Hold on. Are you saying… Choose happiness?
Preposterous!
Hold on. Are you saying… Choose happiness?
Preposterous!
OMG, bite me. As if I don’t have enough to deal with on the plane already without your nasty eyes ogling me.
ETA: I don’t really see a difference in reclining. It is only about eight degrees, as others have said. I can sleep pretty well either way, so why shouldn’t I have some consideration? If others can’t manage, then they recline. I mean, I feel like Bartleby here “I prefer not to.” I don’t need a reason. I just don’t do it.
I’ll be grateful when my company springs for first class. Until then, I’m bitching.
Can’t we do both? I am grateful that I can fly but I can still afford to be annoyed.
Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
lands on fluffy MPSIMS pillows
As somebody mentioned previously, if you need to get up out of your seat, please use the arm rests to push yourself up. Do not pull yourself up out of your seat using my head rest.
Why the hell are you getting up so much anyway? Go to the bathroom before you get on the plane, and then unless your flight is longer than 8 hours or so you should be good, right? Who has to go to the bathroom so much? I’m sure there are a couple of people on any given plane with some kind of medical condition but I’m always surprised by the constant flow of traffic to/from the airplane washrooms.
If you’re travelling with a kid, and they start kicking the seat in front of them, please make them stop.
On the other hand, if somebody else is travelling with a kid, and the kid starts crying and won’t stop, don’t give them shit about it. Don’t even offer advice, even if you’re only trying to help. They’ve already tried everything, and they’re mortified. You have two choices: pretend it’s not happening, or smile sympathetically at them.
Most of your post I’m on board with but there are good reasons for getting up and moving around. WHO recommends moving around the cabin every 2 hours if possible to prevent the increase in blood clots that’s been attributed to sitting in one place for long flights. They also recommend other sure fire passenger annoyers like jiggling your feet and legs (10x/hr) and drinking at least 8oz of water per hour.
Passengers most likely to need these tactics are those who have previously had blood clots, have undergone recent surgery and then the big three categories - are taking birth control pills, are frequent travellers or are smokers. With all of these 3/4 of the plane should be moving around every couple of hours.
I agreed with this at the time when it was written. We had people who were convinced that if they had never seen something (squished legs) it could not possibly exist. (Shades of “no one ever brings a baby out in just a diaper. Ever. Anywhere.”) We had issues with fat people taking up too much space. We had accusations of sneering holier-than-thou attitudes and people deciding that passive aggression is the best way to communicate your displeasure at someone in front of you reclining (why ever would you ask politely).
But then we got to:
Nyah nyah nyah, you said there were only two and there are more. You were wrong on the internet!!!
And to that, the only response is:
Poop.
From Fatties to Poop: The Straight Dope Way.
I didn’t say that. It’s just a preference in most cases.
No, just prissy, sensitive and/or delusional.
And how *is * your fantasy sword collection?
**That armrest is mine, asshole. **
Thank god for commas.
If I ever recline and bother the person behind me, I would politely un-recline if they said, “Hey could you please not recline, your seat is pushing up against my knees,” and hell, I would even apologize to them. But if they were assholes to me by flicking a paper loudly above/into my head/face or bashing my seat with their knees just to piss me off, you better believe I’m leaving that seat as far back as it will recline, and I will pass any gas that happens to build up instead of suppressing it as I normally would on a plane.
Oh, I still want a fully functional Buster sword, from the movie, not the original game. I just don’t want to pay the price for it. And I don’t want a gunblade at all. That was one of the stupidest weapons ever dreamed up.
You mean this sword?
Yeah, that sword, but it has to work just like it does in the movie.
That is the best sword in the world. But I think you might have to be superhuman to wield it
Nice username/post combo.
I think that being Mako infused qualifies one as superhuman.
Are you, or will you be in the future, Mako infused?
I am not currently Mako infused (I do hope that’s not TMI). If the opportunity presents itself in the future, I will certainly take advantage of it.