wow that united airlines incident is crazy. When I first started reading about it I thought "well yeah they oversell. It's dumb but if they tell you you're not flying you're probably not flying"
THEN I saw the video of the dude being fucking assaulted for..refusing to move? Right or wrong and I was like "wait..he was on the plane already?"
So..they boarded the plane before getting their volunteers or making people give up their seats...
oh and it turns out they were making room for united employees. Hmm... HMMMMMMM.
And united being horrible is completely separate from the dude being assaulted by aircops
they didn't even oversell/overbook that flight
they wanted to have 4 employees travel to the next hub
someone I guess offered to give up their seat for $1600 when they were being offered $800 and was laughed at by the manager
I can't wait to see united eat shit for this whole thing.
I mean tbf they are only legally required to pay 1300 so while laughing is stupid, the manager was correct that there's no way he was gonna get $1600 bucks.
$300+ the "legal requirement" is small potatoes compared to calling security and risk smashing someone's head into an arm rest tbh.
I mean that's why you don't let them board first, which was phenomenally stupid, but if they were still at the gate it'd be perfectly reasonable to decline a counteroffer like that.
Since they were boarded though, yeah, I guess taking what you can get is better.
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This tweet is tasteless and smacks of someone overplaying their breeder privilege card:
I board in zone 4 with the rest of the Delta Humans
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I don't get Southwest.
Shittier planes, shittier service, closer (BHM is southwest)
but somehow its more expensive then just going to ATL and flying Delta.
it's almost always the cheapest option for us, even before you factor in checked baggage fees, but Midway is a major hub
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british tabloids are always like "SHE LOST 8 STONE" next to a photo of a lady in a dress smiling.
wait, is that a lot? i honestly do not know. it sounds like an imperial measure so it's probably somethis really stupid like 12 or 16 pounds but i refuse to learn because I need less of that shit in my head, not more
14 pounds = 1 stone
Are there really 16 ounces in a pound and 14 pounds in a stone and 160 stones in a ton?
this is not a measurement system, it is systematic trolling
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
wow that united airlines incident is crazy. When I first started reading about it I thought "well yeah they oversell. It's dumb but if they tell you you're not flying you're probably not flying"
THEN I saw the video of the dude being fucking assaulted for..refusing to move? Right or wrong and I was like "wait..he was on the plane already?"
So..they boarded the plane before getting their volunteers or making people give up their seats...
oh and it turns out they were making room for united employees. Hmm... HMMMMMMM.
And united being horrible is completely separate from the dude being assaulted by aircops
they didn't even oversell/overbook that flight
they wanted to have 4 employees travel to the next hub
someone I guess offered to give up their seat for $1600 when they were being offered $800 and was laughed at by the manager
I can't wait to see united eat shit for this whole thing.
I mean tbf they are only legally required to pay 1300 so while laughing is stupid, the manager was correct that there's no way he was gonna get $1600 bucks.
$300+ the "legal requirement" is small potatoes compared to calling security and risk smashing someone's head into an arm rest tbh.
I mean that's why you don't let them board first, which was phenomenally stupid, but if they were still at the gate it'd be perfectly reasonable to decline a counteroffer like that.
Since they were boarded though, yeah, I guess taking what you can get is better.
They should've just flown their employees with another airline tbh.
It would've been cheaper than paying nearly $6,000 for 4 people to get the max legal payout + meal/hotel vouchers (I'm not sure on the specifics of if they're required to pay those if they give out the $1400 checks).
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wow that united airlines incident is crazy. When I first started reading about it I thought "well yeah they oversell. It's dumb but if they tell you you're not flying you're probably not flying"
THEN I saw the video of the dude being fucking assaulted for..refusing to move? Right or wrong and I was like "wait..he was on the plane already?"
So..they boarded the plane before getting their volunteers or making people give up their seats...
oh and it turns out they were making room for united employees. Hmm... HMMMMMMM.
And united being horrible is completely separate from the dude being assaulted by aircops
they didn't even oversell/overbook that flight
they wanted to have 4 employees travel to the next hub
someone I guess offered to give up their seat for $1600 when they were being offered $800 and was laughed at by the manager
I can't wait to see united eat shit for this whole thing.
I mean tbf they are only legally required to pay 1300 so while laughing is stupid, the manager was correct that there's no way he was gonna get $1600 bucks.
$300+ the "legal requirement" is small potatoes compared to calling security and risk smashing someone's head into an arm rest tbh.
I mean that's why you don't let them board first, which was phenomenally stupid, but if they were still at the gate it'd be perfectly reasonable to decline a counteroffer like that.
Since they were boarded though, yeah, I guess taking what you can get is better.
I only smash people into armrests within the comfort of my home.
It is how the civilised world measures temperature.
*throws more tea in to the ocean*
Typical American not knowing hot to make tea. You pour boiling water on to the bag.
Honestly.
Why the Fuck would you burn tea like that?
You generally want just below full boilling water for tea, otherwise you burn it and ruin the flavor.
No.
From what I've read, while it's not true that boiling water "burns" tea, it seems the hotter the water the more the bolder/bitter flavors come out whereas the further away you move from boiling the more delicate/sweeter the flavor
It is how the civilised world measures temperature.
*throws more tea in to the ocean*
Typical American not knowing hot to make tea. You pour boiling water on to the bag.
Honestly.
Why the Fuck would you burn tea like that?
You generally want just below full boilling water for tea, otherwise you burn it and ruin the flavor.
No.
From what I've read, while it's not true that boiling water "burns" tea, it seems the hotter the water the more the bolder/bitter flavors come out whereas the further away you move from boiling the more delicate/sweeter the flavor
So
as usual both of you are "wrong" and I am right
Drinking tea is wrong, so all three of you are wrong.
There's no right way to make tea.
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I p much only fly Southwest these days. United and American have been terrible at times. JetBlue is great but doesn't really serve Chicago much I guess.
But the cattle car boarding thing with Sourhwest x_x
I will cling to assigned seating and non-self-driving cars as a decrepit old codger being recycled into soylent
I never understood this; I guess with other airlines I was able to sit until my group had pretty much fully boarded and then get in line, but you can wait until your section is about to start boarding with Southwest and the difference in time spent standing is probably around two minutes, if that.
But then I also get unreasonably irritated with the amorphous mass of people that starts forming using the "normal" boarding method, where you have no idea if anyone is actually in line or getting ready for their section, the last one, during the special pre-pre-quantum-boarding period.
All I know is that in all this measurement system talk there's one fact no one is bringing up
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I mean that's why you don't let them board first, which was phenomenally stupid, but if they were still at the gate it'd be perfectly reasonable to decline a counteroffer like that.
Since they were boarded though, yeah, I guess taking what you can get is better.
but then this reply
I board in zone 4 with the rest of the Delta Humans
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
it's almost always the cheapest option for us, even before you factor in checked baggage fees, but Midway is a major hub
I once had to do some calculations in imperial.
It is 100% absolutely a prank.
Imperial is clownshoes garbage.
Why the Fuck would you burn tea like that?
You generally want just below full boilling water for tea, otherwise you burn it and ruin the flavor.
lol I hate it when people that play that card
p sure having 3 kids is a choice nitwit
is it though?
is it?
is it?
you can say no shark
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
They should've just flown their employees with another airline tbh.
It would've been cheaper than paying nearly $6,000 for 4 people to get the max legal payout + meal/hotel vouchers (I'm not sure on the specifics of if they're required to pay those if they give out the $1400 checks).
No.
Oh shit
Two Farthings = a Ha'penny
Two Ha'pennies = A Penny
Twelve pence = a Shilling
Twenty Shillings = a Pound
And people didn't want to decimalise because it would be too complicated.
Nobody that isn't a meteorologist says that. We say 27.
There's a mnemonic device for metric?
Yeah but how many galleons per pounds?
I only smash people into armrests within the comfort of my home.
Then insert the tea bag to steep
I'd give up my seat if they paid me a million dollars and gave me a free ticket for the rest of my life.
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are you betting win/loss or the spread
there are 16 games certain weeks
you'd get about $300k betting the spread
a bit less betting win/loss assuming you always bet the favored team
I don't make tea.
A little to salttea.
probably win/loss
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From what I've read, while it's not true that boiling water "burns" tea, it seems the hotter the water the more the bolder/bitter flavors come out whereas the further away you move from boiling the more delicate/sweeter the flavor
So
as usual both of you are "wrong" and I am right
Even meteorologists don't add decimals to temperature because it's fucking meaningless granularity for basically any practical purpose.
I'm trying to decide how I feel about this and I can't
you cannot burn something with water
you can scald it, maybe
but you cannot burn it
Drinking tea is wrong, so all three of you are wrong.
There's no right way to make tea.
But then I also get unreasonably irritated with the amorphous mass of people that starts forming using the "normal" boarding method, where you have no idea if anyone is actually in line or getting ready for their section, the last one, during the special pre-pre-quantum-boarding period.
What if the water is on fire
lolol
gg reddit
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