{"id":65445,"date":"2023-06-28T06:13:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65445"},"modified":"2023-06-28T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:13:58","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-the-city-of-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65445","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing in the City of\u00a0Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fear and Loathing in the City of\u00a0Westminster<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Our descent into City Airport was like the drop-ship scene in the movie\u00a0Aliens<\/em>. The BA CityFlyer Embraer 190, a narrow-body twin-engine airliner, rolled over into a 40-degree bank and started bucking like a mechanical bull. Simulated \u201cchimes\u201d began chiming frantically. Flight attendants bolted for their seats. The German businessman in the seat beside me, obviously a nervous flyer, immediately adopted the \u201cbrace\u201d position. I gripped his shoulder reassuringly and shouted into his ear like a drunken redneck,\u00a0\u201cWE\u2019RE ON AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL! GOING DOWN!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

And so began my latest trip to London. This time, I wasn\u2019t there to\u00a0talk to \u201cthe Left\u201d<\/a>\u00a0or to hunt down endoparasitoid xenomorphs. I was there on Serious Conspiracy Theorist Business, which I explained to the chirpy MI6 operative posing as a \u201csurvey taker\u201d that followed me out of Border Control asking questions about my \u201cnation of residence\u201d and my \u201cexperience with the passport scanners,\u201d and so on. She was wearing one of those rubber \u201cMission Impossible<\/em>\u201d masks that made her look like a middle-aged British woman. I waited for an opportunity, head faked, juked right, and lost her in the crowd. As I entered the \u201cArrivals\u201d lobby, I turned and shouted in her general direction,\u00a0\u201cNOT MY FIRST RODEO, MR. PHELPS!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what was up with all the shouting. I\u2019ve been experimenting with different types of medication for this sinus condition I\u2019ve had for months. My Sinus Specialist diagnosed me with \u201clong\u201d or possibly \u201cpermanent Covid,\u201d or some yet-to-be-named debilitating syndrome caused by some other bio-weapon that produces cold-and-flu-like symptoms and has a survival rate of 99.8 percent. So, maybe it was bad reaction to my meds. Whatever it was, I was feeling jumpy.<\/p>\n

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Fear and Loathing in the City of\u00a0Westminster Our descent into City Airport was like the drop-ship scene in the movie\u00a0Aliens. The BA CityFlyer Embraer 190, a narrow-body twin-engine airliner, rolled over into a 40-degree bank and started bucking like a mechanical bull. Simulated \u201cchimes\u201d began chiming frantically. Flight attendants bolted for their seats. The German […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,14578,33375],"class_list":["post-65445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-cj-hopkins","tag-consent-factory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65446,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65445\/revisions\/65446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}