eponymous_coward

You seriously think that attitude doesn't exist on FT, if you want to extrapolate from one person?

Go check out the Ego Trippin- I mean, Trip Report forum sometime. I mean, sheesh, there's a thread about drinking 8 bottles of DP on one plane flight...

I mean, we have a forum full of a bunch of people taking pictures of their meals, their suites, and their expensive F booze. Sounds pretty gauche to me. I bet I could find you multiple trip reports of the Burj Al Arab in the FT TR forum... and that place is NOT classy and understated. It's all about "LOOKIT ME MA".

I'm pretty sure this particular forum is here to make us feel better about ourselves, too. Look at those no-talent bloggers, hawking their credit cards. Whereas we're the real cognescenti here...

jerryhung

Today's newsletter topics

It's now a recurring theme to write 1 blog on a rumor, then another 1 to clarify it.

Do I really need to know that AA hints about SYD and another one on actual news of LAX-SYD, IN THE SAME DAY?
same thing about Etihad issue, and another post on the non-issue

Anyway, I only clicked on Tiffany's Google Flights post

lwildernorva

Well, isn't that inherent in the Internet? Things evolve quickly so you may see a post about a rumor and then a later post confirming the rumor and filling in details. I mean, even MSM news sites do that--it's supposed to be one of the advantages of online versus old media, right? And catch a thread on any developing event here at FT--I don't think that's much different from multiple posts about AA's actions.

Besides, the AA/Australia story has the potential to be much bigger than just the flights announced today. One of the benefits of the US/AA merger should be a strengthened company that can eventually narrow the gap perceived between AA and DL/UA regarding international routes.

Astrophsx

Or when someone on the blog writes a post and then another writes a counter argument, could they not do this in the same post?

Big_Foot

Of course it does.
But this blog promotes it heavily every day making the audience even dumber.
The same way the kardashians are becoming role models...

Are people stupid enough to watch reality tv, or does reality tv make them stupid?

84fiero

Right, and the news source (or blogger in this case) wants to be perceived as being in the loop and up to speed on the very latest, so they will post about something as soon as it's even a faint whisper.

I do find it annoying regarding the news, as 99% of what is reported isn't really that important that it can't wait a bit for verification or whatever.

Sounder

You seem particularly touchy about anything critical of Lucky. Travel "friend", or perhaps one of the commenters who oh-so disturbingly wants to be?

eponymous_coward

In answer to your comment: I think a lot of the content in this forum is ridiculously personal as opposed to discussing content without discussing the person, and not particularly in the spirit of the rules set up for discussion here. Your post is an excellent example.

Are you attempting to comment on what you perceive my sexual orientation to be, and extrapolating a sexual relationship (actual or desired) based on what I post on an Internet message board?

Please proceed...

FallenPlat

Yes, I also picked up on that strange little nuance above. Classy indeed.

I think your post, though, perhaps shoots one slightly errant arrow: the 8 Bottles of Dom report is, in fact, the best "pure" trip report ever published on Flyer Talk. Everyone here, including you, has read it . . . for a reason. That said, it of course 100% proves the point you were making, and much of one Mile at a Time is very much in that vein.

So, like many here, I'm not even close to being part of the target audience. Far, far from it.

But, again, I think we need to cut to the chase here: if we're not the target audience, why do we care enough to keep reading let alone enough to comment here? That's the key question. Really!

For myself, and beyond the pure entertainment value, I gotta think about that one . . . .

Also, here's one very trivial follow-up note from a couple of days ago, about languages. Almost all of my recreational reading is in French, and one of my favorite plays is Cyrano de Bergerac, particularly Act I, scene iv -- the famous "nose" scene if any of you caught the veiled imitative reference a few posts earlier.

eponymous_coward

I actually agree. I think many of the excellent TRs have a "LOOKIT ME, MA!" element to them.

Egoless people don't generally write about themselves while including pictures.

And that's fine. If we were all selfless saints without aspiration this would be a very boring place. Lucky actually seems somewhat self-conscious about writing about the #firstworldproblems of upgrades and champagne.

cruisr

There is nothing self conscious in the writing about F or champagne. IMHO any talk of it being a first world problem strikes me as false. Another reason I stopped reading.

FallenPlat

Ah, but you still care enough to comment!

Why?

eponymous_coward

Because Team FlyerTalk needs to crush Team Blogger. Rah rah for the laundry!

Astrophsx

I'm actually impressed by the quality of photos from Andy's Travel Blog. IMO if someone like Ben or Gary is going to review a product like Cathay for the 8+ time they should really invest in a better camera and some photography lessons. This guy is even blurring out faces which should be the standard. These photos are 100x's better TPG who is shooting everything with his iPhone 6.

Kagehitokiri

not everyone who pays to stay at burj (if its available via sirius points would probably be a heck of a lot?) does so because it is their style and that is their attitude. many stay there once because it is reasonably unique in a number of ways. im not saying all those ways are "good" things. its not well regarded in terms of service, yet people with service standards will still stay there once. if nothing else, its an interesting experience.