[Zanth13]

Jusentantaka, on 22 April 2010 - 08:35 PM, said:

Macros, on 22 April 2010 - 08:11 PM, said:

you should be putting in a claim anyhow for disrupted plans

This is some kinda joke, right? A Claim for disrupted plans? My sweet purple lesbian fish God. I'd have to drop six figures on lawyers just to get something that frivolous into court.

Problem now being I can't get even a business seat on a flight for less than five thousand dollars. (I refuse to ever fly coach. Don't care, won't fucking do it, no matter what, ever ever ever) *sigh*


I suppose I could call my brother and see if he can get me a bitch seat on a C130 to Ramstein... but as unfun as that might sound to anyone who hasn't done it, it is so so so so much worse.

C130s are not soooooooooooo badddd....

[LadyMTL]

OK, my little complaint is nowhere near as bad as Jusen's (a curse on all airlines that still gouge and gouge and gouge) but I just had my first experience with mothballs and now I feel all woozy and gross. I had to scatter some out on my back deck to drive away some feral cats that were using the thing as their own personal litterbox except that I had no idea how horrible they smell...at least, not until I opened the box and nearly passed out.

Anyway, I've washed my hands a few dozen times and even put some Vicks VapoRub under my nose but the stench won't go away! I almost regret trying to reclaim my deck...almost...

[Jusentantaka]

Hey hey, its got nothing to do with those damned unwashed peasants. I just hate kids on airplanes. And kids on a 10-14 hour flight would probably make me *dum da dee da dum dum dum go away Mr. NSA* And kids don't fly business or 1st. Likewise, less loud fat people complaining about shit. Well worth the extra money in my book to have a nice peaceful flight... So yeah, I don't hate people for being poor or cheap, just for being fat, stupid, annoying and abominably ugly, or for daring to bring their tick-like children on a plane with them.

Luftie only has a couple flights I can reasonably get to (NYC or DC), and they're the ones in the 5k range. And I got my money back from my previous flight, but even if I had been booked first class on Virgin it wouldn't cover these prices. (Sadly, they don't go to germany... cause if I'm gonna pay this much for a seat, it might as well be a the best commercial seat there is)

and the c130 is perfectly legit. If you're active military personnel (or family of). And its free. But my god, does it ever suck. Though I don't even know if they do that anymore. But it sucks too much to consider.


Me thinks its time for a nice angry drive down the Bay front



@Zanth: Every done it from hawaii to japan? Don't even think we were halfway before I was considering grabbing one of the parachutes and jumping out.

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 22 April 2010 - 09:16 PM

[Macros]

Driving long range in a high performance car to get a more reasonably priced flight is unfeasble as well, due to gasoline prices. A real bind, does one scrape together the cash to drive to another airport, or bite the bullet and fly from NYC.

oh what a world.

[Jusentantaka]

well, I live closer to DC, than NYC. but those are pretty much the only two american hubs I can go to. I'm not taking a jaunt to Chicago to catch a flight that's 20% off, nuh-uh.

And gas isn't that expensive over here, still under 3$ a gallon 'till summer it looks like, and I get about 22-25 miles to a gallon typically, so its not so bad to drive a couple hundred miles.

[Macros]

for $1000 I'd drive to cork, and back. Hell I'd do it twice, but there are some fine strip clubs in the city.
That's me though, I have a reasonable car that'll pile out about 60 miles per gallon of my precious fuel. alas though its a pitiful little thing, I think it tops out at a measly 110 miles per hour*.





*think, obviously, my car has never been past 70 miles an hour.

[Jusentantaka]

Yeah, well you can keep your bullshit gas mileage lies and slander, cause my sweet baby can break 200.


and its not like I wouldn't drive normally to save that much, but to get to chicago by departure time, I think I'd have to have left about five hours ago. And thats supposing it isnt that special time of the month for all the dick cops between here and there.

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 22 April 2010 - 10:11 PM

[Macros]

200 mpg?
my god such a vehicle, have you informed GM about it, it could be what they're looking for to pull their ass out of the garbage can.


But you're right, there's simply no way my tidly little seat leon could average 60 mpg on my run home from Belfast, a journey I so rarely undertake it's probably not worth noting the consumption rate on my vehicle.
I suppose I should reign in my wild claims a bit, after all, if Seat project an average 57 mpg on a mixed run cycle, I shouldn't argue in the slightest, they know better than I. But lets face it, that 57 is probably a barefaced lie by Seat, after all, I would push the ball out there were I them, try to sell a few more in these financially tight times. I'd say its really 33mpg or something like that

Or maybe, just maybe, I actually do average 60+ mpg door to door from Belfast to home (that's a mixed urban, motorway and back road run of about 75 miles) and you're so full of shit that I can't actually be sure that you keyboard isn't so covered in the substance that you're unaware of what you're actually typing anymore.
your car pops 200? I thought it hit 190. make up your mind, and while you're at it, decide on your financial status.
You only travel business class? Won't pay the $5000. But you have an apartment in NY you don't use, you have a car that breaks 200, that shit ain't cheap.
Yet you had to scrounge up gas money for your trip up to acowhereeverthefuck.
Pulease. (the u, surprisingly on my part, was not a typo)
No-one cares that your "car pops 200" because lets face it, it doesn't. There's not a whole lot of cars out there that hammer through the old 200mph barrier on a routine basis and they're damn expensive, again see my above complaint, unless off course you've souped up an older car.
Ok, lets go down that route, you've taken an older/ lower profile vehicle, and put so much new hardware under the bonnet that its a super tank, hell, you put a bit of nos in there for the craic, so it runs nines.
Are you remotely aware how expensive that would be?
If you're firing that kind of coin about, you dont give a shit about you're $5000 flight, and let face it, you wouldnt drive for 20% saving because whats $1000 but 5 kgs off that pimped super wagon lying in the garage.

Stop polluting us with your bullshit for ten minutes please.

ugh

[Imperial Historian]

Calm down people, your supposed to vent in here about other people not at each other.

I'm annoyed that I've had to do some thing vaguely like moderating... I've been doing so well.

[Macros]

Apologies IH, but that'd been brewing in me for quite some weeks.

wave a stick about asw ell, it makes you look more authoritative

[Jusentantaka]

ah... that was kinda cute.

[Macros]

I'm sure it was, so your car pumps out what exactly?

[Zanth13]

Jusentantaka, on 22 April 2010 - 09:13 PM, said:

@Zanth: Every done it from hawaii to japan? Don't even think we were halfway before I was considering grabbing one of the parachutes and jumping out.

lol, no never that far, only a few hours at a time, maybe 5 at the most... and Im not sure if it was 130, but it was a similar style...

for some reason i can fall asleep better on those type of planes, even though the seating is more uncomfortable and there are fumes and heat most of the time.

[Jusentantaka]

Zanth13, on 23 April 2010 - 03:07 AM, said:

Jusentantaka, on 22 April 2010 - 09:13 PM, said:

@Zanth: Every done it from hawaii to japan? Don't even think we were halfway before I was considering grabbing one of the parachutes and jumping out.

lol, no never that far, only a few hours at a time, maybe 5 at the most... and Im not sure if it was 130, but it was a similar style...

for some reason i can fall asleep better on those type of planes, even though the seating is more uncomfortable and there are fumes and heat most of the time.

Ugh, the fumes were the worst. And the walls get cold, at least at night. I remember I got up to stretch and put my hand out and brushed the wall-thing to the cargo bay. Lost a layer of skin like that kid with his tongue and a flagpole in that "classic" movie. Apparently though, the flight was only ten hours, not the twenty I remember. Probably the vapor high stretched it out.

[bubba]

I did 8hrs in the strap seats on one........it wasn't to bad....not great but bearable...

[Jusentantaka]

Bah. I'm seeing a very telling trend here. My brother is also all 'Urgh. Me big strong man. Have club. Go Hunt. Was not bad in back of plane'

Neanderthals

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 23 April 2010 - 04:14 AM

[Macros]

i gotta go t beed, dog tired
got flightd to aske inth emorning, oreferably sober.
you kno, the reshcheduled flights that ever major air company has on.
them flights.
but not germany, that place the HASE!!!!

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Macros, on 23 April 2010 - 04:35 AM, said:

i gotta go t beed, dog tired
got flightd to aske inth emorning, oreferably sober.
you kno, the reshcheduled flights that ever major air company has on.
them flights.
but not germany, that place the HASE!!!!

You sir - are drunk.

Messing with my groove: after a night of moderate drinking, hanging out at my friend Reade's place - he disappears for almost 45 minutes. We spend the time looking for him. After we find him, he scolds us for not doing something in his absence. Because he decided that we had too many people to do anything fun. But it was his stuff, and we're not assholes.

[Mezla PigDog]

It's my last day at work and I am so hungover, I might die. If I close my eyes, I tip over!

[Gothos]

You bourgeois swines! I'd be happy to fly in baggage class.