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Registered on:8/19/2013
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Never too late to go back and edit all your posts to say "I love horses" :lol:


And who doesn’t love a pony??


re: Best site for flights

Posted by Pepperoni on 10/5/26 at 12:37 am to
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Job circumstances killed my trips this year.
Unfortunately you gotta put in the work before leisure travel. :lol:
I’m about halfway through: Malaysia, Singapore and now Europe. Great food. Did same trip last year. Business class was excellent, but if I repeat the trip a third year I’d try to keep legs under eight hours and use stops as their own two or three day excursions.

I will check out FlyerTalk forums. Thanks
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Socrates never said it. At this point, the real slander is what losers keep attributing to poor Socrates.
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I snuck in a button push with MsNC on the pot. I think she showed off a 36" vertical.

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Japan has electronic toilets in its upper end hotels. The controllers have 10-15 buttons with indecipherable Japanese labels.

You can find Toto in many higher end hotels in SE Asia. The toilets are not difficult to use. Heated seats are great.
Four settings each with a + to - range

Stop
Rear
Front
Dryer



re: Best site for flights

Posted by Pepperoni on 10/3/26 at 11:40 pm to
You’re probably right.
A lot of posts in TA are rehashes of a particular complaint of an aggregator but made umpteen years ago. I did use Expert Flyer for a year. Quite helpful in creating some connections and booking classes.
I am halfway through a 40 day trip now.

re: Best site for flights

Posted by Pepperoni on 10/3/26 at 7:29 pm to
Not necessarily. Fares are often similar, and even when a third-party site is slightly cheaper, book directly with the airline. The dollars a third party aggregator claims to save you usually aren’t worth the aggravation when there’s a cancellation, schedule change, or missed connection.
Look at the TripAdvisor Air Travel Forum for horror stories involving bookings, changes, refunds, and customer service.
LINK https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g1-i10702-Air_Travel.html
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No homecoming, in any community, should be disrupted by gun violence.

Gwen Walz enters the chat >>>>
But Timmy, remember, burning tires is A-OK

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s wife once admitted she kept the windows of the governor’s residence “open as long as [she] could” to smell the burning tires from the violent 2020 riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death — as her husband’s handling of the protests is back in the spotlight.

re: Baltic Countries

Posted by Pepperoni on 10/3/26 at 12:42 am to
I haven’t driven in Estonia —just been using Bolt—but Tallinn’s beautiful Old Town is definitely worth exploring.
Used your original numbers, rounded off to nearest percent and sorted on Game Time %


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NY Times is now in FULL damage control mode after they were called out for referring to the stabbing of an airplane captain and an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot as an "altercation."

Those idiots would rewrite history:
“President Lincoln’s evening at Ford’s Theatre was interrupted by an altercation with actor John Wilkes Booth.”

re: Best site for flights

Posted by Pepperoni on 9/27/26 at 11:50 am to
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Thoughts on travel insurance? It’s used to be that SWA wasn’t in any of these search engines, has that changed?

I get GeoBlue with $500 deductible. But that’s medical insurance- not CFAR ( cancel for any reason) insurance.
I don’t buy CFAR. I buy refundable air tickets and flexible reservations for hotels.
PS
SWA does show up in Google searches.
Try ITA Matrix.
LINK https://matrix.itasoftware.com/search
You can choose where you want to connect, avoid certain airports or airlines, decide how long a layover you’re willing to have, search only certain airlines, and see exactly what kind of ticket and fare you’re getting. Google owns it. Just be sure to book directly with the airline.
Also try a pay site for alerts. It takes a bit to learn but is quite extensive.
LINK https://www.expertflyer.com/

re: Your “wow” vacation

Posted by Pepperoni on 9/27/26 at 5:43 am to
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Your “wow” vacation
Kuala Lumpur - my third time traveling there.

re: Best site for flights

Posted by Pepperoni on 9/27/26 at 5:41 am to
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Close your eyes and repeat after me: Do not book third party. Do not book third party.
Do not book third party.
Use Google Flights to find the fare one desires and book it directly with the airline.
Book it directly with the airline.
Book it directly with the airline.

This cannot be stressed enough. Go third party and you risk getting played like a chump. Find the fare, but book directly with the airline.
And if you can swing it, buy refundable tickets.
AI

You can’t keep taking fish out of the ocean faster than they can reproduce. Too many fishing boats are chasing shrinking fish populations. China’s with its massive technology-driven fishing fleet able to find and catch fish on an enormous scale is a major part of the problem.
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I might be alone here, but I truly believe that a few weeks can make something clean again. Wear it, hang it back up, let it air out a few weeks, and it’s good to go again. Probably not good for more than two rounds with underwear, but I have pants and shirts that I haven’t washed in years. I just give them a few weeks between wearings and they are good again. If you can give them a little sunshine; like hang them in a window, that few weeks can be shortened by a week or so.


:lol:
Finally, someone willing to say what Big Laundry doesn’t want us to know.

re: AI program(s) for a noob.

Posted by Pepperoni on 9/19/26 at 4:24 pm to
You’re welcome.


So this sweet old lady was possibly indirectly responsible for cancer way back when?
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Why does US Secretary of War Hegseth keep making fun of the Canadian Forces? Total mystery. In other news, here is the cover of an official Canadian Forces publication from 2024.
LINK to 2024 Issue