The post whore thread.

[brutal]

Bombardier? Somebody else got hosed LOL

My problem is that even when I make silver status, our travel system will only buy tickets three days before departure, so I get a back middle seat 90% of the time on United, etc.

lately, I'm trying to get southwest flights. I just pay the $25 out of pocket to get Early bird and usually end up in the front 5 rows or an exit row. Money well spent imo. Plus the free direct tv helps out some.

No, 737

Rows 20 21 are exit on all UA 2x3 wide body (Airbus, 737, 757). Most versions have a super thin seat cushion on the window seats in the exit rows and/or a half armrest.

Although only Silver so I have to wait until check in to move up to E+ seating, I almost always get exit because someone got moved up either 72 hrs prior, or after check-in depending on their status. Then the just-before-flight seating starts to move around with late check-ins and standby, etc. and I can sometimes squeak out something a little better from the app while at the gate. My favorite seat is 7A or 7D (A3xx, 737) right behind F when there's a shortened bulkhead and front floor storage.

I'm not even making silver going into 2015, 3k miles short and I don't want to pay $350 to make the cheapest miles run I could find (Miami.) I'll use a new UA mileage plus card to keep priority 2 boarding, and pay out of pocket for plus until I get Silver back. I'm picking up 50k award miles for a small spend on the card, and two free club passes per year, so it's a decent deal to keep me out of the kettle line.

Already have two known trips east for January, and possibly a third, so I will probably make Silver again mid year like I usually do. I normally either hit segments or do 30-40K, always short for Gold. One of those upcoming trips (Raleigh) should have been in 2014 and got pushed so I'm kinda bummed about that one causing my status loss and zero chance of upgrading into F which is the biggest pisser about losing status even though it's kinda rare. I got upgraded to F for 5 segments in 2014.

I considered switching to AA for 2015 but UA is still going to work better for me for the time being, even with their RDM changes going to revenue like Delta.

Fixed for lobo.

[Great-Kazoo]

Okay, identify this quote. I know for sure at least one regular poster in here can.

"These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.
Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,
and hell walks laughing-"

Lord Fouls Bane Book 1

Also found in a metallica song, IIRC dedicated to Cliff Burton, who died in a tour bus crash.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Okay, identify this quote. I know for sure at least one regular poster in here can.

"These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.
Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,
and hell walks laughing-"

Hmmm. Interesting...but I had no idea where it came from.

[HoneyBadger]

Hi

[fly boy]

Iiiiiiii. Want ammo, and a better paying job, and a new dishwasher

[Irving]

Lord Fouls Bane Book 1

Also found in a metallica song, IIRC dedicated to Cliff Burton, who died in a tour bus crash.

Yep. I was familiar with the Metallica lyrics, but not that it came from the book. That series was suggested in one of the many book threads that I started back in 2010. Buffalobo seconded the recommendation, but I didn't know him back then. I've had the series on my radar since then, but just started reading it. Kazoo, how much of that info did you know without looking it up?

[TheBelly]

Two videos uploading now:

bipods

shooting mats

[HoneyBadger]

... and a new dishwasher

Girl trouble?

[OtterbatHellcat]

Girl trouble?

lol

[OtterbatHellcat]

Hi

Yo, bro.