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Comment Ryanair has lost the plot (Score 1) 410

I live in Dublin and consequently use Ryanair quite a bit. I used to like them. You got what you paid for, nothing more. Invariably, stuff ran on time (they can't really afford not to).

They used to have the least bad airline website out there, quick and easy to book. However, they now try and catch you for all sorts of extras as you go through the booking process. No doubt one big reason they don't want others doing that bit.

Recently, they have been encouraging online check-in, by charging less. This was convenient too, you can arrive later at the terminal.

Only one problem, when I went to check-in for my return flight, the site would only

Ryanair has lost the plot.

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Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? 419

Mz6 wrote with a link to an article on The Independent site about a most unusual scientific theory. "Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail. They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world — the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops."

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