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Donkwich
Feb 28, 2011


Grimey Drawer
JFF4LYF

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Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

v2vian man posted:

every1 keeps looking at my vanity plate which i got for no reason except to have ppl look at it....no i understand this line is for real emergencies. ok. ok. Im sorry

Bah, the only reason to have a different license plate is if you want to put something on there so that you won't get a ticket. Like my GWOT plates.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Do you all sell remote control licen plate covers. Is it legal to have "F off" written on there when it comes down

Parmesan Basil
Nov 12, 2008

TIME IS THE FIRE IN WHICH WE BURN THE GAME CLOCK
One time I drove from the DC to KC and it was pretty good! West Virginia was amazing (except for Charleston)!

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.

Flikken posted:

Bah, the only reason to have a different license plate is if you want to put something on there so that you won't get a ticket. Like my GWOT plates.

I almost got one when I moved up to Seattle because it's a win-win situation: I get a stupid license plate and the city gets a little more money to spend on important stuff. Then I remembered that DAG_YO was only going to get attention from people who wanted an explanation or, worse, people who actually got the reference and wanted to talk about it. Also, ZURRECO fits great but I don't want to accidentally cut someone off and then have them find all of my lovely SA posts when they stalk me later on.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Zurreco posted:

I almost got one when I moved up to Seattle because it's a win-win situation: I get a stupid license plate and the city gets a little more money to spend on important stuff. Then I remembered that DAG_YO was only going to get attention from people who wanted an explanation or, worse, people who actually got the reference and wanted to talk about it. Also, ZURRECO fits great but I don't want to accidentally cut someone off and then have them find all of my lovely SA posts when they stalk me later on.

...Homestar Runner?

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
He's actually really hateful towards Italians and also dyslexic.

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.
Both are correct.

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer

Neil Armbong posted:

Why would anyone ever subject themselves to that poo poo airline.

Waiiiit, how does a US airliner DIFFERENTIATE itself as poo poo? The bar is sooo low.

Freaquency
May 10, 2007

"Yes I can hear you, I don't have ear cancer!"

Eifert Posting posted:

Waiiiit, how does a US airliner DIFFERENTIATE itself as poo poo? The bar is sooo low.

You've clearly never flown Spirit. They would charge you for providing breathable air in-flight if they could figure out how to do it legally.

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer

Freaquency posted:

You've clearly never flown Spirit. They would charge you for providing breathable air in-flight if they could figure out how to do it legally.

Everyone already does that?

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Calling it now: at some point the race to the bottom will spawn literally free airplane tickets in which everything is a microtransaction, like those terrible mobile game apps. Want to board the plane? $5. Want to sit down? $50. Want to use the toilet? $30. Each carry-on (including a purse or whatever) is $20. Carry-ons that only fit in the overhead: $35. Check-in luggage is already a micro-transaction.

This is how the market responds when consumers have perfect access to pricing, and shop totally on pricing, and the basic functionality (in this case, actual transport from A to B) is a commodity.

FUCKFACE MORON
Apr 23, 2010

by sebmojo

Eifert Posting posted:

Everyone already does that?
The problem with Spirit is that they carry the guise of a budget airline but will price gouge the gently caress out of you once they've got you on the hook. One time my dad bought a round-trip ticket from Denver to Chicago for insanely cheap. I don't remember the exact details but they ended up charging him extra for not only a carry-on bag but for the privilege of using an overhead bin.

E: I just realized the point you were making but gently caress it

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer
I miss Asia. :smith:

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Leperflesh posted:

Calling it now: at some point the race to the bottom will spawn literally free airplane tickets in which everything is a microtransaction, like those terrible mobile game apps. Want to board the plane? $5. Want to sit down? $50. Want to use the toilet? $30. Each carry-on (including a purse or whatever) is $20. Carry-ons that only fit in the overhead: $35. Check-in luggage is already a micro-transaction.

This is how the market responds when consumers have perfect access to pricing, and shop totally on pricing, and the basic functionality (in this case, actual transport from A to B) is a commodity.

I'd actually be pretty fine with this. I'd also be on board with getting me and my luggage weighed and charged my actual freight rate.

I'm pretty sure it's not legal to charge for the lavatory in the US though. However, I'm certain they're not required to have them though.... Space for more revenue seats...

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


quote:

The New England Patriots owner told USA TODAY Sports on Friday that he would support the efforts by Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis to relocate his franchise to the so-called Sin City if a stadium deal can’t be struck to keep the team in the Bay Area.

"I think it would be good for the NFL,” Kraft told USA TODAY Sports. “I know Mark Davis has tried so hard in Oakland. If they won’t do it … I want to support him.”

“Whatever the risks,” Kraft added, “they are no greater (in Las Vegas) than playing a game in New Jersey.”

shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!
I've already done Seattle - Yellowstone - Minneapolis - Chicago - East coast (NY/DC) twice, and NY - Charlotte - Atlanta - NOLA - Austin - LA - SF - Seattle once. Gonna to DC - Seattle in 4 days this summer. Cross country road trips own bones.

The absolute most important thing is to get off the interstate highways. They're efficient and fast, but they all look exactly the same. The old highways are where all the weird poo poo is.

Freaquency
May 10, 2007

"Yes I can hear you, I don't have ear cancer!"

Eifert Posting posted:

Everyone already does that?

Other airlines at least have the courtesy to roll that into the price of the ticket rather than holding out a credit card machine to you while you turn blue in the face at 30,000 feet.

(All analogies fall apart but they're a bad airline)

e:

sam bradford lmao posted:

The problem with Spirit is that they carry the guise of a budget airline but will price gouge the gently caress out of you once they've got you on the hook. One time my dad bought a round-trip ticket from Denver to Chicago for insanely cheap. I don't remember the exact details but they ended up charging him extra for not only a carry-on bag but for the privilege of using an overhead bin.

E: I just realized the point you were making but gently caress it

Yeah they offer the bare minimum which is great if you just need to get between two places but lol if you need anything other than just transport from point A to B. Anyway something something Vegas Raiders :getin:

Freaquency fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 21, 2016

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012


he's not wrong

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!
Another Vegas stadium meeting is happening but I'm not excited about it anymore. The estimate is now between 1.3 to 1.6 billion :laffo:

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

sam bradford lmao posted:

The problem with Spirit is that they carry the guise of a budget airline but will price gouge the gently caress out of you once they've got you on the hook. One time my dad bought a round-trip ticket from Denver to Chicago for insanely cheap. I don't remember the exact details but they ended up charging him extra for not only a carry-on bag but for the privilege of using an overhead bin.

E: I just realized the point you were making but gently caress it

All of this is very clearly spelled out when you are buying tickets from Spirit and if you don't plan ahead and print your own boarding ticket and pre-pay for your baggage you are kind of a dummy.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 26, 2016

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!
https://twitter.com/thejdmorris/status/735871301500338176

rip the on campus stadium dream :smith:


edit:
https://twitter.com/thejdmorris/status/735872189879058433
:laffo: come the gently caress on carolyn. come the gently caress on

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
i dont think any nfl stadium is on a campus.

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!

Volkerball posted:

i dont think any nfl stadium is on a campus.

the initial proposed site was just a short walk

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Volkerball posted:

i dont think any nfl stadium is on a campus.

The Rams will play at the Colliseum which is closer to the USC campus than the proposed Tropicana site is to UNLV

HOTLANTA MAN
Jul 4, 2010

by Hand Knit
Lipstick Apathy

Lessail posted:

Another Vegas stadium meeting is happening but I'm not excited about it anymore. The estimate is now between 1.3 to 1.6 billion :laffo:

What the gently caress? Do the box seats come with complimentary blowjobs?

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

The Glumslinger posted:

The Rams will play at the Colliseum which is closer to the USC campus than the proposed Tropicana site is to UNLV

That's a temporary stadium while the Kroenkhouse gets built. Using college stadiums in that situation isn't unprecedented.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

Volkerball posted:

That's a temporary stadium while the Kroenkhouse gets built. Using college stadiums in that situation isn't unprecedented.

Did the Bears play at Illinois stadium while Soldier Field was getting renovations or am I making that up?

I guess looking it up it isn't that crazy, Memorial Stadium held about 70k back then, which is a lot bigger than I was thinking it would be. I'm sure it wasn't particularly nice, but it was big enough.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Grittybeard posted:

Did the Bears play at Illinois stadium while Soldier Field was getting renovations or am I making that up?

I guess looking it up it isn't that crazy, Memorial Stadium held about 70k back then, which is a lot bigger than I was thinking it would be. I'm sure it wasn't particularly nice, but it was big enough.

Also the Vikings have been playing at the university for two or three years

a neat cape
Feb 22, 2007

Aw hunny, these came out GREAT!
The Chargers have been playing in a college stadium for years

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
memorial stadium loving sucks.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
http://www.enr.com/external_headlin...t0rnfQE_IWD20Vk

quote:

The lure of the NFL was just too much for Inglewood , a former city employee charges in a federal lawsuit.
Barbara Ohno , Inglewood's former budget and accounting manager, claims that the future home of the Los Angeles Rams massaged its accounting books to mask its financial problems.

In the complaint, Ohno says that Mayor James T. Butts ordered employees to "create a facade of financial responsibility and well-being for the city" as it competed against Carson to house one of three football teams looking to relocate to the Los Angeles area.

NFL team owners ultimately voted in January to return the Rams to Southern California , to play in a new stadium on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood . The stadium, projected to open in 2019, will be the league's largest in square footage.

But, according to Ohno, to improve the city's chances of winning the NFL team derby, officials padded the general fund, according to a 48-page complaint filed last week with the U.S. District Court .

James T. Butts lol

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
The house that Butts built

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
Really upset I didn't know about James T. Butts while Coach Jimmy T was still in the league.

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

Downtown Las Vegas. lmao. You might find hypodermic needles in the Hooters parking lot but holy poo poo are things hosed up on that end. Walk three blocks from the Golden Nugget to get ganked by an alien hobo rapist.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

That would be a very interesting and useful chart if all of those casinos had sports books, but I bet they don't.

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

The California casinos are such a joke. No thanks on your crooked odds Japanese card game or whatever. You don't even have slots.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Pretty cool* that you could plot lines from Charlotte, Nashville and Atlanta to find Harrah's Cherokee Casino.

*(Not cool at all but kinda interesting I guess)

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a neat cape
Feb 22, 2007

Aw hunny, these came out GREAT!

kiimo posted:

The California casinos are such a joke. No thanks on your crooked odds Japanese card game or whatever. You don't even have slots.

They play craps with cards.

What the gently caress even is that.

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