Changing the out of the box settings once, to suit the lighting of the location, is fine, but needing to do it for particular programmes only highlights the pretentiousness of those involved in creating it.

It would be nice if producers actually had a clue about averaging, vector scopes and wave forms so we didn’t have to screw around with our TVs. And DO NOT get me started about audio!

I’m going to try to be less dismissive of your comment than some of the other people who responded... Can you, in three sentences or less, explain either what you’re trying to say or what you’re objecting to from the original post? I get why you would want to benefit from banking travel with one airline; that’s self…

Pot, meet kettle.

MAJOR EYE ROLL!

Yes - airlines aren’t just out to screw everyone over and most complainers are people who rarely fly. I am loyal to United (Continental pre-merger) and have been for 15 years. I spend a lot of money with them and I wouldn’t bother to keep loyalty (“elite” status) without the minor perks I receive such as “premium”…

So you’re not elite, you’re just a life coach for the elite. Okay then.

What a ridiculous comment.

I live nearish to Pittsburgh and while the Amazon HQ would mean jobs, they are notorious for treating their workers like shit. Compound that with what the city would do to court those jobs... the whole situation just makes my skin crawl. It’s a race to the bottom.

No, everyone will get something and the old and sick won’t be dying in the streets because that’s what’s coming in the republican’s America. Redistribution is not a dirty word, it is good social policy. Too bad if the rich have to settle for $100 dollar bottles of wine instead of $10,000 ones.

Right...but this presumes anyone is interested in the working poor being able to retire (except, obvs, the working poor). I mean, look, I am speaking from an economic point of view. Double wages for working at McDonalds and you accomplish very little other than raising inflation and increasing the costs for consumer…

Because this is all based in the law of the moment. Right now, the EU allows 90 days. Next month, that might not be the case.

And if you leave a month before the first date to a nation that grants you a one year visa upon entry?

These time periods are tied directly to how long you are allowed to legally spend in the country/region. In this article’s case, 90 days is how long you’re allowed to spend in the EU as a US citizen, so the requirement is that you have 90 days of passport validity.

Because, wait for it, there are multiple countries in the world and they don’t all have the same requirements.

Because the country that you are visiting wants to be sure that you will be able to leave by the time you have to leave. They don’t want you “stuck” there because your passport is expired.

Another way that I learned from somewhere (that I can’t remember now, of course) is to put your nose in the glass, but breathe through your mouth (outside of the glass). This has the effect of drawing just a tiny amount of air from the glass through your nose. The big thing to try to avoid when nosing high proof…

Swirl it in your mouth as you breath in and out through your nose. It does the job as well as aromatics in a glass. And the fire’s a bit more intimate.

Well done.

Neat trick but when I fly it’s always a full flight EVERY. DAMN. TIME. ugh. lol.