I can’t fly SWA. I can’t deal with someone singing the in-flight announcement while I’m wedged between someone’s grandma and Willy Loman on his bluetooth. Jetblue is fine, but their their route map doesn’t really take me anywhere. Alaska is a decent alternative.

Yeah, it seems like they typically have the cruddiest equipment. Though surprisingly their fleet is relatively young.

That’s the thing, everyone’s airline experiences are just meaningless anecdotes. My home airport is SFO where United is pretty much the only game in town, and I have status there - can’t remember the last time I’ve had any issue (4 flights last week). There are objective measures of these airlines on things like on…

I’ve generally had decent Delta experiences - until weather hits. Back when I lived in NYC I had two separate occasions where snowstorms totally shut the airline down, and they go into “ostrich” mode where they hope you just go away. One time I was flying from Heathrow to JFK and over the middle of the Atlantic they…

Tried American recently? My personal most despised.

DJT’s voice sounds surprisingly street.

I mean, I’ve never watched any of her reality show appearances, and I frankly only know this woman now because she slept with DTJ. It’s quite possible I’m out of touch, but were people familiar with this person before this story broke? From her wiki, the best I could discern was 1) she was on some P Diddy show (I…

Pet peeve of mine. Crazy, this hasn’t even been fixed. Just a reminder how stupid your average Jez contributor is - good to recall next time they pretend to be an authority on anything, e.g. like a few days ago when they tried to whitesplain Colombian slang.

It is from a movie. It is recreating a scene from the Big Lebowski where the character is convicted child molester.

Yeah, and it’s not just men either. See what went down with the Mayor of Nashville today?

This will make the large font version of most recent book “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” that I accidentally bought on Amazon all the more awkward to read on the subway.

The evidentiary difficulty of proving rape cases you mention are the very reason (in theory) we have statute of limitations. The thinking goes that we want people to bring these cases in a prompt fashion when evidence still exists, rather than getting into decades old he-said-she-saids once physical evidence,…

Where it def is a thing is Leo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond. In addition to his painful SA accent, that was the most unsavory white saviory shit I’ve ever seen, but people seemed to eat up that movie.

In this country. It nearly recouped its budget in China before it was even released here.

Yeah, I don’t think of the list the “white savior” thing applies to this atrocity. It’s obvious that this movie was made for a Chinese audience who wanted Matt Damon and his weird Kevin Costner from Robin Hood accent. Chinese attitudes towards race are... interesting... https://www.whatsonweibo.com/cctv-spring-festival…

It’s amazing how many folks, especially on sites like this which pretend to be more informed on race issues, don’t understand that “Latin” is not a race, but an ethnicity (this is how the US census tracks, and says a Hispanic/Latino can be of any race). In fact, Latin America often looks like a race-based class system…

Beware of Greek (yogurt) bearing gifts?

It’s this weird sentimentality about the Daily Show and people WANT him to succeed so badly. He seems pleasant, but he is painfully unfunny most of the time. I always assumed because he was a South African trying to do US political commentary (John Oliver somehow pulls this off being English but obviously gets the US…

Not to mention that there was a rash of awful Marvel movies around this time. The Dolph Lundgren Punisher, the 1990 Captain America. Nevermind things like the 2000s Daredevil and Ghost Rider and Fantastic Fours or multiple Hulks. I know people complain about “all the Superhero movies,” but I don’t think people…

Yeah, just chalking this up to a Duke education.