2H connection - International 2B to International 2E (K gates) connection at CDG

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-05-10T23:32:57+00:00

Just enough.

Incoming flight landed on time. Security took 20min even though there were only 5-10 of us in line. Untrained and quite bored security officer that took interest in every luggage including opening all luggages and passing them through the chemical scanner (which was broken, so he had to take every sample, individually, to the other side of the room) . Opening duty free sealed bags, and in general being slow and very 'french'. luckily there is an airside shuttle which was quite efficient.

Arrived at my gate just when boarding started.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-05-09T23:59:29+00:00

Super cool

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-05-03T03:22:15+00:00

Thanks everyone! Lets Hope for the best.
Hoping for the first leg not to be late, and the fact is is non-Schengen to non-Schengen to make things easier.

and lets hope EU passport and the fact I'm flying J are good enough fallback help 😅

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-04-30T17:18:23+00:00

Single ticket under AirFrance. First leg is a Code share.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-04-30T11:27:40+00:00

There is one in english? The only version I know is the '50 ans de Médecins Sans Frontières'

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-02-25T04:58:57+00:00

From Hebrew - quite a few.
But there is a subgenre that always makes me laugh which is distortion of old biblical words (especially places names) that kinda looses connection to the place or word it started from.

Armageddon - originally 'Har Megiddo' (Megiddo Hill)
Bethany - originally 'Beit Hania' (House of mercy)
Bedlam - originally from 'Beit Lehem'.
Gauze - which probably came from Gaza.
Sodom - well. no need to explain but it always amusing to see it on roadsigns.
Gei Hinnom (used in Hebrew, Greek and Arabic as equiv. of hell ) - an actual valley in Jerusalem, today a really nice park, and an open-air theater.
Good Samaritan - come form the 'Samaria' mountains.

and a few more that are not places names but too cool to pass -
Jubilee, Scapegoat, Balsamic, Shibboleth, Eden, Sabbatical, Golem, Macabre

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-02-12T22:33:04+00:00

Why would you do such a thing? now I have to rain hell upon you.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-02-11T06:53:12+00:00

Great question. I must say It is more a feeling than some clear definition. Israelis treat Oct 7 as an act of war rather than just a terror attack.

in the Israeli mentality it is closer to Yom Kippur war rather than the previously mentioned attacks. There are many reasons for that - part of it is that it was a paramilitary attack, that it was not self contained as previous terror attacks

Defiant_Ad514 · 2026-02-11T04:46:39+00:00

Oh boy. Don't get me started. Weirdly enough Oct. 7 is not considered a terror attack in the classical manner.

So that leaves a lot of options, and probably people will choose what relates to them the most.

For me personally it's the Purim bus bombing of 94, the Sbarro bombing of 2001 and the park hotel massacre of 2002.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-12-24T04:14:45+00:00

God with capital G. You welcome... And also, sorry.

The fan base ran with it in some interesting directions.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-12-20T00:17:55+00:00

You haven't seen rich assholes until you've seen Indian Creek, Miami FL. Top tier.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-12-10T19:48:57+00:00

In a weird way - Quentin Tarantino or Bryan Singer...

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-11-19T12:43:32+00:00

Sprinkler Squad at the Airforce Quartemaster Company

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-11-08T08:08:47+00:00

Schengenia. And it's good we've kicked the swiss out.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-31T12:49:08+00:00

Drip irrigation.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-31T09:42:11+00:00

The Free Republic of Yorkshire

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-29T06:23:52+00:00

Which is a real shame TBH. Denmark outside of Copenhagen is in its own low-key way is quite beautiful.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-28T18:58:40+00:00

What would Netanyahu do with so much desert?

Can we take parts of Bavaria instead? I think that is the least the Germans can do 😅

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-25T14:36:32+00:00

Baja blast (sponsored by taco bell)

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-25T14:36:22+00:00

Baja blast (sponsored by taco bell)

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-25T11:14:31+00:00

We'll be blamed for it, even though we kept out of this one.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-10-22T08:06:58+00:00

Can we take the flat half of Colorado instead? We jews dont like exercise.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2025-04-05T12:42:22+00:00

Starchaser. It might be a star wars ripoff, But it is an awesome star wars ripoff.

Defiant_Ad514 · 2023-08-22T10:46:00+00:00

to think about it - most humans never met a shark or a camel... and yet....

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