tonights topic - airport bars
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Topic: tonights topic - airport bars
Posted By: A square 10
Subject: tonights topic - airport bars
Date Posted: February 26 2026 at 8:10pm
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saw on gutfeld tonight they are back = i didnt know they were gone , i havent flown but once since 1982 , that was to las vegas for shot show and it was not a trip that i spent much time in the airport either direction as the flight was direct , but back in the mid/late 70s i flew a few times for work , one that jumps to mind was when i delivered a bif on a project in kansas city , had to be turned in at the architects office by a certain time , i flew there in the morning took a cab to the location , found a pay phone and got in touch with the office where a group of people were filling in pricing to my estimate , accepting phone bids from subcontractors and revising our bid as they came in , i stayed on the phone for half an our listening to the revisions getting made and finally just before the time deadline i filled out the documents read back the prices to confirm what we were submitting and took the bid in and got it time stamped , then took the cab back to the airport because it was a closed opening , so my return flight was not for a little over four hours later so i sat in the airport bar sip[ping a beer and watching people come and go , i was one of a dozen others waiting for flights it seemed a normal thing to do , not sure when that changed but apparently it did - but now the trend is coming back after i left that job abd moved i worked for the quad cities contractor that i flw for a lot but we had a company plane and piolet so never spent time in the airport anymore , only once did we fly commercial , three of us flew to jacksonville florida but got routed though atlanta with a layover - didnt get in till layte , thats the night we encountered the hookers in the airport while moving from one terminal to another , it was about 1AM , only other commercial flight was the one i booked to come home and resign then moved here i dont like to fly and will avoid it at all cost but if i had to spend time [layover] in an airport they better have a bar
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Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 3:54am
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My wife and I used to fly a lot but with everything related to air travel becoming increasingly unpleasant we have vowed to never fly again unless it's a large body of water we can't drive over. From urine soaked rear seat floors to incredibly disgusting body odor to a COVID sufferer purposefully hacking unmasked in everyone's direction to seat kickers to drunken louts to surly TSA officers we've had enough. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 10:54am
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I once met White Rhino in an airport & we went for a beer. The bar was out of beer! I have Never lived that one down, ask Hoadie! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 1:08pm
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No BEER! A curse on the land! Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy! |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 3:16pm
| yup ,, you would thnk they would keep an adequate supply on hand , musta had an un=usually large crowd of beer drinkers |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 3:33pm
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I no longer drink beer but my sons always have a case or two in the refrigerator. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: February 27 2026 at 7:53pm
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yes i dont drink as much as i once did but ive generally got three kinds in a small quantity in my mini fridge - i have one or two a day now , my wife keeps hers in the kitchen fridge - i cant drink the fu fu beer
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Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 4:02am
| One trip a flight from Vancouver to Houston with a stop in Dallas (my stop) continued straight on to Houston since DFW was completely socked in due to a severe thunderstorm. American Airlines booked me on an evening flight to get back to Dallas so I sat in the bar to have a couple of Shiner Bocks. I struck up a conversation with the guy next to me and as with all men we soon turned to talking about careers. He worked for a Canadian electrical wholesale company and was heading back after looking at the products of an American electrical manufacturing company. I mentioned I ran an electrical contracting company for some time in Vancouver, B.C. so he asked me if I ever dealt with a wholesaler by the name of E.B. Horsman to which I replied I had. Then he asked me if I ever dealt with a Stan J. at that company to which I replied that I not only dealt with him he and I together with his son Todd were hunting and fishing buddies before I moved to Texas. The man I was talking to was one of Stan's golf buddies. Small world. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 4:52am
What Shamu didn't know - was RHINO planned it that way, so he didn't hafta buy!  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Shamu wrote:Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 6:02am
| Cheap sob! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 11:54am
  Actually he offered, but as I was hosting him in Md, "I toldt him his Cajum money was no good up here in "Da Nawf" & he fell for it"!  We ended up drinking Heineken! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 1:14pm
| I raise my mug to you, one and all. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 2:18pm
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[Q UOTE=paddyofurniture] I raise my mug to you, one and all.[/QUOTE] Thought you said you don't drink?!  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 2:21pm
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All I drink is coffee or water. I can still raise about for my friends. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 5:49pm
| ill raise mine to that , but tonight its my sweet manhattaen |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 6:16pm
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In an "Old fashioned" glass? ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 6:18pm
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Navy Pussers rum & Goslings diet Jamaican ginger beer here. Its one of the few sugar free sodas I will tolerate
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: February 28 2026 at 8:35pm
| ive had that and its right fine , i really enjoyed the few i had , good flavor , no hangover and a feirly pleasant experience , |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: March 01 2026 at 5:43am
Oh! the horror! Actually most young bar tenders have no idea which correct style of glass to use. Also, I get a perverse joy in watching them squirm when I order one of the drinks I enjoyed half a century ago. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: March 01 2026 at 7:20am
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I used to enjoy Scotch, neat. Liked it so much I married one. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 01 2026 at 10:11pm
| i married a czech not realizing id be eating bohemian food the rest of my life ..........previous two were norwegian , lutherans , i liked the leftsa hated the lutefisk and im glad they are gone from my life |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 01 2026 at 10:14pm
ill say yes or close enough , i think i got it at a holiday in back in the late 70s early 80s , not quite as big around , same height , but close enough came back to add i like mine neat - no ice , dont need that extra girth in the glass
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 02 2026 at 11:27am
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"Oh! the horror! Actually most young bar tenders have no idea which correct style of glass to use." Oh, we both know which glass to use but arthritis & so on sometimes limit us "Auld Codgers" in dexterity so we Improvise! ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 02 2026 at 7:42pm
| exactly what i do and why i do it that way |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 03 2026 at 11:13am
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Yep didn't we have a conversation about just this last week?  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 03 2026 at 4:01pm
| most likely , sometimes i dont recall everything discussed in detail , but now that you brought it up yes i believe we did , |