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I apologize if this has been asked before, but I will be traveling from London to Rye in October and have never been to the UK. I know that I can use contactless payment in the Tube, but what about inter-city? My research indicates that I need to switch trains two or three times to get to Rye and so I'd like to know the easiest way to travel by train. Paper tickets? Online tickets from either the National Rail app or Trainline app? Is there such a thing as contactless payments for inter-city travel? I'm not looking for the cheapest way, just the easiest way. Thanks very much for any and all guidance!

Please forgive my rant, but I am feeling very nickel and dimed right now. I just renewed my guild membership at the Sponsor level and didn't receive my usual two guest passes for the Belmont Room (or Straz Lounge, as it is now called.) I called the member info line and they told me that the days of guest passes were over. I told them that I had just given a pass to a friend, and they said that regrettably that pass would not be honored. She would be turned away at the door. They keep raising membership prices yet they also keep taking away privileges for all guild members. For $850 a year in membership fees I feel that I deserve a little better. Thanks for listnening!

I was a little surprised to see the word "Gypsy" replaced with the word "Roma" in the Met titles during Trovatore recently. I realize that "Gypsy" is now considered pejorative, but as a translator I wonder if the Met isn't doing a disservice to the libretto. What do you think?

First Leonora took sick and they replaced her, then Manrico took sick and was replaced in the the fourth act. Still a great show though! The show must go on.

I apologize if this has been asked before. I love Seoul and have visited several times, and am finally going back to visit after six years. I keep seeing TikToks saying that only foreigners eat kimchi in restaurants because Seoulites fear that it may be imported from China and is therefore unhygienic. Is this true? Should I really avoid eating kimchi in restaurants? If it's on the table, it would be very hard for me to ignore it. Or is the danger exaggerated? Thanks!

Hello dear Buffalonians! My third visit to your fair city coincides with Independence Day. Are there any festivities/fireworks I should know about? I'll be staying in Allentown and don't drive (yeah, I'm from Manhattan) so I'm looking for anything that is near bus or metro rail. Thanks very much! Also, is Ted's on Chippewa closed? I've gotten conflicting info on the Internet.

I am generally okay with most of the flavors but I have to say something about this new one. To me it tastes like carrots and dirt with an aftertaste of burnt wood. Have you tried it? Is there any way to improve this flavor?

This may seem painfully obvious to most, but not to me. I only realized that I should take it off after I noticed I had scratched the bejesus out of several pint glasses.

My new gen three is reading my sleep time as naps. Last night I supposedly took a nap between 1am and 3am, and another nap between 6am and 8am. As far as I am concerned, I was just asleep. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this.

I love my ES-400 scanner. I really do. I use it every day in my home office. My problem though is the software updates. Every time there is a software update the update incapacitates my scanner and I have to trash all my Epson software and then download it all over again. Every time. Does anyone else have this problem? Or a fix? Thanks!