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If you live in New York City, don't go to The Ding Dong Lounge on 106th and Columbus. I've been going there for a few years, and I've friends who have been going there forever, but then one of their bartenders tried to rape my friend and then somehow thought the whole thing could be smoothed over by buying her partner a drink. Yeah, not so much.

The protest movement in Iran now features men wearing traditional coverings for women, in response to the Iranian government trying to use female attire to humiliate men. featherofeeling also links us to NYTimes coverage of same.

A look at some statistics for those 57 - 85.

It would be completely stupid to get matinee tickets to The Mikado for like two days after Patty and I return from our cruise, wouldn't it?

lord_whimsy informs us of the return of the monocle.

Jesus fucking christ flights to England are expensive (more than I paid to go to Australia). If anyone sees a sale, please let me know, since Patty and I are going in April and I'm returning again in July (for which I wish there was some sort of grant to apply for -- actually, I found several, but the timing is ALL WRONG). Also, absurdly, the cheapest flights seem to route through Zurich, which is a long fucking detour (9 fucking hours going E-to-W after the hop from England) I don't need.

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[austengirl.livejournal.com]

There are no words for what happened to your friend. The douchebag needs to be fired, pronto.

I was looking at UK-US flights on Sunday for July and dear god they are steep. I'm kind of surprised the NY-Lon fares aren't better, I always assume they're better cause it's generally cheaper to fly transatlantically from there than any other British city.

STA travel did have slightly cheaper fares than expedia or travelocity, so they might be worth a look. If it ends up being significantly cheaper for you to connect through another European airport, my recommendation is Amsterdam Schiphol, it is the easiest to navigate of the ones I've been to. I will certainly keep my eyes open for any fare sales.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

*nods* When I had a NY - Schiphol - Newcastle itinerary, Schiphol was quite the civilized airport to fly through.

I wonder if it's the phenomenon of nonstops to lesser-known airports that's throwing things out of whack? I was surprised to spot on my return flight from Chicago TARDIS that, while I'd been able to book JFK-ORD, my return leg was ORD-LGA, and there *were* no ORD-JFK flights that night (Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, admittedly).

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they're not priced so high because they're expecting crude to pop back up to $150 BBL in the summer, rather than the relatively low $70 or so they are now. When I was working in Zurich, it was about $500 - $700 r/t from JFK to ZRH in the summer.