the outpouring of sympathy is heartwarming, i must say. fuck y'all.
update: they decided to cancel the flight and offer the option to fly to glasgow. apparently the problem was bad weather in aberdeen... as if. then everyone would have to take a 4 hour bus journey to aberdeen from glasgow. fuck that!
so i am now in the Ibis at Heathrow. which is a non-smoking hotel. and i got my lighter confiscated in tripoli.
but thanks to a random act of kindness by a stranger outside, i now have a lighter. it even has a wee LED torch built into it.
so in about 10 minutes time this won't be a fucking no smoking hotel.
and i now have the guinness i've been pining for for over 3 weeks... nice. %)