Pushed by what?
Pushed by what?
Hope is the denial of reality
Why, exactly, does a city of half a million near nowhere in particular have the world's busiest airport?Originally Posted by Timbuk2
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Well, it is still the home of Delta, but I don't understand it really, either. A lot of our traffic is from layovers.
I do know that it is my second least favorite airport, I have a hard time imagining anyone wanting to fly into it. On the other hand, they've improved it a lot recently, my last trip through customs here was surprisingly not painful.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Well, according to Fun Facts about Atlanta therein is featured 130 retail centers and 54 public parks, and the city is home to the fourteenth largest mall in the nation The Mall of Georgia.
That must be it
I think it's really the World of Coke that people can't get enough of, Tim.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I can confirm that flying from Heathrow is a deeply dispiriting experience, to the point where even seeing Concord Roundabout is enough to make my irritable and tense.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
The thing that bugs me most about flying out of here is that there is always an insanely long line to get through security. There is one very long line that filters through one person, and then it allows spreading out to multiple scanners.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Other than what lolli said, Atlanta is the only major airport in that part of the country. Pretty much any flight to the deep south has to go through the same Atlanta airport. That's in contrast to 3 airports in the NYC-region, along with a bunch of other airports in Boston, Philly, etc.
The thing that gets me about Heathrow is that there's virtually nowhere to eat unless you want to spend a fortune. I believe the only reasonably priced place in the whole airport is a Pret. Also, there are no water fountains and far too few bathrooms...It seems most of the money was allocated into making the airport look pretty.
Hope is the denial of reality
I've never had a problem with the security at Atlanta. Didn't even hassle me when I flew otu with an expired license. Then again the cheapest flights are always at weird nonpeak hours. The biggest issue I have with Atlanta is how they have so many planes coming and going at the same time. I'm sure its organized and whatnot but its all way to compact and crowded in the air for my nerves.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Haha fuck food, try buying a tube of chapstick (or local equivalent) at any airport.
I go for cheap flights, but it doesn't seem to help. I think the worst trip through I've ever had was for a flight to Newark, it took me an hour and a half to get through security. I have no idea if it is any better for people who have layovers. I've had bad experiences with layovers elsewhere, though (surprisingly Charles de Gaulle is the best layover ever, FWIW).
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Was it the best layover because it involved French company?
Hope is the denial of reality
Haha no. It just didn't take another trip through the security scanners. I went through control and hopped a tram over to the terminal for my connecting flight.
In fact, the only difficulty I had was that the people in the shop that sold miscellaneous toiletry items didn't speak any English at all, but with some pointing and muttering I was able to get my necessities.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
That's actually the most efficient queuing method, lolli. Otherwise you end up trying to guess which line is going to move fastest, and you might be held up while one person takes a long time.
a lot of department stores are using that excuse to create single que lines, weaving you through a maze of impulse buys before finally reaching a register.
but yeah, the single guy at atlanta that does the preliminary check to make sure your shoes are off and paperwork is out can and does hold up the line as a whole.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I usually guess wrong when it comes to the right line for removing my liquids and electronics from my bag and getting myself scanned, anyway, I still think that having more than one person looking at IDs and boarding passes for the volume would be better.
Also, I've actually gotten the thorough pat-down before (not in Atlanta). They were pretty efficient about it, but it felt a little odd that it happened.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
*shrugs* I haven't gone through Atlanta security - I've always just connected - but in general most airports have a bottleneck at the carryon scanners, not at the ID checking or metal detectors. If it really is the ID/boarding pass agent who's the problem, that's a much easier fix than adding more machines at the X-ray machine... and it still doesn't require multiple queues.
Incidentally, I wonder what it would take for a gate agent to be fired. Some of them are so damn incompetent. You can go to two different agents, have one poke around for half an hour and not fix a problem and then the other one fixes it in a minute...
Hope is the denial of reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/re...nd-suburb.html For anyone who wants to read about the struggles of the friends of NY Times reporters, all inevitably filthy rich.
Hope is the denial of reality
Not sure how housing rent turned into airport security....but it speaks to urban costs, and public subsidies. None of the major airlines could create transportation "hubs" without federal funds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/re...gh-prices.html
Yet another NY Times piece that seems to assume that Brooklyn is composed entirely of the hipster areas near Manhattan. These same people could have moved to southern Brooklyn and paid about the same price for a house as they did in Jersey. Or is southern Brooklyn only for immigrants and African Americans?
Hope is the denial of reality
I really don't understand why people agree to be quoted in these articles. Don't they get that it's a trap?
Ironically, I first saw this article because people were posting it all over Facebook in an anti-gentrification group-fart.And so the Hustons bid farewell to Brooklyn. In October, they spent $550,000 on a 2,000-square-foot loft in a converted suitcase factory in Jersey City Heights, a section of Jersey City that overlooks Hoboken. “We weren’t sure there was anyone like us in the neighborhood,” he said. Then a Brooklyn-style coffee shop arrived. “The line down the street was all people like us. We could have been in Williamsburg. It was all, like, expats.”
I think my objection is less about the Time's Live From The Upper West Side/Williamsburg/Park Slope/Astoria mentality. The bigger issue, for me, is the insinuation that the only acceptable characteristics of a neighborhood are A) Stasis or B) Within the price-range of NYTimes writers trying not to dip into their trust funds.
*shrugs* They're showing what hipsters are saying and doing. If nothing else it shows hipsters that it's okay for hipsters to move to these areas nowhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/re...gh-prices.html
Yet another NY Times piece that seems to assume that Brooklyn is composed entirely of the hipster areas near Manhattan. These same people could have moved to southern Brooklyn and paid about the same price for a house as they did in Jersey. Or is southern Brooklyn only for immigrants and African Americans?
also:
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/...ooklyn-exists/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/ny...nted=2&_r=2&hp
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Sounds about right.That sounds like a polite way of saying the “new” Brooklynites are a bunch of attention hungry try-hards; down in our end of Brooklyn, we’re just trying to live our lives.
Pretty sure there's a racial/WASPy angle to why these people think Jersey is closer to northern Brooklyn than is a place one mile to the south (the quote from Dread's link implies as much).
Last edited by Loki; 08-24-2014 at 03:50 PM.
Hope is the denial of reality
Terminal 5 isn't so bad.
There's a man goin' 'round, takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
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