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@MajorRage Quite likely. Wasn't mentioned in the article I read, but it made me laugh. This is one of his "And there was me thinking Pepsi had already sorted the world peace thing."
@Mokey Yeah, damn phone cameras. You just can't get away with beating up geriatrics anymore, it's not like the good ole days.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Just badly handled all around. As was mentioned above United could have made a PA to everybody on board with an offer that someone would take. Forcibly removing a passenger was always going to end in this shit fight.
WRT to overbooking - every airline that I have worked for does statistical analysis of the route / city pairs and calculates no show rates to determine how many extra seats to sell. This inevitably means that on the odd occasion when everyone shows up you have to give things away to rectify it. Once again a cost analysis is done to make it as efficient for them as possibble. Hard to quantify the publicity cost of dragging a doctor off a plane though.
Yep. Probably for a few hundred bucks more they could have gotten a volunteer. Instead, they created a PR nightmare, which the CEO made worse by being a cock, and lost hundreds of millions on the stock market. In the age of phones with cameras, roughing up a senior citizen is about the stupidest thing to do.
Yep, just keep raising the money and the package, double the cash and 4 star hotel, double it again and 5 star hotel - mini bar and room service. Someone would have taken it eventually. That was just dumb.
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What everyone is missing is the Americans invented customer service. It's why they're so good at it.
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There is a maximum an airline can give a passenger to compensate them ($1350) but United were only prepared to offer $800.
Refer to Overbooking - Involuntary Bumping
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@Bovidae said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
There is a maximum an airline can give a passenger to compensate them ($1350) but United were only prepared to offer $800.
Refer to Overbooking - Involuntary Bumping
And whoever's job it is to negotiate may have reached the limit to which they are allowed to offer.
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Badgers continue to awesome and make superb headlines
Random badger turns up to BBQ uninvited and then bites a man
The animal wouldn't let go of his hand.
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Monkey Magic is back: Cult TV show gets remade for the ABC and Netflix
Filming is under way in New Zealand on a new version of the beloved series Monkey Magic.
Monkey Magic is back: Cult TV show gets remade for the ABC and Netflix
Children of the 1970s and 1980s rejoice: a cult favourite is getting a revamp.
Monkey Magic is heading back to the screen and will air as 10 half-hour episodes on ABC, TVNZ and on Netflix next year.
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Filming is under way in New Zealand on a new version of the beloved series Monkey Magic.
Monkey Magic is back: Cult TV show gets remade for the ABC and Netflix
Children of the 1970s and 1980s rejoice: a cult favourite is getting a revamp.
Monkey Magic is heading back to the screen and will air as 10 half-hour episodes on ABC, TVNZ and on Netflix next year.
I doubt they could capture the weirdness of the original with a remake.
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@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Filming is under way in New Zealand on a new version of the beloved series Monkey Magic.
Monkey Magic is back: Cult TV show gets remade for the ABC and Netflix
Children of the 1970s and 1980s rejoice: a cult favourite is getting a revamp.
Monkey Magic is heading back to the screen and will air as 10 half-hour episodes on ABC, TVNZ and on Netflix next year.
I doubt they could capture the weirdness of the original with a remake.
That show was like watching TV after an acid session.Half the problem will be the big budget. The original was so budget that was part of the weird charm
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@canefan said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Filming is under way in New Zealand on a new version of the beloved series Monkey Magic.
Monkey Magic is back: Cult TV show gets remade for the ABC and Netflix
Children of the 1970s and 1980s rejoice: a cult favourite is getting a revamp.
Monkey Magic is heading back to the screen and will air as 10 half-hour episodes on ABC, TVNZ and on Netflix next year.
I doubt they could capture the weirdness of the original with a remake.
That show was like watching TV after an acid session.Half the problem will be the big budget. The original was so budget that was part of the weird charm
Agreed. It will be very different if it isn't obviously kitsch.
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Share your concerns. But Netflix did a pretty good job with Voltron so I'm willing to give them a shot.
Hang on! If you read to the end of the article this very worrying fact appears...
The new series is being written by Jacquelin Perske (Seven Types of Ambiguity) and directed by Gerard Johnstone (Housebound, The Jaquie Brown Diaries).
