I’ve been places in the states where even airports won’t give you a beer before noon. Damn Puritans, ruining things for 250 years.
I think you’re legally allowed to kick people in the crotch in that scenario.
Yes, violence is great at convincing people to give you alcohol!
Violence is the one true power, from which all other power is derived.
This trick only works at airports.
Try it!
I was in an airport in NY from 5am-6am, and they didn’t serve alcohol during that hour. It was awful, and I had to wait!
Yeah SLC is one of these. Worst layover ever.
ATL is the best layover. You can go bar hopping across the terminals using the train.
They even ruined those muskets with the bell thingies on the end of the barrel. Haven’t seen one of those in centuries.
I like arriving 6 hours early for a flight. I have time to drink beer and take a nap on the ground.
That’s basic airport etiquette.
Arrives on time. Flight is delayed for five hours. Welp hitting the bar I guess.
Same
It’s almost like if people understand why someone is doing something, they don’t judge them! Maybe people should just stop judging people if they don’t understand them!
I’m judging you for saying this.
I’m judging you for judging them.
hey :(
I am judging you for being sad
What are you, my therapist?
Yes, now quit stopping your medications because you feel better after taking them. That’s their point.
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It’s almost that way? What would it take for it to actually be that way?
I told my brain to stop judging, but for some reason it still judges!
It’s almost like
I hate when people write this
It’s almost like it turns any normal statement of fact into a sarcastic, condescending, passive-aggressive jibe for literally no reason at all
it’s almost like literally the entire point is to make it sound sarcastic, and if you want to be even more snide you can add a “huh, who coulda thunk?” at the end.
who coulda thunk?
Why just repeat what i said but even more sarcastic? Pretty sure I already made that point.
r/yourjokebutworse
Oh there’s often plenty of reason.
If ya say so buddy
Almost.
I am sorry.
It’s alright
What is this, a festival starter pack?
There’s public bathrooms at your festivals?
That’s what the water bottle is for.
Or LAN party
Seen all of this at every college I’ve been to
I am fully on board with brushing your teeth in a public restroom. That is perfectly acceptable behavior.
Unless you leave toothpaste in the sink, in which case you’re a monster!
That’s just people that do the same thing no matter where they are.
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What airports are you going to??
(Seriously, asking for a friend)
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Really? Which airports so I can avoid them? There are so many!
meanwhile europeans hopping on international sleeper trains (small hotels on wheels) without even having to show up an hour before departure
Prostate and testis exams are vital though ;p
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we allow our buttholes to be fingered and our balls to be fondled for our “safety”
what??
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Imo the real damage to society was done not by terrorists but by the politicians who enacted counter terrorist laws
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You mean it’s NOT common practice to do all these things at Wal-Mart??
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I don’t know what it is, but aside from the side effects of nicotine addiction and access problems in these spaces(which, whatever, I get it), transportation hubs (airports, train stations, ferry terminals, etc.) are my favourite places to be.
I have it the oposite way :( Especially the airports, they pressent themselves as this beautiful, clean location for happy traveling people. In reality it looks more like in the picture, people beeing on the edge of collapse, exhausted, living like shit
I’ve always felt like they just present themselves as transportation hubs and that’s it. They’re often very utilitarian and full of signage and whatnot. Remind me of other transport terminals.
As a frequent flyer with lounge access I tend to agree. When I want to be alone with a movie or something, I can be, and when I feel like having a (free!) beer where the people are, I can do that too.
I’m so angry Delta removed lounge access from Amex Platinum card holders.
Enshitified!
I liked to think that I was a frequent flyer but the bar is set so high. I flew twice a week, every week, for nearly a year straight at my job. Only made it up to Delta Gold status recently and I can’t even access the lounge.
I already spent nearly a year of my life living in a hotel and I’m not even in the top tiers of the travel world.
You don’t spend enough. Try being rich next time.
Fuck that lol
That’s the spirit!
That’s pretty much it. There was a WSJ article about this very thing: frequent flyer miles are more based on spending with the airline CC then by actually flying.
Airline status is a joke these days. If you don’t have their credit card it’s basically impossible.
I don’t know about Delta (never flown with them), but with my usual airlines it’s not just the frequency, but also distance and ticket type.
Yeah I was flying domestic 600 mile (965 km) flights across the country in main cabin sardine class so I probably wasn’t racking up miles that well.
Those little white nicotine pouches have solved my nicotine access issues while flying. I still hate that most airports completely did away with smoking areas though. I don’t smoke, but I vape. It’s pretty fucked up to put someone into an area that takes 4 hours to get into, and then not provide an area for their basic needs. Yes, I know nicotine isn’t an actual need, but it’s an addiction, and it feels like a need when you’re addicted.
Snuss. I’m about to board a plane in 14 hours and I have several cans ready. I’m a vaper too.
I prefer the white pouches because they don’t require spitting, and they don’t mess up your teeth. But I used to use the snus back when I was a smoker, before these little pouches popped up everywhere.
Snus, at least in the USA, is those white pouches that you don’t have to spit. The ones you spit are called Dip. The ones where you spit a gallon are called Chew.
I was thinking “snuff”, even though you and I both said “snus”. Thanks for clarifying. Now I know what those white packets are called. My friends and I have always used “chew” and “snuff” interchangeably and for the stuff where you spit a gallon we’ve called it either leaf, or loose leaf chew.
Ah, I remember snuff. I don’t dip too often but when I do it’s coperhagen long cut. Bought that Copenhagen snuff by mistake like 20 years ago and I think I still have it in my teeth. I genuinely do not know why anyone uses that stuff.
Snuff used to be named for the stuff people used to use (like Napoleon) and they would snort it. Lots of elegant Snuff boxes out there.
I found a jar of that once in a little convenience shop way up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was made by Levi Garrett & Sons, was in a brown jar, had an old timey label on it, and a cork in the top. For years afterwards my friends and I would pull it out when we got drunk enough and snort it. It was crazy strong. It would mess you up real good. Idk what ever happened to it. It kind of just vanished without me noticing.
Edit: “I think I still have it in my teeth” lol. Isn’t that the truth? I preferred the long cut too. But my friends who were “real men” all preferred the short cut because I guess it proves you’re a badass.
public transport in general is just nice because you’re around other people, the idea of sitting isolated in a car for hours on a highway fills me with primordial dread
Having complete strangers photograph your underwear and then feel it for good measure. Espresso martini. Saying “I flew in from St Louis and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED”.
Are airports as a whole liminal spaces?
An airport fits the definition pretty well
unless you’re a staff member
Yes.
But one can be a bit more specific and think of their long corridors as liminal spaces, but the cafés and stores in them as not. I flu a few times per year out of the same airport, and typically wait in the same café for over one hour. I use this time to rest a bit before getting on the flight and eat something, and it doesn’t feel liminal at all.
Yes. Especially the bits that connect multiple concourses on foot.
Flying into small fields in a small plane can be an interesting experience; some are actually quite busy, they’ll either have a popular mechanic shop on the field, a busy local flight school, or it’s a destination for business jet travel because of a local golf course or something. Others are almost abandoned, which can be an interesting experience to visit.
Be me, keep a toothbrush and toothpaste at work so I can brush my teeth after lunch in the employee restroom.
Me too! Every morning after coffee. I work from home now, but I did this every day.
I heard from dentists it was better to do it before eating or drinking anything, as you’ve coated your mouth in the good shit to protect it. But I guess it’s splitting hairs.
I guess consistency is more important for overall dental health.
Hope you’re waiting around 15 minutes after finishing that coffee and having a drink/rinse with water before you brush, otherwise you risk damaging your enamel
A lot of Japan does this, actually.
- Drinking at 6am - Christmas Day.
- Sleeping on floor - After night out smashed.
- Brushing teeth in public bathroom - After getting smashed and sleeping on the floor, heading to work.
- $10 Water - Never acceptable.
- Pyjamas - You ever been in a council estate.
Pyjamas - You ever been in a council estate.
you don’t have to get dressed when you’re still in the estate mum. it’s not like going OUT.
Out out?
oot and aboot
My line is, I can go out in my dressing gown so long as I’m within sight of the house.
And I can drive in my dressing gown to drop someone off, so long as it’s inside town.
I bet Diogenes would pay the senate to let him live in an airport.
Why would the Cynic pay for something, especially to the Senate?
It’s a reference to the time Diogenes payed the senate to be able to live in a Market.
Drinking tomato juice (more related to the airplane). WTF! never seen it in vending machines, offered on tap, in fast food joints …
But 9/10 times someone in my hearing range orders a tomato juice to chillax and drink that sweet thick pseudo-ketchup.
Tomato juice has a considerable amount of sodium in it. I wonder if there’s some sort of correlation?
It is a travesty you can’t buy it in more places. I typically ask for a virgin Bloody Mary instead.
I order. I use it to mix in my airplane bottle of vodka and the others you mention are probably doing it as well.
Ive never heard anyone order a tomato juice on an airplane
