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oh, since we're talking about spanish ... this morning on the bus, I was being aisle-blocked by a spanish/mexican/south american woman speaking to a - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:52
WordTwist will not accept "nubism" as a valid word. -- nm - Cloudy with a Chance of Dano Sep 16, 15:40 1
- details... -- nm - Max Sep 16, 15:43
fucking Yahoo - "You cannot edit the schedule for a week once it has begun. (Error #509)" the week hasn't begun - Guy Sep 16, 15:32
Is "Dark Blue" any good yet, or is it still basically just a "meh"? (I haven't seen an episode yet, but the title intrigues me with possibilities) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:31 1
- My mother, an admitted television addict, dropped it from her schedule after just two episodes. -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 15:33
huh. Air Canada is doing Calgary-Tokyo flights for 800 return. - Reagen Sep 16, 15:30 18
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  - Top airline in North America for customer satisfaction! - Reagen Sep 16, 15:43 5
    - Try US Air sometime. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 15:53 2
      - "Oh yeah, you think that's something? Well I've flown Northwest." -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:55 1
        
        I've flown Horizon/Alaska Air. Man, Alaska Air rocks. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:56
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      - this was a couple years ago, so it could have changed. -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:46
  - You raise an extremely important point. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:41 10
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      - regarding European airlines, I have two words to refute your argument: Air Franced. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 15:54 1
        
        "Oh shit, I got Air Franced!" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:55
      - they're probably the best NA airline for overseas flights (although airlines like BA kick their ass) - Reagen Sep 16, 15:45 1
        
        I loved Continental for the transpacific flight. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 15:53
      - Yes, agreed. (I recommend Westjet ... so much better than air canada and aeromexico) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:45 4
        
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        I only have experience with roughly three airlines, and that's one of them. There's your relevance :) - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:54
        
        though, westjet has smaller planes than Air Canada, I think. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:46 1
        
        depends on the route. AC flies planes both larger and smaller than the two types West Jet uses. -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:47
hmm, how tempted will i be when i visit a store offering 30 months no interest financing, - tRuMaN Sep 16, 15:22 8
- I almost closed the store down and drove up the road to the Ford Dealership for this.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 16, 15:29 6
  - laughing. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 15:55
  - I was going to reject it for not being a 4x4, but it appears it is...but it wouldn't fit in the garage :( -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 16, 15:54
  - WHOOPS. -- nm - kelly Sep 16, 15:33
  - what? But ... it's so wasteful. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:32 2
    - for that price it *more* than pays for itself. -- nm - Remlik Sep 16, 15:36 1
      - Fair enough. And you could possibly flip it pretty quick after buying it. - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:40
- I'm never tempted now that I know that if you mess up just once they'll retroactively nail you to the wall for all the interest from day 1. -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 15:28
For my birthday this year, I could bike 120 miles to help fundraise Habitat for Humanity, or take a personal weekend trip (NYC?). Thoughts? - Hotkiss Sep 16, 15:21 5
- Like bicycling or motorbike? - Will Hunting Sep 16, 15:47
- I say, do something different. Habitat will be a memorable experience and it's something new. - kelly Sep 16, 15:42
- Don't I remember you saying that that you were kind of "over" NYC? - con_carne Sep 16, 15:26 2
  - I didn't mean "over" in a jaded sense, more that I would like to spend resources experiencing new places if possible. - Hotkiss Sep 16, 15:33
  - How can anyone ever be "over" NYC. Even the people I know that live there never say such a thing! -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 15:29
This reminds me of my favourite story from Portugal which shows what happen when you hire someone for the sole reason that they speak English. - Reagen Sep 16, 15:17 2
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- (it was the most expensive meal of our trip, but it also included a show.) -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:19
Hah. Cowboys stadium not yet sold out for first ever regular season game there... blackout still a possibility - stewie Sep 16, 14:57 3
- So when it's blacked out like that, does that include the Direct TV Sunday Ticket, or just the network airing of the game? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 16, 15:03 2
  - I believe it's only local to the region -- nm - GWAA Sep 16, 15:20
  - If you have Dtv Sunday Ticket, blackouts don't apply (supposedly) - Trish Sep 16, 15:16
*loads up Talkingpointsmemo in tab, doot de doot de* "YE GODS WHAT IS THAT?!" -- (link) - Reagen Sep 16, 14:57 2
- I wish I could unsee that. -- nm - Tim Sep 16, 15:50 1
  - You could no joke put that in a horror movie. -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:53
Enter to one of seven America Airlines travel prizes, such as: - ty97 Sep 16, 14:53 9
- How do these clubs work? If you're a member, can you bring someone with you? A whole family? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 16, 15:46
- "A moment of magic for you and your family in Florida"? How does that get past marketing? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Sep 16, 15:37
- No. - Epiphany Sep 16, 14:55 6
  - Hate them? Then take their money! - ty97 Sep 16, 14:56 5
    - Yes the stranglehold at DFW - their free money would come with strings -- nm - Epiphany Sep 16, 14:56 4
      - The Wright Amendment restrictions are going away, aren't they? So Dallas will have two fully competing airlines? - ty97 Sep 16, 14:58 3
        
        it is such a slow repeal process - Southwest can do it - they just can't do it cheaply due to the high airport taxes - Epiphany Sep 16, 15:03 2
        
        AA's biggest problem is certainly their flight attendant union. - ty97 Sep 16, 15:10 1
        
        I love it when they start arguing with each other during the take off instructions - Epiphany Sep 16, 15:12
(I love when a post I consider to be silly, small, and generlaly ignorable becomes a multi-board discussion item) - ty97 Sep 16, 14:49 13
- aren't you happy we aren't discussin the roumors of you performance at kareoke? - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:58
- Just link us to the review already, I want to pop-psychoanalyse the reviewer - Roger More Sep 16, 14:51 8
  - I don't know what hotel it was for. I flipped through 21 Madrid hotels, and it was one of them. - ty97 Sep 16, 14:53
  - wait - why are you here? aren't you honeymooning? -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 14:52 6
    - Honeymoon is over - am ditching the missus and flying to New York tomorrow -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 14:54 2
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        I have vague plans to meet my parents before they fly back to Australia -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 14:57
    - she probably said "PUT THAT THING AWAY!" - Beryllium Sep 16, 14:53 2
      - well it is 7.37 inches where he lives -- nm - Epiphany Sep 16, 14:55 1
        
        Fuck the metric system! -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 14:58
- this ... won't. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 14:49 2
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  - I think it will. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 16, 14:50
Why didn't someone tell me it was "Born Man or Woman" day on Maury. (the It's A Trap! nt.) -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 14:48
Oh shake it shake it shake it up baby. Twist and shout.... - Trish Sep 16, 14:45 7
- I'm given to understand you don't really sing the lyrics. -- nm - Remlik Sep 16, 15:01 6
  - Excuse me sir, but I am always spot on pitch. - Trish Sep 16, 15:09 5
    - I blame you for the loss of my phone! - Remlik Sep 16, 15:10 4
      - Omg, karma hates you. Do we need to start calling you Earl? - Trish Sep 16, 15:14 3
        
        HA! Going phone shopping tonight.... -- nm - Remlik Sep 16, 15:17 2
        
        so you need it to come with matching accessories, and be bedazzled? -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 16, 15:27
        
        You remember what I told you about the iPhone, right? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 15:25
/sides with loosi/ - Dr.Vermin Sep 16, 14:42 33
- I am not a world traveler - so it would freak me out a lot if I went to say a Marriott and no one spoke English - Epiphany Sep 16, 14:54 12
  - I can't imagine this happening at a Marriott, Hilton, etc. The clerks are normally rather fluent. - ty97 Sep 16, 14:55 11
    - I stayed at a boutique in Puerta Vallerta - we made sure someone could talk to us before we booked - Epiphany Sep 16, 14:58 2
      - I can teach you... -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:59 1
        
        with BEEF! see, I am getting the hang of it. - Epiphany Sep 16, 15:05
    - yeah, at a big American chain it would be a requirement. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:56 7
      - I'm trying to recall any hotel I've stayed at where I could say the clerk 'hardly spoke English' and can't think of one. - ty97 Sep 16, 14:57 6
        
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        Yep, for work. I've never traveled outside the US on a non-work trip. - ty97 Sep 16, 15:00 3
        
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        you're thinking of the wrong cherry. - ty97 Sep 16, 15:13 1
        
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        it happened to me at a tiny family-run place in Madrid. that's when I pulled out my barely existent Spanish. Even then the owner woke up his son who - loosilu Sep 16, 14:58
- *implodes* -- nm - Multiverse si Sep 16, 14:45
- Also, if it's in a hotel review section and I'm reading about where to stay, it could be a determining factor of where to book a room. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 16, 14:44 10
  - it's a valid *observation*, it's not a valid *complaint*. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 14:45 9
    - Right. I want to know how many stars that reviewer gave the hotel because of his "complaint." -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:47 5
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        my mother, in ireland, had to explain to a woman why the ATM there didn't give her American dollars. - Andie Sep 16, 14:52 3
        
        it's a service the ATM gives you the money that don't deflate every day -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 15:04
        
        Probably wasn't wearing her thinking pants. (Coincidentally, they are also her Wal-Mart Pants). -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 14:54
        
        maybe she thought the money was printed on demand. -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 14:52
    - I want to have your babies -- nm - ty97 Sep 16, 14:46
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    - this -- nm - TFox Sep 16, 14:45
- so what? he says 'the staff doesn't speak english" - the entire staff doesn't need to. and in europe they probably get as many if not more - Andie Sep 16, 14:43 7
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    - i know, and i read reviews like that too - those people are complaining that the maid doesn't understand their convoluted instructions or something. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 14:46 3
      - it's humpday, so I can't resist - but I don't know who to SI as, so you'll have to invent your own. "How hard can it be to understand 'bend over'?!" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 16, 14:47 1
        
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      - that's unreasonable. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:46
  - They needed to to please that customer. - Dr.Vermin Sep 16, 14:44
  - it's standard for service people in Europe to have minimum proficiency in a few select languages (French, German, English, Spanish). other languages - loosilu Sep 16, 14:44
once, my wife was trying to book a hotel in Spain. the clerk didn't speak English, she didn't speak Spanish. But they both knew some French... - Reagen Sep 16, 14:41 3
- Que? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:44
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- In Amsterdam I saw a tour guide speak with Swedes in English. it was cool. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:42
Next time I travel, the hotel better know how to speak TFox. Or I'm going batshit. -- nm - TFox Sep 16, 14:40 30
- If the hotel is in, say, Ibiza, not having English speaking staff is pretty much incompetant management. -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 14:42 20
  - or any city in Spain. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:43 19
    - On B2, you said they ought to learn a second language in school. So, are you saying that language needs to always be English? -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:46 10
      - I didn't say they ought to. I said they do. There are enough people who know english that the hotel can make it a hiring requirement. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:48 9
        
        Loosi, part of the reason people end up working at a hotel is they are *uneducated* -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:49 8
        
        thoose people rarely meet guests -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:54
        
        you have to be kidding. I don't mean the housekeeping staff. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:49 6
        
        I don't either. Also, English is frickin hard. I think we all know this. It just doesn't seem that far fetched to me that not everyone knows it. -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:53 5
        
        English is easy. No conjugations. Simple verb tenses. No gendered nouns. The most difficult part is pronounciation. -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 15:02 2
        
        *relatively* easy I should say (and the pronunciation is fiendish) -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 15:03
        
        yep, it is very easy to speak English badly and still be understood. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 15:03
        
        you don't have to be able to write a scholarly article. People all over Africa function very well in pidgin English. - loosilu Sep 16, 14:54 1
        
        ...and I guarantee they have not been to secondary school. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:55
    - nope - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:46 7
      - then that would not be a "city". -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:49 6
        
        so a "city" is a place where there are loads and loads of English speaking turists? - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:51 5
        
        all I'm saying is, in an area where they DO get English speaking tourists, the service people should learn a little English for better business. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:52 4
        
        This is a depressing concept. You know, part of the reason people travel is to get away from their own cultures and be confronted with new ones. -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 15:17 2
        
        I expect tourists would be more likely to ask for hotel staff recommendation on good local restaurants, attractions etc if those staff speak the same - Roger More Sep 16, 15:27
        
        "Man, those Spanish people have such a unique way of checking out in a hotel!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 16, 15:21
        
        i just hate it when i visit a shop in my hometown and gets served in gernan - Danedukenuuk Sep 16, 14:56
- What up, choade? -- nm - Hotel receptionist si Sep 16, 14:42
- I haven't heard more of Kid Cudi other than Day n Night, but that topped my list all summer. -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 14:41 2
  - It's a very interesting album. The kind of thing you want to put headphones on and listen to for an hour, as opposed to picking singles off of it. -- nm - TFox Sep 16, 14:42 1
    - Which is kind of what artist are going to have to start becoming more conscious of if they want to sell entire albums now. -- nm - Qale Sep 16, 14:46
- yes, that's totally what I meant. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:41 1
  - i've morphed into my own jokes now. -- nm - TFox Sep 16, 14:42
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- Pelotas. -- nm - some bellboy Sep 16, 14:41
- Rap battle? -- nm - znufrii Sep 16, 14:40
B2 hardly spoke English -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 16, 14:39
No hable Ingles, senor. Esto es Espana, dumbass. -- nm - con_carne Sep 16, 14:39 2
- It's 'no hablo' dumbass! -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 14:48
- "Come stay at our hotel. We can't be bothered to hire people who speak 50 words of a major world language!" -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 14:43

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