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Flying America in unfriendly skies
San Diego Union Tribune ^
| May 16, 2006
| Richard Louv
Posted on 05/17/2006 12:27:25 PM PDT by SW6906
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The rest of the column is interesting too.
I've seen many a sophisti-yokel on my travels. Related to them are the guys who travel business class in ragged shorts and a dirty t-shirt, treating the attendants like crap. Seen that on trans-Pacific flights where business class costs many thousands of dollars......
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:27:27 PM PDT
by
SW6906
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:28:38 PM PDT
by
SW6906
(5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.)
To: namsman
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:32:12 PM PDT
by
SW6906
(5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.)
To: SW6906
Ya Know its everywhere at the market at resturants The wife and I were at a teppan bar having dinner and some 20 somethings were talking about bathroom stuff very Sad
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:32:41 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
To: SW6906
I was sitting in the airport yesterday and listened to several obnoxious young men proceed to tell everyone within 50 yards how they disagreed with their company policy on this or that, and how they had no confidence in one of their products. It made me want to go ask them for the name of their company, so I could buy stock and sell short. They were merely trying to impress people with their "business savvy" but all they did was make some of look at each other and roll our eyes.
Idiots.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:32:46 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(North Carolina looks forward to the disbarring of Mike Nifong.)
To: SW6906
I half thought they were talking about domestic flights.
Well, I guess people would be nicer if they weren't packed in like sardines by Leftist FAA regulations.
Now pay your taxes - we need more government. :)
(/sarcasm)
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:34:40 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: TommyDale
Airports bring out the asshole in people. I avoid them whenever possible.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:35:24 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Tzimisce
Well, I guess people would be nicer if they weren't packed in like sardines
Agree strongly with this. Being forced to sit for prolonged periods of time with other people crowding in on either side and the bozo in front reclining his seat so his head is practically in your lap - as close to torture as most people will ever get.
by Leftist FAA regulations.
More by the airlines' desire to pack as many people as possible onto every flight. Try the seat space on any non-US airlines which doesn't fly in US airspace - even worse.
To: AppyPappy
Airports bring out the asshole in people.I don't think this slogan has quite the same ring as "Fly the friendly skies of United" or "Delta is ready when you are," but it's certainly accurate.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:51:29 PM PDT
by
white trash redneck
(Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
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To: TommyDale
Last year I was on a flight back to Atlanta and sat in front of a guy who was openly bragging about his "business" and supposedly "large home" in a neighborhood of homes worth well over a million. He was talking to the gentleman next to him and mentioned his home's 7000 square feet and many of his business "successes."
After landing I was leaving the baggage claim area and happened to catch this guy getting into a waiting car. The car was a dirty and dented mid 90s Mitsubishi and the trunk wouldn't even close all the way after he threw his luggage in.
It's sad that people feel the need to brag about things they will probably never own.
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:52:40 PM PDT
by
eastcobb
To: eastcobb
Probably MLM. Whenever I meet someone who tells me they are VERY successful, they always want me to "get in at the ground level".
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posted on
05/17/2006 12:59:40 PM PDT
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AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: SW6906
Soooo....what, the crux of the article is that people can be a$$holes?
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:03:56 PM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: AppyPappy
Ditto. I conscientiously practice the Flight Free Lifestyle and am much better off for it. The costs involved in liesurely driving to my destination are more than offset by the benefits I derive from avoiding the numerous annoyances and indignities attendant upon "the Wonders of Modern Flight."
(Will someone please post the picture of the Lockheed Superconnie?) Now that was the Golden Age of Passenger Flight. Men in suits and ties, ladies in beautiful dresses, polite, helpful stewardesses . . . sigh.
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:05:37 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Join me! Every night I pray for Global Warming . (And I think it's beginning to work.))
To: NaughtiusMaximus
Legroom. A thing of the past.
I don't miss flying a bit.
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05/17/2006 1:09:31 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: SW6906
She confronted him; he denied that he had been smoking; she saw his whiskey bottle and demanded it, along with his cigarette lighter. So what? Is having a bottle on the flight against the rules or something? If that is the case, why do they sell bottles in duty free shops before American carriers fly overseas?
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05/17/2006 1:18:45 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
(Will someone please post the picture of the Lockheed Superconnie?) Since you asked nicely... ;-)
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:20:04 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
To: AppyPappy
Probably MLM. Whenever I meet someone who tells me they are VERY successful, they always want me to "get in at the ground level". Those Amway folks REALLY creep me out. It's like a little Kim Jong Il society in a microcosm.
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:20:13 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:32:13 PM PDT
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
Lockheed SuperconnieI got a cockpit ride in a Superconnie. :-)
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posted on
05/17/2006 1:32:53 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
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