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[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

When did it become OK for parents to start blasting music on their phones and playgrounds?

Wtf!? I’d lose my mind. I hate this ####. People who can’t do anything without blasting music, I don’t get it. Y’all like living like Slurms Mackenzie?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

More of a minor thing, but when people talk for you. Like when they're in conversation with someone and you're in the vicinity and then they tell that person what your opinion on something is rather than just ask you or run it by you for clarity.

Very good chance they're misrepresenting you to some degree and to do it within earshot is kind of disrespectful.

Does this happen to any one else?

These people are nosey and looking for drama, period.

[undercoverbrother]

Client "We are going to XYZ in ABC time so you need to build you service offering to us based on that. That is our expectation and we aren't interested in hearing anything different"

UCB "OK, I'll make it happen"

Client does the exact opposite of XYZ in ABC time and wants to know why the service offering if ####ed up.

#######s

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

More of a minor thing, but when people talk for you. Like when they're in conversation with someone and you're in the vicinity and then they tell that person what your opinion on something is rather than just ask you or run it by you for clarity.

Very good chance they're misrepresenting you to some degree and to do it within earshot is kind of disrespectful.

Does this happen to any one else?

Uhh, I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

Those people are trying to prove they are in tune with everything going on around them. They know you're there and if you don't speak up, the other person they are speaking with assumes it's completely accurate. They also have the option of confirming with you, but they're sorta not wasting your time with redundancy thing as well.

The thing is, if you start speaking up, they'll migrate the conversation away from you more often.

"Oh, let's get pizza for the office"
"Sure. TCI doesn't like mushrooms."
*glances* "Good to know. We can get him Hawaiian"

Narrator: "TCI actually doesn't like pineapple on pizza, but he said nothing."

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

reworded in a different voice

TrentCrimm tells me that people talk for him a lot.

And he likes pineapple on a pizza. Weirdo.

[Dion]

I'm here at the Minneapolis airport for my flight home to Calgary. They just announced that my flight is being delayed by 3 1/2 hours. Ohhh joy!

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Dion

I'm here at the Minneapolis airport for my flight home to Calgary. They just announced that my flight is being delayed by 3 1/2 hours. Ohhh joy!

That sucks but on the bright side MSP is one of the nicest airports with some of the best amenities. I don't know if you can get access to the PGA lounge but they have a putting green to kill some time.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

That sucks but on the bright side MSP is one of the nicest airports with some of the best amenities. I don't know if you can get access to the PGA lounge but they have a putting green to kill some time.

It is a nice airport. I'm sitting here listening to David Billingsley play the piano. He is the founder and executive director of the Billingsley school of music and arts. He's also formerly the background singer for Stoklely, formerly of Grammy nominated R@B group, Mint Condition.

I will check out the PGA lounge as it is near me

[Superflyer]

WGMG is summer colds. My whole house is going through one and I feel so brutal. I should be out enjoying the weather and having fun but it hurts to move.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

WGMG is summer colds. My whole house is going through one and I feel so brutal. I should be out enjoying the weather and having fun but it hurts to move.

I usually try and pump myself full of Dayquil to enjoy the day and then deal with the consequences later. I also would drink as much water as possible.

Go out, UV sanitize germs and try and sweat out the bad stuff.

Sharing food with kids is the easiest way to get sick. I hate wasting food, but I hate getting sick more.

[timun]

Originally Posted by Dion

I'm here at the Minneapolis airport for my flight home to Calgary. They just announced that my flight is being delayed by 3 1/2 hours. Ohhh joy!

If it's only 3-1/2 hours, count yourself lucky.

Originally Posted by timun

Case in point: my 9:00 am flight from Dulles back to YYC this morning still hasn't departed as of 3:00 pm EDT. Not enough flight attendants to crew the plane. I'm sitting in a chair at the gate, eavesdropping on a bunch of super-pissed people trying to book tickets on something else.

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Poor timun, we hardly knew ye. Flightaware was showing you were expected to depart in like 30 minutes, now bumped up over an hour and half again.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...310Z/KIAD/CYYC

Originally Posted by timun

Oh I'm well aware. Originally the ETD got pushed to noon, I went and walked around the terminal to stretch my legs a bit and by the time I got back to the gate ETD was pushed to 1:40. It has since been pushed to 2:40, 3:45 and now 5:00.

The flight crew will "time out" if we're not off the gate by 5:38, per the cap'n, so at this point I think it's a foregone conclusion my flight will be cancelled.

Originally Posted by timun

In a way I don't feel so bad insofar as we're not the only ones. I chatted with a fella trying to go to Charleston; they were supposed to leave at 8:15 and are also now scheduled to depart at 5:00. They'll likely get cancelled too.

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I also understand United had a bit of an operational meltdown due to storms and such in the NE USA yesterday too. Probably the hangover from all that.

Originally Posted by timun

Yyyyyyyyep! Been in line for customer service for four hours...

Originally Posted by timun

I stood in line for customer service for NINE HOURS and got booked on the exact same flight back to Calgary today. Y'all: don't fly United, what a ####ing ####show.

Originally Posted by timun

Update: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...310Z/KIAD/CYYC. Cancelled again. Still stuck in DC.


Line I was in last night:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1673941292198363136

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Jesus. I take back my complaint about waiting for bags.

Originally Posted by timun

The vast sea of lost luggage at IAD is impressive. I went down there in the morning after my rebooked flight was also cancelled, on the off-chance I could get my bag back for the three extra days here, and the very sympathetic customer service rep told me they could put in the request to get it but it probably wouldn't be pulled out until Thursday night. I'm scheduled () to leave Friday morning anyway so they're was no point.

https://wjla.com/news/local/airline-...ght-attendants

Originally Posted by timun

I'm hijacking this thread, it's now about me being stuck in DC. Once again, for the third day in a row, United's flight to Calgary from Dulles was cancelled. I'm booked on the same flight tomorrow morning; not very confident it won't get cancelled too.

Originally Posted by getbak

What's causing all these delays from the east coast? I keep seeing stories about scouts and players driving to Nashville for the draft because their connecting flights were cancelled.

Originally Posted by timun

Some stormy weather along the coast from DC to Boston on the weekend and intermittently over the last few days, approach radar for the three DC area airports failed on Sunday for a couple hours... United's CEO is blaming FAA ATC in the New York area for causing most of the trouble on Sunday, which had caused a domino effect of problems this week.

Newark is still far and away the most ####ed airport in the world, but Chicago-O'Hare, Houston and Denver are also bad. All big United hubs.

The problem for the Calgary flights out of IAD has been flight crew availability. Flight attendants and pilots are "timing out"—hitting their max working hours—just waiting around for complete crews to fill out planes and go. As flights keep getting cancelled it means flight crews aren't where they're supposed to be either.

I got delayed a cumulative 72 hours.

[Cube Inmate]

Reading the news, what RGMG is writers using the phrase "[X event] could happen as soon as [today/ this week/this year]." I mean, if you could find a way to make the event happen in the past, that would be impressive but I don't think that's a real possibility.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by timun

If it's only 3-1/2 hours, count yourself lucky.

I got delayed a cumulative 72 hours.

This is the kind of thing that is scaring me off booking a trip.

The last 3 trips I've been on have all been nightmares for delays, re-routes, lost luggage, on and on it goes.

Airlines and Airports need to get their heads out of their asses and sort their $### out!

[Fuzz]

Ya, my last one was over 50 hours of travel. It's aweful.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Ya, my last one was over 50 hours of travel. It's aweful.

It just seems like FUBAR is the 'new normal' for air travel and thats just not acceptable.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Plus 1 on the Minneapolis airport. My favourite. If you are going to be stuck at one that’s the best one!

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Locke

This is the kind of thing that is scaring me off booking a trip.

The last 3 trips I've been on have all been nightmares for delays, re-routes, lost luggage, on and on it goes.

Airlines and Airports need to get their heads out of their asses and sort their $### out!

Originally Posted by Locke

It just seems like FUBAR is the 'new normal' for air travel and thats just not acceptable.

ATC is also the cause of many of the delays this year, both in Canada and in the US. And there's always weather that messes things up, particularly in the afternoons.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Plus 1 on the Minneapolis airport. My favourite. If you are going to be stuck at one that’s the best one!

I cannot enjoy a stopover or anything like that. If its a 4 hour one, I NEEED to be near the gate, I am bizarre that way. If I have a destination I need to spend 100% of my efforts getting there. If there was a supermodel free sex emporium, I would have to get to the gate. I hate that I am like that. I need to establish a home base of some sort. The thought of a backpacking trip to Europe makes my skin crawl, but I totally recognize I am fataed.

[WhiteTiger]

Oblivious people who walk in the middle of the sidewalk are GMG today. Look, I realize that you seem to feel that you are the sole soul in existence on this planet, but you actually aren't.

[MoneyGuy]

^Thanked for the sole-soul reference.