First World Problems...

Friends, Morons, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury United Airlines, not to praise it.

-- with apologies to Bill S.

The current business plan of United Airlines seems to be: "Sh*t on most of our customers while maximizing revenue and doubling down on Woke idiocy."

Luckily I have been able to avoid their short-haul flights and have been on their higher visibility routes, where they do pay some attention to customer service.

Sadly though, United isn't the only bad actor in the current state of affairs in air travel; the customers are often awful: Rude to the employees and their fellow travelers, ignorant or dismissive of basic rules of social interaction, and some percentage of them apparently do not know basic hygiene.

Please, thank you, a smile, and some basic courtesy go a long way. For instance, when a five-foot tall older woman is trying to put her bag in the overhead bin, offer help, especially if you are a six-foot tall 30-something. Don't put your bag in the overhead, taking up all of the space, and close it when there are very obviously other people who are going to use it. And don't plunk down in your seat and spread out so your foot is in the aisle.

No, I didn't do what I wanted to do, which was confront him and bop him in the nose for being an incredible asshole.

The flight attendant obviously saw this turd's rudeness and my trivial assistance to the older lady, and made it a point to attend to me, including that monstrous glass of bourbon. Unseen are the three glasses of champagne and the couple of pleasant chats! Sadly, she could do nothing about the breakfast, which may have been the worst example of scrambled eggs in the sordid history of aviation.

My parents taught me to say please and thank you and help people who need it. They taught me to treat those in service with respect...their position as waiter or flight attendant or garbage man is not a reflection of their position in society. We are not a country with a caste system, or royalty, or even rigid social classes. We are the ultimate egalitarian country, and our success relative to those with rigid social structures is a testament to the correctness of that.

So...what is the 1st World Problem?

That's a lot of bourbon, and I wasn't about to waste it, so I woke up with a bit of a thick (thicker?) head!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 02:01 PM (ypFCm)

2 My parents taught me to say please and thank you and help people who need it. They taught me to treat those in service with respect...their position as waiter or flight attendant or garbage man is not a reflection of their position in society.

I don't care what the rules are, I'm going to treat journalists like the assholes they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:03 PM (s8j++)

3 Last week had a 1WP at 10am watching F-1 was told no hot water. 4 hours later had a new water tank installed.

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (ypFCm)

4 CBD is flying Untied Airlines. Sounds like a return to the USA.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (VNX3d)

5 Turning 70 in June, and my philosophy with respect to travel is now this: if I can't drive there, I ain't goin'.

Posted by: Paco at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (mADJX)

6 which may have been the worst example of scrambled eggs in the sordid history of aviation.

Pfffft.

Posted by: U.S.A.F. Box Lunches at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)

7 Bourbon makes a lot of first-world problems better.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (DgGvY)

8 >>> 2 My parents taught me to say please and thank you and help people who need it. They taught me to treat those in service with respect...their position as waiter or flight attendant or garbage man is not a reflection of their position in society.

I don't care what the rules are, I'm going to treat journalists like the assholes they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:03 PM (s8j++)

Where are journalists relative to actors?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (QRFVs)

9 CBD is considering it a problem to have a healthy pour of bourbon?? Does not compute!

Posted by: Doof at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (MdA1p)

10 Not just United:

https://tinyurl.com/58aaetyz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 25, 2025 02:06 PM (r1QdJ)

11 That's a lot of bourbon, and I wasn't about to waste it, so I woke up with a bit of a thick (thicker?) head!

Posted by CBD

Not a good FWP as it happens every where!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:06 PM (h4ZTV)

12 You know, if you had bopped that guy on the old beezer, the flight attendant might have left the bottle.

Posted by: Paco at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM (mADJX)

13 "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." - Jim Mattis

Posted by: toby928 at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM (jc0TO)

14 Sheesh.
A better airline would have given you scotch.
Well, perhaps not Ryan Air.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM (W/lyH)

15 Where are journalists relative to actors?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

A virtual tie!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:08 PM (h4ZTV)

16 I'm guessing that's damn close to four fingers...

Posted by: jsg at May 25, 2025 02:08 PM (cgGFj)

17 I haven't been on a plane in years because I don't have "real ID" or an updated passport but there are places I could go on a plane if I got those things. What IS a good airline to travel on.

I usually am pretty good about thanking and being pleasant to all service people because my mom and dad taught me to be polite as well.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 02:08 PM (5mM9A)

18 CBD is considering it a problem to have a healthy pour of bourbon?? Does not compute!

Fortunately, there is footage of him interacting with a waiter.

https://is.gd/z4ntwG

Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:08 PM (s8j++)

19 Where are journalists relative to actors?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

A virtual tie!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:08 PM (h4ZTV)

Compared to prostitutes? It used to be a tie, but has that changed?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 25, 2025 02:09 PM (VNX3d)

20 A better airline would have given you scotch.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM

That would be a whisky.

The né-plus-ultras have an e in their name. Whiskey.

Irish and Bourbon are the quaffs of choice of discerning Morons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (0sNs1)

21 That is a very healthy pour.

I'm about to get into some Old Grandad on the rocks (2).

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

22 >> Don't put your bag in the overhead, taking up all of the space, and close it when there are very obviously other people who are going to use it. And don't plunk down in your seat and spread out so your foot is in the aisle.

We need to bring back public whipping for misuse of the overhead bins.

- The people who bring a carry-on and a massive “personal item” and shove both into the overhead bins, taking up all of the space.

- The people who just shove all of their excess stuff into the bins over your seats, so you have to put your stuff a row behind, perpetuating the evil.

The airlines are partly to blame for this. On smaller regional jets they aren’t policing carry-ons, despite significantly reduced overhead bin space.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (l3YAf)

23 I flustered a resort employee in Mexico years ago. She was wheeling the laundry cart and was going to hold the door for me and I insisted on holding it for her and her cart to through.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (CKOCg)

24 Irish and Bourbon are the quaffs of choice of discerning Morons.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (0sNs1)

#Truth

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 25, 2025 02:11 PM (xcxpd)

25 I'm about to get into some Old Grandad on the rocks (2).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

1792, Neat

Posted by: jsg at May 25, 2025 02:11 PM (cgGFj)

26 United has me delayed in Denver yet again. Your timing was uncanny CBD

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 02:12 PM (NCQ6W)

27 13 "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." - Jim Mattis
Posted by: toby928 at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM (jc0TO)

"Talk like a tough patriot, then stab the Republic in the back." -Also Jim Mattis

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 25, 2025 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

28 Went to a tea shop today that had lovely pastries and breakfast sandwiches and beautiful paintings inside . It also had coffee in real china cups which was a delight. I did thank the waitress and leave her a nice tip.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 02:12 PM (6dPz/)

29 I insisted on holding it for her and her cart to through.
Posted by: PaleRider

She thought you were an American Journalist and was shocked at your good manners!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:13 PM (h4ZTV)

30 Saying please and thank you.
it really is that simple.
When I worked at Boeing I used to steal little Boeing pins from the boss' desk before a trip. Made a point of giving them to the attendants to thank them for their service. Because of that I gained a great collection of United cloth napkins. They used them to wrap a bottle of wine for me when I left the plane.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:13 PM (W/lyH)

31 Joe Rogan: Pfizer Vaccine Study Shows at Least 470,000 American Deaths

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Roughly equal to US fatalities in WWII. And just like WWII, small price to pay for saving the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Available In Super Size! at May 25, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

32 I'm about to get into some Old Grandad on the rocks (2).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

Underrated bourbon!! The 114 proof and Bottled in Bond versions are always available and priced great. Good for sipping and outstanding in cocktails since they are high rye.

Trivia -- the guy on the OGD label?? That's Basil Hayden.

Posted by: Doof at May 25, 2025 02:15 PM (MdA1p)

33 Thickhead? Is that what they call it now?

Posted by: Eromero at May 25, 2025 02:15 PM (jgmnb)

34 bDon't put your bag in the overhead, taking up all of the space, and close it when there are very obviously other people who are going to use it. And don't plunk down in your seat and spread out so your foot is in the aisle.
_________________

Not an airline story, but a report on egregious ignorance. On a tourist bus in Tunisia a European couple behind us lit up, and between puffs held their cigarettes on the seat back in front of them, i.e., right next to our heads.

They didn't want that nasty smoke near them. It stinks, after all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:16 PM (YqDXo)

35 United was at one time a great airline. Today it’s a dumpster fire. Customer service is an absolute joke

Posted by: Blue 1 at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (83l+i)

36 United has me delayed in Denver yet again. Your timing was uncanny CBD

That's nothing. I'm busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (s8j++)

37 I was always taught that I doesn't cost anything to be polite. Most of the time is a good rule

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (eDGGN)

38 Long ago started reading the Fake Vax was killing people, but I doubt they will ever have to answer for it.

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (ypFCm)

39 Just saw a United TV commercial today. I guess they are trying to show they care about you, or go the extra mile for you, or something.

Some Karen is complaining that she was halfway across the country for work and was going to miss her kid's preschool graduation. Oh gosh, the tears were flowing over this highly important, historical milestone. Anyway, a United employee miraculously got a boarding pass into her hands and she was able to actually be home to watch the 10 minute ceremony.

I just think they could have found a more sympathetic and relatable example to show. Well who knows, maybe this is relatable now and I'm just out of touch?

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (144I4)

40 Joe Rogan: Pfizer Vaccine Study Shows at Least 470,000 American Deaths

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Roughly equal to US fatalities in WWII. And just like WWII, small price to pay for saving the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Available In Super Size! at May 25, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

That seems too high, but VAERS is such a mess, so who knows.

Excess all-cause mortality is still pretty high.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (l3YAf)

41 All they are saying is give peace a chance.

https://shorturl.at/NDtB7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Available In Super Size! at May 25, 2025 02:18 PM (L/fGl)

42 United has me delayed in Denver yet again. Your timing was uncanny CBD
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 02:12 PM (NCQ6W)

Yo, Pet!

Posted by: Doof at May 25, 2025 02:18 PM (MdA1p)

43 Whenever I stab a fellow airline passenger in the carotid artery, I make sure I'm stabbing the side facing away from other passengers so they do not get blood on them.

If the others are in sweatpants, all bets are off.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 25, 2025 02:18 PM (wBaIH)

44 That is a very healthy pour.
________________

Two fingers: the index finger and the pinky.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

45 The airlines are partly to blame for this. On smaller regional jets they aren’t policing carry-ons, despite significantly reduced overhead bin space.

The airlines are a lot to blame for it. Charging for checked luggage means people have more carry-on luggage. Of the two airlines I fly most, Southwest doesn’t have this problem nearly as much as Delta, probably because Southwest has until recently provided one free checked bag. This is likely to change, of course, as they transition to being like every other airline.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:18 PM (EXyHK)

46 It was a work thing for a bunch of scientists and associates so I don't think she thought I was in media AZ deplorable moron. I think Mexico just has more rigid class or worker vs customer social norms. Its easy enough to be polite, I struggle with what are the rules for tipping. Restaurant is known, but I just don't know for things like helping load your groceries or stock feed into your vehicle etc, so I usually just decline any offer since I'm capable of doing it myself.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 25, 2025 02:19 PM (CKOCg)

47 Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 02:12 PM (NCQ6W)

Yo, Pet!
Posted by: Doof

TMI Doof!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (h4ZTV)

48 Just saw a United TV commercial today. I guess they are trying to show they care about you, or go the extra mile for you, or something.
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Brilliant PR move. What they meant was they overshot the runway.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

49 Southwest has until recently provided one free checked bag. This is likely to change, of course, as they transition to being like every other airline.

You're welcome.

Posted by: MBAs at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s8j++)

50 >> Anyway, a United employee miraculously got a boarding pass into her hands and she was able to actually be home to watch the 10 minute ceremony.

Ah, fiction.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (l3YAf)

51 Airlines are heavily to blame, but the list of assholics contributing to making air travel almost unbearable is long. Half the passengers are some combination of drunks, assholes, idiots, invalids, and shitturds.

It takes forever to board the plane because half the passengers move in slow motion and act like they never boarded a plane before. You always know who the frequent travelers are, because they board 4x as fast as the rest of the morons.

Some of the flight attendants are good. Some are fucking terrible.

I love to travel. I hate to fly.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 25, 2025 02:21 PM (aeiyZ)

52 CBD is spot on. Common courtesy is in short supply and a little goes a long way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2025 02:22 PM (RIvkX)

53 Also, that is a lot of bourbon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (RIvkX)

54 Brilliant PR move. What they meant was they overshot the runway.
________________________

You know it's time to change airlines when they also start giving points for ground miles.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (144I4)

55 Southwest has until recently provided one free checked bag. This is likely to change, of course, as they transition to being like every other airline.

You're welcome.
Posted by: MBAs at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s8j++)

Remember the four rules of successful management:

1. Make everything worse for the customer.
2. Charge them more.
3. Layoff any employees who know what they’re doing.
4. Pay yourself million dollar bonuses out of the till, before the business collapses and has to be bailed out by taxpayers again.

Posted by: Harvard Business School at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

56 I've never known an Irishman who'd sip his whisky. Usually between a slurp (lady) and a club (man over 15).

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (wBaIH)

57 That bourbon would be better as scotch. But strong pour. Carry on.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (aeiyZ)

58 Not exactly a FWP but I did a very stupid thing.

I bought a package of sirloins at Sam's Club Friday. I remembered they were in the back of the Explorer.... on Saturday afternoon.

FML

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (Q4IgG)

59 You know it's time to change airlines when they also start giving points for ground miles.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (144I4)

Amazing.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:24 PM (l3YAf)

60 Also, that is a lot of bourbon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Not really!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:24 PM (h4ZTV)

61 Didn't James Bond have solutions for unwanted passengers? Let the air pressure suck him out the window or yeet him out the roof of the car.

James, we need you!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 25, 2025 02:24 PM (9Gn9A)

62 The people who just shove all of their excess stuff into the bins over your seats, so you have to put your stuff a row behind, perpetuating the evil.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:10 PM (l3YAf)
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I've seen worse. I had to travel a great deal for work, and the company used to spring for business or first class for many flights. I'd seen dirtbags get on the plane and slam their crap in the overhead bins in business or first class, then walk back into steerage, so that legitimate passengers in those areas now had to put their stuff back in the steerage part.

On arrival, all unshirted hell would break loose, as people in the front of the plane tried to get to the back to get their stuff, and vice versa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

63 I bought a package of sirloins at Sam's Club Friday. I remembered they were in the back of the Explorer.... on Saturday afternoon.

If you parked in the sun, that sounds like sous vide.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (EXyHK)

64
Going to the supermarket is bad enough. An airport is 10 times worse. And an airplane 100 times worse than that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (QnmlO)

65 37 I was always taught that I doesn't cost anything to be polite. Most of the time is a good rule
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (eDGGN)

It's highly context-dependent. In the wrong places it'll mark you as weak or a pushover, such as in your place of employment.

Posted by: Or in certain social settings too at May 25, 2025 02:26 PM (TbWk/)

66 I bought a package of sirloins at Sam's Club Friday. I remembered they were in the back of the Explorer.... on Saturday afternoon.

FML
Posted by: Martini Farmer Here they would be cooked!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:26 PM (h4ZTV)

67 >>>It takes forever to board the plane because half the passengers move in slow motion and act like they never boarded a plane before.
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If they had learned to march they would step off at the same time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 25, 2025 02:26 PM (yRJGL)

68 Southwest has until recently provided one free checked bag. This is likely to change, of course, as they transition to being like every other airline.

You're welcome.
Posted by: MBAs at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s8j++)

Remember the four rules of successful management:

1. Make everything worse for the customer.
2. Charge them more.
3. Layoff any employees who know what they’re doing.
4. Pay yourself million dollar bonuses out of the till, before the business collapses and has to be bailed out by taxpayers again.

Posted by: Harvard Business School at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)
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MBAs are a blight on the land comparable with that associated with black female office holders.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:26 PM (YqDXo)

69 I commuted to Phoenix weekly for 16 months before 9/11 and it was pretty sweet. Shuttle by United.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (RIvkX)

70 Me FWP:
Sister in law insists that on Memorial Day she post pictures of all the family members who have served. I keep telling her I'm still alive.
A good heart though.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (W/lyH)

71 63 I bought a package of sirloins at Sam's Club Friday. I remembered they were in the back of the Explorer.... on Saturday afternoon.

If you parked in the sun, that sounds like sous vide.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (EXyHK)

Like those sun-baked fish meal icthyofags the HQ was talking about a couple days ago. But with beef.

Posted by: Call it jerky at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (TbWk/)

72 50 >> Anyway, a United employee miraculously got a boarding pass into her hands and she was able to actually be home to watch the 10 minute ceremony.

Ah, fiction.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:20 PM (l3YAf)
As all advertising was, is, and evermore shall be.

Posted by: Eromero at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (jgmnb)

73 I bought a package of sirloins at Sam's Club Friday. I remembered they were in the back of the Explorer.... on Saturday afternoon.

Remember when the Bidenites wanted to limit the BTUs of your oven and stove? Just pretend the back of your car is a Biden appliance.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (s8j++)

74 I always put my carryon and my ‘personal bag’ in the overhead bin. Fuck it. I don’t care.

After all the shit I have to go through to fly, I’m not gonna further inconvenience myself by putting shit under the seat back. I’m too tall anyway and can barely fit in the seat without anything under there.

I do arrange my shit in the overhead so it doesn’t prevent anyone from putting their shit up there.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 25, 2025 02:28 PM (aeiyZ)

75 1. Make everything worse for the customer.
2. Charge them more.
3. Layoff any employees who know what they’re doing.
4. Pay yourself million dollar bonuses out of the till, before the business collapses and has to be bailed out by taxpayers again.

Posted by: Harvard Business School at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

I can run a business into the ground for half of what they're charging!

Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C suite bonus! at May 25, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

76 I keep telling her I'm still alive.
A good heart though.
Posted by: Diogenes

is it a hint?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:29 PM (h4ZTV)

77 They didn't give you a napkin with that glass. United clearly hates you.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:29 PM (W/lyH)

78 Sister in law insists that on Memorial Day she post pictures of all the family members who have served. I keep telling her I'm still alive.
A good heart though.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:27 PM (W/lyH)

Maybe she's trying to send you a message.

Posted by: And not too subtle at that at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (TbWk/)

79 You know it's time to change airlines when they also start giving points for ground miles.

Air travel would probably be a lot better if airlines realized that something called “ground travel” existed. I’ve been on flights delayed for several hours longer than just driving to the destination would have taken. For example, Detroit to Grand Rapids. Although the latter was so predictably unreliable that I stopped making that connection; I’d just fly into Detroit, walk to the rental agency, and pick up my car to drive across the state.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (EXyHK)

80 While I agree with the sentiment, one time I was on a flight when a young lady wearing a "All Refugees Welcome" t-shirt was struggling to place her carry-on bag in the overhead bin. Since she was directly across from me, I got up and offered to help her. She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.

Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

81
MBAs are a blight on the land comparable with that associated with black female office holders.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

__________

"MBA" is to "Quality" as "Bubonic plague" is to "14th century".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (QnmlO)

82 My family and I were in Alabama when a black guy held a door for us (frankly, to my astonishment).

Later in the day I held a door for a black guy who was struggling to get a shopping cart through a spring-loaded door.

Profuse thanks ensued in both cases.

Can't we all just get along? Yeah, we can.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:31 PM (YqDXo)

83 So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.
Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

Should've adopted some vaguely foreign accent and told her you were a refugee

Posted by: All refugees welcome...in her cooter at May 25, 2025 02:32 PM (TbWk/)

84 While I agree with the sentiment, one time I was on a flight when a young lady wearing a "All Refugees Welcome" t-shirt was struggling to place her carry-on bag in the overhead bin. Since she was directly across from me, I got up and offered to help her. She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.

Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)
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How many times did I hear that in Berkeley during First Wave Feminism?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:33 PM (YqDXo)

85 Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

I'm sorry. That was really rude of her. I can't imagine saying that to a man who helped me but I'm not a leftist woman.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 02:33 PM (6dPz/)

86 If they had learned to march they would step off at the same time.
A life skill underappreciated, Brianyard.

Posted by: Eromero at May 25, 2025 02:34 PM (jgmnb)

87 1. Make everything worse for the customer.
2. Charge them more.
3. Layoff any employees who know what they’re doing.
4. Pay yourself million dollar bonuses out of the till, before the business collapses and has to be bailed out by taxpayers again.

Posted by: Harvard Business School at May 25, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

I can run a business into the ground for half of what they're charging!

Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C suite bonus! at May 25, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)
_________________

But can you offshore all the jobs to some Third World shithole?

That's the question.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:34 PM (YqDXo)

88 I've seen worse. I had to travel a great deal for work, and the company used to spring for business or first class for many flights. I'd seen dirtbags get on the plane and slam their crap in the overhead bins in business or first class, then walk back into steerage, so that legitimate passengers in those areas now had to put their stuff back in the steerage part.

On arrival, all unshirted hell would break loose, as people in the front of the plane tried to get to the back to get their stuff, and vice versa.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

I’ve seen that plenty. I’ve only flown first or business for the last 12 years or so. Flew a fair amount for business.

I always just board asap. You shouldn’t have to, but it’s for the best. Of course, now everyone is super special and can board before Group 1, so there’s still a fight over the bins in first class sometimes.

At least if you board early you can down a couple of drinks before takeoff.

Related:

youtu.be/qhxlZC8BZJ4

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)

89 Overhead/carry-on luggage has been a disaster for a few decades now. Main factor in 1) delays 2) injuries 3) altercations. It's become even more absurd, I've noticed.

Anyway, I never trust anyone lifting anything above my head, so always jump up/get out from under whenever anyone is storing above. Some are puzzled or annoyed. I just smile and wait.

And I almost never help anyone any more. A small, obviously light item - sure (for a small, elderly, otherwise challenged person). Otherwise. Fugeddaboutit. I devote a significant part of my workouts to strengthening small muscle groups, and always exercise extreme care in moving a load around above the shoulders. I want to be 100% capable when older, not to mention to continue to play hockey.

Not gonna risk squat in "helping" with the absurd, dangerous, carry-on farce.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2025 02:35 PM (1m82a)

90 P5 Turning 70 in June, and my philosophy with respect to travel is now this: if I can't drive there, I ain't goin'.
Posted by: Paco at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (mADJX)

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I made a 2400 mile road trip last year in less than six days. Tough at 70+, but I prefer.it to flying. And I'm a former private pilot.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Km/wX)

91 The 'boarding by group number' process can make this a lot worse: when first class goes first, followed by high-status frequent fliers, the third group is usually inexperienced or know that limited overhead space means that if they're slow, they're screwed.

Though there was that one time that I had an aisle seat and a shorter woman, half my age, had a little trouble pushing her bag right above my head. She gave it a firm push, overbalanced and bounced an intimate body part into my left ear. I was startled; she was mortified. I had never seen her before and never saw her again.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 02:37 PM (NcvvS)

92 Can't we all just get along? Yeah, we can.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:31 PM (YqDXo)

Yes, we can! Even in NJ which is supposedly a state with very rude people, I always thank the people holding the door for me- male or female and say, "Thank you, sir" or "Thank you, ma'am"
and usually " Have a nice day" and people do the same for me

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 02:37 PM (6dPz/)

93 I’ll help older people (women and men) with overhead bins. I’ll also help the flight attendants if they seem to need it. But nobody else. Not worth the risk that the person you offer to help is a fucking leftwing cretin who hates your guts. They can fuck off.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 25, 2025 02:37 PM (aeiyZ)

94 >> She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me."

That’s when I’d say “Oh sorry, dude, I thought you were a man.” Let her stew on that one.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:37 PM (l3YAf)

95 Some Karen is complaining that she was halfway across the country for work and was going to miss her kid's preschool graduation. Oh gosh, the tears were flowing over this highly important, historical milestone. Anyway, a United employee miraculously got a boarding pass into her hands and she was able to actually be home to watch the 10 minute ceremony.

I just think they could have found a more sympathetic and relatable example to show. Well who knows, maybe this is relatable now and I'm just out of touch?

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (144I4)
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C'mon, that was probably the apogee of the kid's academic achievement.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:37 PM (YqDXo)

96 But can you offshore all the jobs to some Third World shithole?

That's the question.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:34 PM (YqDXo)

I can outsource, nearsource, offshore and nearshore like a motherfucker. Fewer than 5% of the almost-entirely-subcontracted workforce will speak English as a native language. That is my quality pledge!

Posted by: C-suite and multi-million bonuses here I come! at May 25, 2025 02:38 PM (TbWk/)

97 Nothing of course will compare to the many Scare-o-flot trips I took back in the golden days, but for now, there is a gold standard.

ANA or JAL, with mostly Japanese passengers. Cleaner than your kitchen, quiet, orderly, exceptionally polite. And the flight attendants often quite hawt.

Early days of Vietnam Air when paired up with (I think) Qantas were nice - new planes, aussie in the left seat up front, flight attendants stunning, wearing ao dais.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2025 02:38 PM (1m82a)

98
If you can't lift a carry-on into an overhead compartment, you shouldn't have brought a carry-on that had to be lifted into an overhead compartment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 02:38 PM (QnmlO)

99 You never know, that little old lady may slip you a C-note

Posted by: Eromero at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (jgmnb)

100 On the politeness theme, many years ago American Airlines inexplicably decided to make a major change to their computer system in the middle of summer travel season. Predictably, the result was complete chaos, delays, and cancellations throughout their system.

We were in Seattle trying to fly home to Austin, connecting through D/FW. We left SEA late and by the time we got to D/FW "chaos" was an entirely inadequate word to describe what we saw there. Because of all of the delays we were only waitlisted for our flight to Austin. Everyone else was screaming at the gate agents but when we got to the desk we were calm, polite, and thanked the staff for working so hard under such bad conditions.

Well, we got called for the flight and got home that night--ahead of other people who I KNOW were there ahead of us.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (FEVMW)

101 Most people are flying nowadays because it's cheap and they are going on undeserved vacations/playtime to terrorize the locals while spending their hard earned welfare money at some destination where they do not live. They should be staying home and cleaning their low income rental and maybe washing their ass now and then and leave the flying to the professionals.

Posted by: Old Fart at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (R/m4+)

102 United has me delayed in Denver yet again. Your timing was uncanny CBD

That's nothing. I'm busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 25, 2025 02:17 PM (s8j++)
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Druther be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (6YdsJ)

103 I had a moment a few years ago where I was working on a production floor and some tech started trash talking me in front of the other techs. I said nothing back to him and smiled and told him to "have a better day" and walk away. I didn't say anything to anyone about it.

About a week later I was in the same area and another tech asked me quite pointedly why I didn't stand up for myself and let the first tech "disrespect" me like that in front of everyone.

I told her that my Mom taught me to treat other people the way you want to be treated and I thought that was important.

The shock on her face was amazing and after a couple of weeks almost everyone around that area treated me well and she in particular still stays in touch with me.

Loud Mouth ended up getting fired after I left.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 02:40 PM (QB+5g)

104 So, I ordered some geezer sheets from Mike Lindell on May 16. Since then, I have received 57 marketing emails from MyPillow and none of them are telling me that my order has shipped. This is my FWP.

I was not informed that the super discount would entail an indefinite wait for shipping.

It's not that I'm in desperate need, I just want what I paid for.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 25, 2025 02:40 PM (w6EFb)

105 I've seen worse. I had to travel a great deal for work, and the company used to spring for business or first class for many flights. I'd seen dirtbags get on the plane and slam their crap in the overhead bins in business or first class, then walk back into steerage, so that legitimate passengers in those areas now had to put their stuff back in the steerage part.

On arrival, all unshirted hell would break loose, as people in the front of the plane tried to get to the back to get their stuff, and vice versa.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

I’ve seen that plenty. I’ve only flown first or business for the last 12 years or so. Flew a fair amount for business.

I always just board asap. You shouldn’t have to, but it’s for the best. Of course, now everyone is super special and can board before Group 1, so there’s still a fight over the bins in first class sometimes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)
________________

I've been sorely tempted to remove some dirtbag's bags and ask the stewardess if she can check it through to Mogadishu or someplace.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:42 PM (YqDXo)

106 Your sheets are in Memphis. Somewhere.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 25, 2025 02:42 PM (CxjWe)

107 Yo, Pet!
Posted by: Doof

Hey Dick!

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 02:44 PM (NCQ6W)

108 Would you like a pillow to go with those sheets?

Posted by: Little David Hogg at May 25, 2025 02:44 PM (dg+HA)

109 Most people are flying nowadays because it's cheap and they are going on undeserved vacations/playtime to terrorize the locals while spending their hard earned welfare money at some destination where they do not live. They should be staying home and cleaning their low income rental and maybe washing their ass now and then and leave the flying to the professionals.

Posted by: Old Fart at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (R/m4+)
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Make that "hardly earned," not "hard-earned."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:44 PM (YqDXo)

110 "I can outsource, nearsource, offshore and nearshore like a motherfucker. Fewer than 5% of the almost-entirely-subcontracted workforce will speak English as a native language. That is my quality pledge!"

Dude....go and walk around your production floor now and maybe the breakroom and tell me that's any different than how it is now.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 02:44 PM (QB+5g)

111 Would you like a pillow to go with those sheets?
Posted by: Little David Hogg at May 25, 2025 02:44 PM (dg+HA)

Bitten only a few times.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 25, 2025 02:46 PM (CxjWe)

112 What's the word on Alaska Airlines - Good Bad or Meh?

Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

113 🇮🇱 Israel: $0.04
🇮🇹 Italy: $0.12
🇮🇳 India: $0.17
🇨🇵 France: $0.23
🇨🇳 China: $0.41
🇪🇦 Spain: $0.60
🇳🇬 Nigeria: $0.70
🇧🇷 Brazil: $0.74
🇬🇧 UK: $0.79
🇩🇪 Germany: $2.67
🇯🇵 Japan: $3.85
🇺🇲 United States: $5.62
🇨🇭 Switzerland: $7.37

There's no $5 dollar internet in my neighborhood.
They just put in fiber optic from whom I received a discount card of $60 off my first month's bill. That's more than I pay for the wire, thank you very much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 25, 2025 02:47 PM (yRJGL)

114 Druther be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.

It is a fine sight to see.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:47 PM (EXyHK)

115 What's the word on Alaska Airlines - Good Bad or Meh?
Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

I used to fly Alaska to Hawaii often. I liked it a lot. Used to have cheap upgrades, $100 to business class. With free drinks I could easily make that pay.

Seemed quite good for a carrier. Hawaiian was a bit better, but also more expensive.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:48 PM (l3YAf)

116 Nothing of course will compare to the many Scare-o-flot trips I took back in the golden days, but for now, there is a gold standard.
___________________

Scare-o-flot trips are truly terrifying, piloted by former Red Air Force pilots who think they're flying a Stuka.

CAAC (the Red Chinese airline) is even more terrifying. Pilot is off line in landing approach, so he dips the wing outside my window. I watch with growing alarm as the wing tip gets closer and closer to the ground, until it's only about 10 feet above. I'm picturing the plane cartwheeling into a ball of fire, when he levels out. Phew! It was a religious experience.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:49 PM (YqDXo)

117 Because air travel is not bad enough already:

Low-Cost Airlines to launch standing-only seats in 2026

https://tinyurl.com/ye2a2rbu

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 25, 2025 02:49 PM (dg+HA)

118 What's the word on Alaska Airlines - Good Bad or Meh?

Alaska was quite nice when I flew it to Seattle several times several years ago. I thought they’d been bought by Delta several years ago, but that apparently was a different timeline.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 25, 2025 02:50 PM (EXyHK)

119 Though there was that one time that I had an aisle seat and a shorter woman, half my age, had a little trouble pushing her bag right above my head. She gave it a firm push, overbalanced and bounced an intimate body part into my left ear. I was startled; she was mortified. I had never seen her before and never saw her again.
Posted by: Nazdar

"Excuse me Miss, I believe your boob just boxed my ear. Please keep your tits under control at all times."

That would help relax the tension.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)

120 What are you supposed to say,
"Thank you Miss, may I have another?"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 02:51 PM (/lPRQ)

121 It's time for common sense boob control.

Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at May 25, 2025 02:51 PM (dg+HA)

122 Most people are flying nowadays because it's cheap and they are going on undeserved vacations/playtime to terrorize the locals while spending their hard earned welfare money at some destination where they do not live.

Posted by: Old Fart at May 25, 2025 02:39 PM (R/m4+)
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Ah, the Spirit Airlines demographic. Instead of in-flight entertainment, they offer departure lounge entertainment in the welterweight division.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:52 PM (YqDXo)

123 117 Because air travel is not bad enough already:

Low-Cost Airlines to launch standing-only seats in 2026

https://tinyurl.com/ye2a2rbu
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 25, 2025 02:49 PM (dg+HA)

Well, it'll keep fatties off the plane. So that's something.

Posted by: Fatphobia Frontier at May 25, 2025 02:52 PM (TbWk/)

124 Thanks for the Alaska Airlines info. I'm booked on that airline for the round trip.

Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 02:53 PM (rj6Yv)

125 Though there was that one time that I had an aisle seat and a shorter woman, half my age, had a little trouble pushing her bag right above my head. She gave it a firm push, overbalanced and bounced an intimate body part into my left ear. I was startled; she was mortified. I had never seen her before and never saw her again.
Posted by: Nazdar

"Excuse me Miss, I believe your boob just boxed my ear. Please keep your tits under control at all times."

That would help relax the tension.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)
___________________

"Your nipple put out my eye. Now do the other eye!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:53 PM (YqDXo)

126 Because air travel is not bad enough already:
Low-Cost Airlines to launch standing-only seats in 2026
https://tinyurl.com/ye2a2rbu
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I was sure that was going to link to the Babylon Bee.

It didn't link to the Babylon Bee.

Stop the world; I want to get off.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2025 02:53 PM (DgGvY)

127 Alaska Airlines used to be a great regional carrier. Our favorite in many respects. As they have expanded they have lowered their service levels so as to approach United in DGAF.

I avoid flying them now if possible.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 02:54 PM (NCQ6W)

128
Low-Cost Airlines to launch standing-only seats in 2026

__________

"Hmmmm....." - MBAs at United, Delta, Southwest...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 02:55 PM (QnmlO)

129 There's no $5 dollar internet in my neighborhood.
They just put in fiber optic from whom I received a discount card of $60 off my first month's bill. That's more than I pay for the wire, thank you very much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 25, 2025 02:47 PM (yRJGL)

That must be subsidized cost? Or what is it referring to?

Internet is often overpriced in America. Americans got used to “unlimited data” being the norm so most households are subsidizing the 98th percentile.

People also buy way more than they need. A lot of people opt for the gig plan (or more) for $100+ /month, when they can’t even saturate a 100mbps connection.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 02:55 PM (l3YAf)

130 119 120 IAB, she was half my age. It would have felt like flirting with my daughter. Plus, her seat was in a row behind mine - and she could not get to it fast enough.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 02:55 PM (NcvvS)

131 Avoiding First World Problems, Flashlights Edition

Change your flashlight batteries regularly. I do it once a year, in the first week of May. This gives me high confidence all of them work heading into hurricane season. Your season needing workable emergency flashlights may vary. I also charge-up my several rechargeable flashlights at the same time.

I throw away the old batteries. Keep them if you want for spares. I buy new spare batteries every year as-needed. If you cannot afford a lot of batteries every year, do the change every x years. I recommend no more than 3 years. Batteries run down. They will eventually corrode, making it difficult or impossible to remove them. Typically this will mean throwing away AAA and AA flashlights.

Another tip: When you buy a new flashlight, before inserting batteries, put a tiny dab of gun grease or bearing grease on the male threads. Near the top of the threads. Run the cap on and off a few times to spread the grease on all the male and female threads. This will prevent galling of metal threads and make it easier to remove metal and plastic caps after the flashlight's spent a couple years in the garage or your trunk.

Posted by: Gref at May 25, 2025 02:56 PM (aBgBM)

132 121 I know of no universe where those words, in that order, belong together.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 02:56 PM (NcvvS)

133 I've been sorely tempted to remove some dirtbag's bags and ask the stewardess if she can check it through to Mogadishu or someplace.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Used to work /build the AA reservation system terminals. Boss was ragging on me one day (don't remember why), .. I told him to be very careful or the next time he flew AA he would get a one way ticket to Iran. He got a very funny look on his face and quieted down.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 02:56 PM (h4ZTV)

134 On Memorial Day weekend Tim Walz (ahole- Miin) put out a proclamation honoring George Floyd on the anniversary of his death. May the revolution eat you alive scumbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 25, 2025 02:57 PM (eDGGN)

135
She would probably have slapped me for getting in the way of her boob.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 02:57 PM (QnmlO)

136 My FWP is a ceiling mounted bedroom fan which operates only off a remote. No switch. Now it stopped responding to the remote. I put new batteries in the remote, didn't help. There's no way of knowing if it's the remote, the fan or the power to the fan because there's no way to test any of them. I'm not even sure which breaker controls power to the fan. No way to tell if there's power to the fan or not without crawling around in the attic or trying to take the fan apart.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 25, 2025 02:57 PM (QGaXH)

137 It's the Indy 500 Accidents race today.

Posted by: Gref at May 25, 2025 02:58 PM (aBgBM)

138 What's the word on Alaska Airlines - Good Bad or Meh?
Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

After that broken jackscrew, flying upside down for quite a while as the pilots fought for control and then everyone died accident (Flight 261, to be precise), my vote on them is "pass".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 25, 2025 02:59 PM (/HDaX)

139 My FWP is a ceiling mounted bedroom fan which operates only off a remote. No switch. Now it stopped responding to the remote. I put new batteries in the remote, didn't help. There's no way of knowing if it's the remote, the fan or the power to the fan because there's no way to test any of them. I'm not even sure which breaker controls power to the fan. No way to tell if there's power to the fan or not without crawling around in the attic or trying to take the fan apart.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 25, 2025 02:57 PM

Time to sell.

Posted by: Always the default answer at May 25, 2025 02:59 PM (dg+HA)

140 125 Or maybe the other nipple? Seriously, she was gone in less than a second.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 02:59 PM (NcvvS)

141 My wife and I are in our 50's and comfortable. Want to travel more before one of us ends up in traction, or worse. So far this calendar year we have flown to Key Largo, Bermuda and Oxford, MS. We go to Hilton Head in 3 weeks, Cape Cod in about 7 weeks, and the US V.I. in October. All of the flights will be on American. We have the Advantage Club (low level Premium service) and get upgraded quite a bit. Apart from connection times getting tight once in a while, we have enjoyed flying recently.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 25, 2025 02:59 PM (2cS/G)

142 My FWP is attracting a horde of kitties who are all too curious during mealtimes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2025 03:00 PM (GlyvH)

143 Getting back to the beginning of the thread, my 1st world problem is that the Knoxville airport *is* a United hub.

Any everytime I've ever flown United, I've gotten a rude reminder of just why I despise them.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 25, 2025 03:00 PM (/HDaX)

144
Time to sell.
Posted by: Always the default answer

Or burn it down and pocket ins money!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:01 PM (h4ZTV)

145 >> IAB, she was half my age. It would have felt like flirting with my daughter.

And?

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 25, 2025 03:01 PM (l3YAf)

146 *It's the Indy 500 Accidents race today.*

Yesterday one of the Wienermobiles almost slammed another one into the guardrail.

Dick move.

Posted by: Bum tiss at May 25, 2025 03:01 PM (dg+HA)

147
Dick move.
Posted by: Bum tiss

Frankly!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (h4ZTV)

148 @146, That guy was being a brat.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (2cS/G)

149
I like being comfortable. So right after the plane's wheels leave the ground I slam my seat back all the way. Because I'm special.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (QnmlO)

150 Our 12:15 flight is delayed to 1:50. Maybe later. And Duff is taunting me like a third grader.

Might need a drink

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (NCQ6W)

151 Weird baseball stat. Tarik Skubal who last year won the AL Cy Young Award and the pitching triple crown today pitched his first career complete game shutout. After 123 career starts. Baseball has changed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (eDGGN)

152 That bourbon represents an evening's consumption--a LONG evening. I've been known to quietly refrigerate that much over the course of a night, much enjoying the crispness of icy cold whisky on occasion. Not ever diluting it with ice.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (hKoQL)

153 Duff beer?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (/HDaX)

154 I like being comfortable. So right after the plane's wheels leave the ground I slam my seat back all the way. Because I'm special.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (QnmlO)
_____________

No no no no. You're supposed to wait until the guy behind you gets drinks service, THEN slam your seat all the way back.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (YqDXo)

155 145 LOL.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (NcvvS)

156 >> There's no way of knowing if it's the remote, the fan or the power to the fan because there's no way to test any of them. I'm not even sure which breaker controls power to the fan.

Non-contact voltage tester can help there.

I had this problem before. Hardwired Harbor Breeze fan. I had to repair the fan and the remote which meant turning off power to the fan for a few seconds and then pairing the remote within 30 secs.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 03:05 PM (l3YAf)

157 Seasoning my Blackstone now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 25, 2025 03:06 PM (CxjWe)

158
Doesn't anyone in this race know how to drive?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2025 03:06 PM (QnmlO)

159 Weird baseball stat. Tarik Skubal who last year won the AL Cy Young Award and the pitching triple crown today pitched his first career complete game shutout. After 123 career starts. Baseball has changed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 25, 2025 03:04 PM (eDGGN)
_________________

Complete games are rare now because pitchers nowadays get the hook in the sixth or seventh inning, thanks to that faggot LaRussa and his idiotic 100 pitch crap.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:06 PM (YqDXo)

160 While in military coming back from England, another fellow Airman , a foreigner and myself got drinking asap on the flight, long flight but don't remember much about it.

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ypFCm)

161 Seasoning my Blackstone now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Congrats!!!!

wait for the next thread!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:07 PM (h4ZTV)

162 "Seasoning my Blackstone now."

Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at May 25, 2025 03:08 PM (dg+HA)

163 No way to tell if there's power to the fan or not without crawling around in the attic or trying to take the fan apart.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Take apart the fan is your only option.
The receiver is probably fried.

Once you expose some wires you can play around with a voltage sensor to see if the line is hot and find the right breaker.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 03:08 PM (/lPRQ)

164 I'm flying to Philadelphia this week.

Imagine a planeload of patchouli-soaked hipster doofuses and uncouth Ginos with greasy hair from Passyunk Ave.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2025 03:09 PM (RIvkX)

165 139 My FWP is a ceiling mounted bedroom fan which operates only off a remote. No switch. Now it stopped responding to the remote. I put new batteries in the remote, didn't help. There's no way of knowing if it's the remote, the fan or the power to the fan because there's no way to test any of them. I'm not even sure which breaker controls power to the fan. No way to tell if there's power to the fan or not without crawling around in the attic or trying to take the fan apart.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 25, 2025 02:57 PM

Time to sell.
Posted by: Always the default answer at May 25, 2025 02:59 PM (dg+H

From time to time I get inquiries from realtors if I want to sell. I tell them I'll entertain offers above $2M. So far I haven't heard back from any of them.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 25, 2025 03:09 PM (QGaXH)

166 Just so it when you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.

Posted by: Always good advice at May 25, 2025 03:09 PM (dg+HA)

167 While in military coming back from England, another fellow Airman , a foreigner and myself got drinking asap on the flight, long flight but don't remember much about it.

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ypFCm)
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I was on a JAL flight from Heathrow to Narita when Lucky Pierre ended up getting seated between a Nip who was trying to get lung cancer before he arrived and an Aussie who literally drank a case of beer (it was unbelievable). He flagged down the stewardess every time she passed and asked for another beer. She giggled, and brought him one - on a twelve hour flight.

I was especially impressed by his bladder capacity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:10 PM (YqDXo)

168 Another tip: When you buy a new flashlight, before inserting batteries, put a tiny dab of gun grease or bearing grease on the male threads. Near the top of the threads. Run the cap on and off a few times to spread the grease on all the male and female threads. This will prevent galling of metal threads and make it easier to remove metal and plastic caps after the flashlight's spent a couple years in the garage or your trunk.
Posted by: Gref at May 25, 2025 02:56 PM (aBgBM)

For flashlights I rarely use (like in the glovebox) I store the batteries in a separate Ziploc bag. Prevents corrosion and premature discharging, and it’s easy to check if the batteries still look good.

I rotate those every year.

I also keep a couple of battery lanterns around the house. Some of the lithium ion ones last a long time. Much more useful than a flashlight in a prolonged power outage. Can have two hands free to get the genny started.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 03:10 PM (l3YAf)

169 Stop the world; I want to get off.

You can slip in line behind me. I got in line in '94.

Posted by: clarence at May 25, 2025 03:11 PM (596fx)

170
I was especially impressed by his bladder capacity.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

USN took me to Perth... I thought sailors were the top drinkers. Nope. Those Aussies can really drink...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:14 PM (h4ZTV)

171 Once you expose some wires you can play around with a voltage sensor to see if the line is hot and find the right breaker.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 03:08 PM (/lPRQ)
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The fan is probably on the same circuit with some of the outlets in the room. Pick up a circuit breaker finder ($30), plug the transmitter into an outlet, and then go find the corresponding breaker in the distribution panel.

https://tinyurl.com/24uwrfpa (goes to Amazon)

This thing is useful for a lot of purposes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

172 Where are journalists relative to actors?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (QRFVs)

I would say much lower on the scale. Their primary function is to entertain us, and only idiots take them seriously when they pontificate on stuff they nothing about. Their stupid opinions carry very little weight.

Journalists, ostensibly, exist to to inform us, and bring us news. When they lie, by omission or commission, they are breaching our trust.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VWiqT)

173 I also keep a couple of battery lanterns around the house. Some of the lithium ion ones last a long time. Much more useful than a flashlight in a prolonged power outage. Can have two hands free to get the genny started.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Lost power after a hurricane here one year.
Needless to say the stores flashlights and batteries were wiped out on day one.

Went to the garden section and got a twelve pack of the cheap solar yard lights. They don't put out much light, but good enough to put one in each room so you don't step on the cat every five feet in the dark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 03:15 PM (/lPRQ)

174 I was especially impressed by his bladder capacity.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

USN took me to Perth... I thought sailors were the top drinkers. Nope. Those Aussies can really drink...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:14 PM (h4ZTV)
________________

I'd have worn a path to the restroom in the carpet, and that was before I had prostate problems.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

175 172 Where are journalists relative to actors?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (QRFVs)

I would say much lower on the scale. Their primary function is to entertain us, and only idiots take them seriously when they pontificate on stuff they nothing about. Their stupid opinions carry very little weight.

Journalists, ostensibly, exist to to inform us, and bring us news. When they lie, by omission or commission, they are breaching our trust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VWiqT
Same as prostitutes.

Posted by: Eromero at May 25, 2025 03:16 PM (vl19i)

176 @SanFranpsycho, half of my layovers are at Philly. Take advantage of the food courts. I've never spent more than 2 hours in that City at one time and I have tried every one of their locally famous outlets. All were good. Pretzels and "Water-Ice" have become staples when I have to wait there.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 25, 2025 03:16 PM (2cS/G)

177 Oh, and obviously the cheesesteaks.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 25, 2025 03:18 PM (2cS/G)

178 San Franpsycho your flying into Philly thus week?
Business , pleasure or circumstances?

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 03:19 PM (ypFCm)

179 On arrival, all unshirted hell would break loose, as people in the front of the plane tried to get to the back to get their stuff, and vice versa.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

A bit of monitoring by the flight attendant would put an end to that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:21 PM (VWiqT)

180 I fly Alaska Airlines as much as I can. I don’t want to jinx myself, but flights are on time, the staff is pleasant, and the planes are clean.

Alaska bought Hawaiian. Used to fly
Hawaiian to Maui when I took the boys on spring break a few times. Great airline!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 25, 2025 03:22 PM (aKKLM)

181 Flight of the ark, Toledo, George Floyd mural destroyed by lightening strike.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4t85hz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 25, 2025 03:24 PM (yRJGL)

182 There is a controller in the fan that may be the problem. Shut off the breaker to the fan for 15 seconds and then repower.

Make sure you have fresh batteries in your remote and that no one is punking you by blocking the transmitter with some tape.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:25 PM (QB+5g)

183 5 ... "Turning 70 in June, and my philosophy with respect to travel is now this: if I can't drive there, I ain't goin'."

I didn't wait until my 70s. Haven't flown, by choice, since the mid-1980s. Creating the TSA just cemented that stance.

Posted by: JTB at May 25, 2025 03:27 PM (yTvNw)

184 She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.
Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

"Suit yourself, you deranged Commie slut."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:27 PM (VWiqT)

185 177 Oh, and obviously the cheesesteaks.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 25, 2025 03:18 PM (2cS/G)

*fistbump*

Posted by: John Francoise Kerry, Cheesteak Aficionado at May 25, 2025 03:28 PM (PiwSw)

186 CBD, that's a fine looking glass of bourbon, right there. Sounds like you did it justice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 25, 2025 03:28 PM (Wnv9h)

187 I have a remote for my split AC in my apartment that has some kind of current leakage in the circuit board that will drain fresh batteries in a couple of hours.

So I pull one of the batteries out after I use it.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:32 PM (QB+5g)

188 Real glass too, you are one of those bourgeois I keep hearing about...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 25, 2025 03:32 PM (UwBs6)

189 Real glass too, you are one of those bourgeois I keep hearing about...
Posted by: lin-duh

I noticed that too. No plastic cups for CBD.

Posted by: Tuna at May 25, 2025 03:34 PM (lJ0H4)

190 Real glass too, you are one of those bourgeois I keep hearing about...
Posted by: lin-duh

I noticed that too. No plastic cups for CBD.

Posted by: Tuna at May 25, 2025 03:34 PM (lJ0H4)
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No drinking out of the bottle, either.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

191 She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.
Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

"Suit yourself, you deranged Commie slut."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:27 PM (VWiqT)

My rule of thumb under those circumstances is that I'd rather be b*tched at for action, than damned for inaction. One's mileage may vary.

Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 03:35 PM (rj6Yv)

192
Seasoning my Blackstone now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Is that what they're calling it now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2025 03:36 PM (63Dwl)

193 the breakfast, which may have been the worst example of scrambled eggs in the sordid history of aviation.
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6
Pfffft.

Posted by: U.S.A.F. Box Lunches at May 25, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)
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Not aviation but hospital scrambled eggs. In hospital that's the only way you get egg - no poached, fried, omelet, Hard-boiled, etc. It comes in teaspoon-sized lumps, very dry and bouncy. Obviously egg powder. I bet you won't find an eggshell in that kitchen.

Lack salt. I see you have heart and high BP problems so you go on a low sodium diet - never mind that you came in with almost lethally low blood volume, a BP of 70/40, we gave you a gazillion pints of intravenous saline as well as meds to raise your BP. Also 'salt causes nigh BP' was debunked about 10 years ago when a group of medical researchers looked through the literature and couldn't find a single paper on the subject. It is like the 6-foot rule, completely made up.

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of Y front flags at May 25, 2025 03:36 PM (sPQoU)

194 "Knock yourself out Bitch", works too.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:37 PM (QB+5g)

195 A few years back I was doing physical therapy at a local gym. I arrived for my session but realized I'd forgotten my gym shorts to change into. I fessed up to the therapist who then provided a pair for me to wear for the appointment.

After I changed and re-emerged from the locker room I told the therapist "I also forgot my bourbon."

It was worth a try.

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (t+VLa)

196 >>She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.

When I was moving back home from PR, my dive shop threw me a going away party at the airport. Naturally, there was rum. A lot of rum. I was really looking forward to getting home, I had a bunch of friends in Boston waiting for my plane to go out and drink more. Rum.

I got on the plane and put my headphones on and listening to music and was quite possibly the happiest guy in the world. And then I made the mistake of making eye contact with a nice older woman who was sobbing and being helped to her seat by a stewardess. Next thing I knew she left her seat and asked if she could sit next to me. Since I didn't technically own the plane what else could I say?

The reason she was crying was because her husband was also on the flight. In cargo. In a casket. He had a heart attack and died on their first vacation ever and he had just retired. She held my hand for 3 1/2 hours and cried and told me everything.

Never make eye contact.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

197 Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 03:35 PM (rj6Yv)

That's very nice and rather brave of you. I think the majority of women would still be nice about it, but the rude ones probably make men think twice. Instead of snapping back at them, one could probably say (in respect to helping others with baggage) " O.k I hope we all have a good flight and blessings on your trip wherever you are going." Kill em with kindness 😉

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:40 PM (jS2uh)

198 : JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

And you obviously helped her even if you don't ever have eye contact on a plane again. LOL

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jS2uh)

199 Also 'salt causes high BP' was debunked about 10 years ago when a group of medical researchers looked through the literature and couldn't find a single paper on the subject.
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I've never understood that claim. A central theme of physiology is homeostasis - of temperature, blood oxygenation, blood osmotic strength, blood pH, etc. The kidneys function in no small measure is to maintain the osmolarity of the blood. We've all experienced it: ingest a lot of salt, pee out a lot of salt. Ingest a lot of water, pee out a lot of water.

So how does salt increase blood pressure?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

200 I just asked my cat Jasmine to go clean up my kitchen for me and all I get is a lot of sass and backtalk from her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2025 03:42 PM (GlyvH)

201 After a two week camping trip through the Idaho panhandle and NW Montana, I'm busy replacing the factory kitchen sink faucet in the camp trailer with a real residential faucet. On day one the faucet stopped working. I'm told there is a plastic check valve internal to the faucet and they tend to break frequently. Chinese crap.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 25, 2025 03:43 PM (/U5Yz)

202 "The current business plan of United Airlines seems to be: "Sh*t on most of our customers while maximizing revenue and doubling down on Woke idiocy."

Literally every corporation tho

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 25, 2025 03:43 PM (boCAr)

203 A better airline would have given you scotch.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2025 02:07 PM (W/lyH)

Animal.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 25, 2025 03:43 PM (L5An7)

204 Certainly a first world problem or at least annoyance. I use YT a lot, mostly for matters about literature, music, hobby stuff, and history. I've noticed an increasing number of channels that use silly or astonished faces, misleading titles, or some other attention getting scam in the thumbnail to get people to go to the channel. It's what I call the growth of the 'click bait' culture and I don't like it.

It's in the same category as TV and radio ads where the announcer is always yelling. Supposed to get attention. What it gets is my irritation and a decision to avoid the product or service being advertised.

Posted by: JTB at May 25, 2025 03:44 PM (yTvNw)

205 "Never make eye contact."

Oh, Gawd!

I remember seeing a casket being loaded into an airliner at Hartsfield. It was in plain (ha) view of the passenger loading area and you could tell it was disturbing a number of people.

They left it in the sun for a long time.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:44 PM (QB+5g)

206 The reason she was crying was because her husband was also on the flight. In cargo. In a casket. He had a heart attack and died on their first vacation ever and he had just retired. She held my hand for 3 1/2 hours and cried and told me everything.

Never make eye contact.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

If you were able to comfort her, you were doing the Lord's work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:44 PM (ESTMH)

207 JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

And you obviously helped her even if you don't ever have eye contact on a plane again. LOL

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jS2uh)
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That was very decent of you, Jack. (tips hat)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

208 Because I would think a woman who gave a nasty response about help with baggage on a plane is either having a really bad day -week , month or had a bad marriage and is taking out on all men.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:45 PM (jS2uh)

209 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:44 PM (ESTMH)

Amen!

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (jS2uh)

210 "Kill em with kindness "

Typical passive-aggressive behavior.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (QB+5g)

211 JackStraw, you were there for someone in tremendous pain. I bet she remembered the kind man who held her hand, didn't push her away, for the rest of her life, and if she is still alive, would thank you profusely for that act of true charity.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (NcvvS)

212 Never make eye contact.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM
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Should've offered her some rum

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (t+VLa)

213 >>And you obviously helped her even if you don't ever have eye contact on a plane again. LOL

She was a very sweet woman. I couldn't believe what she had been through.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:47 PM (viF8m)

214 Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (QB+5g)

LOL.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:47 PM (jS2uh)

215 She held my hand for 3 1/2 hours and cried and told me everything.

Never make eye contact.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

But did she have a nice rack? That's not eye contact!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:47 PM (L5An7)

216 Because I would think a woman who gave a nasty response about help with baggage on a plane is either having a really bad day -week , month or had a bad marriage and is taking out on all men.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:45 PM (jS2uh)
_______________

At Berkeley in the 70s none of those causes obtained. Feminists went out of their way to give men - all men, well, all white men - a hard time with insults and whining about their victimhood and oppression by men. I had many one and done dates there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

217 CBD is flying Untied Airlines. Sounds like a return to the USA.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (VNX3d)

Other direction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (L5An7)

218 Almost ever message or call to the company suppy guy I try and slip in a bottle of scotch.

I need 3 bundles of 10 font studs, 1 bundle of track, box of drywall screws and a bottle of scotch, and 1 tube of PL glue

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (ypFCm)

219 remember seeing a casket being loaded into an airliner at Hartsfield. It was in plain (ha) view of the passenger loading area and you could tell it was disturbing a number of people.

They left it in the sun for a long time.
Posted by: pawn

Baggage handlers are the last people that should be touching a casket.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (CxjWe)

220 Because I would think a woman who gave a nasty response about help with baggage on a plane is either having a really bad day -week , month or had a bad marriage and is taking out on all men.
Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:45 PM (jS2uh)

Meh. The T-shirt and the attitude tells me she was spoiling for a fight.

Another suggested response, "you know, I doubt a turkey baster will be much use in getting that bag into the overhead."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (ESTMH)

221 Hasn't worked yey

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (ypFCm)

222 FWP - I'm spongeing off my mom's Netflix account. She only has it for the Lincoln Lawyer, so she shared her account with me.

But at least weekly, if not more than that, it says I don't have access to the account. I could be watching it, turn it off for awhile, come back only hours later and try to get into Netflix and it will give me that message.

I think they are f'ing with me and trying to get me to pay for my own account.

Not today Netflix! Oh, and fuck you too Netflix.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (144I4)

223 Some Karen is complaining that she was halfway across the country for work and was going to miss her kid's preschool graduation.

I know "graduating" from preschool is now a thing, but wtf? When I was growing up, people who sent their kinds to kindergarten were generally considered to be putting on airs.

Posted by: Paco at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (mADJX)

224 I haven't been on a plane since 2014, when I traveled to LA. Non-stop each way, and quite nice. But I'm still disgusted by the stories of the flight attendants' dictatorial ways about face diapers between 2020 and, what was it, 2023? And now the reports of poor (DEI) piloting and apparent lack of maintenance make me even warier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (omVj0)

225 If I can make someone I'm dealing with smile or laugh, I will because it makes me feel good. I'm selfish that way...

Posted by: ObeliskToucher at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (m/YrU)

226 CBD is flying Untied Airlines. Sounds like a return to the USA.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 25, 2025 02:04 PM (VNX3d)

Other direction.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (L5An7)

Back to the USSR?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 25, 2025 03:50 PM (VNX3d)

227 Another suggested response, "you know, I doubt a turkey baster will be much use in getting that bag into the overhead."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (ESTMH)
________________

"Maybe your cats can help."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

228 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

Well, then that was the utter stupidity and mean spiritedness of the early feminist movement on campus . I would describe my mother as a sort of feminist and she was raising a family alone and she never talked like that.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:50 PM (jS2uh)

229 Yeah... F'n United Airwhines... they owe me about $40K from their bankruptcy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 25, 2025 03:51 PM (mP0Kj)

230 Some Karen is complaining that she was halfway across the country for work and was going to miss her kid's preschool graduation.

I know "graduating" from preschool is now a thing, but wtf? When I was growing up, people who sent their kinds to kindergarten were generally considered to be putting on airs.

Posted by: Paco at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (mADJX)
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Should make the whole thing a total farce by playing "Land of Hope and Glory" during the procession.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

231 Posted by: ObeliskToucher at May 25, 2025 03:49 PM (m/YrU)

Did you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque ( ?) because you may not belong on this thread

J/K good for you!

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:52 PM (jS2uh)

232 >>But did she have a nice rack? That's not eye contact!

You French people only think about one thing.

She was old enough to be my grandmother you pervert.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)

233 Well, then that was the utter stupidity and mean spiritedness of the early feminist movement on campus . I would describe my mother as a sort of feminist and she was raising a family alone and she never talked like that.
Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025

***
Same with my mother, Fen. Oh, Dad was around, and contributed money and took us kids out on weekends, but it was mostly Mom.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 25, 2025 03:52 PM (omVj0)

234 Well, then that was the utter stupidity and mean spiritedness of the early feminist movement on campus . I would describe my mother as a sort of feminist and she was raising a family alone and she never talked like that.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:50 PM (jS2uh)
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It was, Fen. Mean-spirited is the perfect description. It was kind of like some blacks complaining about whites: trying to outdo each other in their (what would now be called) "wokeness."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

235 That's very nice and rather brave of you. I think the majority of women would still be nice about it, but the rude ones probably make men think twice. Instead of snapping back at them, one could probably say (in respect to helping others with baggage) " O.k I hope we all have a good flight and blessings on your trip wherever you are going." Kill em with kindness 😉
Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:40 PM (jS2uh)

That reminds me of a little story I've told before. When I was about 14 years old, Mom and Dad pulled into a diner where all 9 of us jumped out of the station wagon, hungry as wolves. Management pulled some tables together and reset the place settings. As our food arrived, Dad started the meal prayer "Bless us O Lord, and these, thy gifts ..." with our heads bowed and hands grasped, those words were like pistol shots in the room. After the dinner, Dad got up to pay the bill. The gal at the register said that it had already been taken care of, nodding to two elderly ladies that were seated near us. They smiled at Dad, he smiled back and did a little bow. A formative moment for me.

Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 03:54 PM (rj6Yv)

236 "LOL.
Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:47 PM (jS2uh)"

Even more PA. Your a riot.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:54 PM (QB+5g)

237 She was old enough to be my grandmother you pervert.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)

I'm in Paris...there are some hot grandmothers here!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:55 PM (L5An7)

238 I'm in Paris...there are some hot grandmothers here!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:55 PM (L5An7)
________________

Is that you, Emanuel Macron?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

239 "Other direction.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:48 PM (L5An7)"

I'm guessing ITALY!!!!

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:56 PM (QB+5g)

240 So how does salt increase blood pressure?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

Kidneys can’t excrete salt all at once. It causes the body to retain water and tissues to swell up, impairing blood flow.

I’ve experienced this first hand. If I eat a salty meal my weight the next morning might be 3 lbs heavier than normal. I’ll even feel bloated until I sweat or pee it out.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 25, 2025 03:56 PM (l3YAf)

241 >>I'm in Paris...there are some hot grandmothers here!

See? This is what I'm talking about.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 25, 2025 03:57 PM (viF8m)

242 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

I'm sorry .Could it be exceptionsl mean spiritedness at Berkeley , which is an odd place because my mother was a professor at a college in the seventies and I don't remember this kind of vitriol on feminism.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:57 PM (j3E0V)

243 Is that you, Emanuel Macron?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

Touch�!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...typical Moron animal at May 25, 2025 03:58 PM (L5An7)

244 Time to get back to the salt mines.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2025 03:59 PM (ESTMH)

245 Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:54 PM (QB+5g)

I'm not sure how "Kill with kindness" is passive aggressive. It was a joke.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:00 PM (j3E0V)

246 Time for me to shave and take a shower!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 25, 2025 04:00 PM (omVj0)

247 Posted by: mrp at May 25, 2025 03:54 PM (rj6Yv

What a nice story. Thanks!

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:01 PM (j3E0V)

248 NOOD Pig and Salt!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 25, 2025 04:01 PM (/HDaX)

249 Wow.... the Indy 500 turned into a real cluster. 1/3 of the field has crashed out, or had issues. Rossi had a fire in the pits that looked, less than optimal. Fueler was behind the wall, on the ground, on fire.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 25, 2025 04:01 PM (Q4IgG)

250 I'm sorry .Could it be exceptionsl mean spiritedness at Berkeley , which is an odd place because my mother was a professor at a college in the seventies and I don't remember this kind of vitriol on feminism.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 03:57 PM (j3E0V)
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I believe that. Everything is worse at Berkeley. Bear in mind that Patty Hearst was kidnapped two streets over from where I lived, and that the British Leyland lot, the PG&E substation, and the Bank of America had all been pipe-bombed while I lived there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

251 "I'm not sure how "Kill with kindness" is passive aggressive. It was a joke."

Tripling down. You are amazing.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 04:02 PM (QB+5g)

252 I've worked as a typist in a typing pool, and cleaned rest rooms, and cut the grass in a cemetery. Now I'm enjoying a comfortable retirement thanks to my work in the computer industry; but God forbid that I should ever get snotty with someone else who's doing service work: if not for a few lucky breaks, that person could well be me. A pleasant "please" and "thank you" costs me nothing and helps to make their workday a little less crappy.

Posted by: Nemo at May 25, 2025 04:05 PM (4RPgu)

253 Kill em with kindness "

Typical passive-aggressive behavior.
Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2025 03:46 PM (QB+5g)

Kill 'em with strangulation.

Posted by: Much more efficient at May 25, 2025 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

254 Bourbon. Part of a balanced breakfast!

Which came first, the bourbon or the eggs?

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 25, 2025 04:06 PM (X+xvk)

255 100?

Questioned Grok with 3 related questions and statements.
1. How does the covid -19 shot change human gnome?

2. The mRNA does not enter the cell nucleus, where DNA is stored, and it degrades quickly after translation... This is incorrect. mRNA is found in the body years after insertion.

3.The mRNA does not enter the cell nucleus, where DNA is stored, and it degrades quickly after translation into protein.... Then; Why is it causing so many cancers and myocardial infarction?

It reads like propaganda. Here is the whole thing.
https://tinyurl.com/27ps5ahv

Musk should see Grok's response.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 25, 2025 04:06 PM (yRJGL)

256 Posted by: pawn at May 25,

Ok. I hope you have a nice rest of the day.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:06 PM (ZTvil)

257 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

Wow; I'm sorry. I'm so glad you made it out ok.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:08 PM (ZTvil)

258 osted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

Wow; I'm sorry. I'm so glad you made it out ok.

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:08 PM (ZTvil)
_________________

I was in my 20s, and actually found it kind of exciting in a perverse way. There was always something going on. And then there was time I ended up looking down the muzzle of an Alameda County sheriff's shotgun ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

259 The YT problem I have is that I'm getting AI stuff put on my feed. Lots of YTers are open about losing money and having to report channels stealing their stuff. I just saw my first AI-generated images with a voiceover stolen from a YTer.

I had a FWP and gardening problem this week: finding an affordable new-to-me car and a quote for taking down a medium-huge tree.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 25, 2025 04:13 PM (YOP87)

260 by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

Well, I have heard that about Berkeley- always something going on. You should write a book!

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:16 PM (EJtBU)

261
Should make the whole thing a total farce by playing "Land of Hope and Glory" during the procession.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

It could be "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2025 04:17 PM (63Dwl)

262 It reads like propaganda. Here is the whole thing.

Because these consumer grade chat systems don't think, they are probability engines that are only as good as the wealth, quality, volume and credentials of the sources it loots for its "knowledge base".

If it consumes mostly from fools, then assume a foolish answer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 25, 2025 04:17 PM (a4flb)

263 Well, I have heard that about Berkeley- always something going on. You should write a book!

Posted by: I'm FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2025 04:16 PM (EJtBU)
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LOL.

No one (who wasn't there) would believe it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 25, 2025 04:18 PM (YqDXo)

264 147
Dick move.
Posted by: Bum tiss

Frankly!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2025 03:03 PM (h4ZTV)
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A banger eh!

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of bits everywhere at May 25, 2025 04:18 PM (sPQoU)

265 80 While I agree with the sentiment, one time I was on a flight when a young lady wearing a "All Refugees Welcome" t-shirt was struggling to place her carry-on bag in the overhead bin. Since she was directly across from me, I got up and offered to help her. She looked at and said "I didn't ask you for your help. I don't need a man to help me." So I sat back down, and vowed never again. Sorry, but now I'll never offer help again. I don't need that crap when all I'm trying to do is help.
Posted by: Theoden at May 25, 2025 02:30 PM (4Ymiq)

She seems nice.

Posted by: m at May 25, 2025 04:21 PM (CQE5S)

266 "Kill em with kindness "

Typical passive-aggressive behavior.
Posted by: pawn

I have been formally accused of being "passive-aggressive" by a former boss in what I can guess was logged as a formal verbal reprimand... Best I can figure out I told everyone and their cousin that this guy was an incompetent POS and he was upset that I didn't say it to his face. See, "passive-aggressive".

He'd tell me to do do stupid shit, I'd pass it on, "The boss told me to do this stupid shit"... "See, told you it would not work..."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2025 04:31 PM (/lPRQ)

267 196
'The reason she was crying was because her husband was also on the flight. In cargo. In a casket. He had a heart attack and died on their first vacation ever and he had just retired. '

Thank you for not putting it in the overhead compartment.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 25, 2025 04:38 PM (3wi/L)

268 Hate United Airlines? Try British Airways to zero the scale. We fought a revolution to stop British Airways from standing on our collective neck. Thank God for mediocre airlines like United.

Posted by: Marooned at May 25, 2025 05:06 PM (kt8QE)

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