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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:AF premium economy catering is a lot better than Delta's I haven’t flown economy delta TATL in ages, but from my latest experiences food was a lot worse than KLM AMS-SFO in Y or SAS SFO<->CPH in PE. Also they didn’t come around with water in between services either It’s a budget airline that thinks it’s still a flag carrier.
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vessbot posted:If you're non revving at a higher priority than me then yeah, please don't travel. I hear the Irish pub at the strip mall is great. 
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luminalflux posted:I haven’t flown economy delta TATL in ages, but from my latest experiences food was a lot worse than KLM AMS-SFO in Y or SAS SFO<->CPH in PE. Also they didn’t come around with water in between services either AF really dragged KLM down with that merger/whatever.
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hobbesmaster posted:AF really dragged KLM down with that merger/whatever. FlyingPoo infects all things.
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PT6A posted:Everyone: "this configuration is hellish and I hate it." It’s weird. For something like lease payments on trucks Americans will splash out far beyond their means but stuff that is small cost deltas for drastic improvements in quality are just rejected out of hand for the lowest price. I routinely have to tell myself not to buy the cheapest version of something just because it’s cheaper but actually evaluating what I want out of it. Part of it probably has a lot o do with how depressed wages are and how that’s been hidden by the simultaneously falling prices of most goods. You can buy more stuff so you don’t feel poor but when you look around you don’t really have anything valuable.
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Murgos posted:It’s weird. For something like lease payments on trucks Americans will splash out far beyond their means but stuff that is small cost deltas for drastic improvements in quality are just rejected out of hand for the lowest price. Actively avoiding the cheapest physical shovelware has been a huge improvement in my quality of life. I despise disposable junk.
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MrYenko posted:Actively avoiding the cheapest physical shovelware has been a huge improvement in my quality of life. I despise disposable junk. Almost every long-handled tool I own is at least sixty years old. They tend to be in great shape and cheap at yard/tag/rummage sales, especially if they're dirty. I got tired of handles that broke and spade blades that literally bent in half. That said, Harbor Freight is an exercise in learning what cheap poo poo will work, for at least as long as you need it. They sell decent-enough one- or two-piece tools (screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers) that serve for most homeowner applications. You takes your chances with more complex stuff; sometimes the quality is surprisingly OK.
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I try to only buy things I know will last and that I'll be happy with long term. That means that I rebuy stuff way less frequently than most people I know because I don't buy stuff that's 'disposable.' It also means that I buy way less stuff in the first place which is good. I'm using a 2013 macbook air to type this because it still works perfectly for the role intended: browsing the web while being light weight with a long battery life. I maxed the ram and cpu at a cost then, but it would be seriously struggling now if it had a dual core cpu with no HT and only 4 GB of ram. The headphones I use on my computer are something like 13 years old at this point. A friend of mine kept buying cheap headphone garbage off aliexpress and was always surprised when it was garbage and would buy more. He must have purchased 10-15 sets in a couple of years alone. And the stuff you're replacing is worthless, so it just goes in a landfill. Problem is, most people simply can't afford to buy good things. With CPI rapidly outpacing minimum wage, and in general pay for everyone, it's hard to afford good quality items. It's not a choice for most people. Our economy relies on people buying things they need to constantly replace. To quote Pratchett: “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
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ranbo das posted:Counterpoint, the worst Americans I've ever known all have never traveled outside the country, many of them basically haven't left their state. My favorite time encountering other Americans abroad was a family of large sized Americans trudging up to a castle built up on a hill, complaining about how stupid it was that they built a castle on a hill and how that made it such a pain to get to. Salami Surgeon posted:The best part about traveling is that there's an Irish pub everywhere https://youtu.be/tDTQQWSmo8s
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I had always thought Air France was a top tier carrier, weird to find out that is not the case! What’s the best out of the US domestics, I haven’t flown Delta ever and been a long time since I flew AA, and United I find to be fairly similar to Air Canada. I like their byod infotainment thing more than having screens everywhere as well tbh. Probably will be doing the yvr-sfo or san jose fairly often in a year or two. Most likely will be AC/United code shares.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:My favorite time encountering other Americans abroad was a family of large sized Americans trudging up to a castle built up on a hill, complaining about how stupid it was that they built a castle on a hill and how that made it such a pain to get to. Even at the tender age of 11, being on an MWR outing to the gorgeous seaside comune of Taormina in mid-October of 1991 remains a staunchly depressing memory for me. Imagine a kindergarten field trip, only without the "kiddie tether" and the adults behaving worse. Nothing says "gently caress your country and its culture" more than trundling about in Budweiser shirts and NASCAR caps while bemoaning the fact that "no one speaks English." Sicilians hated Americans...until you made the bare minimum of effort to humble yourselves on their behalf and *try* to speak Italian. Then they'd loving *die* for you trying to accommodate your needs. 95% of people on base never bothered. priznat posted:Probably will be doing the yvr-sfo or san jose fairly often in a year or two. Going Alaska would give you way more valuable miles now that they're Oneworld, but you'd probably be forced to connect through SEA. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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 So during the 80's the Coast Guard bought some Dassault Falcons 20s for SAR and drug intersection work. They were pretty heavily modified for SAR work. But someone at the Coast Guard wondered if they could get on site faster. So they had one modified to have an engine with an afterburner. When I research it, I find conflicting info. That only one engine had an afterburner, or both did. Either way it was abandoned because one of the primary traits you want in a plane for SAR is loitering time and afterburners don't really play well with that.
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Never been a fan of this dude's narrative style, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1tzsLlUAo&t=207s
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Not true. Garrett bought an ex-Coast Guard HU-25 to use as an engine testbed for the TFE1042 engine; the engine was intended for Taiwan's AIDC Ching-Kuo fighter. MrChips fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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priznat posted:I had always thought Air France was a top tier carrier, weird to find out that is not the case! Air France is like Paris the airline and you’re probably not a Parisian so you can gently caress off.
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hobbesmaster posted:Air France is like Paris the airline and you’re probably not a Parisian so you can gently caress off. So rude and dog poop everywhere? 
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priznat posted:So rude and dog poop everywhere? Don't forget piss. If I think enough about it I can recall perfectly, even thirty years later, the Eau du Paris.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Don't forget piss. Sometimes, quite literally. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gerard-depardieu-pees-plane-air-fance-224368/
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bennyfactor posted:Sometimes, quite literally. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gerard-depardieu-pees-plane-air-fance-224368/ Well, he's no longer French anyway, so that doesn't count.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Well, he's no longer French anyway, so that doesn't count. A piece of paper won't save you from the natural instincts of the blood of the french , or, ya know, from people who likes and actually believes this sentence aka judgemental racists ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:A piece of paper won't save you from the natural instincts of the blood of the french , or, ya know, from people who likes and actually believes this sentence aka judgemental racists French spotted.
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Yeah I'm French F pissing R on E a N plane C H All the French I've run into were pretty cool, but I've never been in France
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It’s seriously just Paris.
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The Mrs. and I went over in 2019 and it was pretty nice. Don’t remember any poop or piss.
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I don't recall anything super disgusting in any of the major Euro cities I've been to. Now, San Francisco...that's got more poop and piss on the sidewalk than most kennels and pretty much killed any desire to go back and spend more time there.
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hobbesmaster posted:It’s seriously just Paris. It's seriously just Paris, if you don't speak French. They get like fifteen times their population in tourists a year and ninety-some percent of them are never coming back, why make the effort? And AF is the exact same.
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JohnCompany posted:It's seriously just Paris, if you don't speak French. Ask a Québécois about that.
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A metropolis that doesn't smell like piss isn't a metropolis of mine
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Paris is a wonderful city that smells of poo and diesel.
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Paris might've smelled of piss to me, but it was preferable to pre-emissions standards Rome. First time simply being *outside* during the day burned my eyes from all the leaded exhaust. They didn't change standards for the people's health, but rather because the caustic emissions were eating away at the tourist landmarks.
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slidebite posted:I don't recall anything super disgusting in any of the major Euro cities I've been to. There is piss all over Helsinki after sundown every night.
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https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1473224721240109056 Please tell me this is staged
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slidebite posted:https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1473224721240109056 apparently it is, but it's based on a real case of a woman breastfeeding her cat in a flight
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slidebite posted:https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1473224721240109056 What I wouldn't give to buy that flight crew a couple rounds and get the full story.
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slidebite posted:https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1473224721240109056 It's related to this, so I do not think it is. https://twitter.com/JustJettingThru/status/1463194402160091143?t=synqnBRMTePuNm0YgqJA1g&s=19
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It's a fake cat and apparently she is the lady that does those videos where she makes ice cream in a toilet, so I'd say it is staged.
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Cojawfee posted:It's a fake cat and apparently she is the lady that does those videos where she makes ice cream in a toilet, so I'd say it is staged. The Internet has truly ruined everything.
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The reveal of the googly eyed stuffed cat made me realize it was staged but drat if it wasn't pretty funny/horrifying anyway.
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Pakistan: 1/3rd of our pilots have fake pilots licenses
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