Flights should be paid upfront, you sound like a sellout to me, appollyon, tom, mancunian, blackburn, bitter or whatever your real name is. [edited]

Hello San Mig; well clever old cloggs me, how the Dicken's did I know I'd get this response before it happened; maybe it was that book I read on the bus "The Thoughts of Sniggering Hyenas?" hahaha. Pray tell me, what was the name of the silk merchant's sailing scooner that you embarked on from Southampton, the last time you received your transportation costs in advance from some school in China? hahaha.

No ,I didn't say that everybody in the West was in receipt of food stamps or income support....but...Ex Grumbling FT's do find recourse to these benefits helpful hahaha. 我是对的还是我是对的 (am I right or am I right?) had to learn a bit of hanzi since I was told off for using pinyin.