Airlines should provide those rationales to the passengers

Yep, the stories are pretty contradictory. I feel deeply for her, as it’s a stressful situation travelling with a young child. I also feel for the flight attendant, who is an actual human person too, and doesn’t want to throw a new mother off a flight (while delaying everyone else, including herself in the process).

Yep, the crying thing is a red herring here. The airline had an issue with a 2 year old not being strapped in, apparently during taxi to takeoff. Now, the airline might be lying about that (I don’t see evidence in the recording above that proves otherwise, though). But the passenger might have been trying to stretch…

I don’t understand how you can throw someone off a plane for not having a 2 year old strapped in, but yet lap babies are able to just sit precariously on the adult’s lap during takeoff/landing, etc.

I mean, the tape doesn’t really answer that part (at least what is posted above). I see lots of footage of her arguing with the airline employees after getting off. And some grainy footage of the baby on-board, but it’s not clear at all if she actually had the baby seated “before the door closed”, or still holding…

There seems to be a discrepancy between her story and the airline’s story though. She says she strapped him down before the door was closed. The airline statement refers to a period of taxiing and safety briefing - two things that happen for several minutes after the door closes, during which the flight attendants do…

Yeah, and why did upper class English die out in ancient Rome and get replaced by Italian? What gives?

Yup. Democrats will always and forever fuck themselves over by trying to claim a high ground while Republicans are actually off playing a winning game of hardball.

Last time I was in Vegas, we went to Fremont Street and found the super old slots at the Plaza casino that still take and dispense actual change. Now I have a huge pile of - I kid you not - giant, heavy Eisenhower dollar coins from the early 1970s.

For a while, if you used the Los Angeles metro ticket machines (yeah, I know, but some of us actually do ride the metro for actual commuting), and fed in a $20 bill, you’d get your change in Sacajawea coins (or presidential dollar coins) - all falling into the tray like an old timey slot machine.

But here’s the question (that the article doesn’t address): if you go through the Travel Center, do your points count 1.5X as much when purchasing airfare as if you went through the website? If not, then you might be WAY ahead transferring the points to Rapid Rewards

I’m a 29 year old guy who works in an office of about 80% women. Every boss I’ve ever had has been a woman. And my office runs quite well, without most of the bullshit that I hear about in other workplaces (there’s still bullshit, of course, but it’s much lower pressure bullshit and is always deployed very nicely).

Oh let’s not pretend people on this very site are saying neither Franken nor Conyers should resign.

The original version without stupid Beiber is nice.

Yes. The city I live in, Phoenix, is actually the “kidnapping capital of America” (although the stats are in dispute, the moniker stuck).

“Career Architecture”

And, of course, murders like that do not affect, and should be of exactly zero concern, to a foreign tourist.

It’s stupid to make travel decisions based on “safest city” ranking. That’s not to say the cities above aren’t “safe” (they are). But personal safety while travelling is one of those things that is affected far more by your own personal behavior and prior knowledge of the area, than the general statistics of the…

We never even had the Pledge of Allegiance in high school. I don’t ever remember saying it. And it was a rural, mostly white high school in Washington State.

It has nothing to do with eating or drinking at cheap places. Most likely nobody will care if you stop at an IHOP in a poorer part of town, say, on a road trip, and that’s where it was convenient to stop off for some breakfast.