Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Ghost of LL
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The Italy Thread
Counterpoint: the St. Regis on Marriott points.
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London
To be clear--if I followed Option A, I wouldn't be going to Weatherspoon's. I'd go straight to the BA First Class Lounge as soon as I cleared the connection security at T5. The real issue with that plan is that the showers at the BA First Lounge are inferior and there aren't many of them. But at the AA Arrivals lounge, there are a ton of showers. I just don't know the geography of LHR well enough to remember if clearing customs and going to the AA Arrivals lounge is going to commit me to a whole ton of extra walking.
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London
Ok--I have a very specific scenario/question on this. I am going through LHR in January, and I have to transfer from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 on the outbound leg. I am Executive Platinum on AA. I will have no checked luggage. My layover is 3 hours 15 minutes. With that information, should I: (A) Follow the purple "Flight Connections" signs and take the airside bus to Terminal 5, where I'd still have to go through security (though they do have a premium line), or (B) Clear immigration, hit the AA arrivals lounge at Terminal 3 to grab a shower and cup of coffee, take the Underground over to Terminal 5 where I can go through the BA First check-in situation which has a minimal security line and empties directly into the First Class Lounge?
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The Italy Thread
@texasdago or anyone else--any suggestions/thoughts on 72 hours in Venice in January?
- Texas vs. Texas A&M - 6:30pm on ABC
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2025 Random Games thread
As an SMU alumnus, let me just personally thank @PittsburghTiger for his team's absolutely exquisite performance.
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Fuck Cal
As someone who is an alumnus of SMU but who has a son for whom Berkeley is pretty high on his college list, I'll agree for this week only "Fuck Cal."
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2025 Random Games thread
Pitt is just plowing the way for SMU to get into the ACC championship game.
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2025 Random Games thread
Goddamn Missouri sucks.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
This is just . . . huh.
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Biography of Admiral Lord Nelson
One of my more eclectic interests is the Age of Sail. I've read Utt's really excellent history of the naval War of 1812 (Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron), and I've made it all the way through the Aubrey-Maturin series. But I really feel incomplete without having read a biography of the greatest figure of the age--Nelson. And I can't really find a biography out there that is particularly well rated. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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The Trump Economy
Yeah--and it was definitely accurate.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Jesus Christ--all these posts about Nancy Mace, and then Lindsay Halligan, and now this crazy-ass bitch . . . I really feel like I'm being kink shamed for my appreciation of decently attractive batshit-crazy women.
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ICE activity/raids
Just as an FYI for all who may be interested--an Eastern Airlines 777 just landed at AUS. Eastern Airlines is a charter company that has been used extensively by ICE to run deportation flights.
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Abbott being Abbott
Smith is 79 years old. He was never a particularly good jurist. But at this point he's obviously suffering some pretty serious cognitive decline.
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Trump’s America
That SCOTUS decision isn't going to come out until March at the earliest. By then, it's too late. It'd take the economy at least six months to even start to recover.
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James Comey is my Homie
Damn, man. You nailed it. And hell yes.
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James Comey is my Homie
Three things on this: 1) You generally don't get disbarred for gross negligence as a lawyer; it requires intentional and willful malfeasance. That being said, incompetence of this level can result in some form of discipline from either the Court or the Bar. 2) Lindsay Halligan is really kind of hot, and as an officer of the Court I am willing to offer my services in carrying out whatever punishment the Court may deem appropriate for her. 3) At the risk of being presumptuous, I might suggest a year or two in my sex dungeon (which, we we have established on another thread, does not bear any resemblance to Sei Less in Manhattan) as the appropriate sanction for Ms. Halligan (that naughty and incompetent little minx).
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Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
You shut your mouth. You shut your dirty whore mouth right now and you go straight to Hell. I very vaguely see the resemblance and I'd totally fuck the shit out of Nancy Mace because she's kinda dirty hot and you know the sex would be off the chain because she's absolutely fucking batshit crazy.
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Kris Boyd critically wounded
Huh--I guess I don't have enough experience with sex dungeons. Mine has a very different vibe from the vibe at the Moxy.
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Kris Boyd critically wounded
He's on IR.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
I mean, if you were watching any sporting event Saturday night other than Dallas Stars hockey, well--I just don't know what you are doing with your life.
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Kris Boyd critically wounded
Sei Less is really good. I went there the last time I was in New York (stayed at the Moxy at 36th and 7th because I was going to a show at MSG). It is definitely not a rough area. Admittedly, I was not getting into fights at 2 AM. But still--the whole area seemed pretty damned safe.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Ralphie doing a couple minutes of play-by-play makes me so happy.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Does Wyatt have a Kuato?