[qasdfdsaq]

That would be because of distance and funky routing.

Being in Scotland there's only so low you can go:

C:\Users\Administrator>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 212.58.241.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 11ms

---------- Post added at 17:22 ---------- Previous post was at 17:18 ----------

Ooh, looks like VM's peering at LINX is overloaded again. Private peering doesn't appear affected. Enjoying your bumps tonight people?

Spoiler: 

Tracing route to d1.qasdfdsaq.com [92.235.190.31]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vlan248.ml4.net.ed.ac.uk [129.215.249.254]
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vlan363.at5.net.ed.ac.uk [129.215.0.253]
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vlan355.kb7.net.ed.ac.uk [129.215.0.221]
4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vlan686.s-pop.eastman.net.uk [194.81.56.57]
5 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms so-2-1-0.leed-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.42.45]
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms as3.lond-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.33.98]
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms ae13.lond-sbr4.ja.net [146.97.33.134]
8 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms ae0.lond-gw-ixp4.ja.net [146.97.35.182]
9 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms linx-gw1.router.ntli.net [195.66.224.22]
10 112 ms 74 ms 37 ms nrth-bb-1b-ae7-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.174.17]
11 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms leed-bb-1a-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.185.102]
12 48 ms 50 ms 51 ms leed-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.187.186]
13 48 ms 49 ms 50 ms sgyl-core-2b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.48.82]
14 43 ms 42 ms 44 ms sgyl-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.93]
15 49 ms 49 ms 54 ms cpc1-bolt2-3-0-cust46.manc.cable.ntl.com [81.97.48.46]
16 81 ms 55 ms 55 ms cpc5-sgyl34-2-0-cust542.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [92.235.190.31]