I just checked flights to Sydney from LAX on Google Flights for the vacation time I've already got scheduled at the beginning of next month. Cheapest round-trip flight is $1153 with the caveat that the flight there (with layovers etc) will take 32 hours and the flight back will take almost 25.
Cheapest ticket with a reasonable flight time (~18hrs each way) is $1258.
I'm glad I live near a major international airport on the west coast, because those tickets aren't craaaazy but they're still pretty expensive.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
$100 to save like an entire day of travel seems like a pretty good deal to me
$100 to save like an entire day of travel seems like a pretty good deal to me
Yeah, that difference is so small it seems like a no-brainer.
The cheapest non-stop is $1889, which saves 2-3 hours each way. I probably would opt for the $1200 flight, personally.
That crazy long but cheap flight layovers in Honolulu though, so that's not a bad spot to be, either. The return has a layover in Taiwan, also not bad.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
$100 to save like an entire day of travel seems like a pretty good deal to me
Yeah, that difference is so small it seems like a no-brainer.
The cheapest non-stop is $1889, which saves 2-3 hours each way. I probably would opt for the $1200 flight, personally.
That crazy long but cheap flight layovers in Honolulu though, so that's not a bad spot to be, either. The return has a layover in Taiwan, also not bad.
If it's a long enough layover to get out of the airport for a while that wouldn't be bad. If not, well, there's really nothing at all worthwhile in the Honolulu airport.
Dubai for some reason is the only country I'm actually boycotting. There are other countries I have no plans to go to, ever. Dubai is the only developed nation where I'd actively resist attempts to make me go there.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I'll go to Australia, all you have to do is make it not cost like two grand to fly there
How do you think WE feel?
Going to AusPAX (Perth-Melbourne) costs us ~$1200 in flights alone, which is why we're not going this year. I don't even want to think about how much flying to Seattle would cost to go to PAX Prime in September. Sure there's budget airlines doing packages for two for ~$3500, but I really don't want to spend 54 hours total travelling being stuffed into a variety of dinky little planes like Airbus A319s and having a 22 hour (!!) layover in Sydney...
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Dubai for some reason is the only country I'm actually boycotting. There are other countries I have no plans to go to, ever. Dubai is the only developed nation where I'd actively resist attempts to make me go there.
Probs all the slavery and migrant worker deaths, yeah?
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Dubai for some reason is the only country I'm actually boycotting. There are other countries I have no plans to go to, ever. Dubai is the only developed nation where I'd actively resist attempts to make me go there.
Dubai for some reason is the only country I'm actually boycotting. There are other countries I have no plans to go to, ever. Dubai is the only developed nation where I'd actively resist attempts to make me go there.
Dubai for some reason is the only country I'm actually boycotting. There are other countries I have no plans to go to, ever. Dubai is the only developed nation where I'd actively resist attempts to make me go there.
(Dubai is a city, not a country)
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY
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AtomicTofuShe's a straight-up supervillain, yoRegistered Userregular
I think if you had told me, ten years ago, that Keanu Reeves would actually be able to pull of the inscrutable weirdo/secret genius thing, I'd have thought you were an idiot
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
No man's land is going to hold up as an all-time great superhero scene. I don't know about the rest of the movie, outside of Pine and Gadot's performances
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My wife was in tears watching that scene, and couldn't figure out why. She didn't mention it to anyone for a while because she thought she was just being weird. But eventually she discovered that many many women had had the same reaction. I still don't know the whole of it (probably never will), but the bit I could grasp was that it was the first time that a lot of people got a chance to see a woman (and by extension themselves) in that type of role in that type of scene, without hedging or male gaze or a hundred other little things that male viewers like me take for granted. I probably had a "first" scene like that but when I was like, four years old. My wife didn't get one until she was thirty-one. I have to think a lot more about how it's different from other movies (it's not like there have never been heroic female protagonists before), but whether I understand it or not, the emotional impact can't be denied.
(aside: I'd had a casually positive opinion of Chris Pine before seeing WW, and he blew me away. I think the role was a lot more difficult to fill than it first appeared, and he did it perfectly. His face in the plane still gets me.)
Keanu Reeves is on the short list of people I would gush at for literally an hour about all the shit he’s done that’s dope that ain’t even movies.
Patrick Stewart is also on the list.
Serious, just an hour of “remember that one time you funded and spoke out for prevention of domestic violence against women for like your whole life?” and “remember the time you met Sonny Chiba?”.
Just informing Keanu Reeves "remember when you were so loyal to your Matrix stuntmen that you insisted they direct John Wick and made them into major players in Hollywood"
It’s one thing to ask audiences to suspend belief for this fairy tale, and it’s a whole other thing to ask them to consider for one moment that an otherwise sane woman would be so desperate as to fall for a creature who can’t even survive on dry land--not when there are actual men in this town.
It’s one thing to ask audiences to suspend belief for this fairy tale, and it’s a whole other thing to ask them to consider for one moment that an otherwise sane woman would be so desperate as to fall for a creature who can’t even survive on dry land--not when there are actual men in this town.
Wait just a goshdarned second, I think that movie might be some kind of metaphor!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I sure hope not. I'm buying a ticket for someone literally fucking a fish monster. If it's all some kind of metaphor I'm not sure my boner will understand.
Those Danny McBride Dundee trailers have been determined by an Australian newspaper to be leading into a Super Bowl Ad, but not for Mountain Dew. It's by the Australian Tourism Board.
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
It’s one thing to ask audiences to suspend belief for this fairy tale, and it’s a whole other thing to ask them to consider for one moment that an otherwise sane woman would be so desperate as to fall for a creature who can’t even survive on dry land--not when there are actual men in this town.
The bullet points say that the problem is that the romance is too male gazey and I just rolled my eyes so hard that I shit my pants
It's not male gazey, nah
My problem with the romance-- movie spoilers here, don't click if you haven't seen it
--was that it was a bit unclear to what extent Fishdude was ......... able to consent?
They play up how he's unable to comprehend his situation a couple times and how he's acting on instinct, such as in the kitty chomp scene. Which raises some questions for me as to what his relationship to Elisa can be, how he views it, and whether Elisa is taking advantage of him or not.
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Cheapest ticket with a reasonable flight time (~18hrs each way) is $1258.
I'm glad I live near a major international airport on the west coast, because those tickets aren't craaaazy but they're still pretty expensive.
Yeah, that difference is so small it seems like a no-brainer.
The cheapest non-stop is $1889, which saves 2-3 hours each way. I probably would opt for the $1200 flight, personally.
That crazy long but cheap flight layovers in Honolulu though, so that's not a bad spot to be, either. The return has a layover in Taiwan, also not bad.
If it's a long enough layover to get out of the airport for a while that wouldn't be bad. If not, well, there's really nothing at all worthwhile in the Honolulu airport.
I'm now keenly aware of the income/saving discrepancy between them and I.
A person I have known for years from WOW and diablo from the land of OZ went to Hawaii two years ago and made fun of how cheap it was :rotate:
PSN- AHermano
Yep
How do you think WE feel?
Going to AusPAX (Perth-Melbourne) costs us ~$1200 in flights alone, which is why we're not going this year. I don't even want to think about how much flying to Seattle would cost to go to PAX Prime in September. Sure there's budget airlines doing packages for two for ~$3500, but I really don't want to spend 54 hours total travelling being stuffed into a variety of dinky little planes like Airbus A319s and having a 22 hour (!!) layover in Sydney...
Probs all the slavery and migrant worker deaths, yeah?
Same but also Qatar for me also.
I feel like I'd just be out a ton of money and probably end up not doing much really
All my "vacations" are like "I'm just gonna go to the beach and movies and play games and not work"
You could say I need a vacation
from
my
vacation
(the price you have to pay is taking your kids in airports and on planes in the first place)
She was pissed that she couldn't call the ending exactly halfway through the movie
(Dubai is a city, not a country)
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY
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I think if you had told me, ten years ago, that Keanu Reeves would actually be able to pull of the inscrutable weirdo/secret genius thing, I'd have thought you were an idiot
Also, yeah, he actually does own a motorcycle company.
That scene still makes me cry.
And Chris Pine is magnificent.
Patrick Stewart is also on the list.
Serious, just an hour of “remember that one time you funded and spoke out for prevention of domestic violence against women for like your whole life?” and “remember the time you met Sonny Chiba?”.
Ahahahaha
Yes because all of the men in the movie are just
So
So good
It's not male gazey, nah
My problem with the romance-- movie spoilers here, don't click if you haven't seen it
They play up how he's unable to comprehend his situation a couple times and how he's acting on instinct, such as in the kitty chomp scene. Which raises some questions for me as to what his relationship to Elisa can be, how he views it, and whether Elisa is taking advantage of him or not.
I dunno, maybe it's just me.