The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

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[Ed Anger]

Ugh. Dominos.

[DGuller]

Pretty damn cool-- one shot, six kills.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10735666/British-sniper-in-Afghanistan-kills-six-Taliban-with-one-bullet.html

Talk about getting ammoracked.

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[Valmy]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

[garbon]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

[garbon]

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I hate social media.

[Zanza]

German airline Lufthansa is to cancel 3,800 flights on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because of a strike by pilots over pay and working conditions.

The airline said 425,000 passengers would be affected by the stoppages.

It says that it has sent 100,000 text messages and emails to people who have booked on its flights in an attempt to prevent chaos at airports.

Emergency sleeping and food has been made ready at bigger airports for those who did not get the warning messages.

Fun!

I am just trying to book a flight at our corporate travel agency. Not really fun... 

[Valmy]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

Sorry was Middle School awesome for you or something?

Besides as a parent I am always amused by the notion 'remember that little thing you said when your kid was 3?  DOOMED THEM FOR LIFE!!'

[garbon]

I like how nearly everyone in this article interview seemed mostly okay, not so much put out but...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/business/international/lufthansa-strike.html?_r=0

Advance planning by Lufthansa, one of Europe's busiest airlines, seemed to be paying off Wednesday at the beginning of a three-day strike by pilots, despite the cancellation of about 900 flights worldwide.

But some travelers were nonetheless left scrambling to find alternative flights. And the city of Frankfurt, a major Lufthansa hub, was bracing for possible trouble in the coming days, as thousands of attendees of a big industrial trade show wondered whether they would be able to find ways out of the city on Thursday and Friday.

The airports at Frankfurt and Munich, another Lufthansa hub, were relatively calm, according to airline and airport representatives, after a two-day effort by the airline to notify passengers of flight cancellations that were expected to affect more than 425,000 travelers through Friday. Lufthansa said it expected to cancel another 1,200 flights scheduled for Thursday.

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Robert and Jennifer Beamon, newlywed Americans traveling through Europe for their honeymoon, arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris early Wednesday for a flight to Berlin, only to find that it had been canceled. Lufthansa check-in staff rebooked them on an Air France flight leaving an hour later.

"We didn't even talk to him, I handed him the paper and he just went on the computer and got us a new flight," said Ms. Beamon, 24. "It seems like they were anticipating this," added Mr. Beamon, 25.

Tabary Guy, a 48-year-old Frenchman flying to Munich on business, said he had received an email Tuesday from Lufthansa warning him that his flight had been canceled. He said the airline had changed his flight and that he was not expecting to be delayed or inconvenienced.

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Another person angry at the pilots was John Chen, owner of Elite Lighting Co., which is based in Zhongshan, China. Mr. Chen said that he had been in Frankfurt for three days to attend a large lighting industry trade fair and that he had planned to visit a customer in Kotowice, Poland, afterward.

"My good plans are totally destroyed," Mr. Chen said. "My customer will be very disappointed because of my absence."

Mr. Chen displayed a printout of an itinerary planned back in July. He and the customer were going to discuss a new product, he said. "Now everything is destroyed," Mr. Chen said. "I'm very upset. In China such things would never happen."

"There is no fast train to Katowice,'' Mr. Chen said. "How do I get there?" He said that he would visit a different customer in Amsterdam instead, and try to get to Poland when the strike ended.

[derspiess]

Jimmy Carter stopped and ate Cincy chili at Skyline here last night.  Apparently that was big news.

[Grey Fox]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

Sorry was Middle School awesome for you or something?

Besides as a parent I am always amused by the notion 'remember that little thing you said when your kid was 3?  DOOMED THEM FOR LIFE!!'

I have a question, it's quite simple.

How old are kids in middle school?

(This 3 tier divison is weird.)

[garbon]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

Sorry was Middle School awesome for you or something?

Besides as a parent I am always amused by the notion 'remember that little thing you said when your kid was 3?  DOOMED THEM FOR LIFE!!'

I was hoping you were being silly as I doubted you thought that the campaign was saying being called bossy at 3 ruins girls for life.

[Admiral Yi]

I have a question, it's quite simple.

How old are kids in middle school?

(This 3 tier divison is weird.)

Usually 12-13.

[Grey Fox]

Much oblige, Yi.