That’s a bit of a mixed message isn’t it? You’re pointing out people going broke buying diamonds and then you suggest that it’s a good thing if De Beers or diamond companies lose money. What happens when those people go broke? People go broke buying all sorts of things, houses, cars, paintings, drugs etc.. Why is it…

I have nothing against Catholics, I’ve known more than a few over the years and even attended Catechism when I was a kid.

“Facial recognition all over the place just makes everyone live in a police state.”

Sorry, but you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. See, here’s the part you didn’t consider. When a restaurant or a wine store sells a product they have to mark up that product to accommodate their expenses and hopefully include some profit. Otherwise they go out of business. Those expenses include things…

And don’t get me started on running these tests on a wirelessly connected device

Then it probably was OK.

OK, sure.

But all those people mining coal and burning coal for electricity live in houses made of wood. Not to mention the coal emissions are killing trees and life as we know it on earth.

Well, they lost more than just the cost of the bottle. That’s my point. In the restaurant world 90-99% of the revenue goes to pay the bills. Restaurants don’t make that much profit, overall. 5-7% is considered decent. Let’s say these guys make 10, which would be really good. That means that on the $5000 bottle they…

That’s not a universally true statement. 

Don’t know about him but I’m a bar owner. No one has complained so far about the G&T. If you want the expensive stuff I’ll gladly put it into the glass, but if asked I’d probably talk you down to a lower price point, but not well gin.

G&T is a popular drink, though so is a Martini, which is a gin drink not to be confused with the more modern vodka Martini. I have to agree that it doesn’t make sense to put expensive Gin, or any alcohol for that matter, into a glass with cheap ass mixer, including tonic. For a drink like that I usually upgrade the…

To be fair, unless it was capped and the air removed left over wine isn’t going to taste particularly good. Sure, if you start with a good tasting wine you’re likely to have better luck but it really won’t be as good as the wine really is.

You’re showing retail outlets. That’s far different than restaurant pricing. It doesn’t matter what the wine “cost”. What matters is what it cost to serve the wine to the customer. You realize your menu prices include costs such as rent, utilities, payroll, music licensing and many other non-food or beverage items.

Sorry, that dog won’t hunt. There’s no way anyone would construe this alleged comment with a terror threat. 

I don’t see how an off-hand comment about free vodka equates to terrorism in any way.

No, actually it’s the “witness” who says the crowd stood up for the guy. There doesn’t’ seem to be anything from the actual guy who was taken off the plane. Only the person sitting nearby.

First, the article is a bit unclear but as I read it Uzelac was the “witness” and not the passenger that was taken off the plane. It was confusing to me the first time I read it but it appears that Uzelac’s wife is the one who made the “we’ve been here a long time” comment and not the other passenger or their wife…

But it was a wrong example and if used could have made the situation worse. The passenger, who may be a frequent flyer, might have responded with, No, but that is not true. You can serve free drinks whenever you want to.

Fed Regs don’t prohibit free drinks. If you have status with the airline you get free drinks. I have occasionally gotten a free drink even when I didn’t have status.

But to your point, the FA could have addressed this in a much friendly manner which would have deescalated the situation.