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.
aren't there FAA rules on what they have to give you to bump you on a sold ticket
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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
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cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
I kinda like "stone". It just sounds so much more down to earth.
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've taken 400 bucks a free flight voucher and a thing of drink coupons to let myself be bumped, but I didn't have to be anywhere at a specific time so it was a sweet deal. I think I got a hotel room too.
I was mostly surprised that my luggage got there at the right time.
The best part of this whole situation is United is in super damage control mode and making it worse.
They're getting nasty on twitter and paying reddit mods to delete threads.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
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.
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yes when I roll my eyes at units, everyone is always like 'furlongs per fortnight', which may or may not actually be a dad joke, but is certainly something my dad will say as if it's funny.
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
Yeah, the things about it beyond the usual stupidity are:
Boarded before getting volunteers (meaning somebody will need to be removed).
Cops being dicks.
Possibly United having an incongruity between their overbooking practices and their employee standby policy, as four overbookings actually arriving is huge and could be explained by not interfacing properly with "we need employees moving."
Maybe them being too greedy about cheapo refunds instead of going to the federal cash minimum immediately.
So I missed out on the Harry Potter sex consent convo.
What if I drink Felix Felicis and spend the day with you and eventually "get lucky"
What then
Luck probably doesn't overpower human consent but it might make someone see you in a slightly better light than they might have normally. Leaves keep conveniently falling and blocking their vision of that weird blemish or something.
What if you drink it and someone has a heart attack resulting in you now getting a reward originally meant for them though? Your luck just nudged their clot a little or something.
Everyone in Harry Potter is a stone cold murderer is what I'm saying.
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.
aren't there FAA rules on what they have to give you to bump you on a sold ticket
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
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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
Which of the 5 types of pounds though? An avocado pound?
Also ounces are both volume and weight because y not :P
Even our own understanding of weight in stones is nebulous. If you ask a Briton to pile things up until they weight a stone they'll probably trying to get about half a leg's weight of stuff and then frown a lot because they don't use stones to measure anything except whole people. I can barely remember how many pounds are in a stone. I always think it's either 14 or 16, but can never decide which, and it never matters because you only really deal in weight by stones 'and a half', unless you are dieting I guess and then you will try and measure every micron you shed. I wouldn't know, he said thinly.
To lose 8 stone in a diet is basically like shedding an entire skinny person in weight.
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
Even more stupid: It's 14 pounds
In this case she lost 112 pounds
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What confuses me, and I can't find an explanation, is that there's a video of the passenger reboarding the plane looking really distraught but it's super short and doesn't show him sitting down and I can't figure out if he like shimmied away from the cops or after roughing him up they let him back on the plane and he flew?
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.
I ate an engineer
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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
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
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
have you tried flying with kids and getting priority boarding ahead of everyone that isn't a premier member
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What confuses me, and I can't find an explanation, is that there's a video of the passenger reboarding the plane looking really distraught but it's super short and doesn't show him sitting down and I can't figure out if he like shimmied away from the cops or after roughing him up they let him back on the plane and he flew?
Yeah.
They realized the shit they were in I think and tried to pretend like it never happened.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
Boarding Group C60? Ha!
*waltzes right in after the A group is done*
excuse me B and C plebes
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So I missed out on the Harry Potter sex consent convo.
What if I drink Felix Felicis and spend the day with you and eventually "get lucky"
What then
Luck probably doesn't overpower human consent but it might make someone see you in a slightly better light than they might have normally. Leaves keep conveniently falling and blocking their vision of that weird blemish or something.
What if you drink it and someone has a heart attack resulting in you now getting a reward originally meant for them though? Your luck just nudged their clot a little or something.
Everyone in Harry Potter is a stone cold murderer is what I'm saying.
Well, it's like the original version of Aladdin in Scheherazade's 1001 tales - Aladdin's wishes for riches? The genie is actually taking those items from others' homes and is not just conjuring it from nothing. Effectively, Aladdin is stealing others possessions. It's actually a brilliant story and is interesting because people don't usually think about conservation of matter when it comes to genies, magic, and luck.
Like if you find $100 on the street with no one around, it still belonged to someone at some point. Someone lost that. Your good fortune came at someone else's loss. Even if you didn't perpetrate that loss and cannot reasonably do anything to mitigate or resolve that loss, that loss still exists.
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.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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
have you tried flying with kids and getting priority boarding ahead of everyone that isn't a premier member
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
No it is a system that has worked its way down over the centuries that was based off of real and logical measurements. It is just out of time now.
From my experience of british culture stones are almost exclusively used to measure the weight of rugby players. It's strangely specific.
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
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.
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Typical American not knowing hot to make tea. You pour boiling water on to the bag.
Honestly.
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aren't there FAA rules on what they have to give you to bump you on a sold ticket
14 pounds = 1 stone
The best part of this whole situation is United is in super damage control mode and making it worse.
They're getting nasty on twitter and paying reddit mods to delete threads.
Whenever I go to Subway I order a furlong sub.
Yeah, the things about it beyond the usual stupidity are:
Boarded before getting volunteers (meaning somebody will need to be removed).
Cops being dicks.
Possibly United having an incongruity between their overbooking practices and their employee standby policy, as four overbookings actually arriving is huge and could be explained by not interfacing properly with "we need employees moving."
Maybe them being too greedy about cheapo refunds instead of going to the federal cash minimum immediately.
Luck probably doesn't overpower human consent but it might make someone see you in a slightly better light than they might have normally. Leaves keep conveniently falling and blocking their vision of that weird blemish or something.
What if you drink it and someone has a heart attack resulting in you now getting a reward originally meant for them though? Your luck just nudged their clot a little or something.
Everyone in Harry Potter is a stone cold murderer is what I'm saying.
This is what I want, Marvel, more of this.
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights
Involuntary Bumping is what you're looking for, it's basically "pay out the ass to get the person there on time if they have a schedule to keep"
It would've been better for them to just buy their employees tickets on another airline that doesn't get as many passengers, like Delta.
and i'm running away from some fucking giant that's going to kill me
and i look to my girlfriend and say, watch this
and i jump off a cliff
but instead of using my paraglider i accidentally hit R instead and throw my gaurdian sword off the cliff into the river
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I din't know people still bought those!
Also it totes did not connect.
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
Which of the 5 types of pounds though? An avocado pound?
Also ounces are both volume and weight because y not :P
To lose 8 stone in a diet is basically like shedding an entire skinny person in weight.
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I would definitely play or watch Thor: Blood Dragon
Even more stupid: It's 14 pounds
In this case she lost 112 pounds
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haha it's the wave machine all over again
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.
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
have you tried flying with kids and getting priority boarding ahead of everyone that isn't a premier member
Yeah.
They realized the shit they were in I think and tried to pretend like it never happened.
*waltzes right in after the A group is done*
excuse me B and C plebes
Well, it's like the original version of Aladdin in Scheherazade's 1001 tales - Aladdin's wishes for riches? The genie is actually taking those items from others' homes and is not just conjuring it from nothing. Effectively, Aladdin is stealing others possessions. It's actually a brilliant story and is interesting because people don't usually think about conservation of matter when it comes to genies, magic, and luck.
Like if you find $100 on the street with no one around, it still belonged to someone at some point. Someone lost that. Your good fortune came at someone else's loss. Even if you didn't perpetrate that loss and cannot reasonably do anything to mitigate or resolve that loss, that loss still exists.
$300+ the "legal requirement" is small potatoes compared to calling security and risk smashing someone's head into an arm rest tbh.
Twig for a boarding pass
No it is a system that has worked its way down over the centuries that was based off of real and logical measurements. It is just out of time now.
Shittier planes, shittier service, closer (BHM is southwest)
but somehow its more expensive then just going to ATL and flying Delta.