2681

They make them check the bag with the guy on the skywalk, that way they have to wait while everyone else gets off the plane for the bags to be retrieved.

2682

I understand the carry-on thing even less with Southwest. You get two free checked bags and the baggage system (in large airports) is actually pretty efficient. Why do you need that giant thing taking up half the compartment above you?

I kind of wish they’d decrease the allowed size of carry-ons. It’s supposed to be like a (school sized) backpack and a purse or a briefcase and a laptop or whatever. Not a friggin Mount Everest ready backpack and a three-person wardrobe rolling behemoth.

2683

Several obvious reasons. Carry on doesn’t get lost. Carry on is easier to secure (if you have sensitive business stuff you usually don’t want to check it through) Carry on is also faster if you want to deplane and get the hell out of there vs. waiting for your checked luggage.

I kind of wish they’d decrease the allowed size of carry-ons. It’s supposed to be like a (school sized) backpack and a purse or a briefcase and a laptop or whatever. Not a friggin Mount Everest ready backpack and a three-person wardrobe rolling behemoth.

The size actually varies by airline and aircraft. Luggage is typically sold as “carry on approved” with no mention that many planes (regionals such as CRJs and Embraers) can’t handle the max size.

That said I’ve definitely noticed that GAs are pulling people out of the boarding lines at times and forcing mandatory checked baggage, and this often pisses off passengers to no end.

2684

My biggest problem with that logic (on Southwest) is that I’ve flown several times a year for the last fifteen years, and my luggage has been lost exactly once in a catastrophic, mutlileg, international-flight snowstorm apocalypse. It’s not like the 80s where someone is writing on a tag.

H.

2685

While I agree (and I check luggage all the time specifically because I don’t want to deal with trying to find overhead space), I have had my luggage delayed by up to a day at least three times in the past two years.

For a lot of people the issue is just playing the odds – guaranteed minor hassle of carry on vs. the potential huge hassle of having your luggage lost.

2686

That’s why I always check my luggage with a GPS device. (I never go anywhere lately)

2687

Does it make ticking sounds?

2688

Modern bombs don’t tick.

I get those reasons, BTG, but just think it’s such a marginal thing. Sure on a multi-stop long distance trip or whatever, but on a non-stop from Vegas to SF, it’s like come on people. I generally deplane right in the middle of everyone and my checked baggage always gets to the carousel within five minutes of me if not earlier.

2689

You overlooked the possibility that this might be an ANALOGUE GPS device, shift6, or whatever your real name is.

2690

Misspellings, especially “definately” and “defiantly” for definitely, “alot” and “allot” for a lot.

Actually, general carelessness with language pisses me off. (CPU for PC, computer for monitor etc)

2691

I’ve set my spell-checker to accept alot, so now it’s officially a real word. You can use it if you want.

2692

They have bright blue LEDs and beep loudly. I know. I’ve seen Chuck.

2693

I defiantly declare you don’t get to determine that!

Allot is a real word, put that in your spellchecker.

And another thing which annoys me - people who use the expression “here” in their posts but who don’t have location data filled out with geographical info. I’ve just been reading posts about traffic not stopping for pedestrians from about page 74 and while I’ve learned that cars don’t always stop here, it’s the law for drivers to do so here. How can you expect n00bs to become well-informed and knowledgeable with that sort of huolimattomuutta* going on?

*A word we use here.

2694

Well, unless its stated otherwise, I’ll always assume a person on Qt3 is referring to the US.

2695

Yeah, they tend to do that anyway.

2696

Dammit, my glib reference would have been clearer if I had asked whether or not you own a dildo.

2697

Who doesn’t own a dildo now days?

2698

Ooooh that reminds me of a real nerd rage: people asking for buying advice but not providing ANY pricing information other than “I don’t want to spend too much” or, even better, the ever so precise “I have a decent budget but don’t want to go crazy”.

2699

People who feed their dogs from the table. I don’t care what they do in the privacy of their own home, but when I’m over for a meal, and the dog is lunging at me every time I move the fork from my plate to my mouth, because it thinks I’m going to drop it some food, I want to stab it in it’s whining, yelping, begging, slobbering face. Train your fucking dog not to be such a god damned spaz.

If you really want to ratched up my frustration, tell me something like, “Oooh, he likes yyyyooouuuuuu!!!”, and then smile at me… “OH, DOES HE FUCKING LIKE ME? OR, PERHAPS, DOES HE LIKES THE SMELL OF THE FUCKING GRAVY I JUST SMEARED ALL OVER MY SHIRT WHEN HE BOWLED ME THE FUCK OVER TRYING TO SNATCH A BISCUIT OUT OF MY HAND???”

And don’t you dare act offended when I ask you to put the thing outside, or in another room, at least until we’re done eating. I understand it’s your house, and I’m just a guest, but have some fucking consideration.

2700

It’s company policy to use the indirect “A dildo”, never “YOUR dildo”.