I'm aboard one of Emirates Airline's double-decker Airbus A380s.

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It was a day of anger, tears, ecstasy, frustration, even one of those ridiculous pay cheques the size of a double decker bus was wiggled about.

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Holding eye contact works best for 7 to 10 seconds in a one-on-one conversation, and for 3 to 5 seconds in a group setting, says Ben Decker, chief executive officer of Decker Communications, a San Francisco-based training and consulting firm.

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And then comes a green double-decker bus which lists its destination as "nowhere" - just like the one on the sleeve for The Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant.

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