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    That's the same gif I sent to my kid when he told me about this today, except I used the Silvio version. I'm in for The Killers.
  2. What comes out of a Chinese spy's ass?!
  3. That must have been a long time ago. Gate checks going to baggage claim has been the policy for many years (except strollers, car seats, etc..). You might have lucked out randomly once or twice and they put the wrong tag on it or something. I don't recall ever seeing an ordinary suitcase being brought up to the jetway unless it was tagged as having a c-pap or something in it. That's usually a regional jet thing where the bins are so small that nearly everyone has to gate check so they bring them all up. Agreed that the new process sucks so far. The algorithm telling them when the bins will be full seems to have a quick trigger finger. The whole thing is an effort to reduce the turn times and avoid the delays from when people would get on with a suitcase and spend 10 minutes going all the way to back looking for bin space before having to go back upstream to gate check it right at departure time. I get the intent, but clearly the algorithm needs work. I've noticed a few people lately walk down with a gate-check tag on the suitcase simply remove the tag and board with it with bin space still available.
  4. It goes wherever the tag says it goes. And unless it's a stroller, car seat, wheelchair/walker, or known medical device, that tag has a city code on it it's going to baggage claim.
  5. At least the flags will be at half mast. That ought to help.
  6. Mind if I send the women from my house, along with their chatter and questions, over to your place on game days?
  7. You'll often see the Dreamlifter parked in Charleston, off to the left as you're taxiing toward the gates.
  8. That guy does incredible things with his drone photography. He was a good follow when he lived here. Is he back?
  9. I never knew you were a woman. 🤘
  10. White Jesus quote checks out.
  11. I have an ultra-lite Poncho shirt that I'm happy with but I wasn't a fan of the regular weight fabric version (The 1969?) I had before that. I'd advise that their slim fit is a normal fit and their regular fit is a garbage bag fit.
  12. Not to mention that they’ve been in style with the young crowd for at least 30 years now. I don’t wear one either, but it’s time to get over it Gramps.
  13. Mine did. I wasn't excited about it and it hasn't changed my mind that most frat guys are douchebags. But it has been a good experience for him. Freshman year they were required to be at the frat house at 6am M-F for a 1 hour session with a tutor (not a student, an actual adult male tutor paid by the chapter). There's a lot of peer pressure to keep their house GPA higher than the others, which has been a better motivator for him than hearing me bitch about it when he was in high school. He was a very average student in high school and was trying to float the idea of not going to college at all a few times, now he's on the deans list every semester, albeit at a school not known for high academic achievement. They do some charitable shit, which is pretty easy to see that is more for appearances than actually helping the community, but it's more than he would have done on his own. I view it as paying for whatever it took to motivate him to go to school and work hard. He's a junior now and his habits are definitely drastically different than they were when he showed up. His peers are a bunch of engineering students and it has been good for him to be immersed in a group of guys who know how to study. Of course there's parties and drunkeness and high drama with the sorority girls too, but still it's been a net positive for my kid.
  14. But you can do the same thing without the cubes. And the cubes themselves are more fabric that didn't need to be there. This is the hill I choose to die on.
  15. I wasn't talking about her.
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