I can leave the house with 50 minutes before my international departure and be totally fine.
"international
"
ianmcorvidae
heh
SBP is small enough you don't get much choice of airline though
which is what makes the BDL/TUS size better
lots of airlines, but you can still show up 45 minutes before your flight and be fine
reosarevok
Choice of airline?
I thought the US had like 4 big airlines and all of them sucked anyway
ruaok
southwest and virgin america dont suck.
my GF likes alaska.
the rest? fuck'em.
ianmcorvidae
reosarevok: SBP gets two airlines, US and United :P
virgin america I wish TUS got, but we do get southwest
it's nice to have AA and delta as options for when I can't take southwest and want choices beyond the other sucky ones
reosarevok
You could also move to Europe ;)
reosarevok subtly makes your mind want to do it
Ok, I've never been too good at being subtle
ianmcorvidae
:P
ruaok
no patience, reosarevok.
reosarevok
ruaok: it was for ianmcorvidae
You're doing it anyway :p
ruaok
oh. ok.
ruaok is on it
reosarevok
But that means we need ianmcorvidae to move for the full core team to be in EU
Well, and navap I guess?
ruaok
ianmcorvidae: I'd fly delta before AA.
AA has fucked me too many times
ianmcorvidae
I avoid everyone but southwest if I can
reosarevok
ruaok: Yeah, with all that wanting you to stop drinking
Oh, wait, wrong AA
ruaok
ianmcorvidae: I avoid US based airlines if possible.
like my trip to BCN.
bought on United.
flown by skywest, swiss and Lufthansa.
ianmcorvidae
if I can't get them my ordering is probably US Airways on top (because my dad gets lots of frequent flyer miles from them, so, cheap), then the other three
ruaok
no single united operated flight. WIN!
reosarevok
heh
ianmcorvidae
haha
nikki
ianmcorvidae: yes, as reosarevok said, move to europe! come to germany! >:D
nikki uses this as an opportunity to remind you :P
ruaok
nikki: the other day someone asked me why I am not moving back to germany...
reosarevok
Estonia is cheaper ;) Well, *East* Germany might not be much more expensive
ruaok
guess what my response was.
reosarevok
But Bonn is in the wrong half!
nikki doesn't know
ruaok
gema
reosarevok
lol
nikki
oh, right :P
reosarevok
Good point
ruaok
gez a closed second
reosarevok
See, ianmcorvidae? Estonia
ruaok
-d
reosarevok
First in the world on internet freedom!
nikki
I guess gema is the second thing I don't like
reosarevok
(according to someone I don't know)
ruaok
nikki: what is first?
reosarevok
Her smoking neighbors?
nikki
the bizarre traffic light crossing system
reosarevok
Oh
ianmcorvidae: Also snowy and cold! No more desert!
ruaok
nikki: what's so bizzare about it?
nikki
I swear I nearly get run over every time I cross the road :/
reosarevok
(if you don't like cold, forget that bit)
nikki
I'm used to the uk, where when there's a green man, there's no moving vehicles
reosarevok
(still no more desert though)
nikki
unlike here where green man means there's still moving vehicles
ruaok
same here to
turn on red is allowed.
reosarevok
Well, green man = if there are vehicles, they have to stop anyway if someone's crossing, right?
nikki
it's like the bad parts of zebra crossings combined with the bad parts of pelican crossings
ruaok
suppsed to an do are different
nikki
they often speed up if they think someone's about to cross, to avoid having to wait
which scares the shit out of me :P
reosarevok
heh
Yeah, they did it sometimes in Spain
jdamcd
I almost died about a dozen times in San Francisco because I never learned that cars could turn at red lights
reosarevok
If you actually *do* cross, they either avoid you or stop though
jdamcd
how does that make any sense?
reosarevok
If only to avoid fucking up their car / insurance marks
ruaok
jdamcd: it makes sense from a driver
s perspective.
ianmcorvidae has gotten very good at glaring at drivers
ianmcorvidae
it's fun to shame them into stopping
reosarevok
I guess the problem is designing cities from a driver's perspective :)
ruaok
jdamcd: then again, how does cars always having right of way of pedestrians in the UK make sense? ;-)
ianmcorvidae
however, yes, right-turn-on-red is great as a driver and terrible as a pedestrian
hawke_
jdamcd: how does that not make sense? They’re not crossing traffic, just merging.
ruaok
ianmcorvidae: glaring is a great tool
reosarevok
hawke_: pedestrian traffic is traffic!
ianmcorvidae
hawke_: pedestrians
reosarevok
(the most important bit of it)
hawke_
reosarevok, ianmcorvidae: We’re talking about the US here.
ianmcorvidae guesses hawke doesn't go out walking much
ianmcorvidae
hawke_: yes, I also live here
and fuck drivers
hawke_
I do, actually — bicycling more than walking
reosarevok
Again, it comes down to "designing your cities for cars is stupid"
hawke_
I just don’t walk in front of someone who’s turning right.
reosarevok: Well, yeah.
ianmcorvidae
if you're hurtling yourself faster than any unassisted human can in an air-conditioned metal box you can fucking stop when I'm out walking
and I think the law should support that viewpoint as well
ruaok owns six bikes and is sad to have to divest 4 of them
ruaok: oh, the thing that bothers me the most about the crossings is when the moving traffic is coming from behind (which is the case for one of the crossings near here). I don't have eyes in the back of my head, so it all looks clear and then there's suddenly a car coming towards me D:
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ruaok
fuss. another reason to not use crossings. :)
nikki
I'm getting better at avoiding the ones I don't like
reosarevok
From behind?
Oh, includes a turn I guess?
nikki
yes
reosarevok
Yeah, not a lot of those here thankfully
but those are annoying
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ruaok
now that I am thinking of it, I'm not wholly sure what type of intersection you mean, nikki
google maps?
reosarevok
ruaok: well, if they can freely turn right, any car can take a turn from behind you and appear by you a couple metres away
(since the crossings tend to be very close to the corners)
