Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Tim Above the Law was on TV last night. Steven was the baddest of the 80s action stars. Not as big as Dolph, didn't have Arnie's muscles, but if there was an 80s action star all-in, Steven's where the money goes.
Watching him break some mook's arm is a movie pleasure. And he's the master of the double death.
Yeah but those blokes plus Sly and JCVD ( and as if I need to mention Chuck ) stayed in shape. He's just a massive joke of a fat fluffybunny now and still behind them at his peak. Dolph, JCVD and Chuck would have made fucken mincemeat of him in a real life scrap too.
Decent blues guitarist though.
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@MN5 said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Tim Above the Law was on TV last night. Steven was the baddest of the 80s action stars. Not as big as Dolph, didn't have Arnie's muscles, but if there was an 80s action star all-in, Steven's where the money goes.
Watching him break some mook's arm is a movie pleasure. And he's the master of the double death.
Yeah but those blokes plus Sly and JCVD ( and as if I need to mention Chuck ) stayed in shape. He's just a massive joke of a fat fluffybunny now and still behind them at his peak. Dolph, JCVD and Chuck would have made fucken mincemeat of him in a real life scrap too.
Decent blues guitarist though.
His tip tap shit wouldn't seem to be effective against a real fighter
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sadly he has become a bit of a sideshow really, but I guess he gets paid to act up for the crowd now.
An unfulfilled talent I would say, had he had the work ethic of say Tiger at his peak....
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
sadly he has become a bit of a sideshow really, but I guess he gets paid to act up for the crowd now.
An unfulfilled talent I would say, had he had the work ethic of say Tiger at his peak....
Are you talking about John Daly or Stephen Seagal? Please be more clear.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
sadly he has become a bit of a sideshow really, but I guess he gets paid to act up for the crowd now.
An unfulfilled talent I would say, had he had the work ethic of say Tiger at his peak....
ESPN 30 for 30 did a doco on him which was sad but interesting. He had so much talent but could never cope with the demands of fame
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@MN5 said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
sadly he has become a bit of a sideshow really, but I guess he gets paid to act up for the crowd now.
An unfulfilled talent I would say, had he had the work ethic of say Tiger at his peak....
Are you talking about John Daly or Stephen Seagal? Please be more clear.
Or @Tim?
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@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
This story gets more and more funny to watch from the sidelines. Talk about doing nearly everything you can to make a bad situation worse.
For those that haven't followed it goes like this.
- United Airlines usual arrogant incompetence means they demand that 4 passengers disembark a flight after they are seated to accommodate some flight crew that they need to transport.
- 3 of them go reluctantly but one (who is a bit of a dick anyway) refuse to budge
- the airport security (mall cops) are brought on board and they roughly remove the guy, bashing his face against an armrest and dragging him by the arms along the aisle
- of course this was all filmed by other passengers and uploaded to social media where it spread like wildfire as bad publicity
- United's CEO makes it worse by making a statement placing all blame on the passenger and then praises his staff (which of course gets leaked)
- this just adds massive fuel to the public fire and $1B is wiped off the share value (that's one expensive email)
- Warren Buffett alone is reported to have lost $23M ($91M and the low point in trading)
The funny thing is that smaller incidents like this have been going on with United for years and instead of improving their own procedures, policies and training have always acted the bully. This has finally come back to bite them bigtime.
Yes, all airlines occasionally have to deal with overbooking or booking stuff ups but United is the only airline I have ever experienced where the 'sorting out' happens after all the seats are occupied and passengers are ready to go.
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@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Most of these problems stem from the bizarre system United use to organise their passenger lists. I have never seen any other airline do it like they do and I'm sure some twat got paid a shit-ton to implement it.
It is ridiculous offloading passengers once they have boarded. Why can't this be sorted at the gate beforehand? I'd imagine their system is suitably cumbersome inefficient and inflexible to suit the lumbering behemoth itself
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I don't know if anyone else that has flown them has experienced the same but they do a lot of re-organisation after seating everyone. We had two flights on them last year. On the first we were pissing ourselves laughing as they came onto the plane with a bunch of new boarding passes and proceeded to call out seat numbers like a lottery to shuffle everyone around then some crew came on and sat in some of the recently vacated seats.
On the second we were told on checking our bags that we were seated 5 rows apart (despite booking 6 months previously) then as we were in the aisle of the plane someone came on and handed us new passes seated together (presumably having moved some other people). It was nice that they fixed their stuff up but it's the way that the system doesn't do all this for them beforehand they leave it to the gate staff to deal with. Obviously a recipe for disaster. -
United Airlines 'Reaccommodated' a Passenger. Is That the Euphemism of the Year?
Each year, linguists, lexicographers and other language nuts gather at an annual conference under the banner of the American Dialect Society. The highlight of the confab is a raucous vote for choosing the “word of the year,” a now widespread tradition that this organization started decades ago. But in some ways, this event never ends, because the attendees are on the lookout all year long not just for possible “WOTY” winners but nominees for several subcategories: Slang Word of the Year, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Creative.
And on Monday, the CEO of United Airlines likely locked up a position in a category that one generally does not want to be found inspiring: Euphemism of the Year. As a viral video spread across the Internet, showing a man dragged off a plane, bloodied and protesting, after paying for a ticket to be on that plane, CEO Oscar Munoz released a statement apologizing “for having to re-accommodate” customers like him who found themselves bumped from a flight.
“I thought that ‘alternative facts’ wrapped up Euphemism of the Year,” says Mark Peters, who follows the vote closely and writes a column on euphemisms called Evasive Maneuvers. “But this one may be even better, in a worse way.”
euphemism (n.): the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
“Alternative facts” – the already immortal phrase that Trump aide Kellyanne Conway used to describe falsehoods perpetuated by Trump’s press secretary – was euphemistic to the point that it may offend some people to call it a euphemism at all. Other language used by press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday, when he apparently referred to Nazi concentration camps as “Holocaust centers,” falls onto the same end of the spectrum. (Linguist Ben Zimmer, who presides over the event, notes that such items might find themselves in the running for an even more dubious honor known as “WTF Word of the Year.”)
