text: Our Local Correspondents April 18, 2011 Issue Thin Yellow Line The taxi-driver's advocate. By Lizzie Widdicombe Table of Contents Bhairavi Desai co-founded the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in 1998, when she was twenty-six. Photograph by Martha Camarillo. Credit GAARTISTS On Houston Street at Avenue A the other day, a woman stuck out her hand to hail a taxi. It was cold and drizzly—hyper-competitive cab-hailing conditions—but she was likely to have better luck than most people. The woman was Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a yellow-taxi drivers' union. Desai, whose first name is pronounced "BEAR-avi," is not a cabdriver, but she is a celebrity in the world of yellow taxis, and cabdrivers often recognize her on the street and offer her a free ride. A taxi swerved to a stop and Desai slid into the back seat. "We're going to LaGuardia," she told the driver—who hadn't recognized her. "O.K., what airline?" "Actually, we're going to the main taxi terminal," Desai said. "We're going to the taxi lot to talk to drivers." The driver, a middle-aged African-American man named Robert Smith, seemed confused. "I work for the Taxi Workers Alliance," Desai said. "You heard of us?" Smith nodded. "Oh, yeah," he said, and pulled into traffic. The T.W.A. first came to prominence in 1998, when Desai initiated a strike that, to protest new rules imposed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, kept most of the city's twelve thousand yellow cabs off the street for a day. Since then, her group has grown, and it now claims fifteen thousand members, almost a third of the city's licensed cabdrivers. Desai can often be seen on the local news, or at public hearings, making passionate arguments on behalf of cabdrivers that are seasoned with statistics and left-wing rhetoric. She is an anomaly in the male-dominated taxi industry (she has a degree in women's studies and history from Rutgers). A girlish thirty-eight, she is five feet two, with big eyes and a high-pitched voice. She is of Indian descent, and, on this day, she wore a pink-and-yellow shalwar kameez, a yellow scarf, and a gray peacoat. She is a Mets fan and a soap-opera addict and once memorized the lyrics to every song Jim Morrison ever wrote. She can't drive. In the taxi, Smith told Desai that he'd been driving a cab since 1979, although he wasn't a member of her union. "What's your hack number, brother?" she asked. They launched into insider banter—garages, mutual acquaintances—as the cab headed east on Houston. Yellow cabs are so integral to life in Manhattan that it seems almost silly to point out their significance. People take more than four hundred and eighty-five thousand taxi trips per day in New York, and the taxi system, though minuscule compared with the M.T.A., could be considered the seventh-largest transportation system in the country. The most common reason for taking a taxi, according to a recent survey by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, is "It's late / I'm tired." Taxis can feel like an antidote to the city's hierarchy. No matter where you are or who you are—a student leaving a crowded night club, a brand manager in the after-work sidewalk crush, a tourist lugging too many bags—there is always, theoretically, an escape hatch: just stick out your hand and hail a cab. I take taxis, more often than I can afford to (lateness, unwise shoe choices). I am not far from the demographic description of the average passenger: a female Manhattan resident, with above-average income, who mostly uses a cab for short trips, including trips to work. Like many New Yorkers, I could map out my life in the city as a series of taxi rides. They have bookended significant events: trips to the airport, to job interviews, and home from dates. The typical taxi trip is under three miles and lasts twelve minutes, and, in a way, it contains all the highs and lows of city life: it is at once solitary and intimate, claustrophobic and liberating. A pessimist might fixate on the dollars clicking away on the meter in rush-hour traffic, or on being body-slammed by another citizen in a grab for an open cab door. An optimist might focus on the rare opportunity a taxi ride affords for reflection, or on what the writer and cabbie Melissa Plaut refers to as "mystical slipstreams"—the long runs of green lights that, on streets like Tenth Avenue, can bring on a feeling of exhilaration. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, in the essay "My Lost City," "I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again." Taxi-drivers are the witnesses to, collaborators with, and scapegoats of the city's neuroses. "They are the ultimate outsiders on the inside," Desai says. Newspaper stories swing schizophrenically between various cabdriver archetypes: the working-class hero (the cabbie who, in February, returned a hundred thousand dollars' worth of jewelry that a rider had left on the seat), the persecuted immigrant (the driver who was stabbed last summer, by a drunk passenger, for being a Muslim), the urban menace (the driver who ran over three would-be passengers after refusing to take them to the Bronx; the Post headline called him "HELL HACK"). "It's a job that can be excruciatingly isolating, and it really lends itself to a lot of analysis," Desai told me. Because most drivers are independent contractors, there is not, officially, anyone for them to vent to about the vicissitudes of the job. As a taxi-driver advocate, Desai is their defender and their confessor. The industry is a complicated ecosystem of players—drivers, garage owners, medallion-leasing agents, and city regulators—who continually fight over the details of how the system should work. Desai refers to these ongoing battles as "the taxi wars." Robert Smith's taxi swung onto the Williamsburg Bridge, and Desai looked out the window. "I do like taking a cab," she said. "But, you know, I really don't have a typical rider's experience." More often, looking around a cab's interior, she sees a thousand little bureaucratic defeats. Desai pointed to the Taxi TV in front of her: a touch screen—the devices were mandated by the T.L.C. in 2007—that was blaring a local news clip. "I hate it," she said, punching the elusive off button. "It's noisy, and drivers can't control it. In the beginning, it played a stupid commercial with a flushing toilet. Can you imagine doing your job and every two seconds having to hear a flushing toilet? So disrespectful." The screen is attached to a credit-card reader—a boon to passengers, who now pay by credit about forty per cent of the time, but another sore spot for Desai. Cabdrivers pay a five-per-cent fee on credit-card fares, including tips, a portion of which goes to the taxi-fleet owners, as a processing fee. The screens also house a mandatory G.P.S., which enables the passenger to watch his or her path through the city. The G.P.S. is connected to the meter, and it transmits data about each fare to city regulators. Desai considers it a form of government spying. That week marked a new skirmish in the taxi wars: at a press conference the day before, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had announced a crackdown on "refusals"—when drivers refuse to pick up passengers who want to go to certain destinations, generally in the outer boroughs. Bloomberg had shown a video of a T.L.C. sting operation. In one segment, a burly T.L.C. agent with a suitcase asks to be taken to Brooklyn: DRIVER: I don't have G.P.S. . . . PASSENGER: Well, it's Third Avenue and Union Street in Brooklyn. . . . You don't have a map or a . . .? DRIVER: I don't have a map. (Driver flees.) PASSENGER: Yo yo yo yo yo! The debate was a preview of a looming fight over another Bloomberg proposal, the Five Borough Taxi Plan. The Mayor wants to create a new category of livery cars—the unmetered cars that cruise the outer boroughs, on radio call—and allow them to pick up passengers on the street. These new cars would be painted a different color, possibly green. Some livery cars, or "gypsy cabs," already pick up street hails illegally. But legalizing the practice would create competition for yellow taxis. After Bloomberg announced his toughened stance on "refusals," Desai held a press conference outside the Taxi Workers Alliance offices, on Fifth Avenue at Twenty-eighth Street. Standing before a gaggle of TV-news crews, she dismissed the Mayor's plan as an attempt to regain political capital after being criticized for the city's slovenly response to a disastrous December snowstorm. "Mayor Bloomberg has an outer-borough problem," she shouted, "and he's trying to scapegoat taxi-drivers." Over the years, Desai has won acclaim from labor organizers. She has been awarded a Ford Foundation grant and has been invited to the White House twice. President Obama greeted her in the receiving line at a state dinner by exclaiming, "I was an organizer, too!" A month ago, as labor-related protests raged in Wisconsin, she was the guest speaker at an A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive-council meeting, in Washington, D.C., where her speech—"I wanted to fight for the oppressed!"—received a standing ovation. Inside the taxi industry, she is more polarizing. City officials negotiate with her constantly, but they sometimes talk about her with a tone of condescension, as if she were a radical kook. "She plays an advocacy role," David Yassky, the T.L.C. commissioner, told me. "A defense lawyer's job is to argue for his client's innocence—even when an objective look at the facts shows otherwise." At LaGuardia, about a hundred yellow taxis were lined up in a holding lot. Desai said goodbye to Smith and got out of the car, holding a bag filled with flyers advertising an upcoming drivers' meeting. They read, "We're Under Attack! Fight Back!!!" Desai started handing them out to drivers. A Pakistani driver named Shams ur-Rehman took a flyer. "We see you on TV all the time," he said to Desai. "What are you going to do for us?" "You mean what are we going to do for us?" Desai said. "We're going to make a plan for action." She walked around, passing out flyers and making announcements: "Brother, they want to make a new kind of livery car to pick up passengers on the street." "This is terrible," said a Russian driver, who was wearing a jacket with a label saying Yellow Rat Bastard. "They kill our business." Desai greeted a driver named Ehab Bassiouni, who said he was from Egypt. He shouted, "Revolution!" "There's a revolution here, too," Desai said. "Come to the meeting, brother. That's where the revolution starts." Desai lives in Astoria, Queens, in a neighborhood popular with taxi-drivers, because it's close to a number of garages. "When I first moved here, I couldn't walk down the street without getting stopped by a union member," she said one evening, when I went to visit her. She was working on her laptop, snacking on handfuls of dried dal. Her apartment's walls are decorated with framed Palestinian poems (from one by Samih al-Qasim: "I shall fight, I shall fight"). She was born in Gujarat, India, but she grew up in New Jersey. Her parents, a homemaker and a lawyer who took over the family mango business, moved there with Desai and her two older brothers when she was seven. They settled in Harrison, where her mother worked the night shift in various factories, and her father ran a two-aisle grocery store connected to the family's apartment. Desai said, "We were part of that generation of Indian immigrants who came in 1979, during a recession. It felt like the beginning of the immigrant dream slipping away." There were few other Indian families in Harrison, and, when Desai was eight, she was chased down the street by a group of boys calling her a "dot-head." But the family soon became integrated into the community, and Desai, naturally chatty, was popular in school. She inherited an interest in politics from her father, who made his store into a kind of small-town "Crossfire." The locals would gather there every day to talk politics. Growing up, Desai wasn't allowed to date or go to dances, but she didn't care. "I was too busy dreaming of strikes and demonstrations," she said. She read about the anti-apartheid movement and listened to talk radio. After college, she worked at a nonprofit called the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, and was assigned to run a project with a group of South Asian taxi-drivers. After eighteen months, Desai moved on. The nonprofit wanted to provide social services to an ethnic community. She wanted to form a union. More than ninety per cent of today's cabbies are immigrants, and the most common place of origin is South Asia—Bangladesh, Pakistan, India—followed by Haiti, Egypt, and the former Soviet Union. The typical driver is a thirty-four-year-old man (fewer than one per cent of drivers are women), who works ten-to-twelve-hour shifts, six days a week, and earns between twenty-five and twenty-eight thousand dollars a year. Cabdriver unions have existed, on and off, through the years. Various mayors—LaGuardia, Wagner—have tried encouraging them, but the efforts fizzled. Organizing taxi-drivers is "like herding cats," Tom Robbins, a former Village Voice columnist who drove a cab in the seventies, said. "The nature of the industry is that everybody's working for himself. Your job depends on getting to the fare before the other guy does." Because cabbies are independent contractors rather than employees, the traditional union model doesn't apply. The wide range of drivers' ethnicities complicates things, too. Cabdrivers speak more than sixty languages, and they don't all think of themselves as a social unit. Robert Smith, the Harlem-born cabbie who took Desai to LaGuardia, blamed the influx of South Asian drivers for a recent fare-cheating scandal. "You have people driving New York City taxis who couldn't care less about this country," he said. "And the passengers, they don't like the Indian guys, and they take it out on everybody." Desai was twenty-three when she started organizing cabdrivers. She began by hanging around the airports during the day and South Asian restaurants at night, and spending afternoons at a gas station at Houston and Broadway, where drivers did shift changes. She would ask questions—"What are the biggest problems you face in your job?"—and write an entry about each person in a notebook. Within a year, she had seven hundred notebook entries. You can learn a lot about taxi-drivers by hanging around airports. Apart from ethnic identities, there are two big social divisions: the first is drivers who work at the airport versus drivers who work in the city. Desai said, "Older drivers prefer the airport. It's not the same hustle and bustle of the streets." Then, there is day versus night. Day drivers spend all their time in traffic, dealing with stressed-out passengers who are late for meetings. Night drivers face more danger, but they have more freedom. Traffic is lighter, and on slow nights they can join friends for dinner. "They go to the gym a lot," Desai said. Schedules are often dictated by domestic requirements, and those are determined by country of origin. Bangladeshis, who often have families here, tend to work six days a week, alternating with a partner for twenty-four-hour stints on Sundays and Mondays. Pakistanis, with families back home, usually work seven days a week, with shorter days on the weekends. West African drivers, who are frequently also students, work what is known as the Russian shift: twenty-four hours on, twenty-four hours off. In 1998, Desai was working in a beeper store, and, in her free time, trying to open a union office with the help of friends, including two Pakistani drivers, Javaid Tariq and Saeed Ahmed, and Biju Mathew, a Marxist associate professor at Rider University, who just really likes taxi-drivers. They called it the Taxi Workers Alliance. Desai told me, "I went with Saeed to do outreach at the airport on a Friday afternoon at shift change. There was a story in the paper that day saying, 'Giuliani calling for seventeen new rules against drivers,' and everyone was talking about it." The rules included mandatory drug tests, quicker license suspension for traffic violations, higher insurance rates, and steeper fines for offenses such as smoking and playing loud music. "Everyone was really riled up," Desai said. "They were, like, 'We need a strike!' So Saeed and I just started encouraging it." Desai made a flyer calling for an emergency driver meeting, and issued a press release threatening a strike unless the city negotiated the new rules with taxi-drivers. Giuliani was unmoved and called the threat "a theatre of the absurd." But, when the day of the strike came, the airports and the streets were empty of taxis. The action's effectiveness took officials by surprise. A T.L.C. spokesperson said, "This was somewhat bigger than anticipated." For his part, Giuliani said, "If they would like to stay home forever, they can stay home forever." Emboldened, drivers planned another taxi strike for the following week, including a caravan of cabs across the Queensboro Bridge. This time, Giuliani called the plan "an imminent threat to the delivery of a necessary service in the City of New York." When the drivers gathered at the bridge, they were met by hundreds of police officers holding plastic handcuffs. The City Council eventually passed most of the seventeen new rules, and they were a big hit with the public. "They know that we broke their strike—destroyed it," Giuliani said, but the T.W.A. had made national headlines. "It really put us on the map," Desai said. By the end of 1998, she said, "drivers started coming to us." The Taxi Workers Alliance is situated on the third floor of an office building on Fifth Avenue, near some Pakistani and Bangladeshi restaurants. The walls are covered with news clips about taxi-drivers, along with posters bearing slogans from recent actions: "Ax the Tax" (protesting a fifty-cent tax on all fares, which goes to the M.T.A.), "Don't cell out drivers!" (protesting 2009's cell-phone-headset ban). As with so many things in the taxi business, the action at the T.W.A. office tends to happen at night. Drop-in hours are from 2 P.M. to 10 P.M. Around a hundred and fifty drivers stop by every week for help with problems ranging from health issues to hassles with the police. Many of the union's staffers are also part-time drivers. "When members come, they are very much upset," Tariq said. An ex-Rastafarian, he has long gray hair that he wears in a ponytail. "It's the third most stressful job"—after firefighter and corporate executive, according to a survey by careercast.com. "When drivers come to our office, we want them to feel, We are your brothers." T.W.A. meetings often end at three or four in the morning. "We call ourselves the Tired Workers Alliance," Desai told me. It was early afternoon, and she was just getting to work. On Wednesdays, Desai meets with drivers individually. The work of a taxi organizer involves a mixture of responsibilities, which Desai describes using sports analogies. There are long-term campaigns, which she calls "offense"—for instance, advocating for health-care benefits. "Defense" requires being in "crisis mode"—responding to new T.L.C. rules, or slights against cabbies in the news. That day, she had an appointment with Derroy Clarke, a Jamaican driver from Brooklyn who claimed that, in 2008, the company that processes credit-card payments in taxis had improperly withheld ten thousand dollars of his fare income. "I have two ideas," Desai said. "One is to pursue this as class action against the company. If that doesn't work, it would be an individual case, for either the attorney general's office or a group called the South Asian Bar Association of New York." Clarke said, "I was thinking it might help me out to put it on Facebook first and expose them." "We can do that," Desai said. She also suggested enlisting the "Shame, Shame, Shame" guy, from Channel 5. Desai's next client was sobbing when she sat down. She was a twenty-five-year-old named Neeru Singh, accompanied by her father, Hardiyal Singh: a father-daughter cabdriver team from Punjab. Neeru happened to be the subject of one of the clippings taped to the wall: "HERO HACKS STOP ATTACK!" Three years ago, she was driving a female passenger when the woman started making racist remarks and then grabbed her neck in a choke hold. Neeru had been on a conference call with a group of female drivers who used to chat while driving as a safety measure. She'd put her headset down on the seat beside her, but the other drivers on the line had heard the passenger say, "Twenty-eighth and Ninth Avenue." They called the cops and drove to the scene, where they waited with Neeru for the police to arrive. (The passenger was arrested.) Neeru kept driving anyway. Then, last year, she was involved in two fender benders, and her yellow-cab license was revoked. She is babyishly plump and had on a tight green shirt, long gold chains, and several gold anklets. Desai put an arm around her. "Is there any hope for her?" Neeru's father asked. He was a bank manager in India, and is tall and corporate-looking, and wore a dark suit. "Yes," Desai said. "I had a long conversation with the T.L.C. deputy commissioner this week, and she thought you should have gotten your license back by now." Neeru had been driving a Lincoln Town Car since losing her cab license. "I start in Nassau County, and I make twenty-five or thirty dollars for whole day. In a Lincoln, gas is too expensive." She'd tried working in a Dunkin' Donuts at the airport, but she didn't like it. "I have some problem in my feet, standing up, if I work in Dunkin'," she said. "Almost three and a half years I'm driving a yellow cab. Now I don't like anything else." One night later that week, Desai convened a meeting of the organizing committee—nineteen taxi-drivers who form the T.W.A. leadership. Drivers gathered around a conference table waiting for the meeting to start. Ousmane Drame, a Senegalese driver, told the group about a passenger he had picked up recently, a young soldier who'd started crying in the back seat. "I say, 'Brother, what's up?' He tells me he was just discharged from Iraq." The soldier told Drame a story about playing soccer with an Iraqi child who accidentally kicked the ball into a tank and was shot. "Now the soldier hears voices," Drame said. "And he breaks down." Another driver said, "If you take the good passengers and write down everything they tell us, we could turn it into a movie." Desai called the meeting to order. "Now, the main thing is . . . ta-da! The Fare and the Lease: it sounds like a Shakespeare play!" The T.W.A. is proposing a new fare increase, and Desai wanted to come up with some creative ways to do it besides increasing the mileage rate or the "drop." She asked the drivers to list expenses that could perhaps be turned into passenger surcharges. A driver named Mohan Singh said, "In Washington, D.C., they charge for multiple stops." "Maybe dog riding!" a driver named Bill Lindauer said. "Smokers," Singh volunteered. "When people say 'Can I smoke?' I want to hit them. A dog is much cleaner." Tariq added, "Gas prices in summer." "Cleaning up after passengers." "Vomiting!" Everyone shouted, "Oh, yeah!" "Your night is over after that." Desai asked, "Is there a service that passengers don't get charged for and should get charged for?" "Luggage," an elderly driver said. "I don't touch it. I say, 'You pick it up.' " Progress can be hard to measure in the taxi wars. In 2004, Desai negotiated a fare increase with Matthew Daus, the previous T.L.C. commissioner, which was the first such increase to result in a raise for drivers. Previously, whenever there was a fare increase, fleet owners would just raise the lease rates. In 2007, Desai called a strike to protest the installation of the new technology in yellow cabs. Compared with the 1998 drivers' strike, it was a bust. Officials say that riders leave bigger tips when they use credit cards. (The T.L.C. supports the claim with data from the new G.P.S. devices.) Desai disputes this, saying that it's hard to know how much people tip when they use cash, and that the impersonal nature of a credit-card transaction has decreased tips. "Many people will tip nothing or will tip less, because they don't have to face the driver after they slide the card," she said. The current T.L.C. commissioner, David Yassky, is a sunny former City Council member who lives in Brooklyn Heights. Recently, I sat in on a meeting that Desai had with Yassky's top aides, at the T.L.C.'s offices, on Rector Street. When Yassky came in, to discuss a driver health-care fund, he was accompanied by the singer Roberta Flack, who had on sunglasses and a fur coat. Flack waved to the astonished group. "I just came to say hello," she said, and sang a verse of "Killing Me Softly." Yassky explained that Flack had come in about a complaint that she'd filed. "She's here with a refusal case," he said to Desai. "You know, every day we get these." Yassky walked Flack out, and he returned looking a little guilty. "I didn't mean to put you on the spot," he said. Desai said, "I'm sure you find, as I do, that everywhere you go people want to talk taxis. It's not all bad." The all-drivers meeting was at 1 A.M. on a Tuesday, in a classroom in a CUNY building on West Forty-third Street. The cabdrivers trickled in in bunches. "We're working friends," one of a group of five Bangladeshi drivers explained. "We take our breaks together." Desai, wearing a yellow-and-turquoise shalwar kameez, and black booties, was preparing for her speech. She looked anxious. "It's a lot of balancing the defensive position and the offensive position," she said. By one-thirty, about a hundred and eighty cabdrivers had arrived. Two of them were women. Desai began with defense. "So, we have a lot to talk about," she said into a microphone. "The first item on the agenda is the Mayor's Five Borough Taxi Plan." When she described Bloomberg's proposal for the "green taxis," everyone booed. She said she worried that the livery cars wouldn't follow the Mayor's plan—that they would clog the airports and creep into Manhattan. She ended with a slogan: "We have a five-borough taxi. It's called the yellow cab!" Someone shouted, "Hell, yes!" Desai moved into offense mode and listed her demands. "Put up livery or taxi stands outside all shopping destinations in the outer boroughs," she said. "That preserves the yellow cab's exclusive rights to street hails, and it would help the public." The drivers had begun chattering, and Desai was growing hoarse. Speaking at the level of a scream, she explained that the proposal had to be approved by the City Council. "We've got to have a plan of action," she said. "The best way to get inside City Hall is to make noise on the street." She announced an initiative, to take place on May 4th, called City Hall Action Day. Taxi-drivers will swarm City Hall and lobby the City Council. They will also buttonhole passengers waiting in the taxi line at Penn Station, and distribute informational postcards to riders in their taxis. "We have more support than we realize!" Desai said. "No one understands what goes on in taxis more than the people in the front seat and the people in the back seat! Because you in the front seat educate them!" She called for a vote on her plan. Every hand in the room went up, and there was a collective "Yeah!" A little after 4 A.M., Desai was in the back seat of a taxi, on the way home to Astoria. The driver was Mohammed Boloch, a T.W.A. member and a neighbor of Desai's, who is originally from Morocco. Rain streaked down the windows. She didn't seem sleepy. She had a scheduled 4:30 A.M. phone meeting with a T.L.C. commissioner in charge of taxi inspections. After that, she said, "I'll probably eat, watch TV, and write up notes from tonight." She had to prepare for a 2:30 P.M. meeting with Yassky and people from the Mayor's office, to discuss the drivers' health-care program. She talked about that evening's meeting: "It was a great crowd. You could tell there was a lot of diversity. There were garage drivers, owner-operators. I think they're ready to be mobilized again." The Taxi TV was squawking, and Desai jabbed at it with an index finger. "Ach!" she cried. "Turn the gadget off!" ♦ Lizzie Widdicombe is an editor of The Talk of the Town. Bio All work & You Might Like Jigsaw Puzzle Strongbox Submissions Goings On App About Us Caption Contest The New Yorker Festival ✕ The New Yorker Strongbox Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. To help protect your anonymity, Strongbox is only accessible using the Tor network (https://www.torproject.org). When using Strongbox, The New Yorker will not record your I.P. address or information about your browser, computer, or operating system, nor will we embed third-party content or deliver cookies to your browser. You can read our full privacy promise here. 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You watch Obsessed, too, right? If you don't, start!
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It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
And then let's all move on.
I'm just going to say, if I was given the choice between learning the answers to all of the mysteries, or an emotionally satisfying conclusion for the characters, I would have picked character resolution. Hands down.
And what confuses me about the people who disagree is…what POSSIBLY could have kept you watching for six years?
Also, the kid who played Walt GREW UP TOO FAST. We all know that. THAT'S what happened. The writers were just as cheated as we were in terms of Walt. There was no way to bring him back looking like an NBA player. Shit like that happens on TV. So get over it. What, did you expect a Walt answer WITHOUT Walt? Did you just want Jacob or Ben or someone to come out and say "Speaking of Walt, he was blah blah blah. Anyway, back to the island collapsing around us…" That's what you were hoping for?
Am I frustrated about questions that went unanswered? Quite the opposite. Because that means we get to have detailed debates and conversations about all of our crazy theories forever.
Or at least until we all meet our besties in a sideways-universe church.
Yeah. I cried.
We can go dutch.
Is there anything in the world more awful than a person who laughs at their own jokes?
Quick test.
Go to Facebook.
Check your interests, activities, and favorite music, movies, and books.
I bet you 100 dollars facebook erased whatever you said before and replaced it with bands and shit that you don't actually like but became a fan of because your friend asked you.
I'm so fucking sick of you, Facebook.
Come celebrate my birthday! We're going to watch The Thing at Hollywood Forever cemetery, then heading over to the Darkroom on Melrose.
While I LOVE being able to say "I'm working on a board report right now" and actually mean it, I have to admit.
The actual process of putting together said board report blows.
Is there ANYTHING more obnoxious than trying to create a facebook event and invite a large amount of people to it?
Hey. I'll say it. Because it's my birthday and I can.
Good for me.
A year ago today, I turned 25. I was completely broke, working part time as a receptionist at a Massage Place (proper noun), felt like I had no future in LA and was 100% certain that I was going to move back to Chicago by 2010.
Now? I run a school.
Since my last birthday I…
Become way too busy for my own good.
Made awesome friends.
Ran a marathon with my mom.
Wrote and performed in my own show at both Upright Citizens Brigade and the Comedy Central Stage.
In general remained the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
Have not gotten out of debt but at least learned to live with it.
So yeah. It's my day. And I'll say it. I'm fucking proud of myself.
That's my horn. Toot toot, motherfuckers.
I hate when you dial a wrong number and the person who answers gets all crazy pissed. CONDEMN MY FINGER DEXTERITY TO HELL WHY DON'T YOU.
As a general rule, if you invite me to be a facebook fan of yourself, I will decline.
Because guess what, if you have to invite all your friends to be a fan of you, you don't need a fan page. That's what your normal page is for.
In a few weeks I'm going to start training for a Triathlon and raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
So who is going to give me their bike or sell it to me for cheap?
If you aren't sick and bedridden, and blasting Wild Night by Van Morrison to drown out roommate fuck noises at 11am, your life is better than mine right now.
What do you guys know about cockroaches? Like would they nest in a couch? If the would…they have. In mine.
Because, yeah…a show has to be either male-driven or female-driven. Because God forbid we have more TV shows that feature strong male AND female characters at the same time! In the same place! Interacting with each other!
As a writer, I can tell you firsthand that it is IMPOSSIBLE to do something like that. You either have a show about guys where all the girls are disposable sluts, or you have a show about girls constantly searching for some one-dimensional "Mr Right." That's how it is, and that's how it's been since the beginning of storytelling.


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Types of Body Modification.
I often get asked how many different types of body modification there are. But i can rarely answer this question, body modification is vast and spreads into all corners of the world. But i have managed to find a list of some of the more well known body mods out there. So, here it is…
1. Body piercing: practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn; sometimes further modified by stretching
2. Ear piercing: the most common type of body modification
3. Pearling: genital beading
4. Neck ring: multiple neck rings are worn to stretch the neck; common in African Tribes
5. Scrotal implants: beads or objects implanted inside the scrotum, typically either to replace missing testicles, or to enhance the appearance of the scrotum
6. Eyeball tattooing: njection of a pigment into the cornea
7. Extraocular implant: the implantation of jewelry in the outer layer of the eye
8. Surface Piercing: a surface piercing is a piercing where the entrance and exit holes are pierced through the same flat area of skin
9. Microdermal implants: are a form of body modification which gives the aesthetic appearance of a transdermal implant, but without the complications of the much more complicated surgery associated with transdermal implants
10. Transdermal implant: implantation of an object below the dermis, but which exits the skin at one or more points
11. Breast implants: insertion of silicone bags filled with silicone gel or saline solution into the breasts to increase their size, or to restore a more normal appearance after surgery
12. Silicone injection (illegal in the US): injections of silicone into the body, and in this context generally) to the male genitalia
13. Subdermal implant: implantation of an object that resides entirely below the dermis
14. Hair cutting: grooming hair to prevent dead ends and increase health
15. Hair removal: lasar hair removal is most common; permanently removing unwanted hair
16. Male circumcision: the partial or full removal of the foreskin
17. Female genital cutting: removal of the labia minora or the clitoral hood
18. Frenectomy: to remove a section of tissue (the frenulum) that attached to the gingival tissue between two teeth
19. Genital bisection: splitting of both the underside and the top of the penis
20. Meatotomy: splitting of the underside of the glans penis
21. Headsplitting: splitting of both the underside and the top of the glans penis
22. Nipple removal: removing the nipples
23. Nipple splitting: splitting open either one or two nipples
24. Subincision: splitting of the underside of the penis
25. Tongue splitting: bisection of the tongue similar to a snake's
26. Trepanation: drilling a hole into the skull
27. Corsetry or tightlacing: binding of the waist and shaping of the torso
28. Cranial binding: modification of the shape of infants' heads, now extremely rare
29. Breast ironing: pressing (sometimes with a heated object) the breasts of a pubescent female to prevent their growth
30. Foot binding: compression of the feet of girls to modify them for aesthetic reasons
31. Anal stretching: Like stretching a piercing, it involves slow process over an extended period of time
32. Branding: controlled burning or cauterizing of tissue to encourage intentional scarring
33. Ear shaping: modifying the shape of one's ear (which includes ear cropping, ear pointing or "elfing")
34. Scarification: cutting or removal of dermis with the intent to encourage intentional scarring
35. Tooth filing: to file teeth to make them shape and pointy.
36. Teeth whitening: placing chemicals on our teeth to remove any stains and make them a brighter white.
37. Tanning: going to a tanning bed or lying out in the sun to make one's skin darker.


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And you too, hopefully!! I enjoy video games, crafting things, sewing and reblogging fandom related posts. But above all I love drawing.
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"Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along. "


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There's a Dalek on the Loose at CES
LAS VEGAS -- The International CES is a hotbed of futuristic technology. But one company had something on display that was truly out of this world. Massive Audio, a car-speaker company, built a 6-foot-tall replica of a Dalek, the marquee mechanical monster from BBC television series Doctor Who. The Dalek is made out of speaker components, including 32 woofers along the bottom, a huge subwoofer inside the head and 5,000 watts of amplifiers in the back.


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No. 1 pick of '07 will finally get a tryout National Football Post
JaMarcus Russell is arguably the greatest draft bust in NFL history, and he is a longshot to land back in the league after being out three years.
But Russell will get a look on Friday when the Chicago Bears will put him through a tryout, according to ESPN Chicago. Russell, the No. 1 overall pick in 2007 by the Oakland Raiders, has been out of the league since May 2010. Remember, he was the big-armed underperformer at the center of the battle between owner Al Davis and ex-Raiders coach Lane Kiffin.
Russell was nothing short of terrible during his stint in Oakland, recording a 7-18 record as a starter while pocketing close to $39 million. But Russell, who has ballooned to more than 300 pounds, has reportedly lost close to 50 pounds and it is serious about a comeback bid that became public in January.
The Chicago Tribune reports the Bears will also bring in Trent Edwards and Jordan Palmer on Friday for a look. The team has three quarterbacks with Josh McCown and Matt Blanchard behind starter Jay Cutler. It is likely the team is just doing some homework to see what is available in case a need arises.
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Even though lots of indie artists are satisfied staying independent, many musicians I meet would like to get noticed by a label. Personally I don't focus too much on "label obsessed" marketing, so you can use this same trick to reach journalists, radio stations, bloggers, and all manner of influential people who can help push your music forward. Read More.
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Due to the stigma of mental illness that abounds in society, it is no
surprise that many members of the general public want to keep their distance
from individuals with schizophrenia. But perhaps less expectedly, relatives of
individuals with the illness and mental health care workers may want to do so
as well.
These findings emerged from a recent survey conducted in Austria. It was
headed by W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, M.D., chair of biological psychiatry at
Medical University Innsbruck. Results were published in the April Acta
Psychiatrica Scandinavica.
Fleischhacker and his coworkers wanted to learn more about how the general
public, relatives of schizophrenia patients, and mental health personnel view
social contact with individuals who have schizophrenia. They included in their
study a nationally representative sample of some 1,000 Austrians; some 1,500
Austrian nonphysician mental health professionals, and about 400 Austrians who
had relatives with schizophrenia. All three groups received the same
structured questionnaire. Additional questions were posed according to the
specific target group.
They found that mental health staff and relatives were generally more
likely to accept contact with individuals with schizophrenia than the general
public was. However, just as the general public was increasingly reluctant to
have contact as it became more intimate, the same was essentially true of
relatives and mental health staff. Specifically, all three groups were most
open to having a person with schizophrenia as a neighbor, less open to having
such an individual as an employee or family member, and the least open to
having such a person care for their child. A recent Swiss inquiry produced
similar results (Psychiatric News, November 17, 2006).
The reasons why the three groups wanted to maintain social distance as
intimacy increased were, however, not always the same. For example, the major
driving factor in all three groups was perceived dangerousness of people with
schizophrenia. But members of the public who lived in rural areas, as well as
those who believed that schizophrenia does not respond well to treatment, also
tended to distance themselves from individuals with the illness. Furthermore,
older relatives were more reluctant to make social contact than younger
relatives. As for mental health personnel, those who were less educated were
more averse to social contact than were those who were better educated.
These findings, the investigators believe, can help shape future antistigma
programs. For example, because age and education seem to influence whether
people are open to contact with those with schizophrenia, better education
about schizophrenia, and especially better education directed at youth might
be fruitful.
Also, as they pointed out, "Schizophrenia being a disorder that
commonly befalls younger patients, better-informed students would not only
have a better understanding for people with schizophrenia, but also a higher
likelihood of detecting this disorder in early stages in their peers, thereby
indirectly helping to improve overall outcomes."
In neighboring Germany, in fact, persons with schizophrenia are being
brought into classrooms to talk with students, and the exposure has led to
marked changes in attitude (Psychiatric News, August 15, 2003).
An abstract of "Patterns of Social Distance Towards People
Suffering From Schizophrenia in Austria: A Comparison Between the General
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Oooooooooooookay guys, we are now at week 13 of my #2othAnniversary #TriviaThursdays competition. First off, the answer to last week's question.
Q: In November of 2010, the Ducks beat the Lightning 3-2 at home in overtime. Who scored the GWG in overtime?
A: Ryan Getzlaf
Getzlaf is pretty good.
Anyway, making this quick. Here is this week's question, continuing with the kind of "individual game moments."
On this day in 2006, the Ducks defeated the Sharks at home by a score of 5-0. Name the FOUR Duck goal scorers. (worth up to 4 points)
Now, I've changed the rules a little bit. I will no longer just post the question three times on both our facebook and twitter, but I will try to post it as many times as possible at the top or bottom of the hour throughout the day. However, you still only have until midnight to submit your ONE guess. Also, for these questions with multiple answers, I will award partial credit.
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U.S. Rep. John Conyers on-again, off-again roller coaster ride for the Aug. 5 ballot took a new twist Friday when U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman put him back on back on the ballot,
His decision, released late Friday, contradicts the Secretary of State's review of Conyers petition, which found earlier in the day that Conyers had less than half the required signatures of valid registered voters on the petitions he turned in to qualify for the Aug. 5 primary ballot.
It would be easy to make a list of 10 bad things—wars, government shut-down, drone attacks, lack of progress on immigrant rights, lousy health-care reform. But it's also been a year of extraordinary activism: whistleblowers, DREAMers, Walmart workers, peacemakers, gay rights advocates, garment workers. As the year ends, let's pay tribute to the good things their efforts have wrought.
PDA Advisory Board Members
Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Mike Honda, who chairs the CPC Peace and Security Task Force, today released the following statement on the end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq:
As we try to end the grinding wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Tom Hayden will be joining PDA as the lead person providing analysis and suggestions to the PDA network across America.
Hardline activists sought to unseat Rep. Donna Edwards over her Mideast views, but failed to raise enough money.
Glenn F. Ivey, the former Prince George's County prosecutor who had announced plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) is quitting the race, his spokesman said Wednesday.
Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (D-MD) announced today that Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is endorsing her candidacy for re-election in Maryland's 4th Congressional District.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives today killed a Democratic resolution condemning U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, for saying last week that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels would be "very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine."
Rep. Donna Edwards appears to be in solid shape to win re-election four and a half months before the Maryland Democratic primary, according to an internal poll from her campaign.
On Friday, September 12th more than 150 activists will go to DC and Demand that their Senators and Representatives support removing the ratification deadline from the ERA (SJ Res 15 and HJ Res 113)


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Sam Rayburn Reservoir, also called Lake Sam Rayburn, boasts over 114,000 surface acres, making it the largest man-made lake completely in Texas. It's surrounded by the Angelina National Forest, and is within short proximity to the Sabine and Davy Crockett National Forests.
Fishing is excellent for largemouth bass, crappie, catfish and sunfish, with frequent fishing tournaments. The lake is also popular for jet skiing, water skiing and swimming.
The park features 47 campsites with electric hookups. Additional amenities include group camping, a playground, boat ramp and hot showers.
The 20,700-acre Bannister Wildlife Management Area is on the northern peninsula of the lake. Hikers and bikers can come here to explore the designated Eastern Wild Turkey restoration site.
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It can't be a great feeling when you're on the bench for a game and your replacement proceeds to lead the team to a blowout victory. Omar Luna got to experience that on Sunday.
Dominican Winter League: Aguilas Cibaenas 14, Tigres del Licey 1
This game was over early as Cibaenas struck for 7 runs in the top of the first inning. Manny Ramirez had a great game for the Aguilas, going 3 for 4 with a double, a walk, an RBI, and 2 runs scored. Ramirez actually one of just Agulas to have a multi-hit game. The other one was second baseman Rafael Ynoa, who subbed in for Omar Luna and had a huge game, going 3 for 5 with a grand slam in the first inning. After a game like this, will Luna ever get his lineup spot back?
Leones de Escogido 9, Toros del Este 4
Willy Aybar, starting for just the second time since November 23rd, finally got his first hits since November 20th, going 2 for 5 with a double and a run scored for Escogido. The double was his first of the DWL season. Aybar is 7 for 35 so far in the DWL, although he does have a good 3-3 strikeout to walk ratio.
Mexican Pacific League: Yaquis de Obregon 4, Naranjeros de Hermosillo 3 (11 innings)
Jorge Cantu continued his power tear in this one with a first inning 2-run homer in a losing effort for Hermosillo. Cantu has homered in 3 straight games and 4 times in his last 5 games. In those five games, Cantu is 7 for 20 (.350) with 4 homers and 12 RBI. Wow. Cantu has not torn apart the MPL by any stretch, hitting just .242 on the year, but he's showing now that he can still do it and we'll have to see if he'll ever make it back to the big leagues for any extended stretch after spending 2012 at the Angel's Triple-A affiliate.
Venezuelan Winter League: Tiburones de La Guaira 8, Caribes de Anzoategui 2
Cesar Suarez has been in a slump for La Guaira but had a nice game out of the 2-hole in this one, going 3 for 5 with a double, a stolen base, an RBI, and a run scored. He has a nice .302/.337/.467 line so far in the VWL.
Navegantes de Magallanes 3, Tigres de Aragua 0
A trio of former Rays had multi-hit games in this one. Leslie Anderson (who is also not yet a former Ray) was not among them, going 0 for 4 in the game, but Chris Nowak went 2 for 4 with a double and Erold Andrus went 2 for 3 with an RBI for Magallanes and Joey Gathright (remember him?) went 2 for 3 for Aragua, actually getting gunned down at home plate by Anderson. Nowak has been moved into the Navegantes' 3-hole as he has been unbelievable of late, posting a .379/.500/.621 line in his last 10 games with a double, 2 homers, 4 RBI, and 6 walks against just 2 strikeouts to raise his overall line on the VWL season to an outstanding .309/.437/.518.
Leones del Caracas 5, Aguilas del Zulia 4
Henry Wrigley is officially in a slump as his 0 for 4 in this one made him 8 for 35 (.223) in his last 10 games with 12 strikeouts versus just 2 walks. 5 of his 8 hits have gone for extra bases, including a homer, so he very well could be selling out too much for power. The story in this game was the Mariners' Franklin Gutierrez playing for Caracas, going 3 for 4 with a double, 2 stolen bases, and a run scored. One of the stolen basess was a steal of home as part of a double steal in the 5th inning.
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For the faint of heart, Archive Binge
Submitted by Howard Tayler on September 15, 2009 - 04:44
It may not be the best solution, but it is certainly a good solution. Oh, wait. You still don't know the problem. This is because if you're reading this you likely don't HAVE the problem.
The problem is that people who are going to love Schlock Mercenary look at the depth of the archives (3380 strips and counting) and balk. They can't afford to lose entire days of their lives all in one stretch. They are tempted, perhaps sorely, but they are the faint of heart. You, though. You read the whole thing. Some of you did this very recently, and have the scars to prove it. A very few of you are in withdrawal right now, having only just reduced your Schlock intake to but a single strip per day.
Well… Archive Binge promises to solve this problem. The faint of heart can set up an RSS feed that will carefully parcel Schlock Mercenary out to them a few strips per day. I recommend seven. In that way the archives can be savored over seventeen or eighteen months.
I don't recommend one strip per day. Nobody is catching up with me that way until I die, and even then it'll take nine years and change to close the gap.
So… Archive Binge. You will need to register, but it's free, and spam-free. It's cheaper than buying Schlock Mercenary books, and less likely to get you fired than grinding through nine years of comics on a slow Thursday (and Friday, and the following Monday) at the office.
And don't worry about lost revenue on my part. Once the faint of heart are hooked on the comic, they'll go ahead and start buying the books. We'll be able to afford to replace the dishwasher any day now.


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It is one of southern England's most picturesque country-house-style hotels, and offers luxury accommodation, relaxing health spa…
Peter Allis has laid his masterful design at Old Thorns across the rolling hills of the North Hampshire countryside and the result couldn't be more spectacular. Boasting stunning views at every turn, the course will test golfers of all abilities. Fairways are lined by mature woodland which places an emphasis on accuracy from the tee while golfers will also have to contend with natural springs, lakes and strategically placed bunkers; not to mention the breathtaking elevation changes on a number of holes, most notably the par 4 5th which is played from a dramatically elevated tee.
The par-72 course has an illustrious history, as in 1982 its official inauguration saw Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus, Isao Aoki and the then reigning Open champion, Bill Rogers, play a competitive four ball. Aoki won with a round of 69 and all four scorecards can still be viewed today in the Sports Bar entrance. A round at Old Thorns then, will see you walking in the footsteps of the game's greatest players.
Par 72
Designed by: Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas
Opened for play: 1982
White: 6,461 yards, SSS 71
Yellow: 6,016 yards, SSS 69
Ladies (Par 73): 5,380 yards, SSS 72
Buggy Hire: £20
Trolley Hire: £5
Club Hire: £35
Range Tokens: £3
The Old Thorns Hotel offers a fantastic array of accommodation options to the travelling golfer. From superior and executive guestrooms for one to family rooms and apartments for large groups there is something for everyone and no matter what you opt for you can be assured stylish decoration, top class furnishings and modern conveniences that will ensure the highest levels of comfort. All rooms are fully equipped with flat screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities, hairdryer and an en-suite bathroom including complimentary luxury toiletries.
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After a round of golf on the stunning championship golf course why not head to the Old Thorns Health Club & Spa where you can wash away the stresses and strains of everyday life. Facilities including a steam room, sauna and indoor swimming pool will ensure you enjoy the benefits of gentle exercise and relaxation while those looking for a more robust workout can make use of the fully equipped gym.
Just a quick note about our weekend at Old Thorns. We had fantastic weather and a fabulous course. Staff at the hotel were very attentive and looked after us very well. Food was also very good. So, all in all, a great weekend.
Just to let you know that we had a fantastic stay at Old Thorns. The hotel is extremely comfortable, the food and the golf is first class. We will definitely be going back. Many thanks for your help in booking the break. Kind regards,
We had a great golf break to Old Thorns last weekend. The golf course was in excellent condition and everyone was very impressed. This was our first "away tour" and we intend to make it an annual event. Organising the break was made very easy with your knowledge, expertise and invaluable assistance. We will have no hesitation in using your services again in the future. Many thanks,
We made our second 2 day visit to Old Thorns in six months which undoubtedly suggests we were more than happy with the venue. Old Thorns is a challenging course with no two holes alike set in beautiful parkland, we had a number of seasoned golfers none of which found the test an easy one. A golf buggy is recommended for those that are less than fit, but don't be put off it's a great course and we found the condition of the fairways and greens in excellent order in October and April, you will enjoy the experience.
The rooms are five star standard, I believe they have recently been upgraded, excellent decor, flat screen TV in every room with complimentary tea & coffee, it's a pity you don't spend much time in the room? The restaurant is superbly situated overlooking the 1st & 18th green, nice ambience and excellent service, all my party was delighted with the breakfast and 2 course evening meal that was included. We are considering a third visit later in the year? Best regards,
May I compliment Your Golf Travel for the ease of organisation (considering half the party were from America). The contact and arrangements at each of the golf courses was second to none and everyone had a great time. My thanks and compliments also to Old Thorns, the food and service was as good as ever and the course in great condition. Regards,
I have just returned from a weekend golf break at Old Thorns Manor with the girls and it was fantastic so I thought I would let you know the ins and outs of our golf trip.
The hotel at Old Thorns is great and the staff we very professional and always willing to help. An example of this was when they had made an error with our reservation time for dinner. To fix the problem they agreed to seat us at the time we had originally booked and then offered us a complimentary a la carte meal. The package we had booked entitled us to a meal from the carvery so to be able to order from the menu was a nice touch.
Our rooms were very comfortable and the whole hotel was generally a really nice place to be. It was quite warm at night and the hotel kindly provided us with fans for our rooms because of the lack of air conditioning.
The golf course was pretty tough compared with what we are used to but we really enjoyed it none the less. The handicaps were quite varied and everyone enjoyed the course which suggests it is playable for just about anyone. We would advise buggies as some of the inclines are quite difficult to negotiate if you are getting on a bit. The course was also in surprisingly good condition despite the bad weather prior to the trip.
All in all our golf holiday was a great success and we would all recommend Old Thorns for a weekend golf break and Your Golf Travel as the place to go for a great deal!
We recently went on a golf break to Old Thorns Manor and loved every minute of it.
The golf course was very enjoyable. Our group of four had a good spread in terms of handicap and we all loved the course which would suggest to us that it is playable yet challenging for all golfers. All of the holes were lovely but the really memorable holes were the 4th and the 16th. The overall condition of the course was superb and the greens were the best any of us had played on in years. To play a great course for such a reasonable amount of money represented outstanding value so a big thanks to Your Golf Travel!
The clubhouse was a great place to enjoy a refreshing drink after our rounds and boy did we need it! We were very lucky with the weather and were applying sun cream rather than donning our waterproofs! There were lots of TVs playing sport in the clubhouse and the food was of a high standard. The service was bordering on the slow side but we were in no rush so just had a couple more drinks than we were expecting!
The hotel was as good as the golf and our rooms were clean, well kept and very comfortable. Upon our arrival the staff let us know there was a suite available they kindly upgraded us. If we return for another golf holiday at Old Thorns we would happily pay for the upgrade after experiencing the suite first hand!
Overall we all rated the golf trip to Old Thorns as a 9 out of 10. This is the 7th year of our Golf Society and this Hotel and Golf course is the best one yet. We would recommend Old Thorns to all golfers and particularly societies as a must play. We will definitely be returning soon and will be booking with Your Golf Travel again as well.
We had previously visited Old Thorns on a golf trip last year and although we had enjoyed the golf course it was a little wet underfoot so we wanted another go at it in all its glory! We were blessed with perfect weather...very little wind - ideal conditions to play golf. The greens in particular were superb. They were true and lightning fast...very fun to putt on.
The accommodation, food and welcome were excellent. The drinks were expensive but just down the road there was an excellent country pub with a wide choice of real ales.
We all thoroughly enjoyed our second Old Thorns golf break visit and will certainly be coming back next year. The Sunday Special golf break package with two rounds of golf, dinner and bed and breakfast is fantastic value for money and, as always, booking with Your Golf Travel was easy and efficient. We'll be using YGT for future golf holidays for sure.
Our golf break to Old Thorns Manor was superb. We will certainly be using Your Golf Travel when we book our next golf break as we thought overall service was excellent and as far as value for money goes there is only one winner!
The hotel was excellent. The food in the Carvery was very good, and the room in the Peter Alliss suite was spacious and very comfortable. We enjoyed some time in the Spa and even booked a massage which set us up nicely for our second game of golf...it's certainly something I could get used to!
We really enjoyed the golf course which was a formidable yet enjoyable challenge. We would suggest that some people may like a buggy as the course as it was quite heavy walking with some very steep climbs. The greens are excellent and the layout was stunning.
Fantastic venue and a fantastic golf break...10/10.
Thanks to Your Golf Travel for arranging our three day golf break at Old Thorns Hotel Golf & Country club. On arrival we were warmly welcomed by the hotel staff. Although we were too early to check in we were advised and shown where all the facilities were. Our group (8 couples) all met in the sports bar for a quick drink then off to the tee for our first round of golf.
What a spectacular course every hole was a delight and the views from the 4th green and 5th Tee are spectacular. Our only problem was the amount of semi rough around the greens which we are not used to at our club; we therefore had to practice our chipping instead of pitch and run. Also the ladies had a job carrying the rough to the fairway, but I am being ultra critical the course is fantastic.
Our rooms in the hotel were large, well furnished and very comfortable. Food in the restaurant was excellent; however on a personal basis I would have preferred a la carte service instead of the carvery in the evening. The gymnasium and swimming pool are superb and offer views over the golf course. Overall our group gave the venue 10 out of 10 and on all their behalf I would once again like to thank the staff at Your Golf Travel for arranging a wonderful weekend. I would certainly recommend them to all my friends.


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The picture on this page is actually one of our own,
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an extreme close-up view, but with the crowds around
you and the sheer scale of the thing it's pretty
tricky to capture it all in a signle shot!
Florence on New
Years Eve is quieter than some
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surface you'll still find plenty
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Electronic, Twice Club Firenze, Club
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attending or organising, please let us know and
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