Random Rants

[neph93]

@Tago-Mago Oh yes. My family included. This is regarding Rugby, and from a specifically Welsh perspective, but illustrates the sentiment nicely.

[EdH]

I've always regarded myself as English but did 23&Me recently and found out that the British half of my genes are all Welsh. Who should I support?

[neph93]

@EdH anyone you like mate, (except the English).

[Tago Mago]

@EdH if you choose to support Wales you will rarely have to go through the pain of losing a Euro final. Or a Euro match for that matter

[EdH]

@Tago-Mago My boundless enthusiasm for team sports has never led me to feel anything about football either way thus far!

[Tago Mago]

@EdH Lucky you

[mclaincausey]

As a mutt, I can choose from among German, English, Scots-Irish, or American redneck heritages according to which way the wind blows.

If only citizenship were so fluid…

[EdH]

@mclaincausey Just means that you have all the more teams to support. Good for you!

[jordanscollected]

This week was supposed to be fucking awesome. I was selected as 1 of 10 food industry professionals for an all expenses paid trip to Lynden, WA (outside of Seattle) for a Raspberry harvest tour. The itinerary included dinners at farms and wineries, plant and farm tours, and a ton of other cool shit. I awoke bags packed at 5:00am to a flight cancellation with no options to rebook. Trip cancelled

I called the owner of my business and he is currently driving 12 hours home from Ohio due to a cancelled flight of his own.

What a mess the U.S. flight industry is going through.

[Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot]

Fak

[popvulture]

Oh damn that’s some bullshit. Was it weather?

[popvulture]

Oh wait no, looks like probably because of that bad security patch that went out last week. What a shitshow.

[Alex]

Yeah, I just flew to LA and back from JFK, out on Friday, back last night. Friday was delayed 2hours, Yesterday was delayed 4.5hours. Mayhem in the airports still

[chrisjohnnick]

Man, sorry to hear that. My wife has a flight this coming weekend, so I guess we'll just be open to whatever comes our way.

[Alex]

Every screen in the airport Friday had messages like this on. Made finding your gate quite challenging

[Alex]

[jordanscollected]

I'm for sure not alone and it could be worse as I'm hearing from others. For me, at least it was a work sponsored trip and not a family vacation. I didn't book anything under my own name so there is no chasing down refunds. Overall just a major bummer when I had been so looking forward to the fun, food, networking and learning.

On a positive note, I have excess beef sticks and moon cheese in my snack pack that now has no occasion tied to them.

[jordanscollected]

@popvulture I actually got an agent from Delta on the phone after the shortest hold time ever (roughly 10 minutes if that). she said we had no flight crew. Most likely due to your second post re: security patch.

[popvulture]

Yeah, everything's borked right now because of that screwup. I have a UPS package that's seemingly stuck in limbo for the moment, I'm guessing because of that as well. Cloudstrike is fucked — in my head I can already hear people using that name as a verb.

@jordanscollected PS please tell me about moon cheese!

[Matt]

Yeah, WTF is moon cheese?