LAJ

Some things don't change.

RPK79

I've given up reading anything political online. It's just two sides that are equally stubborn and no actual discussion because everyone who is willing to actually discuss politics has also given up on the internet as a place to have a discussion.

datlas 

YOU ARE WRONG!

datlas 

I had the same experience and have not gone back. The only positive aspect of that place is the suspension of the %##&*@# censor.

Velo Vol 

What make it boring here is that there aren't two sides. There's like one or two people who support Trump and most everyone else thinks he's an idiot. So, not much of a debate.

RPK79

[insert ad hominem attack]

Velo Vol 

Not sure if you recall or not, but I can't go back. I got banished due to @rjones28's shenanigans.

RPK79

Free VV!

indyfabz

I was amazed at how many so-called "service dogs" I saw in the airports this weekend. There was even one on one of my flights. I think I also heard a cat meow when during a bumpy landing. Felt like looking around for Noah up in that jawn.

Wonder how many of the owners are F.O.S. and just trying to avoid the pet fee and/or ending up with a dead pooch. A week or so ago I ran into a woman I know from our local bike club. She was walking her bulldog. The harness had a "Service Animal" tag on it. Total B.S. That dog, who I love, can barely service itself. She admitted she does it to avoid airline pet fees.

Velo Vol 

What I was trying to figure out on Twitter is:

(1) Why are these people standing in the water, feeding sharks?
(2) How did a shark biting a finger cause the woman to fall into the water?

Trsnrtr

Almost all of my Twitter contacts are cycling related so my Twitter has been pretty interesting today.

Trsnrtr

Precisely. I rarely watch news anymore, either. Somehow, I don't seem to miss anything of importance.

BillyD

Thatsashame.

LAJ

You're not allowed to question whether it's a service dog. Let em ride, or face a lawsuit.

datlas 

I don't know (1), but anatomically if you pull hard enough on your finger, the rest of your body will follow. The finger bone connects to the hand bone...the hand bone conects to the wrist bone....you know the rest of the song.

RPK79

We're not all doctors here, Doug.

BillyD

Oh stop! You had the opportunity to come back but you declined. Vol just being Vol, a friend tells me. Now the offer has been withdrawn, a friend tells me.

indyfabz

I read this when it was originally published:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/t...ls-planes.html

Sounds like they are trying to tighten things up due to fraud.

Bah Humbug

No news here either, Twitter is gone from my life, and FB mostly is. IG is a happier place.

RPK79

My FB is mostly bikes and kittens. I purged most of the politics from my feed with the 'unfollow' or 'unfriend' buttons.

edit: and memes of course.

BillyD

TH was intended to be the cesspool so that P&R could be civilized, and that's the way we got it now finally.

But as has been mentioned, nobody ever changes their position, it's just a place to vent . . . a wailing wall so to speak. But several of those guys are pretty sharp so you can learn stuff in there.

Bah Humbug

Given a choice between risking my pooch (or poor old kitty) dying on a flight or calling him an emotional support animal (any pet of mine rather by definition is), I'm lying. Every. Single. Time. And any psychiatrist who talks to me for five minutes will agree I could use one, especially when flying.

I mean, personally I drive when possible so that was how I handled it, but until they have a reliable way to transports animals through the air with just about a 100% survival rate, this is what's going to happen. You can't, morally, just throw them in with baggage and hope they don't freeze or suffocate or have a heart attack.

indyfabz

Possibly to the detriment of a non-liar as space is limited.

Velo Vol 

In Trollheim?

When I was there it was just weird people trading insults with one another, and then @rjones28 came in with pretty much the same persona as he has here, and they got ticked off because he wouldn't play along with them.

BillyD