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McCroskey

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  1. 9 minutes ago, tejas60 said:

    okay, look. I've eaten Tennessee bbq. I've eaten South Carolina bbq. and having done that, no way in hell I'm eating Alabama bbq.

    That's a mistake tbh.  Some of it like Dreamland is pretty cliche but there are several places that are as good or better than anywhere else.

  2. This thread has caused me to sign up for AMC+ and I’m now going through my favorite episodes.

    Roger losing Lucky Strike.

    Merger with PPL.

    Pete losing Vicks after catching his FIL at the whore house.

    The Chevy pitch.


    Love this show.

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  3. A common frustrating position is not having any cash for a tip, for example for a valet driver or a airport shuttle driver. A $5 tip for each is fine, IMHO.  The problem is, I almost never have $5 with me. It’s an awkward exchange to give a 20 and ask for money back. 
    As to the airport shuttle guys, almost nobody tips them. I actually end up tipping a lot more sometimes if I notice that the ungrateful schmucks in front of me haven’t tipped at all. 

    I’ve had this happen to me too and I’ve started stashing $1 and $5 bills in the center consoles of both our vehicles…and then try like hell to remember when I park at the airport to throw at least $10-20 in small bills to cover the shuttle drivers and/or valets…at least for the first couple legs to give me time to have the hotel break a larger bill.
  4. I noticed at the new Moody Center they have kiosks where you grab a cold beer out of a fridge and self-checkout with a credit card. There's one security guard there making sure no one steals anything. When you go to pay the machine asks how much of a tip you want to leave. Fucking ridiculous. 
     

    My rule of thumb on those machines is:

    If nobody is there, no tip.

    If someone is there doing something for me, at any level, I ask them if they personally get the tips. If they say yes, I leave a commensurate amount depending on what I’m buying or where I’m at.

    Other rules of thumb:

    Bartenders at my regular places get tipped more. As said previously, “how quickly do you want your next beer.” It’s nice showing up on a busy Friday night and they make your drink and hand to you and leave other people puzzled who have been standing there 5 mins or more.

    Restaraunts/Bars where you hang out for a while? Tip based on the expected turn rates and average tabs for the table. So if you sit at a table for 3 hours and prevented the waitress from serving three separate groups in that time, don’t be a dick and tip her maybe 3x. Sometimes even giving a $20 upfront and telling them you’ll be hanging out a while can go a long way.
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  5. When Jerry runs off Dr. Sitarides from Krugers office, Kramer is there in his Butchers coat watching in a certain manner of disbelief, Kruger walks up and says "Heyyy, George...heyyy, Doc...we doing the screening in here?"

    And then they just roll into it.  

    This show has more than most but this scene in particular is just as good as sitcom TV can get for me.

     

     

  6. So did the thing get pinched in like a hand crushing the middle of a soda can or flattened like a foot stepping on the end of a soda can?  I read that the tube pieces were bunched up inside one of the domes so I am going with crushed end to end like being stepped on.  

    I would say something in between either of these versions.

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  7. 16 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    For the uninitiated (including me), the jet had reached 98 knots, or ~110 mph. 

    Yep, maybe even closer to 105 knots upon closer inspection of the data.  V1 for that type I believe is around 120knots minimum...but can be as high as 140knots depending on conditions.  

  8. Well, OP has a right to be pissed as fuck about what happened last week.

    His daughter’s flight (Airbus A320) lined up and commenced takeoff from runway 26L in Atlanta and moments before it achieved V1, another Delta Airbus A350 (tail N504DN) being towed/ferried, temporarily crossed onto the same runway.

    From where I’m sitting it appears to be an ATC issue but there def needs to be an investigation into this. I would guess the tow driver is most likely at fault as I just can’t see two pilots taking off without clearance.

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  9. Anybody who has watched Die Hard 2 knows what the outer marker is.  
     
    AND are we ever gonna get this flight number or is this all just bulsh to cover a fucked up flight solution.  

    I quit asking. I’m genuinely curious how badly ATC fucked up.
  10. I was not pleased that she let them check her carryon that contained essential items. I bit my tongue because she was already stressed to the max, but I’ll let her know what she has undoubtedly already figured out herself. 

    I unfortunately see that a lot…the stressful situations get people flustered in the moment and they make decisions in a rush and are at the mercy of gate agents who might not care.

    As you say, she likely realizes it now, and that’s a good thing for next time.
  11. We asked for lower prices on tickets and got them via deregulation and debundling. Now we have “Greyhound in the air.” Careful what you wish for, you buy a basic ass ticket you’re going to get basic ass service. Guarantee if that kid was on a first class ticket they’d have figured it out.

    While 70% of this is on is the consumer, the other 30% is on the airlines. They are publicly traded and questing for quarterly results, so of course they are going to cut any corners they can to get there, including safety. That’s why all the major US carriers run their planes down to Guatemala for their regular maintenance. It’s kinda a miracle we haven’t had more major crashes in the US, but it’s a testament to our pilots’ skill and the product created by Boeing and Airbus. Unfortunately that’s rapidly declining as well.

    It will take a few hundred people dying in a crash, including kids, before Americans 1) get the politicians to legislate higher safety standards and 2) are willing to pay for it.


    Gonna go ahead and disagree with you there that the carriers are “cutting corners” on safety.

    As you allude to we’re at almost 23 years since the last mainline carrier had a “crash”…AA 587 if I recall correctly in October 2001. Some regional carriers had crashes between then and 2009 but there’s been nothing since then. Southwest of course had the incident in 2018/2019 were an uncontained engine failure caused that poor woman from New Mexico to die, but the plane obviously landed safely.

    IMO I wouldn’t say anything is in a state of “rapid decline” but certainly there are areas that need more attention, especially with air traffic volumes now exceeding pre-pandemic levels. Hopefully congress and/or the FAA get some improvements in place soon so we don’t have to experience a crash first.
  12. We were literally working on getting an AA flight through DFW when she texted that Delta was getting them on a flight through MSP. As I mentioned, Delta kept telling them they had a solution, then no solution. Eventually, we said fuck this shit, we’re going to try something else. I think the original connection was through O’Hare, but I may be mistaken. AA is an option I would like to avoid, especially if it involves connections.

    Post that flight number from Friday night when you can. I’m eager to see just how close things got. FR24 records everything so it’s easy to go back and look.
  13. You all using the Flighty app? Or FR24?

    Both are a requirement for me at this point. Flighty tracks for possible connection issues, follows your plane for the ~24 hours before your flight and knows shit when it’s filed and sometimes even before the airline staff even know.

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  14. That's what I did when I got stuck in Atlanta. I flew to New Orleans on Delta and then American to Austin, the next morning. This was when Delta said they couldn't get us back (near) home for another two days. Of course, I never did get reimbursed for the American flight.
    And it was pure BS. The connecting flight was cancelled mid-aid from Costa Rica - if it was cancelled earlier, I could have flown a different airlines. Delta said it was weather but the plane was in Arizona where it was 75 degrees and sunny. They didn't have a flight crew because of weather problems somewhere else in the US. That isn't a weather problem, that is a scheduling problem. The airlines get way too much latitude with the weather excuse. It also took us a week to get our luggage because we were stupid enough to trust the Delta Rep. at international baggage claim who said that she could get us on a flight to Dallas 2 days later but that was the best that Delta could do.


    They didn’t make you get your bags before you went through customs in ATL?
  15. I know it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon but Congress really needs to pass better passenger compensation laws similar to what they have in Europe. Start hitting these airlines hard for at fault delays >2 hours, >3 hours, >5 hours, etc….


    Also, don’t ever, ever, ever let an airline check your bag if it contains medicine or other essential travel items. They can’t force you to check your bag unless the bag won’t fit under the seat in front of you AND you have a basic economy ticket or a late boarding assignment AND the overheads are all full. I see staff trying to convince people to check their shit all the time but they can only truly force your hand under a very limited number of conditions.

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