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M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
True. A good PR department would have offered the girls a complimentary ride :heysexy:

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not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
My sister was a flight attendant way back in the day, and it was always made very, very clear that if you are flying for free / cheap there is a fairly strict dress code to follow. It serves 2 purposes, it stops employees and their families looking like loving slobs, and it improves the image of the company by making it look like their clientele is more affluent than they are.

You are far less likely to pay for business or first class if cleetus and reagan show up wearing flannel, jorts and flip flops.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

M_Gargantua posted:

The rest of the article seemed to go on about how the girls were traveling g under employee family passes which fall under united's dress code which does explicitly prohibit leggings.

Now while I agree leggings aren't pants I'm against the tyranny of pants in general and yoga butts are the future.

M_Gargantua posted:

True. A good PR department would have offered the girls a complimentary ride :heysexy:

:aatrek:

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

Hey I go to college now. Everyone is younger than me and there are many nice yoga butts. I've been swayed.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


TBeats posted:

okay, fair enough.

but their PR department bombed pretty hard at handling this without making it worse.

Absolutely.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

M_Gargantua posted:

Hey I go to college now. Everyone is younger than me and there are many nice yoga butts. I've been swayed.

This story is about teenagers, dude.

Maimgara
May 2, 2007
Chlorine for the Gene-pool.

Lake of Methane posted:

“The ORCA concept is similar to HYDRA but anchors encapsulate missiles to the coastal seabed. On command, the capsule floats to the surface. The upper part of the capsule is then jettisoned and the missile the launched. The missiles remain in a dormant condition until activated by sonar command.”

            

MAJOR NEGATIVE FEATURES
• Operability - Inability to Check Status Without Revealing Missile Location
• Arms Control - Use of Ocean Floor Violates Treaties

MAJOR POSITIVE FEATURES
• Endurance - Months
• Public Interface - Minimal
• Environmental Impact - Minimal
• Cost - Low

If this insanity is your thing, I posted about the more outlandish versions here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=468119659#post468119659

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

This seems relevant after all the talk the other day (check who took out the ad)

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Trouble is, they already manipulate what you see, and privacy isn't much of a real thing. There's pretty much always a back door into your private poo poo, known about or not, and advertising is a horrendously dirty game that does everything to make you think less of their competitors, not more about their product.

It's like, I'll be watching something on hulu or whatever through my centurylink connection, and the picture is clear and great all the way through until a comcast/xfinity commercial comes on, and the quality goes to poo poo. One might think that centurylink is cutting video quality for competitor commercials, but because it's comcast/xfinity, it's more likely that they uploaded a poo poo resolution version of the commercial to be aired to make centurylink's look bad by forcing said poo poo resolution.

And seriously, if you haven't had your identity stolen yet, all it takes is a fuckup by a company you trust, like Target before their hack. Financial security is more like just being the lucky number not drawn from a very large hat.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
People are just embarrassed about their porn but will masquerade it as genuine privacy concerns immediately after checking in to a restaurant and tagging six other people.

I think it's stupid but we blew the doors off of privacy with social media.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

TBeats posted:

People are just embarrassed about their porn but will masquerade it as genuine privacy concerns immediately after checking in to a restaurant and tagging six other people.

I think it's stupid but we blew the doors off of privacy with social media.

I'm more concerned people will find out I post here.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/846135383129772032

Every time this starts going somewhere I get my hopes up and am disappointed. I don't know how much longer this administration can keep all the plates spinning so I'm feeling hope anyway.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


TBeats posted:

People are just embarrassed about their porn but will masquerade it as genuine privacy concerns immediately after checking in to a restaurant and tagging six other people.

I think it's stupid but we blew the doors off of privacy with social media.

I'd be a lot less embarrassed about my favorite porn star if she wasn't some awful taboo enthusiast (who happens to be sexy dead ringer for old crush).

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/846146281890365440

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Bitch-rear end Black Irish thug.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
White House blame game intensifies as Trump agenda stalls

quote:

"We're two months into the presidency, and it's kind of a cluster," said one state Republican Party official. "It's not that they're bad people. It's just that they don't know what they're doing."

...

Yet the blame game is taking a toll on an exhausted White House. At the highest levels of the West Wing, the mood has grown so tense that staffers have begun calling up reporters inquiring whether other senior aides are leaking damaging information about them.

"The various warring fiefdoms and camps within the White House are constantly changing and are so vast and complicated in their nature,” said one former Trump campaign aide, “that there is no amount of reporting that could accurately describe the subterfuge, animosity and finger-pointing that is currently happening within the ranks of the senior staff."

I feel the urge to violently touch myself.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Was this supposed to be a sick burn or something?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/845974102619906048

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010


I don't know, I never really imagined Trump as the kind of guy who'd commit self-immolation on the steps of D.C.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Good job?

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


Office Pig posted:

I don't know, I never really imagined Trump as the kind of guy who'd commit self-immolation on the steps of D.C.

That tweet says he is.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers






it's pretty hard to parse but he's saying gently caress THE FREEDOM CAUCUS or whatever they're called

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

Two Finger posted:

it's pretty hard to parse but he's saying gently caress THE FREEDOM CAUCUS or whatever they're called

Yeah he's basically going after the people who he's already failed to strongarm several times over thinking it'll be different this time for some reason.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

I wouldn't count it as self-immolation. Trump's supporters support Trump, not the GOP. All of the media attention for the health care debacle has been on Congress and Paul Ryan, not Trump.

Congress will take the fall in the eyes of the Trump voters, but unless the leftist momentum fires up for the midterms (:laffo:), the Republicans will just get replaced by other Republicans who know even less about governing, and the cycle will perpetuate.

The key thing to look at here is how the Freedom Caucus played Ryan and Trump: Everyone was operating under Ryan's rules, where only certain things would be allowed to pass into the Senate.

In order to get more of the HFC votes, Ryan relaxed those rules, which caused the HFC to go "Okay, but since you showed us that the goalposts can move, we now want this. And a ferris wheel." Ryan had to move those goalposts, losing more moderate votes and failing to secure new ones because the AHCA didn't go far enough in loving people over.

And it all died because not only could the Republicans not get the votes, they didn't have the balls to put it on record since they're terrified of Trump trying to make a shitlist. I guess they're the only ones who really need to worry about that, given that their seats are probably the most vulnerable to being primaried by the right.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

redneck nazgul posted:

I wouldn't count it as self-immolation. Trump's supporters support Trump, not the GOP. All of the media attention for the health care debacle has been on Congress and Paul Ryan, not Trump.

Congress will take the fall in the eyes of the Trump voters, but unless the leftist momentum fires up for the midterms (:laffo:), the Republicans will just get replaced by other Republicans who know even less about governing, and the cycle will perpetuate.

The key thing to look at here is how the Freedom Caucus played Ryan and Trump: Everyone was operating under Ryan's rules, where only certain things would be allowed to pass into the Senate.

In order to get more of the HFC votes, Ryan relaxed those rules, which caused the HFC to go "Okay, but since you showed us that the goalposts can move, we now want this. And a ferris wheel." Ryan had to move those goalposts, losing more moderate votes and failing to secure new ones because the AHCA didn't go far enough in loving people over.

And it all died because not only could the Republicans not get the votes, they didn't have the balls to put it on record since they're terrified of Trump trying to make a shitlist. I guess they're the only ones who really need to worry about that, given that their seats are probably the most vulnerable to being primaried by the right.

There is a lot in here that I am totally OK with. MAGA Warrior Jihadis firebombing the rest of the GOP for not being sufficiently pure, gutting the party while burning themselves out in public opinion with righteous self-immolation, everyone in Trump's wheelhouse being bumbling, incompetent rubes too busy spinning circles in a desperate attempt to never show anybody their back for a stabbing to accomplish nearly as much as they want, Trump and Ryan completely loving up each other's agendas.

I mean, granted, it's really not a healthy way for a country to run but gently caress me sideways...at this point I'll take it because it could be so, so much worse.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
To drive the point home, today in the airport Fox News was on, the spin cycle or something like that was the name of the show. The headline they were discussing literally said "media piling on trump over healthcare bill?"

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Fox has been waffling in their coverage of Trump because they're losing Trump voters to Breitbart and the like, so they drift between slightly critical of Trump and god-worship.

Breitbart has called the entire healthcare thing "Ryancare" from the get-go and blamed Republicans.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u

M_Gargantua posted:

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/846135383129772032

Every time this starts going somewhere I get my hopes up and am disappointed. I don't know how much longer this administration can keep all the plates spinning so I'm feeling hope anyway.

This is a good timeline of what was supposed to have happened if you are okay with wading through a lot of tweets.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Lake of Methane posted:

“The ORCA concept is similar to HYDRA but anchors encapsulate missiles to the coastal seabed. On command, the capsule floats to the surface. The upper part of the capsule is then jettisoned and the missile the launched. The missiles remain in a dormant condition until activated by sonar command.”

            

MAJOR NEGATIVE FEATURES
• Operability - Inability to Check Status Without Revealing Missile Location
• Arms Control - Use of Ocean Floor Violates Treaties

MAJOR POSITIVE FEATURES
• Endurance - Months
• Public Interface - Minimal
• Environmental Impact - Minimal
• Cost - Low

Fascinating, I did not know that there was a treaty banning the placement of weapons on the ocean floor.

https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5187.htm

Presumably the goal is to keep the Deep Ones from scraping us off the surface.

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer
Theres a VTOL C-17 for launching nuclear missiles on that arms control site.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Not only is Jared Kushner going to achieve peace in the Middle East, he's also going to chair a commission on how to fix government.

..... and he's saying dumb stuff like this:

https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/846183459970322432

And Chris Christie's back on this Super Special commission regarding opiate abuse!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...m=.b3615475ea39

quote:

President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.

The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.

“All Americans, regardless of their political views, can recognize that government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function, often creating widespread congestion and leading to cost overruns and delays,” Trump said in a statement to The Washington Post. “I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my ‘ahead of schedule, under budget’ mentality to the government.”

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
How is fat Reek's bridge trial going?

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Christie wants to save his legacy by doing something about opiate abuse. This is a bad plan because it's too complex an issue to make a dent in the time he has left, and also this is Chris Christie we're talking about. At best he'll just embarrass himself worse, at worst he does something that makes the problem even worse.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Casimir Radon posted:

Christie wants to save his legacy by doing something about opiate abuse. This is a bad plan because it's too complex an issue to make a dent in the time he has left, and also this is Chris Christie we're talking about. At best he'll just embarrass himself worse, at worst he does something that makes the problem even worse.

I'm looking forward to him leaving office in disgrace and then not hearing about him again until 3-4 years from now when he's given a suspended sentence and stripped of his law license.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
Every time I hear about Chris Christie I think of Kevin on The Office when he spills all that chili on the floor except I have no sympathy for Christie.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

some real life rear end dril tweet

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


If anyone in here ever runs into Hannity make sure to ask him when he's getting waterboarded.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

M_Gargantua posted:

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/846135383129772032

Every time this starts going somewhere I get my hopes up and am disappointed. I don't know how much longer this administration can keep all the plates spinning so I'm feeling hope anyway.

This guy makes a compelling, if circumstantial, case that Trump might have sold out America for about 0.5% of Rosneft. Spooky.

Here's the whole thing in a same format.

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Kurtofan posted:

some real life rear end dril tweet

Except dril owns, and Sean Hannity does not.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

I need the valuation of Rosneft in pieces of silver. :stare:

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A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
Apparently Canada is getting ready to announce that they're going to legalized weed. Have fun with that DEA and Border Patrol.

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