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taco show posted:Oktoberfest bound! Hopefully everything doesn't horrendously flood this weekend. I want to pick up some rain gear (that I can maybe ditch)- is there a Target equivalent? Lidl should have what you need. Just got home from Munich last night. Spent 11-ish hours in the Hacker-Pschorr tent and had 7+ liters of beer. Oktoerfest is awesome, the Nurburgring is awesome, the Stelvio pass is awesome, the Ferrari museum is awesome, everything is awesome! Except for this jetlag, hangovers, and traffic in Bologna. All of those are not awesome.
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DJCobol posted:Lidl should have what you need. I can confirm that spending many hours in a tent and drinking far too many liters of beer does in fact own.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:23
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what's the toilet situation at those things?
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pig slut lisa posted:what's the toilet situation at those things? Men's room was pretty much troughs with a few stalls, and not enough sinks.
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Whats the payment situation in the tent? Cash as you go? Run a tab? I need to plan ahead to properly finance my boozahol and snack habit.
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FunOne posted:Whats the payment situation in the tent? Cash as you go? Run a tab? I need to plan ahead to properly finance my boozahol and snack habit. Pay as you go.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:48
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Well, uh, ignore my bitching about Global Entry scheduling. Got a walk in appointment the same week I was conditionally approved.
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Sep 22, 2016 00:35
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MickeyFinn posted:Pay as you go. Cash only I assume. Gonna have to hit that ATM.
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FunOne posted:Cash only I assume. Gonna have to hit that ATM. I have never tried anything but cash. The beer ladies can easily get you change, but it helps to heve 5s and 10s because 4-5 liters in you might forget!
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Sep 22, 2016 06:15
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FunOne posted:Cash only I assume. Gonna have to hit that ATM. Yeah, cash only unless that changed just this year.
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Sep 22, 2016 12:06
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Thoguh posted:Yeah, cash only unless that changed just this year. Both tents I went to were cash only, but there were at least 2 ATMs in each of them.
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Sep 22, 2016 13:09
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If there are still Oktoberfest bound goons, pay the four euros to go watch/participate in the devil's wheel.
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Holy gently caress Lisbon is the worst airport I've ever flown international out of. There are no less than FOUR security checkpoints, including one at the gate where they may disassemble your carry on before they let you into the roped off seating area. If you leave the gate to go to the bathroom or anything you have to do it again.
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taco show posted:Holy gently caress Lisbon is the worst airport I've ever flown international out of. There are no less than FOUR security checkpoints, including one at the gate where they may disassemble your carry on before they let you into the roped off seating area. If you leave the gate to go to the bathroom or anything you have to do it again. Where are you headed? I've only arrived into LIS and it was a Schengen flight but I walked through the departure areas and didn't see anything like that.
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Mackieman posted:Where are you headed? I've only arrived into LIS and it was a Schengen flight but I walked through the departure areas and didn't see anything like that. Unfortunately it cancelled, so I had to exit security and go through immigration to get my bag then wait two hours outside for the BA bag check to open to get my new ticket (no BA ticket kiosks or permanent AA/BA desk), recheck my bag, and re-enter security.  If only I hadn't bought those bottles of port! Anyway, I'm in the nice departure shopping area now, at least. I'll have to go through another passport check to get to the 40s wing, if that's where they post my gate...
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Waiting for my united flight, there was just an announcement that the galaxy note 7 specifically needs to be turned off and not used or plugged in during the flight. Any idea why? Edit: it's because they were recalled. KillHour fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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KillHour posted:Waiting for my united flight, there was just an announcement that the galaxy note 7 specifically needs to be turned off and not used or plugged in during the flight. Any idea why? Yeah, they have been announcing it for a few weeks now
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Sep 26, 2016 11:47
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Effective recall communication in action 
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I mean to be fair, you drat near have to be living under a rock to not have heard about it.
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Speaking of dumb questions, is there anything you have to do to get upgraded if you're Avis preferred plus? I haven't noticed any difference in the cars I get assigned. It's dumb as poo poo that you can't actually get into the upper tiers of their program without buying into a private jet timeshare company or whatever. Noctone posted:I mean to be fair, you drat near have to be living under a rock to not have heard about it. I heard about it weeks ago and promptly forgot since I don't own one.
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I didn't realize at first that they allowed you to carry it on as long as it is powered off. Thought you just couldn't fly with a new flagship phone period, which would be super rough.
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Everyone now carries around computers in their pocket, and sure sometimes the energy management on the batteries isn't perfect and they explode. This is understandable, so naturally we built in a way to remotely brick a person's computer against their will since most people probably won't hear or care about the recall, and this is a good thing because people could get seriously hurt or even bring down a plane otherwise. The future is loving weird.
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Sep 26, 2016 14:51
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Pryor on Fire posted:so naturally we built in a way to remotely brick a person's computer against their will since most people probably won't hear or care about the recall, and this is a good thing because people could get seriously hurt or even bring down a plane otherwise. To be fair, Samsung refuted the remote deactivation reports (loving reddit).
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Sep 26, 2016 18:56
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Flew American Eagle this week, it actually made me miss flying Southwest. Also the Terminal 6 situation at LAX is super inconvenient. You have to go to Terminal 4 first, go downstairs, and wait for a bus to take you across the tarmac to another building.
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Sep 26, 2016 19:15
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That's not t6, that's eagles nest. You can check in T6 if you please.
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sellouts posted:That's not t6, that's eagles nest. You can check in T6 if you please. look, even Trump last night said LAX was poo poo. Since I'm single issue voter who only cares about regional airport quality and how it affects me directly, he has my vote 
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nikosoft posted:look, even Trump last night said LAX was poo poo. Since I'm single issue voter who only cares about regional airport quality and how it affects me directly, he has my vote
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For the weekly travelers, how often do you request a week at home? Once a month? Once every two months?
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fyallm posted:For the weekly travelers, how often do you request a week at home? Once a month? Once every two months? Hahaha, request?
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TheWevel posted:Hahaha, request? LoL, sorry... demand, require, get. Whatever you want to call it
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I don't, I just don't happen to have any visits that particular week, or I take paid time off. I get to make my schedule though and it all depends on when I can schedule sites for visits, so I just schedule whenever I feel like it. Which is to say, when it is most convenient for me. Feels good, man.
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fyallm posted:For the weekly travelers, how often do you request a week at home? Once a month? Once every two months? When I was single, never. Now, about every 2 months.
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FAILURE posted:When I was single, never. Now, about every 2 months. Same
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I have a week a month booked in my schedule. I get that roughly half the time. In other news, I was approved for a CSR card. No more waiting in lovely airport food courts for me!
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Need to fly to Montreal next month. All of the best, quickest, and cheapest routings are on Star Alliance (AC flies direct LAX-YUL) but I'm seriously considering flying convoluted and long two-stop flights on AA because I'm 3k miles short of requalifying for AA platinum status. This is crazy right
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Mandalay posted:Need to fly to Montreal next month. All of the best, quickest, and cheapest routings are on Star Alliance (AC flies direct LAX-YUL) but I'm seriously considering flying convoluted and long two-stop flights on AA because I'm 3k miles short of requalifying for AA platinum status. Depends on how tight your travel schedule is.
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Done traveling for the year. Finished strong with almost 60k miles flown in the last 10 weeks. Sadly my travel is spread out enough that I have no status higher than Gold with any hotel or airline. So I guess I'll be keeping my Amex Plat for another year for the lounge access alone. I did hit 2 of the 3 tiers in that United targeted promotion, thanks for the 30K free reward miles, United!
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Mandalay posted:Need to fly to Montreal next month. All of the best, quickest, and cheapest routings are on Star Alliance (AC flies direct LAX-YUL) but I'm seriously considering flying convoluted and long two-stop flights on AA because I'm 3k miles short of requalifying for AA platinum status. Are you not going to get your status otherwise?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Are you not going to get your status otherwise? Barring unexpected extra travel. I've spreadsheeted out my travel plans tail end of year...
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Mandalay posted:Barring unexpected extra travel. I've spreadsheeted out my travel plans tail end of year... You have no idea how jealous I am of your ability to do that. I often don't know where I will be a few days in the future. Sometimes I get less than a day's notice for international trips.
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