhaps?
  • martin (unregistered) in reply to Dale

    National Rail Connections?

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to MrBester
    MrBester:
    Shinobu:
    That last one actually makes sense, since the 2003 revised rules made it illegal to reach Mornington Crescent in the first stage unless you have passed Clapham Junction at least twice.
    Except that rule doesn't apply as you've already started south of the river, in which case Mornington Crescent is subsequently a valid move (and always has been).

    I do like how it takes 4 mins to get to Imperial Wharf from Clapham Junction but only 6 mins in reverse...

    Have you ever tried driving any reasonable distance in reverse? It's not geared the same and it makes it much more difficult to steer...

  • (cs)

    Wow, I don't even remember sending that in.

  • Ol' Bob (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Chris:
    razumny:
    Those sprouts are actually chocolates, though. I should know, I went through a net of them...
    In fact, if you squint enough, you can make out that the label says "<something> Milk Chocolate" above "Sprouts"
    There are better images of them out there. (No, I didn't realise that these were a thing, but apparently so.)

    The perfect thing for the child whose parents are always telling them "eat your vegetables". "But, Mummy, look - I am eating my vegetables - Brussels sprouts - and they are just SO GOOD!"

    CAPTCHA: secundum - I'll secundum that...

  • Rudolf (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    Are there actually any flights between any airports that are that close together?

    There is no point. The bureaucracy of an airport just makes it a waste of time (literally). It really has to be at least a 2 to 3 hour drive to make it worth using a commercial flight. Rail or hire-car is more time efficient for shorter journeys.

    PS - the pedant in me thought the totally inappropriate and nonsensical use of bullet-points in the Java one was TRWTF.

  • HerrOttoFlick (unregistered) in reply to Chris Q
    Chris Q:
    When Microsoft first released Autoroute, I asked for a route between London and Newcastle. It suggested I drive to Dover, get a ferry to Zeebrugge, drive up through Europe to Gothenburg, then get another ferry from there.

    Yeah I try not to go past Leeds either tbh

  • HerrOttoFlick (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    HardwareGeek:
    BTW, Jeff was already at a hub, LAX. Expecting a commuter flight to a nearby airport would be reasonable
    Really? I don't generally hear of flights between airports that are *that* close to each other, even if both are major airports. Perhaps *especially* if both are major airports. (I've flown out of both a million times, but I would never even imagine that there'd be flights from one to the other. I imagine they'd tell you to take a cab, or even a train if you weren't in a hurry.)

    Are there actually any flights between any airports that are that close together?

    Most European flag carriers will happily sell you a long-haul ticket anywhere, with a short haul hop to their 'flag' airport before you get the long haul. Eg, Hamburg -> Paris -> Martinique

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)

    I thought there was a helicopter from Narita airport to Haneda but I was wrong. The helicopter is from Narita to a point near the central business district of Tokyo.

    https://www.narita-airport.jp/en/access/heri_hire/index.html

    I wonder why only the URL is in Engrish. Somehow the page contents spell heli correctly.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Pista
    Pista:
    Medinoc:
    minimum of a 32-bit unsigned integer
    -32768
    That's TRWTF.
    Actually, that was true a short time ago, but now it's deprecated.
    FTFY
  • DavidN (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Wow - you're absolutely right! I've been out of Britain for eight years (which is about eight years too long) and it hadn't even crossed my mind that such a concept might exist , and that it was obviously an image being pulled from the wrong place. Perhaps the real WTF now is why anyone would come up with such a repulsive concept :)

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to DavidN
    DavidN:
    Wow - you're absolutely right! I've been out of Britain for eight years (which is about eight years too long) and it hadn't even crossed my mind that such a concept might exist , and that it was obviously an image being pulled from the wrong place. Perhaps the real WTF now is why anyone would come up with such a repulsive concept :)
    Hiding your chocolate in plain sight doesn't sound like a useful trick?
  • Nick (unregistered)

    You can get the TfL journey planner to double back like that easily - in this case just add Imperial Wharf as a via point. Doesn't mean that it's broken - it's just doing what you ask.

  • Peter Wolff (unregistered)

    Can anyone explain me why nobody mentioned the FileNotFound button?

    (or, maybe, the ButtonNotFound button?)

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