Chuck Blazer Admits Taking Yearly Bribes Of Cookies And Milk From Hopeful Children The World Over

Pack yourself up and leave, you asshat. I’m not any less an American than you are, just because I would like our country to be a decent place to live.

once a child reaches their first birthday, they’re guaranteed a place in daycare for a very low fee.

Sweden is starting to look like a very nice place to live.

Someone I used to work with married a Swedish woman; he told me that when he retired, he was moving there with her to raise their young son. Dude never looked back.

Graham has a distinctly Orson Welles-y vibe with his new soup-catcher.

I don’t doubt it. My wife and I had a miserable experience trying to get across the country with her parents and two relatives from India on United. First, they overcharged us for our bags by putting them all on one person’s account rather than spreading them across all the travelers. Then, by the time we were told…

She wanted it unopened for hygiene reasons. They didn’t open it in front of her they just produced an open can when she ordered diet coke. You don’t know what nasty ass thing someone could have done to that can. While it’s unlikely your drink is drugged on a plane someone could have spat in it or deliberately or…

I’m a flight attendant that flies for United Express. *that being said, i do not represent United** I have never heard or read any policy about no unopened cans because danger. If someone requests a full can of soda and we have plenty of the product we give it to them. Usually opened and poured over ice but that’s…

Yeah, I’ve had similarly bad experiences on United. I’m white, so I get a pass from them, but I was flying from Dubai once and seated next to a woman from India. She didn’t speak English, but her son who she was flying to meet, had instructed her to show her itinerary to someone near her and a notebook with his…

he flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.

Maybe the beer guy (and a lot of the passengers who didn’t speak up) didn’t notice what happened. How many people on planes are paying close attention to other people’s drink orders and conversations? I bet at least 90% of the people on that flight were wearing headphones while this went down.

I’ve long asked for unopened cans/bottles, partly because I don’t want a drink right now but might during the beverage-desert that is the rest of a typical flight, but mostly because I was scarred for life when, on a domestic flight to Vegas (I don’t remember which rustbucket company it was), I caught the flight…

Except the unhinged racist rantings didn’t seem to trigger an emergency landing. To say “that was wrong,” didn’t demand anything other than the basic courage and decency to speak one clear and declarative sentence. No fuss or chaos required.

I’ve been handed unopened soda cans on many carriers, United included. But then again I was white and not wearing a hijab so clearly was no threat (eye-roll).

I believe her. Irl I regularly have to deal with old white people who call me a Pakistani terrorist upon seeing my brown skin and hearing my accent.

I cannot understand why no one spoke up for her. Especially when the bigot told her to shut the fuck up. No way in hell would I have kept my mouth shut.

I know Tahera. She is the real deal, and a totally reasonable human being who gives everybody the benefit of the doubt. This is bullshit and shouldn’t happen to anyone. But it probably happens all the time, and I’m glad she’s in a position to call it out.

I feel the need to point out to my fellow Americans that graft in English means honest, and hard work. For my fellow Englishers, the American sense is the opposite: dishonest, and easy work, particularly bribery. (And in English, that sense is covered by the word “politics”.)

I’m a disabled person who works part-time at a non-profit and who lives in one of the poorest parts of the UK, where wages for even full-time workers are well below the national average. But whenever I feel sad about this, I can now take comfort in the fact that my standard of living apparently represents quality…