It’s all about how you market it- you just gotta find some Chili Palmer type to convince people that this is the Cadillac of Grandpa Sedans.

They typically do. I’ve been on planes with empty seats and been told that I could just go ahead and pay the difference to move into the better seat. I’ve done it on a few especially long flights if the difference isn’t all that much. Definitely doesn’t hurt to ask the flight attendant if you notice a seat you want to…

What an obnoxious person you seem to be.

Completely disagree. I was recently upgraded to a $5,000 first class ticket for a flight from Atlanta to Buenos Aires. The entire time I was thinking “this IS nicer, but anyone who pays full price for this is an idiot.” I would pay MAYBE an extra $750 bucks or so for an international first class seat, but otherwise…

“We, the customer, have signalled lout and clear with our wallets that we would prefer to pay as little as possible for a flight and will give up almost any amenity for it regardless of what we bitch about and vocally claim to the contrary.”

Exactly. I was pretty shocked to even see the headline. Might as well explain to folks why they can’t just walk into the back of a Michelin Star restaurant as it’s about to close and take home all the premium cuts of steak they didn’t sell that night, or why you can’t just grab all the sale items at Saks Fifth Avenue…

Thanks for the pleasant exchange!

Here’s a great article on the subject: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/water-works-2/

I once said exactly the same benign and banal comment you just did at a work lunch (essentially “the 8 cups of water a day thing is just a myth that can be traced back to a single mistaken interpretation of advice from 100 years ago- we don’t need to be constantly chugging water to obtain adequate hydration throughout…

“Someone is going to talk to you in some way shape or form 90% of the time. Deal with it.”

So someone who has a documented history of debilitating anxiety responses to being put in exactly this kind of situation should calmly and rationally have responded to it? Do you not understand how debilitating anxiety actually operates? 

Not to mention that there’s no evidence that he “stormed out” or was in a huff or being a diva. He’s literally said being put in this exact type of scenario causes him extreme anxiety. And that’s just with regular clips of him acting- singing is an even more personal and vulnerable act, so it stands to reason he would…

There is literally no reason why they can’t add the clip in post-production. The interviews aren’t aired live- they’re edited and altered before being released. I don’t even understand how this is a debate. He’s talked publicly about it dozens of times, and even gone so far as to say that at the premiere of…

Great advice. Roth IRAs, 401ks, etc. etc. etc. are all ridiculous wastes of time and money. Might as well take up smoking because it looks cool and won’t kill you for 30 years, so why worry?

“Something is gonna kill you. Get over it. I enjoy my life. I do whatever the fuck I want.”

“A lot of people are still going to have a negative view of FCA going in...” 

What an odd comment...

These universal “rules” are always so absurd. If someone writes a long speech about how “our relationship is struggling and we need to talk and could we please meet up” and you respond “k”, then fine, the conversation begged for a longer, more thoughtful reply. If someone says “let’s meet up for coffee at 2:30" then…

So now the advice is dumb because it’s only going to be used as a safety net to cover two bad periods of unemployment? Wow, how terrible! We should totally dismiss the utterly obvious advice to be think long term about small but repeated cash outlays because people will end up spending the money they wouldn’t have…

A) $1,300 invested in a ROTH IRA every year for 40 years is gonna add up to a helluva lot more than a down payment of a very used car.