• Know where you are. If you’re in a loud night club with people hanging over the bar desperate to attract the attention of the bartender, keep it simple. Whisky and soda. Gin and tonic. Rum and coke. Beer. White wine. Red wine. Let’s be honest. You’re not there to get a nice cocktail and drink it in a leisurely fashion…

Negroni only really become fashionable in the past 4-5 years. Negroni actually turns 100 this week, but it’s not super well known tbh.

Ori and the Blind Forest.

The Panamera is no better, especially the original...

More like “anywhere out of the way they can put them”. A typical airliner is in the air 10-18 hours a day so there aren’t enough “normal” bays to put all the MAXes.

Canceling flights, and furloughing pilots...

Indeed. AoA vanes, not to mention all the other assorted probes, are rather exposed, and prone to being hit by birds and flying bits of debris.

They are indeed. As Jeremy Clarkson put it, “The Cayenne looks like they too a 911 and backed it into a shed”.

So much this.

So much this.

More like different cultures have different ideas about the value of human life.

Indeed. Because of “Hollywood”, the popular belief seems to be that GPS units transmit their location and can thus be tracked. Which is completely untrue. Apps like “Find my Phone” take location data (from GPS and cell towers) and transmit it via your data plan. The GPS itself is entirely self contained and does not…

Agreed. If the phone is off, no one can ping it. Because it’s off...

If your delayed first flight causes you to miss your connection, you’ll usually get re-booked on the following flight and for free by most airlines; you may fly as a standby depending on availability. Some airlines may automatically re-book you, but you should call them as soon as you land to find out how to get…

I’m so sorry. I did not realize... ;)

The other guy’s right about that, but also, what massive advantage did being able to retreat give over just starting on the walls? If you were under siege, most armies didn’t leave the walls to fight, the whole point of building those massive, expensive walls is that they’re the best place for fighting.

I might be wrong, but I get the impression that in the US as rail travel decreased in favour of air travel, more freight went on the main lines, slowing passenger trains down.

I can only speak for myself but I have a job I enjoy going to. And I know that if I did not have that job I’d just sit at home and be unhappy.

After some time living in the East Asia, hearing that 88 is verboten seems quite weird to me. In Chinese culture, the number 8 is lucky and double numbers are lucky. So 88 is very lucky.

That’s why the film is so imminently spoilable