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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?

« on: May 14, 2024, 10:40:07 AM »

Prepare to get divorced


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As long as I make it to the concert.... 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?

« on: May 14, 2024, 10:01:09 AM »

Attention fancy people. My MIL has inquired about upgrading their flights to Portugal. She has some pain from sitting too long and is getting nervous about the 7.5 hour flight. I booked it all for them using Chase URs. The flights are through like 3 different carriers and when I go to each, I don't see any upgrade options for cabin. I think that possibly they are all booked in fancy land, but i've also seen a notice saying that since everything was booked via a "partner" all seats may not be showing. Should I have them call the airline or Chase to see what the availability is? I've also considered waiting until around check in since I'm sure anything available will be solicited. Any fancy upgrade people have any experience here?

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: May 14, 2024, 09:17:30 AM »

just being proactive- pit Harrison Butker stuff isn't allowed ITT

LOL. The Chiefs are really having an off season.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: May 13, 2024, 03:53:15 PM »

Bengals, bills, or lions would’ve been the best from a must see tv standpoint.

Its the opening week game of the NFL season featuring the 2x defending champs. Everyone is watching regardless. This whole conversation is stupid.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: 201* Concert Thread

« on: May 13, 2024, 02:25:01 PM »

Cake tomorrow at Grinders. I'm somewhat indifferent especially just getting back from vacation, but should be fun.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: May 13, 2024, 01:40:13 PM »

How can KK be so absolutely wrong about anything he tweets/says?

It was the best choice by far. Not going to put Bengals in that position and never is a division game.

His whole schtick is saying the opposite of what normal people think/say.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: songs in your heavy rotation

« on: May 13, 2024, 09:56:22 AM »

Not really a Kings Of Leon fan, but I heard Mustang for the first time last week and like it a lot. I had to Shazam it and was surprised it was even Kings of Leon.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: May 13, 2024, 08:46:35 AM »

We have two Grayson’s


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We played a team with two kids named River.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kids

« on: May 13, 2024, 08:42:44 AM »

Yesterday we went to a family weenie roast at my wife’s grandma’s farm. When Phil said “it’s time to go to the weenie roast” my 9 year old daughter started giggling uncontrollably. We’ve reach the point where my 9 year old daughter laughs at dick jokes. I kept seriously asking what was so funny to embarrass her. I’m going to enjoy this stage.

wait until 69 starts.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 07, 2024, 02:07:29 PM »

Those are fish.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 07, 2024, 10:15:29 AM »

Broke a flip flop. Worst vacation ever


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 06, 2024, 08:16:38 PM »

Excursion day! Pretty low key/lame group. I was one of the only ones drinking. I was enjoying chatting/hanging with the two captains while everyone else was hanging with kids. I’m a pretty low key drinker and most people won’t know if I’ve had 18 or 7 drinks. (Internet merchants absolutely know).

Had a pretty great day and on our way off, Lil SF gave an elite fist bump and here’s our tip “explosion” to the captain which made him and I laugh our balls off. He planned it all himself
which was pretty great. Got off the boat and met up with Mrs SF. You know how I said most people don’t know how drunk I am?  Mrs SF knows every time!!  She was laughing at me and we then went to dinner and later to a bar. I spilled my martini on me and she finally got a bit mad at me but to my defense I told her how drunk I’ve been all day and she knew it so it was basically her fault.

Vacation rules


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 06, 2024, 04:39:24 PM »

I’ve officially reached the “beer doesn’t work as good” point of the vacation. Buckle up mfers!!!


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: book recommendations

« on: May 06, 2024, 04:37:53 PM »

Started Sapiens on vacation and am pretty gripped. Pretty fascinating. Getting a bit too drunk to really dive in but will prob devour off vacation.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 05, 2024, 01:30:26 PM »

This is shaping up well for stupid fitz being superpak’d when he inevitably has to deal with some hiccup going on with his return flight.

super power scenario in play wherein he becomes a master travel booking savant but only when he’s blackout drunk.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 05, 2024, 12:41:08 PM »

I’ve hit the “I already know what you want from multiple bartenders” about 1.7 days early. :dancing:


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 05, 2024, 12:39:10 PM »

There is absolutely no reason for a 5AM flight, ever.

From KC it sometimes is.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 05, 2024, 10:53:04 AM »

Being in paradise and watching other parents yell at their kids for being ungrateful assholes is very good for my soul.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 05, 2024, 10:40:34 AM »

Bitch I made it


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Hell yeah you did. Go to old San Juan. Mrs SF and I got crap housed at a decent dive bar called Taburna Lupulo last year.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves

« on: May 04, 2024, 04:08:01 PM »

Chlorine is a base, not an acid.

It tastes terrible either way.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves

« on: May 04, 2024, 12:33:23 PM »

Lazy rivers with waterfalls that are hard to get around. I just want to float and not have my booze drink get filled with acid water thank you!


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 04, 2024, 12:25:48 PM »

I made it fellas. Couple small delays but all was good. Prob one of my last 5am flights. That’s just too early. 1:45 is not an alarm setting I want any part of in the future. Currently boozed up and sitting in a comfy beach chair staring at the ocean. 10/10 my bod needed   


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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: May 02, 2024, 04:13:58 PM »

it's our last water polo season (probably) and gearing up for summer tournaments there is drama as there usually is. Since there aren't enough girls at any one club, clubs will join forces to create more competitive teams. Anyway my daughter's club and another club were merging and planned to have an A team and a B team. At least that's what one of the coaches thought. There were 3 or 4 combined tournaments with one team and eventually the other coach (who was going to lead the A team in summer tourneys) thought it was going to be one big team with a huge bench while my daughter's coach thought there would be an A and a B team (so weaker players from both clubs could play a lot at an appropriate level).

The two team would have worked brilliantly EXCEPT the A team coach and/or his weaker players decided that his weaker players would not play on the B team, despite the fact that they clearly should based on ability. Which led to my daughter's coach pressuring my daughter (who was clearly an A-teamer) into playing with the B team to guarantee the weaker players of his club would have an opportunity to play on a more competitive team. Like, he tried to tell her she were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play at all and that the A-team coach didn't want her or have space for her when the A coach flat out told her he wanted her on the team and told them that they were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play. Really not cool.

anyway she is playing with the a-team in a couple of weeks and she will have a lot of fun (hopefully)

I forgot to add that for many kids and parents NONE OF THEM had any of this communicated to them at all until rosters were sent out TWO WEEKS before they needed to be locked for the ENTIRE SUMMER. Everyone just thought there would be some clear communication from them but it never came. These two bozos are some of the worst communicators I've ever seen. They're trying to be diplomatic while also being petty and trying to be competitive while also protecting their own clubs. I also forgot to mention that the A-team coach brought in some ringers from outside the region (which didn't bump my daughter from A but definitely bumped some others)

This whole situation sucks. You know who it sucks the most for? The kids that these idiots think they are looking out for.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: May 02, 2024, 01:01:08 PM »

Wow, that seems like a huge PITA. We just do the same thing, but let the league do all the logistical stuff you have to manually do. That is pretty much exactly how our coach does league play so that's pretty cool. Lil SF bats toward the bottom and has gotten really unlucky with at bats so far this year. He has been on deck like 4 times when something has happened and he didn't get to hit. Tuesday night the storms in KC were coming in and i'll be honest, the 3 and 2 folks were pretty much waiting for a kid to get zapped before they cancelled the game. He was up and his DA friend got picked off ending the inning. He then got up and after the first pitch, they finally called the game. Coach had him bat at the top for the next game to get him and others more at bats. Even when coach does stuff like that we still kick the crap out of most teams in league play so I'm guessing if we are still on this team next year, we won't do league, but who knows. Tourneys can be brutal. I love it mostly, but its giving up a whole weekend so adding more will be tough.

It's not that big of a PITA and it's a very small tradeoff to being able to have complete control over our schedule. Date, Time, Location, Opponent, etc. I don't think a league would even be feasible for us. Also I don't know of any competitive spring/summer leagues in Omaha. All the leagues are just rec (which it sounds like maybe what your team is in since they're beating the doors off teams?). I know some of our peers will put together teams to play fall competitive leagues but we have too many kids playing football to make it work.

yeah, its def gotten to be more of a "rec" league as they've gotten older. Your situation sounds pretty good being able to play teams you know. No one is having any fun out there for an hour 45 when the other team is walking everyone. They do max 5 runs per inning but no run rule. So basically if you are up by 16 after the 4th, the game is over because the other team can't catch up. Those games suck ass. Its def not every game, but its getting more and more like that.

yeah, that sounds awful. we play USSSA rules for all games. run rule is 15 after 3 or 8 after 4.

Yeah, run rule games suck as regardless. We play USSSA tourneys. No idea why league play is different.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: May 02, 2024, 12:45:10 PM »

Wow, that seems like a huge PITA. We just do the same thing, but let the league do all the logistical stuff you have to manually do. That is pretty much exactly how our coach does league play so that's pretty cool. Lil SF bats toward the bottom and has gotten really unlucky with at bats so far this year. He has been on deck like 4 times when something has happened and he didn't get to hit. Tuesday night the storms in KC were coming in and i'll be honest, the 3 and 2 folks were pretty much waiting for a kid to get zapped before they cancelled the game. He was up and his DA friend got picked off ending the inning. He then got up and after the first pitch, they finally called the game. Coach had him bat at the top for the next game to get him and others more at bats. Even when coach does stuff like that we still kick the crap out of most teams in league play so I'm guessing if we are still on this team next year, we won't do league, but who knows. Tourneys can be brutal. I love it mostly, but its giving up a whole weekend so adding more will be tough.

It's not that big of a PITA and it's a very small tradeoff to being able to have complete control over our schedule. Date, Time, Location, Opponent, etc. I don't think a league would even be feasible for us. Also I don't know of any competitive spring/summer leagues in Omaha. All the leagues are just rec (which it sounds like maybe what your team is in since they're beating the doors off teams?). I know some of our peers will put together teams to play fall competitive leagues but we have too many kids playing football to make it work.

yeah, its def gotten to be more of a "rec" league as they've gotten older. Your situation sounds pretty good being able to play teams you know. No one is having any fun out there for an hour 45 when the other team is walking everyone. They do max 5 runs per inning but no run rule. So basically if you are up by 16 after the 4th, the game is over because the other team can't catch up. Those games suck ass. Its def not every game, but its getting more and more like that.