The New Coffee Room

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Far less so than I was expecting. A couple people cutting in line with sob stories. People were pretty calm though. Partly I think because it was expected (that changed my outlook considerably) and partly (I speculate) there was a little bit of ‘we’re all in this moment together’ spirit like you see during a big weather event or tragedy of some kind, though I don’t want to exaggerate that too much. The most stressful part was when the line was snaking through the front atrium. It didn’t look like a line, it looked like a crowd. The only thing that made it a line was everyone knowing who was in front of them and who was behind.

I worked for a truly awful boss for what was an extremely long 10 years between 2003 and 2013, and so I'm willing to cut people a little slack. After he'd gone I realised I'd been suffering with fairly significant anxiety issues for over 5 years. Other people had got it worse - some quit, at least one had to take medical leave. We still talk about him now. His resemblance to the Lundberg character in Office Space was genuinely uncanny. [image: 1774262971039-828d87af-8482-452c-8282-fd7e4e810005-image.jpeg]

@bachophile said: and welcome to your new homeland, dont overdose on Fregola I find it quite tasty but will heed your words of warning from a man who surely knows the dangers of overindulging Israeli couscous . So much to learn in this new Old Mediterranean world.

Just boarded flight to BKK. Ladyboys gonna have to wait.

@AndyD Will your light crude oil run generators, or oil heating systems? Or does it have to be mixed with heavy crude first. No it has to be refined first - although the light crude produced in some Western Siberian fields could run a diesel engine once the parafins are removed. Light crudes produced in North America are used primarily for aviation fuel, motor oils and petrochemical production.

You know, I was watching the airport footage again. There are a full 8 whole seconds between when the firetruck began to cross the runway (and the truck/s behind it all stopped btw...) before the plane hit it. Yes the truck behind it completely stops (like they should at a stop sign), probably because they saw the plane. As much as they got the clearance to cross, this sure seems like it's 90% the fault of the firetruck driver for crossing without looking first for crossing traffic...the size of an airplane. https://www.reddit.com/r/airport/comments/1s1nhdm/air_canada_lga_crash_footage/

@Klaus said: What do you do to get to 4000kcal a day? Would have been epic had the answer been "pies." Get well soon.

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@Mik said: Silence Revenge Of The Lambs [image: 1774547968082-5c827ca7-991f-4461-939f-61299efdeaad-image.jpeg]

@jon-nyc said: Sweet. Congratulations! My Baldwin should be here the beginning of May at which point we both shall be ready for you to come and forget the word bosendorfer

@jon-nyc said: ... the ideal of success from the standpoint of a Jewish mother circa 1985. What is that ideal?

@Doctor-Phibes said: If TNCR is wrong, I don't wanna be right. I can't believe I just wrote that. 555

Hydroplane???? Boat????

That's a point.

$1200 for the business part, $600 for the family part.

@jon-nyc said: I witnessed it in India. Same. I would have thought India would be higher, but 5-10% of 1+Billion people is still a lot.

The lack of enforcement of the bike regulations where I live has been a blessing for me in that. I have a totally illegal E bike for writing the streets and pathways as it is too big with power and I can go almost 40 mph on mine, but it is the most comfortable ride in the world and such a fun thing to ride and it’s on its way to Sardinia where out here the regulations or lack as well but it will just take a few few more kids getting themselves killed on these things for America to tighten up the enforcement. These Chinese manufacturers are getting better and better with her product and mine is probably the best Chinese E bike made for the money and they are called Freesky. I have the Alaska model which separates from the regular models and that it has two batteries to give me longer rides, but the Chinese have built into the controller, passwords of ass sort that open up the controller to allow maximum speed you have to physically punch in a code before you go on your ride so they maintain their legitimacy in America I guess.

u could have said, "were u born that ugly or did it develop over time?"

And 1970’s environmental wet dreams didn’t motivate prior administrations…