Sorry for the add-on after such a lengthy post, but I apologize for the grammar, and for the puppy testing, it's called the Volhard test and it's straight money in terms of puppy selection.

My doggo. And my other baby. I want to get rid of one of them. ;-) it never comes back when I call it.

I totally agree. I left a lengthy post (not self promoting, just reinforces what you are saying). Some dogs, even if they see you doing this, could give a rip that you are running off.

A few things, some of which are controversial...I have a high-end european german shepherd with belgian malinois in her bloodlines who would have been a handful if I'd not trained her early with police and military trainers....this did not mean I kicked the shit out of her, at all, but it matters with dogs like her:

Phil Hartman and Kurt Cobain. Both of them dying just broke my already cynical Gen X heart. I don't get caught up in celebrity deaths, but those two were wonderful and those two days were very sad.

Con Air might be one of the biggest pieces of shit of its genre. But I watch it every time it comes on, and i do not know why.

Dominique Swan, Katherine Heigl ("My Father The Hero"), Natalie Portman ("The Professional"), Britney Spears.

"Bobby did that pitch the best way possible: with a projector up the ass."

You know how fortune cookies are mildly funnier when you add "...in bed" to the end of the fortune?

My point clear and cutting, and was directed at your hilarious statement that you just hated watching people stand in line for 30 minutes. Which is stupid for a few reasons, not least of which is that you have to do that exact same thing at any other airline waiting to board.

Yes. As you read, I indicated my experience was 10 years ago. I had not implied it was like that now.

watching them? Yes. That does sound awful. For reasons nothing to do with Southwest.

If you use a fitbit, are as forgetful as I am, and want to lose your mind, purchase "Fitbit Finder." It's nice to combine the traditional not finding shit self hatred with the inital app-driven dreams you will do so. This POS app will help you towards that state of mind many times.

FWIW, I would probably go completely apeshit on a consultant who used the phrase "breaking down custom component costs" and then tried to use that as a rationalization for an incremental cost.

This is one of my absolute all time time work axioms. I used to lead a global professional services team and I refused to let them quote in whole numbers. It was never 150 an hour, it was 157. And yeah, they were beat down way less readily than if they did the round number route. I was militant about this.

In fairness I will say that the biggest openly dick behaviors I experienced were at Schipol and de Gaulle plane loads. The same type of scrums, but this time with people who openly hate Americans.

It's interesting to me that other airlines haven't picked up on the common sense of the cattle chutes. It's just calm...that whole thing (and I'm guilty too) of lining up 30 feet off the gate even though you're not a child, needing assistance, in first class, in boarding group A, B, etc...

Yes. It's too bad he missed the recent "three socks" article. That looked comfortable, and didn't look like it would skin your cock with metal.

Worst boarding experience while also being the most thrilling? Boarding a 747 in Beijing in the early 2000s. Plane was late, so they wanted to go fast...some kind of bell rung at the ticketing counter and there was an immediate mosh pit of a few hundred jammed up to get through the door. Go through the ticketing,…

I'm a huge fan of Southwest Airline's "cattle chute" method, even if I feel like I'm in a cattle chute. I think it's wrong to characterize this as a free-for-all, even if seats aren't assigned, because there absolutely is conformity (and relative fairness) to how those seats are assigned.