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It's Not About You
Jan. 12th, 2014 03:25 pmThere's been an going discussion elsewhere with a flaming nitwit about the Worldcon and the cost to attend. There are two factors at work here, firstly, he managed to miss the news that the hotel bookings were open and couldn't get the hotel he wanted and secondly, flights are more expensive than he had budgeted for.
His online whinging is mostly focused at the convention and how they don't want him to attend or something like that. Thing is, it really isn't about you. The airlines don't create their charges, taxes and surcharges to ruin your holidays. The convention committee didn't contact several thousand of their closest friends and tell them to book their hotels ahead of you just to spite you.
The issue is you fucked up and you're finding that it's going to be a lot of money and a little inconvenient to fly 5000 miles for a holiday.
Yes, yes it is. As it's going to be for me and SF Fans from all over the planet who don't live in Shoreditch or Wapping.
Why don't you spare a thought for the fans who are going to have to drive from the North West of England? If the M6/M5 corridor is bad, that drive can easily be as long or longer than SEA-LHR - then you have to get around the nightmare of the London M25 orbital motorway and finally cut into docklands. Could take a while.
How about people who live in London? Either they pay for a hotel or miss huge chunks of the convention because the Excel, relative to the rest of the city is in the middle of nowhere and to get home they'd have to be leaving no later than 10ish, and have a 2+ hour trip home. I think if I still lived in Ealing it would 15-20 minutes to Ealing Broadway, 50 minutes to Tower Hill, 20 minutes to the Excel... so that would be 80-90 minutes travel, if I caught the connections correctly to travel about 25 miles.
So, again, it's not about you. It's just life. Live with it or really, please, do me a favour and don't come. There's a good chap. In fact, based on this. I'd avoid conventions outside of the Bay Area too. Just to be sure.
His online whinging is mostly focused at the convention and how they don't want him to attend or something like that. Thing is, it really isn't about you. The airlines don't create their charges, taxes and surcharges to ruin your holidays. The convention committee didn't contact several thousand of their closest friends and tell them to book their hotels ahead of you just to spite you.
The issue is you fucked up and you're finding that it's going to be a lot of money and a little inconvenient to fly 5000 miles for a holiday.
Yes, yes it is. As it's going to be for me and SF Fans from all over the planet who don't live in Shoreditch or Wapping.
Why don't you spare a thought for the fans who are going to have to drive from the North West of England? If the M6/M5 corridor is bad, that drive can easily be as long or longer than SEA-LHR - then you have to get around the nightmare of the London M25 orbital motorway and finally cut into docklands. Could take a while.
How about people who live in London? Either they pay for a hotel or miss huge chunks of the convention because the Excel, relative to the rest of the city is in the middle of nowhere and to get home they'd have to be leaving no later than 10ish, and have a 2+ hour trip home. I think if I still lived in Ealing it would 15-20 minutes to Ealing Broadway, 50 minutes to Tower Hill, 20 minutes to the Excel... so that would be 80-90 minutes travel, if I caught the connections correctly to travel about 25 miles.
So, again, it's not about you. It's just life. Live with it or really, please, do me a favour and don't come. There's a good chap. In fact, based on this. I'd avoid conventions outside of the Bay Area too. Just to be sure.
