# Ugly chick is "too pretty to fly"? WTF? (RO) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218 "2008-02-26T14:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/21 "2008-02-26T15:54:54Z")
They’re pretty in that “peaked at 18” kind of way. The kind that doesn’t age too well. I wonder if the other passengers cheered when Flashdance le Neonnails and Blondie McPrecious were escorted off? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/22 "2008-02-26T16:05:47Z")
This reminds me of the time I was working in Texas, and was catching a ride with my landlord, who was listening to Limbaugh on the radio. I can’t remember what he was talking about, but I do remember one female caller, with whom the conversation went something like this: Caller: “Well, I think thesepeople should suck it up. I’m a minority, I’ve been discriminated against, you don’t hear me complaining!” Rush: “And what minority are you a member of?” Caller: \ “… well, I’m nineteen. That’s a minority, right?” Rush: “Uh, no.” It was great. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/23 "2008-02-26T16:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] This reminds me of the time I was working in Texas, and was catching a ride with my landlord, who was listening to Limbaugh on the radio. I can’t remember what he was talking about, but I do remember one female caller, with whom the conversation went something like this: Caller: “Well, I think thesepeople should suck it up. I’m a minority, I’ve been discriminated against, you don’t hear me complaining!” Rush: “And what minority are you a member of?” Caller: \ “… well, I’m nineteen. That’s a minority, right?” Rush: “Uh, no.” It was great. [/QUOTE] Wait a minute. Rush Limbaugh was correct about something? Stop the presses! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/24 "2008-02-26T16:18:38Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Wait a minute. Rush Limbaugh was correct about something? Stop the presses! 😉 [/QUOTE] Even a broken clock is right twice a day. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/25 "2008-02-26T16:18:41Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] My RO is why the fuck is CNN running this story? It’s bad enough they sell Headline News morning show with T&A. Now they are choosing news items based on T&A factor? How fucking lame. [/QUOTE] I wish I could share your outrage, but I abandoned hope for CNN as a “news” medium long ago, when it became clear they had fully absorbed all the worst elements of supermarket tabloids and aggressively, unapologetically insipid “entertainment news” shows, _The Onion_ (without the self-awareness), and most recently, YouTube and all its “Jackass News Network” brethren. The war is over. Ignorance won. A massacre, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/26 "2008-02-26T16:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=catsix] Welcome to the generation of Precious Snowflakes raised by Helicopter Parents. [/QUOTE] As if that’s a new thing. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/27 "2008-02-26T16:33:35Z")
Another vote here for Both are pretty & Both are biotches. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/28 "2008-02-26T16:54:08Z")
The video isn’t loading for me but, if it’s just two chickies whining about being discriminated against for their looks, I’m glad I can’t watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/29 "2008-02-26T16:58:10Z")
[QUOTE=missbunny] I find it hard to believe the crew said “You have to wait until **all the other passengers are served.** ” I can believe “You have to wait until the passengers are served.” Not “all the other” passengers. [/QUOTE] I suspect that’s what they meant, in the sense of “all the other passengers” plus you equals everybody. It could be just a regionalism. It’s one of those vague things, like “we have to serve every other person”, which one would hope means every one of the other people, and not every second person. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/30 "2008-02-26T17:58:41Z")
Being a veteran of more than 1,100 flights (and increasing…) my observation is that flight attendants are either not very bright to start with, or reasonably bright and so bored to tears they just go through the motions and don’t give a shit. So the girls didn’t get a waa-waa bottle early. Well shit, I’ve been seated in First Class as a Delta Platinum and skipped over by idiot flight attendants, so welcome to the club. Generally you have to be trans-oceanic on a $6000 business class ticket before you reach a level of service that’s above “sit the fuck down, eyes to the front, and shut the fuck up.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/31 "2008-02-26T18:01:05Z")
They were both quite fat, which automatically disqualifies them from being pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/32 "2008-02-26T18:02:37Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Wait a minute. Rush Limbaugh was correct about something? Stop the presses! 😉 [/QUOTE] Blind pigs, acorns. Especially when the acorn is shoved RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE PIG! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/33 "2008-02-26T18:30:08Z")
[QUOTE=Ponch8] They were both quite fat, which automatically disqualifies them from being pretty. [/QUOTE] Eye of the beholder, mate. The brunette was just slightly large (unless going by the impossible Hollyweird standards). The blond, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/34 "2008-02-26T18:40:14Z")
The brunette had a lot of nerve going on television and claiming she was discriminated against for being pretty. I think she has delusions that she’s as pretty as her blonde friend. Of course, the delusion was so strong with both of them, it was hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/35 "2008-02-26T18:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Wait a minute. Rush Limbaugh was correct about something? Stop the presses! 😉 [/QUOTE] It shows there are people out there dumber than he is, which is depressing. But no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, as Mencken almost said. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/36 "2008-02-26T19:02:44Z")
[QUOTE=Una Persson] Being a veteran of more than 1,100 flights (and increasing…) my observation is that flight attendants are either not very bright to start with, or reasonably bright and so bored to tears they just go through the motions and don’t give a shit. So the girls didn’t get a waa-waa bottle early. Well shit, I’ve been seated in First Class as a Delta Platinum and skipped over by idiot flight attendants, so welcome to the club. Generally you have to be trans-oceanic on a $6000 business class ticket before you reach a level of service that’s above “sit the fuck down, eyes to the front, and shut the fuck up.” :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] I’ve done only a couple of hundred flights, but in my experience the SW attendants are pretty good. Two things I don’t understand. Do these morons not know the concept of an attendant call button, and being polite. Is there only one bathroom on the plane, so she couldn’t wait? (I’m at work so I don’t want to waste bandwidth on the video.) I’ve been skipped over once or twice, and the flight attendant was very apologetic. But then I’ve never boarded with an attitude like these two seemed to. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/37 "2008-02-26T19:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=Ponch8] They were both quite fat, which automatically disqualifies them from being pretty. [/QUOTE] Seriously? You’re pathetic. Not as pathetic as the brats in the OP, but still pretty sad. Honestly, would anyone here have even cared if the women in question looked like Gisele? Would the claims of ‘Y’all just jealous!’ have been justified if they were supermodels? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/38 "2008-02-26T19:41:44Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] Seriously? You’re pathetic. Not as pathetic as the brats in the OP, but still pretty sad. Honestly, would anyone here have even cared if the women in question looked like Gisele? Would the claims of ‘Y’all just jealous!’ have been justified if they were supermodels? [/QUOTE] You forgot a couple of things. For one, they’re not all that fat. For another, it is quite possible to be overweight and beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/39 "2008-02-26T19:53:54Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] You forgot a couple of things. For one, they’re not all that fat. For another, it is quite possible to be overweight and beautiful. [/QUOTE] Possible, yes, but the dark-haired one is very meh. She looks rather tasty in the still shot but not so much in her video close-up. The blonde is bangable, but given the pronounced effect of Distance Distortion Factor ™ on her friend, I’ll reserve final judgment. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218/40 "2008-02-26T20:02:48Z")
Pretty girls should get what they want. Dammit, IT’S THE LAW! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-chick-is-too-pretty-to-fly-wtf-ro/439218.md?page=3)