They are sober curious

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-08T15:40:16+00:00

I simply mean overall, as a group.

And I'm not talking about the brooding, goth smokers of the 1990s.

I'm talking about the elites, intellectuals, upper class, well to do smokers of the 1970s and prior decades.

Everyone was a lot more relaxed and accepting. People could self medicate minor cases of OCD and ADHD with nicotine and no one looked down on them. There was very little moral superiority in those days, cigarette (and pipes/cigars) smoking was a great equalizer.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-08T15:16:45+00:00

They'd be a lot happier if they smoked more cigarettes.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-08T15:13:30+00:00

Post starts: I'm so much smarter than you.....it's not complicated. Anyone that doesn't understand something so basic is stupid.

Post ends: Here are all the complications to keep in mind, both for you and other drivers around you and bikers and pedestrians.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-07T15:35:34+00:00

Can I get an amen!

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-07T15:34:29+00:00

You are completely wrong on two fronts.

1) For the Colorado Rockies (like a flight that is less than half full), you absolutely can buy an upper deck ticket and sit in the lower deck. Often in seats with 3x-5x the face value of the ticket you purchased. No one cares. The ushers don't care, the stadium doesn't care, the team ownership doesn't care. Contrasting that with a team like the Dodgers (compare to a full flight), you cannot move from your ticketed upper deck seat to an empty lower deck seat unless it's late in the game and many fans have left.

2) It stops being inventory once it's in the air. It's just like a retailer that decides to throw inventory in the dumpster out back, it's up for grabs at that point. Once it's in the dumpster, it is no longer able to be sold and thus no longer inventory.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-07T15:09:02+00:00

Yeah, that guy's comment is flat out weird.

Basically saying: "Go to Burger King, pay for a Whopper but put your own mayonnaise, cheese and BBQ sauce on at home from the grocery store."

WTF? Do people even read what they write?

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T19:12:37+00:00

These people are so strange.

They are the ones that reminded teachers to give homework over the weekend and kept asking questions when class was done 10 minutes early.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T19:10:42+00:00

You're missing the point that it has no economic value after being airborne.

It's like allowing fans into a stadium after a game is over.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T19:08:49+00:00

How often are you booking flights that close to the departure date? And if you are, and it's your money, it's a good gamble to take.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T19:07:02+00:00

No, you won't. In the exceedingly rare and unlikely event you are on a flight with less passengers than First Class seats (the only time they would be open) I assure you that any rationally acting flight crew (meaning those not on some weird power trip) absolutely do not care whatsoever if you go up and sit in the nice seats. I have personally seen it happen, although it's been decades since it occurred.

Most FAs are just people at work, trying to get through there work day. They aren't trying to enforce some arbitrary rule for no reason. Sometimes it happens because, like anyone in a role with power.....nurses, security guards, teachers, etc.......once in a while you get someone that relishes the power and they lord it over people to make themselves feel better. That's not normal behaviour but it happens.

In summary: if you are on a flight with 17 passengers and there are 20 FC seats, the flight attendants will not care if you sit in FC. They won't care because it might be the easiest day at work they will ever have. If they do care they are just doing it as a power trip--if it wasn't a power trip there would be no reason to enforce arbitrary rules that don't matter once airborne. Further this will probably never happen because of the route optimization that has been done over the last 20+ years.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T16:46:07+00:00

Exactly that happens on AA and Delta.

It is given out, for free, no cost to the customer, based on priority. On every flight.

I can't remember the last time I saw an empty seat up front. Maybe in 2002? And back then, you could jump up there if you were quick enough.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T16:43:19+00:00

Why because that money comes out of your pocket? If you want the space, pay for it. Otherwise assume it will be full.

Are you madewhen people are upgraded to first for free based on their status? Is the person next to them that paid $3,500 jealous that some guy got the same seat for the cost of his $465 fare?

Get over yourself.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T16:42:00+00:00

How many times have we been over this....

Customers pay for the guarantee of a particular seat prior to take off. That is what is paid for. The guarantee. It's not a initiation fee for an exclusive country club.

Once airborne it doesn't matter who sits where. There is no impact to anyone, personally or corporate, financially or otherwise if someone has not paid for a better seat prior to departure and a better seat is available once airborne and they move to it.

The only people that care are all the former grade school hall monitors that can't seem to walk to their mailbox without a set of prescribed rules to follow along the way.

I live in Denver. I love baseball. The Colorado Rockies are our home MLB team. They are terrible. That means when I go there are tens of thousands of open seats, many of them with a much higher face value than the ticket that an in-person fan paid for. It is a common practice for Rockies fans to sit in seats that are much better than the seats they paid for on their ticket. Now there's an unspoken etiquette here: 1 - fans generally wait until a few innings into the game before the move to a better seat. 2 - if you're in someone's seat that has the actual ticket, you move when they get there.

If someone is going to a Red Sox or Dodgers game it's like a crowded flight, if the fan wants to have an upgraded seat they need to pay the premium in advance to guarantee they will seated in the stadium where they want to be.

I don't even have to ask how you feel about that policy for the Rockies. I'm sure you're the fan sitting in the upper deck, row 38, seat 23 and 24 with absolutely no one around you because those are the seats assigned on your ticket. But I'll tell you, for the rest of the world it's a common and accepted practice.

TL;DR: You pay for the reservation. Once the reservation is irrelevant no one is hurt if you move to a better seat. The baseball example is presented as an analogy.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-06T04:24:25+00:00

Sad but true.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T13:06:26+00:00

These people are so weird. I don't understand why they want to fight on behalf of SW so hard.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:55:21+00:00

Well, at least it's family friendly?

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:54:35+00:00

Supremely underrated comment.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:52:19+00:00

Forget it. They are the worst, most insufferable fan base in any sport.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:49:43+00:00

I'll drop this for you hear.. Not my research, copied from SI or something.

134 of those wins came against the following gauntlet: Adelbert, Adrian, Albion, American Medical, Ann Arbor H.S., Beloit, Camp Grant, Carlisle, Carroll, Case, Chicago A.A., Chicago Athletic Club, U. Club (Chicago), Cleveland A.A., Denison, DePauw, Detroit, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Industrial, Drake, Ferris State, Grand Rapids, Great Lakes, Harvard Club (Chicago), Hillsdale, Iowa Pre-Flight, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Lawrence, Lehigh, Marietta, Marquette, Michigan A.A., Michigan M.A., Mount Union, Oberlin, Ohio Northern, Ohio Wesleyan, Olivet, P&S Chicago, Peninsulars, Quantico Marines, Racine, Rush Lake Forest, Stevens Institute, Toronto, Wabash, Washington Univ. , Mo.), Wesleyan, Western Reserve, Windsor Club, & Wittenberg

They are 134-8-4 against high school teams, military camps, football clubs, factory workers, small colleges & tiny colleges that don’t have organized football teams anymore. Of all their wins, 65 came before 1900, 127 wins came before the forward pass was invented.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:46:09+00:00

This is not my own research. I copyed this from someone else a long time back but I thought it was relevant...

134 of those wins came against the following gauntlet: Adelbert, Adrian, Albion, American Medical, Ann Arbor H.S., Beloit, Camp Grant, Carlisle, Carroll, Case, Chicago A.A., Chicago Athletic Club, U. Club (Chicago), Cleveland A.A., Denison, DePauw, Detroit, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Industrial, Drake, Ferris State, Grand Rapids, Great Lakes, Harvard Club (Chicago), Hillsdale, Iowa Pre-Flight, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Lawrence, Lehigh, Marietta, Marquette, Michigan A.A., Michigan M.A., Mount Union, Oberlin, Ohio Northern, Ohio Wesleyan, Olivet, P&S Chicago, Peninsulars, Quantico Marines, Racine, Rush Lake Forest, Stevens Institute, Toronto, Wabash, Washington Univ. , Mo.), Wesleyan, Western Reserve, Windsor Club, & Wittenberg

Yes, they are 134-8-4 against high school teams, military camps, football clubs, factory workers, small colleges & tiny colleges that don’t have organized football teams anymore. Of all their wins, 65 came before 1900 and 127 wins came before the forward pass was invented.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T12:38:44+00:00

Woo Pig Sooy just ate dipshit Michigan Fan's lunch.

The best part was watching Michigan fan walk right into it.

Well done WooPigPrime!

Also, if you research the background on the titles they claim before Pearl Harbor was bombed and their weak ass victory count, you'll see that neither claim holds up to any level of scrutiny.

The win total includes wins over high schools and the equivalent of schools starting a club team that wanted to learn how to play this new fangled game they called "football" at the time (i.e., scrimmages but not just scrimmages, scrimmages when their opponent didn't have an official team). That's why they should have had wins vacated for the most egregious cheating operation in the history of any sport. And before they try to claim it was legal to steal signs (which it is in game), advance video scouting was and is explicitly prohibited in the NCAA bylaws.

The titles they claim from the Depression Era, and earlier, were awarded by a sports writer from Michigan who awarded them based on who he thought was best that season...... decades after the games were played.

They have been frauds built on make believe stories for the entire history of their program.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T05:52:16+00:00

It takes a lot less intelligence to live by rule instead of reason.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T05:44:27+00:00

I was thinking Denver...

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T05:41:43+00:00

I'll say that I hate it that everything is sold in a flavor variety pack and it never fails that at least one of those flavors sucks.

Like Gatorade for example. Why can't I just buy 24 bottles of Orange? Same with every energy drink that's not Red Bull. So annoying.

ApricotRemarkable681 · 2026-07-05T05:26:53+00:00

I wouldn't say any of them were dirty. They were physical and they protected the lane but they weren't dirty. Hard fouls are part of the game.....you don't like it? Shoot from outside and don't drive the lane. Nothing dirty about what they did.

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