Y'know, I saw that picture taken in New South Wales (Aussieland) of the gigantic goddamn spider that'd caught, and was in the process of eating, a sparrow. So I thought, "Huh -- that's some fucked-up shit right there, y'all..."

In your life, you will come to certain milestones, one of which is "accepting shit you ain't gonna be able to do nothin' about..." Y'know, stuff like Japanese people clubbing dolphins, the GOP and Furries. I mean, you're totally appalled, but there ain't shit you can do about it. You either accept it and move on, or head up to the roof of the apartment complex across the street from Anthrocon and see if you can get your name on the board.

That brings us back to the Dante-esque horror that was the gigantic goddamn spider from Boganland. What're you gonna do, right? You know that spider's paid off the Prime Minister and is on a Qantas flight to parts unknown (probably in whatever that class is that's above Business Class that the airlines keep totally fuckin' secret because of fears that if you found out they were serving dolphin steak and cocaine up near the pointy end of the aircraft, you might just decided to jump out of your seat, charge the hidden door to the Coked-Up Cetacean Lounge, and proceed to hoover every last flake of that fine, fine Peruvian blow -- or get shot seven times in the back if you're black) and will soon be consume children, the elderly, or blasted passengers stumbling off a Qantas A-380 with a wild look in their eyes and a coke-stache that would embarrass Chuck Barris.

So the moral of this story is: Jesus FUCK I love cocaine!!

As far as I know, this is an airline policy and nothing to do with Australian law.

Apparently BA, Qantas, Air NZ and Virgin Australia have the same policy (which, to be clear, is fucking stupid).

Have no idea about the pool stuff.

Crikey! Sounds like one g'day of a gryte toym.

I'd totally be there and even almost completed checkout for my Qantas Airlines ticket, but then I realized I need to wash my hair and re-lace all my tennis shoes that night.

You blokes have a Foster's for me! (It's Australian for "beer.")

I just heard on the news that another Qantas plane of different model, had to make emergency landing in Singapore.

This is smelling to me more like Qantas having a poor maintenance service, than the A380 having some kind of faulty engines.

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We're coming to the US for Christmas this year ... on a Qantas A380. Joy.

Damn you EDD, you post EVERYTHING I think of posting these days.

*promote this brilliant ad which highlights the DISGUSTING plans of the Australian government. It sickens me that this continues to be pushed ahead... sickens.

Filtering on by default, not actually knowing what causes something to be blocked, you have to call to remove it, you'll obviously be put on some blacklist if you do and then watched like a friggen hawk.

Such crap.

And our national airline, Qantas, just refused to air this on their inflight tv. Yet another (I already had many) reason to not fly with them anymore.

Great ad that hopefully puts why this is really important into the minds of those who otherwise don't understand the issue.

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Well, not exactly perfect, but damn good.

I would have thought Garuda would be a more appropriate airline to use. Qantas has a perfect record. They haven't hit a koala yet, or a building for that matter.

I don't get it. Why is it a Qantas flight?

Gday James
This is a great video, thanks for posting it.
I have long been fascinated with the Kai Tak approach, used to make it a routine flight playing MS Flight Sim. Sadly by the time I got my real wings the airport was all but closed. Got to fly in as pax a couple of times which was awesome and also one jump seat ride which was... well...

One other airport that has a reputation almost as bad as Kai Tak is Wellington International in New Zealand. Pilots call it "The Boot" as it is always trying to kick you in the arse. 99.9% of the time windy as all hell, a pure crosswind with a lot of shear as a bonus is the norm. Due to Wellington's geography the runway could not be built oriented to the prevailing winds.
The runway is short, you stuff it up one way you hit a mountain, mess it the other way you're in the water. You can bet on low cloud guaranteeing an ILS approach.
Very nasty airport.
As an interesting aside to the "The Boot", a 747 once had to land there in an emergency. To get thing back out once it was repaired the interior had to be completely gutted, minimum fuel was uploaded and the aircraft pushed right back to end of the runway. Thus at seriously minimum weight and with maximum takeoff distance available(TODA),the aircraft made a successful takeoff and flew to Auckland, (I think) where it was internally stuck back together .
It is also worth considering a Pan Am, American Airlines and Qantas requirement in 1976 was for a smaller capacity, higher performance 747, so was born the 747SP. Qantas wanted one so they could get pax capacity into Wellington!!!