News and notes from around the interweb:
- New airport lounge revenge etiquette just dropped. I’m going to start doing this.
i finally did it: someone was talking on the phone with loud speaker sitting close to me while we were inside the bus.
so I joined the conversation with full confidence. when she gave me that “are you mad?” look, I said, “sorry,I thought it was a group call since you put it on…
— Freyy (@Freyy_is) October 21, 2025
- The Westin Bonaventure’s vision for what 21st century shopping would look like, circa 1977.
Commercial for the Bonaventure Hotel from 1977. pic.twitter.com/3EcuiINWTt
— Vintage Los Angeles (@alisonmartino) October 21, 2025
- Cool revenge but never a good idea to commit crimes yourself while carrying out the plot.
- DIY tablet holder:
- An Olde English “wench” because “hostesses should look like hostesses, right?”
- Delta will be announcing its Atlanta – Riyadh flight soon, as part of its partnership with new state-backed Riyadh Air. Such a far cry from when they were leading the charge to block Gulf carriers from even flying to the U.S., deploying any argument they thought might stick from complaints that those airlines were subsidized (as though U.S. carriers are not) to concerns about human rights abuses by their governments. Delta… no longer has such concerns.
Delta Air Lines to launch new route from Atlanta (ATL) to Riyadh (RUH) next year.
Flights to be operated with Airbus A350 aircraft. More details are soon to be announced. pic.twitter.com/iesymuYyOh
— Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) October 23, 2025
- Qantas double status credits through business rewards program.
Good job, Freyy. Trolling IRL, but, for the good. Niccce.
Oh, geez, Gary, on the TWA throwback… someone else on here was recently pitching for these outdated, sexist terms to return… horrible. It’s a shame that you’re basically glorifying it, too. *sigh*
The proper terms for a so-called FA are “stewardess” and “studmuffin”. AA should do retro Foreign Acdent flights from ORD and join UA in doing retro Businessmen’s Specials. And only those with incomes of $100000 or more should be allowed in airports.
@1990 – glorifying? I just find the contrast interesting, “this was actually a thing back then”
@Gary Leff — It’s settled. @O’Hare Is My Second Home and I are going with ‘stud muffin’… for safety and professionalism, naturally.
Today, we are all Freyy.
Airport lounges are where humanity’s last shreds of civility go to die. The next time someone puts a call on speaker, I’m gonna join in and start reading Psalm 23:4 at top volume with a mouthful of stale hummus. Or maybe a very explicit passage by E.L. James.
@Mike Hunt — “That’s beautiful; did you write that?” The Book of Eli (2010). Epic scene with Denzel and Mila Kunis. (“Some people say this was the reason for the war in the first place…”)
@ Gary — Except for the fact that you would probably be locked up involuntarily in the Ritz Carlton Riyahd, this route could be prime for Delta Lifetime Mile runs in business class. This flight is going to be SO EMPTY.
I would like to know more about the parking ticket situation. Why is the parking authority so screwed up that they don’t have the car towed and auctioned off after a reasonable time? Do they commonly leave abandoned vehicle to fill their lots?