trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
It must get really boring being so.... boring all the time.
It’s Not Worth Showing Off
- Thread starter derg
- Start date
zmiller4
Well-Known Member
The Muslims I know, who are some of our best friends, and have educated our children, function way, way better in modern society than you appear to.
ERfly
Well-Known Member
Honestly, they were all very friendly and I was pretty amazing at the intricacy of the costumes!
My only real complaint was the 30-people-deep, 20+ minute wait for the elevators in the hotel, but that was a hotel problem, not theirs.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Obviously there are some real **** heads out there too, just like there are **** head westerners/Christians, but the Muslims I interacted with in various middle eastern countries (Jordan, Bahrain, UAE) were some of the friendliest people I've ever met. Quirky, or at least quirky to a westerner sometimes, but way more hospitable and generous than your average American bear. To your point of what they were taught as kids
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
I always wanted to head out to Canopus. They have a very good Outback. You used to also be able to get corndogs, until they banned trans-fats. Now the only place you can get them is Solaris. The good news is if you like food-on-a-stick, Solaris is your place.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Viewfromthewing picked this up.
Delta speed runner (whatever the hell that means). But the main problem is, the shirtless poser for his display pic.
Pathetic what is happening at airlines nowadays.
Delta speed runner (whatever the hell that means). But the main problem is, the shirtless poser for his display pic.
Pathetic what is happening at airlines nowadays.
For my 121 operation, that’s a good thing. But for a regular operation, don’t you just end up sitting and waiting for a gate at your destination?
WacoFan
Bigly
Living in a state that is being dominated by full-on Christian Taliban, at least political money buying the State House wise (look up Tim Dunn, Dan and Farris Wilks) I can say "Fundamentalist religious zealots" are all kind of similar and extremely bad.
Growing up, Dallas was always the epicenter of Texas Christo-facism. You could easily avoid North Texas and the rest was seriously pretty chill. Houston being the most Libertarian city in America, Austin being liberal, San Antonio a pleasant mix of everything, and everywhere else some mix in between. But JEEBUS...the entire state is dominated by fundamentalists now. It's a serious drag.
poser765
Well-Known Member
Furries and cosplay is a totally different set. I wouldn’t even call them a sub set of a larger group. As Derg pointed out, the motivations are wildly different.
As far as the overlap between cosplay and onlyfans… I think that is a bit more nuanced a thing. I’d wager that most people into cosplay aren’t into onlyfans. Probably quite a few into IG modeling, though. I’d also wager that most OFs that do cosplay aren’t really into cosplay. Their more into finding a niche to be exploited.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Unless that gate is open
My Christmas EWR flight took longer going to EWR than flying back to LA. Flight landed and blocked into LA 1:10 early. The gate was open.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Unless that gate is open
My Christmas EWR flight took longer going to EWR than flying back to LA. Flight landed and blocked into LA 1:10 early. The gate was open.
WTF you doin flying Christmas my man? Don't tell me 150% pay.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Well, holiday pay 5 hrs, x2. Dec 24-25 was the 2-day EWR so paid nearly 21.6 hrs. Plus, we aren’t Christian, so we don’t celebrate it.
I prioritize the last 5-6 days of Dec off and run that vacation Jan 1-7ish. So that’s how I get my ~2 weeks off to see family on the east coast.
Normally I always bid reserve and take a line that has the 5 days off as Dec 27-31 off. But this time I actually got a line that worked Dec 24-25 and was off the rest of the year.
Picked up Dec 26 day trip, Dec 27 movers, Dec 28 clean out and move out of townhome, and flew to east coast.
Time flew too fast, we are flying back to Cali today Monday.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Good operations aren't planned like that haha. Airlines and airports think very differently. In the ramp tower I did all the gates on concourses A/G at SFO plus some common use gates on the Delta and Virgin\Alaska terminal which were airport-owned. On the A-side, I took everyone's preferences into account but from there did what had to be done to plan the way I best could figure things WOULD happen, not how they COULD happen in a perfect world. In the winter, Asia flights arrived 1-2.5 hours early all the damn time. I didn't say "Oh well, park on time". I made sure they had a damn gate (when possible).
Last edited:
Murdoughnut
Well sized member
It's always awkward when I'm back home and people talk to me as if I'm looking for some way to move back. I'm not, and have to tip-toe around the whole "I don't want to raise my children here" subject when it comes up. Every friend from high school/college that I stayed up late with at night pondering philosophical concepts of justice, the universe, etc., now belongs to a McChurch and spends all of their time on social media both expressing how #blessed they are, and how #oppressed they are.
My area of NC has a large share of helpless east coast liberals, but not one of them cares where I am on Sunday morning, which I find delightful.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
That's an SFO thing. Most (many, some?) airports don't provide that flexibility. I've been told to slow down before heading eastbound when there won't be a gate available until our scheduled arrival time. Also, Customs can back up during busy times and you either get to park but not unload, or they just stick you in a remote stand until there is space for your passengers to go through.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Park but not unload for customs reasons is probably a thing everywhere. El Al would have to do that pretty much every day because they padded the crap out of their times and arrived well before dawn when customs was closed lol. That was my "grey area" fix sometimes too, if the only way to not ruin people's vacations was to mix international and domestic flights on a swing gate but not open the aircraft door for the pax while the jetway doors are either in intl or domestic mode. Gets the plane off the apron and into the gate where they can at least offload bags and stage the fueling and stuff running on ground power while the flight next door either finishes boarding or deboarding. Not technically breaking any rules as long as the correct doors are opened at the correct times, so I'd always ask whichever airline was more competent to make sure the less competent airline didn't cause a CBP meltdown LOL.
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Not always.
It was not abnormal for me to be standing in my apartment in MSP at my scheduled release time.
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Rather a pity, too; while I'd still rent out Texas and live in Hell if I owned both of those places, there are still corners of Texas I enjoy visiting. That enjoyment continues to be diminished by the actions of the Tex-arse state government, which is in need of some serious housecleaning in both the executive and legislative. (Like, how many times does Paxton have to be indicted here?)
arkflyr
Well-Known Member
Things have glacially moved back to that here in Denver as well now that ramp is more or less properly staffed. It’s been some time since I’ve had to wait on for a gate or a ramp crew.
WacoFan
Bigly
I consider moving - I've always liked New Mexico and consider that the next-best thing to Tex-Mex - but I'll be damned if I'm driven out of a place I love by a bunch of Tipper Gore's in cowboy boots (who grew up in Maryland - like Dan Patrick). EFF those guys. It'll change - Texas for the vast majority of its existence was ruled by Democrats. This GOP hegemony is really a blip in time.