They Say Our Generation.....

....will see the most amount of changes in the way human's live than any other generation since the discovery of fire (or is it the invention of harnessing electricity), anyway..

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I love Richard Branson.

Genius! Love it, it's all good fun, i love future stuff like this, he'll be remembered well when he pops it :)

Someone will do it.

Remember the promotion to get a MiG fighter jet for X million coke ring pulls, and someone did it.

Someone will do this.

velocity boy Someone will do it.

Remember the promotion to get a MiG fighter jet for X million coke ring pulls, and someone did it.

Someone will do this.

Is that true?!?!

can a ltd company collect airmiles or is it only an individual?

Branson will go down in history as a pioneer, but 'peak oil' will mean I end up as a small-scale farmer... :-)

http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/update

asm [quote]velocity boy Someone will do it.

Remember the promotion to get a MiG fighter jet for X million coke ring pulls, and someone did it.

Someone will do this.

Is that true?!?![/quote]

It's true that the promotion happened and someone fulfilled it, but he didn't get the plane as it went to court and got shot down.

http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pepsijet.asp

what, the plane got shot down in court?

that's a bit drastic - they could have just told him to fuck off

You ever read about his cross-channel amphibious car record?

The old record was a crossing made in 6 hours. Branson comes along and blasts it in 1hr 40...

... wearing a dinner suit and bow tie.

The guy is Hank Scorpio.

TheBrick(Tommy) can a ltd company collect airmiles or is it only an individual?

only an individual. That's the bonus of being an employee that makes loads of biz trips, they pay, you earn.

Maybe Chocolate Pudding will buy me a flight to Mars

http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp

I'd like to go into space but at the same time I'd shit myself in case something like Aliens happened

roxy [quote]TheBrick(Tommy) can a ltd company collect airmiles or is it only an individual?

only an individual. That's the bonus of being an employee that makes loads of biz trips, they pay, you earn.[/quote]

Then how does it work with the MP scandal and the air miles being used for his wife but the air miles being considered as owned by the government and accountable to the tax payer?

government probably has something else sorted out with airlines. it's the government.

velocity boy [quote]roxy [quote]TheBrick(Tommy) can a ltd company collect airmiles or is it only an individual?

only an individual. That's the bonus of being an employee that makes loads of biz trips, they pay, you earn.[/quote]

Then how does it work with the MP scandal and the air miles being used for his wife but the air miles being considered as owned by the government and accountable to the tax payer?[/quote]

because the fat wanker should have used them for his own flights, not his wife's, and saved some public money

Momentum [quote]velocity boy [quote]roxy [quote]TheBrick(Tommy) can a ltd company collect airmiles or is it only an individual?

only an individual. That's the bonus of being an employee that makes loads of biz trips, they pay, you earn.[/quote]

Then how does it work with the MP scandal and the air miles being used for his wife but the air miles being considered as owned by the government and accountable to the tax payer?[/quote]

hmmm, not really sure. Perhaps it's in their contracts that mileage made on biz trips has to be used for biz. Doubt it's something to do with the airlines.

provenrad Branson will go down in history as a pioneer, but 'peak oil' will mean I end up as a small-scale farmer... :-)

http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/update

I've been reading up about peak oil recently - haven't fully decided yet whether it's hysteria or the end of the world as we know it... I'm beginning to waver to the latter from what I've read, and if it comes true, then Roxy'll be right - we WILL see the biggest change in the way humans live their lives...

Yeah, everyone will be riding bikes ;-)

I confidently predict that by 1981 everyone will live in a plastic house and have their own hovercraft.