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Rex-Goliath posted:haha guess who has two thumbs and just qualified on segments for the third year in a row Now imagine doing that while paying for it out of pocket.  Thank God that's over.
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psydude posted:Are you talking about in their respective countries? Because restaurants in Italy make heavy use of local produce and eating at nice sushi restaurant in Japan typically means they were up early in the morning at the fish market. Completely disagree with this, personally. If a restaurant is willing to spend on the resources, with globalization that is easily possible and ingredients and recipes can be duplicated anywhere. My favorite sushi meal wasn’t in Japan. New York has absolutely mind blowing dishes using ingredients that aren’t local. Anything can be realistically taken anywhere, it’s a question of cost and talent of preparation. Singapore has the willingness and population with the wealth to draw these things. This is getting off topic, my apologies. bengy81 posted:I dont know how you dudes do this for years on end, you all must be some self loathing bastards, or have really fulfilling careers. What psydude said to you about this (good Booze) and for me graduating to higher classes of travel and charters. And even that is wearing thin. Oh and lots of money. But yes there are days or weeks that it isn’t worth it.
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This year I am trying really hard to limit it to one trip a month for the sake of my sanity and productivity.
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bengy81 posted:It sucks, and its horrible, learn to love the bottle. Hopefully you live close to a major airport so you can book direct flights, and pray you get long enough flights you dont make status solely on segments flown. do not try to learn to love the bottle it will happen enough on its own and seriously, try not to drink that much it's very easy to do
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:do not try to learn to love the bottle it will happen enough on its own Fair enough. We all make jokes about being alcoholics, but please don't actually become an alcoholic. That being said, if pot was legal, edibles would make long flights so much easier until some idiot took way too much and started freaking out
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KillHour posted:Fair enough. We all make jokes about being alcoholics, but please don't actually become an alcoholic. I mean, it is legal in a bunch of states. Just make sure you eat them all before you land in a foreign country if you’re traveling internationally.
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drgitlin posted:I mean, it is legal in a bunch of states. Just make sure you eat them all before you land in a foreign country if you’re traveling internationally. Somehow, I don't think the TSA in Oregon will care that you bought them legally.
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KillHour posted:Somehow, I don't think the TSA in Oregon will care TSA just makes you throw them away if they find them.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:TSA just makes you throw them away if they find them. Oh. Well, I'm in NY, so it's a moot point.
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Waroduce posted:People who woo and clap on the plane are the worst Found the Southwest flyer.
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KillHour posted:Somehow, I don't think the TSA in Oregon will care that you bought them legally. Who here that travels regularly ever has TSA go through their stuff to that degree? If you’re that worried, buy a bag of candy, a spare ziploc bag, and mix them all together. As long as you remember which ones are covered in THC you’re fine.
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drgitlin posted:Who here that travels regularly ever has TSA go through their stuff to that degree? they yelled at me yesterday for having a jar of hair creme that was 4.2 oz she let me keep it
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DJCobol posted:Found the Southwest flyer. AA from YYZ to MIA at 5.45AM. I was like what the gently caress I live on Miami beach so I'm generally from MIA on AA but I fly delta to Atlanta once a month out of ftl for my dev team there Waroduce fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Apr 26, 2019 |
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Rex-Goliath posted:they yelled at me yesterday for having a jar of hair creme that was 4.2 oz I had that exact thing happen last week with beard moisturizer and the guy was like, "well, you've used half of it, so I'll let it slide" like he was doing me a giant favor. And the hosed up thing about the TSA is, he was doing me a favor. Being a federal agency they could seriously ram a stick up your rear end over edibles whether you're in a legal state or not, those I wouldn't risk.
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Rex-Goliath posted:they yelled at me yesterday for having a jar of hair creme that was 4.2 oz How would they even know? If you have TSA Pre you don't take anything out of your bag. If you fly frequently and don't have TSA Pre I don't know what to tell you other than you're doing this wrong. FWIW, the security staff at Heathrow and Frankfurt make TSA look like a model of courtesy and efficiency. Which should tell you something about how horrible it is to deal with either of those airports. Also, jfc BA's hard product sucks so bad. The only way I can use my table is to prop it up with my knee because the hinge is gone and otherwise my laptop and drink would slide off into the aisle. I was on a ropey old AA A330 out of CLT on Tuesday and even that was infinitely preferable to this.
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sellouts posted:TSA pre is subject to random searches but it’s really rare. I’ve had it hit like once. The cabin crew are always really good IME, better than AA on transatlantic routes. But holy gently caress the new cabins can't get here soon enough.
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drgitlin posted:How would they even know? If you have TSA Pre you don't take anything out of your bag. Whoever was running the xray scanner flagged it
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drgitlin posted:The cabin crew are always really good IME, better than AA on transatlantic routes. But holy gently caress the new cabins can't get here soon enough. Couldn’t disagree more but glad you have good experiences!!
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So that SAS pilots' strike sure is fun, innit?  Wife and kid are supposed to fly HKG->CPH Monday, SAS won't tell me anything about whether it's been cancelled, but seeing as no flights are actually going in the other direction, I highly doubt the flight will happen.
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I also just don’t care that much about the quality of cabin crew as long as they don’t gently caress things up but I’m an Airfrance apologist
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Doc_Uzuki posted:I just accepted a job where I will be traveling domestically and to Canada 50% of the time (basically every other week). My buddies in the northeast use Porter to get to eastern Canada and say it’s an insanely better travel experience than anything else. Good luck and don’t lie at immigration!! Also real talk: y’all newbies don’t become alcoholics. I’ve gained another 15 lbs from the partying / eating out these last two quarters. (EOY, two sales kickoffs, and every client seems to want a steak dinner...)
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I've lost about 20 lbs this year despite the travel. I basically don't drink anymore, maybe two beers a week, and I mostly skip breakfast, sometimes I'll grab an orange or a bowl of fruit. I'm mostly travelling solo, and mostly to bigger cities, so there is no excuse to live off fast food. The dining options and food quality are so much better now than they were in my old territory, it's not even funny, the only time it becomes a problem is when I'm rolling with my boss. Dude has a serious aversion to veggies, pretty sure all he eats is BBQ and pizza,
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bengy81 posted:I've lost about 20 lbs this year despite the travel. I've definitely lost weight since I stopped traveling domestically and started covering APAC. Hard to stay fat when your average meal out is like 400 calories of fish and rice.
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Speaking of TSA and pot products, DFW staff have been jailing people pretty consistently for a while now over the THC content of their CBD oils: https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/Traveling-With-CBD-Could-Land-You-in-Jail-509075341.html?amp=y ACAB
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“guess those people didn’t have tsa precheck” - this thread But yeah stop flying across state lines with illegal products ya dummies
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You guys are ridiculous for risking that with TSA. Every experience with them is completely anecdotal and dependent on the exact person you get based on luck, in part because their training and consistency is garbage as is the entire organization. On the chance you're wrong, you're risking a lifelong misdemeanor on your record.
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I once had a TSA agent threaten me and get very aggressive because I was curious about how those x-ray machines work. As I came out the other side, I politely asked the agent guy "How do those things even work?" and he said "None of your drat business" and got all up in my face - keep in mind I was a scrawny 21 year old being accompanied by my dad for medical treatment lmao. A female colleague of his quickly came up and sorta moved me along and said it's okay. America is fuckin weird. In the UK, they'd just have said it's not something they can disclose. Would never risk something like CBD oil, cause you get some power tripping bastards who can totally ruin your day. Qubee fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Apr 29, 2019 |
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Qubee posted:In the UK, they'd just have said it's not something they can disclose. Because they're too busy searching single every bag by hand to answer questions.
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psydude posted:Because they're too busy searching single every bag by hand to answer questions. I literally have never flown out of London without having my bag searched. "He has a USB cable! Get 'im!"
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I always get "randomly selected" cause I'm ethnic looking with an Arabic name. Bag always gets searched going through security in Heathrow. Once got randomly selected at a layover in Iceland flying to New York right as the plane was boarding. It was very stressful cause I felt like we'd miss the flight. It was me, one other ethnic (Pakistani?) guy who was visibly nervous, and two white guys who were even more petrified (one was on the verge of tears yelling about how he had to tell his gf like he was being taken out back to be shot or something). I've been randomly selected so many times that it doesn't even phase me anymore, so I told the two white guys not to worry and it was probably me and the other guy they were really interested in. Asked one of the security escorting us to the searching rooms if we'd be cavity searched, and was told "only if you behave" with a wink. Icelandic security is chill.
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When I fly for work my carryon is a pelican roller case with 11 iPhone XS maxes and an iPad, with accompanying cables etc. I have a Carnet for it which is a pain in the rear end in itself but I still get pulled to do a bag search Every. Single. Time. I understand it though, what the gently caress is this dude doing with all this tech? Sell it? Network it to make a BOMB OMG. Except for Japan. They never bat an eye and I cruise through always. Bless you, Japan.
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It's really unclear to me why anyone would risk taking anything that may contain THC through the TSA.  Just get whatever you need once you land?
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psydude posted:Apropos of nothing, I've concluded that only 3 countries* know how to make a good cocktail: the US, Singapore, and Japan. Japan’s cocktail scene is intense. Hong Kong wasn’t shabby either, though I must have hit Quinary on a bad day; super underwhelmed.
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