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Post by whollygoats on Feb 10, 2017 17:41:50 GMT
I am attempting to book a flight on a vintage aircraft tour over London. This is through an organization called Classic Wings, which is located at the air museum complex at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. I have convinced them to open their booking in June to allow me to book in to a June 18 flight over London in one of their vintage de Havilland DH-88 Dragon Rapide (my dragon flight) aircraft.
They have been exceeding kind to this American, but they require that I provide a UK mobile phone number in order to book. I, of course, informed them that I have no such and do not intend (at this point) to have one with me in the UK. They suggested a 'friend with a UK mobile number' so that they can contact me in the event of 'changes'. I've tried directing them to the desk of my lodgings in Duxford, but we're in limbo.
Anybody here willing to provide me a UK mobile phone number for them?
I mean...what's the worst that could happen? Crank calls from vintage air transport provisioners?
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Post by JoeP on Feb 10, 2017 19:10:04 GMT
I have sent you a PM with my number!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 11, 2017 9:22:36 GMT
I could send you an Aussie number!
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Post by tangent on Feb 11, 2017 12:44:56 GMT
... which he would have to stand on his head to use.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 12:56:59 GMT
...or just turn the phone upside down...
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 12, 2017 10:51:26 GMT
I think Nazz's suggestion is more practical. Course over here I can use the phone right way up with no issue.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 12, 2017 14:41:50 GMT
I think Nazz's suggestion is more practical. Course over here I can use the phone right way up with no issue. That's just because of your geopositioning.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 14, 2017 9:59:08 GMT
My geopositioning is very fine thank you very much.
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Post by Moose on Feb 14, 2017 19:27:53 GMT
Are you suggesting that ours is wrong then?!
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 14, 2017 19:30:16 GMT
Nah, Moose...It's just a subjective thing. Or, is that subjunctive?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 15, 2017 9:18:50 GMT
It's like when Galileo explains to his apprentice with a stick in an apple, and shows him how the stick is always the right way up even he turns it around. In the play by Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo. That's what our geopositioning is like.
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Post by Moose on Feb 15, 2017 19:22:22 GMT
I still always used to imagine Australians walking around upside down
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 15, 2017 21:27:11 GMT
I still always used to do that, too. And then it ends up that I can't even...
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 15, 2017 21:34:10 GMT
Curious developments here. Swimmer has been trying to convince me to go with a 'tablet'. She pushed it saying that I could take pix and email them home. I was thinking about that and asked her if I could do that, I would have effective email service then...right? Yes, came the response. So, I could use it to book reservations, right? She jumped from that to the fact that as such, a 'smart phone' is just the next step...
She proposes to obtain new 'smart phone' to send the goat off to Urp with...that way, he gets (somehow...I'm not sure how) hand-held texting, pix, and online search and book options. It'd be like my desk computer in my hand. Then, when I get back, the new 'smart phone' will go to her and, if I liked the 'smartphone' we could get another, or I could utilize her cellphone/tablet/hotspot combo.
My technoresistant mind spins. People are trying to show me rational, reasonable uses of infernal machines! My new car comes with SiriusMX and they contacted me online today....I don't even know what it IS, for crepes sake. With one of those things..."smartphones"...in my hands, I'll be trackable, traceable, on-the-grid target material. Send in the drones!!
And then Skynet came down.
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Post by tangent on Feb 15, 2017 21:39:49 GMT
I got a smartphone at the last but one Christmas and have never looked back. Although I might be slightly more tech savvy.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 15, 2017 21:44:52 GMT
I got a smartphone at the last but one Christmas and have never looked back. Although I might be slightly more tech savvy. Heh...You Brits. Always with the dry understatements. So...If that happens, I'm told I'll have to "get a 'sim card' when I wash up on the kingdom's shores". I, of course, don't know what the hell that is, but I'm assuming its like one of the data chips for cameras. But, since it involves geographical space use for electronic communications, it needs a data acquisition system that recognizes the local network....enter the 'sim card'. Is that a decent guess? Feel free to fill out.
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Feb 15, 2017 21:48:35 GMT
I'm with you, Whollygoats. Technology has gotten WAY out of hand, moved WAY too fast for us "senior" people to grasp.
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Post by tangent on Feb 15, 2017 22:12:38 GMT
I'm told I'll have to "get a 'sim card' when I wash up on the kingdom's shores". I, of course, don't know what the hell that is, but I'm assuming its like one of the data chips for cameras. It is, yes, but usually quite a lot smaller. It contains your mobile phone number, information about your network provider and may contain additional information such as your contacts' phone numbers. An additional memory module is either built in to the phone or can be added in the form of an SD card (the data chip for cameras). This memory module contains your: Email account and emails Contacts (phone numbers and email addresses) Text messages Photos and videos Music files ... and anything else that isn't stored on your SIM card The following are the big four network providers in the UK: O2 EE Three Mobile Vodafone You have to apply to a network provider for a SIM card. SIM cards come in three different sizes, mini, micro and nano and you have to get the right sized SIM card for your phone. But there is a catch. Some phones may only be used with a designated network provider, the one that was designated when you bought the phone. If this is the case, the phone is said to be 'locked'. You don't want a locked phone. You pay the network provider for your phone calls, text messages and Internet usage either on a monthly contract (Pay Monthly) or as you go (Pay As You Go). The choice of contract is a nightmare and deserves more than a brief sentence. You normally decide on the contract when you apply for a SIM card. If you don't have an additional SD card, the number of photos, videos and music files may be limited although in practice mobiles usually have ample storage when you buy them. You can use a mobile phone without a SIM card but it's tricky and I don't recommend it. ETA: The SIM card also holds your mobile phone number.
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Post by JoeP on Feb 15, 2017 22:18:12 GMT
In other news, Nokia is going to restart making the 3310, the non-smart legendary indestructible phone.
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Post by tangent on Feb 15, 2017 22:22:45 GMT
Nostalgia, my very first mobile phone
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 16, 2017 0:20:22 GMT
Thanks, tangent!
I'll need time to ruminate and probably ask lots more questions. I'll try to keep my freaking out down to a minimum.
Swimmer just rolls her eyes.
And....hexgoblinweb, welcome!
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Post by hexgoblinweb on Feb 17, 2017 15:19:26 GMT
Thank you, Whollygoats.
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Post by Moose on Feb 17, 2017 20:20:25 GMT
We can probably sort you out with a SIM Goat but it does depend on you getting an unlocked phone, which might cost rather more. I'd go second hand if I were you - that's how I got mine so I got a good unlocked phone for a reasonable price. Re those Nokias, I've got drawers full of them
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Post by JoeP on Feb 17, 2017 22:20:07 GMT
I have drawers full of SIMs. Well, a few at least. From giffgaff.
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Post by Moose on Feb 18, 2017 1:04:43 GMT
I'd recommend them.
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Post by tangent on Feb 18, 2017 1:13:41 GMT
My daughter likes to use Giffgaff, they're a halfway house between a Pay Monthly contract and Pay As You Go.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 18, 2017 3:30:21 GMT
Okay...Here's the next question:
In Carmarthen, I'm looking at three possibilities for accommodation, The Boar's Head, The Falcon, and The Rose and Crown. Pitching this primarily to Julie and her hubby; do any of these have any kind of reputation which might mitigate for or against any of them? Anybody know any others I might, or should, consider, I'm all eyes. B&Bs mostly...cheap sleeps.
This is the other end of my trip from the Dragon ride. It's my first planned stop and I'm still operating on the assumption that Carmarthen is a reasonably decent central point to day-trip around Pembrokeshire. It will be where I'll be trying to adjust my circadian rhythms and shake off the jetlag.
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