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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves

« on: July 11, 2025, 04:20:00 PM »

People saying there can only be one Highlander. The Highlander is the main character from the Highlands of Scotland. They all aren’t Highlanders.

I’ve heard a variants of “he’s a Highlander” 3 times in the last week. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves

« on: July 11, 2025, 04:17:03 PM »

People that conflate walking tacos & frito chili pie.

Also, if you’re browning hamburger in a skillet and adding some packet chili seasoning, that’s not chili.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: "That's so funny" (Scrubs thread)

« on: July 11, 2025, 03:48:00 PM »

They bringing back Cole?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: July 10, 2025, 12:47:24 AM »

netflix just added Portlandia and Mr. Robot, which rules big time. i hope they're still there when winter rolls around

The skit where he gets Riot Spray back together is one of the funniest things ever on TV.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: House buying/owning advice

« on: July 04, 2025, 02:32:25 PM »

Starter homes used to be available in safer areas.  The city has sprawled so much, I don't know if those are still available at all in a reasonable drive to the city.  Starter homes now seem to be homes that need love that also require you to trade a level of safety as well. 

High crime is the new starter home.

Fwiw, there are still homes under 300k in PV.  They’re small, but that’s what “starter homes” are supposed to be.

$250k-$275k for a start home seems crazy to me. But I live in one of the cheapest cities in the US, so maybe I’m wrong.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: June 28, 2025, 05:44:31 AM »

We were supposed to fly home today (Saturday) from Paris. The AA system going down pushed us to tomorrow. Now they’ve flat out cancelled our flight. Looks like we’re flying back Monday or Tuesday.

Stuck until Tuesday, but our AirBNB is open until then.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: June 27, 2025, 11:55:04 PM »

We were supposed to fly home today (Saturday) from Paris. The AA system going down pushed us to tomorrow. Now they’ve flat out cancelled our flight. Looks like we’re flying back Monday or Tuesday.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself

« on: June 26, 2025, 06:43:43 AM »

European calendars starting on Monday finally got me & I bought Versailles tickets for the wrong day. Found out when trying to scan the ticket at the gate.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Signs of getting old

« on: June 25, 2025, 04:21:47 AM »

I really don’t like Tobi’s freezing until someone touches him celebration. Gives me anxiety because his teammates are always slow to touch him.

Felix’s sack celebration was great.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: June 22, 2025, 11:07:21 AM »

The Copenhagen airport security check might be the dumbest setup I’ve ever seen.

I thought Oklahomans were the slowest people on earth. I was wrong. It’s the Danes.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: June 21, 2025, 05:14:30 PM »

Drove around Denmark today. Their traffic lights do something we should do. In the second before a light changes from red to green, the yellow comes on with the red to tell you it’s about to turn green. They all let off their brakes when the yellow comes on & are already starting to push the gas pedal when the light turns green.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shame Yourself

« on: June 19, 2025, 08:15:55 AM »

I have a summer cold, so I’m kind of in a daze. We’re at a zoo. I walked around a corner & saw a big sign for churros. I said to my family “there are the churros” thinking it was an animal.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: songs in your heavy rotation

« on: June 13, 2025, 04:57:44 PM »

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: June 13, 2025, 04:49:07 PM »

Aisle seat with an empty middle seat on a 10 hour flight.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk

« on: June 03, 2025, 09:52:18 AM »

I’ve always pictured Dax as looking exactly like HAL 9000

I’ve long wondered if Dax is an early prototype AI bot that they’ve just let keep running. He’s like the Voyager 1 of AI bots.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk

« on: June 03, 2025, 09:50:27 AM »

Who would play Dax in a biopic?  Christopher Walken maybe.

the role has already been cast and played to perfection by Mark Proksch (what we do in the shadows)

Dax being an energy vampire makes the most sense.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Treating Your Entire Body Like A Trashcan Master Thread

« on: June 01, 2025, 05:11:33 PM »

Snocone season is back.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 30, 2025, 06:21:15 PM »

Reminds me of 12 years ago when Phil & I got in a cab in Berlin at 10:00pm. We asked the cab driver if there were any bars nearby. The driver just laughed and said “yeah, but not for you, you’re too old.”

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: White people name, White people shame

« on: May 28, 2025, 05:27:23 PM »

Blayde Xylen

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: May 20, 2025, 12:32:09 AM »

I need to get back into Last of Us. I loved the first season & love playing the 2nd game. The story is great for setting up great game play. Not so much a TV show. Also Bella Ramsey tries to play Elle with a teenager attitude that’s not in the game.

The girl playing Abby was considered for Elle, but she was too old for the younger Elle of season 1. She would have been a much better Elle if she was just a little younger.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: May 20, 2025, 12:28:44 AM »

why Cassian and his girl are on separate planets.

*spoilers -kind of*






She left so he wouldn’t give up the rebellion for her. When she left she had some info about the future that we didn’t find out until later.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk

« on: May 13, 2025, 07:03:49 PM »

And some of you people think dax is just a character lol

Character or not, I still have no idea what their purpose is for posting in the pit.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk

« on: May 06, 2025, 02:16:24 PM »

Is he actually the biggest dumbass on the planet?

https://x.com/acyn/status/1919554986389995633?s=46


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Elon is the CEO from Jurassic World who thought he was going to bravely save people by flying a helicopter & immediately crashing it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Signs of getting old

« on: May 02, 2025, 10:53:05 AM »

Just upgraded to astigmatism contacts.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Destination: SALINA!

« on: April 30, 2025, 08:36:33 PM »

Salina now having daily morning flights out to Chicago, Denver, & Houston and nightly return flights from those 3 is elite.

that flight to Denver is hilarious. It stops in Hays. I have legit been on it with only five other passengers. They had to assign people to certain seats to make sure the weight was distributed safely.

That’s the Hays flight? I need to flight track that tomorrow.