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this is common knowledge
No but seriously, wutdafuck?
Satans..... hints.....
When pilots are going through their checklist and they say stuff and then go "check"
that's not what they're saying
Ending a trip in NorCal visiting old friends, we decided to have drinks in the few hours before my flight, since it coincided with the end of my friend's workday and it was a Friday.
I remember really liking the rye sazerac, then getting a mojito...
What followed was my vaguely percieving being back at my friends' place, haphazardly trying to pack all of my kit (including a weeks worth of camping gear for the trek we did) through waves of nausea. I threw up three times, once in the toilet, once in the kitchen sink, and once in a bucket(?).
I have no idea how I ended up on my flight, but the very moment I was regaining my sense of sequential time and being myself again, I was carefully positioning the air sickness bags from the two seats adjacent to my own so that I could access them easily.
I've never been known to be a light drinker, and I really don't know what happened. But if you like strong drinks, I recommend Cesar's in Oakland.
Also, only on international flights, why is everyone standing all the time? Every flight to Europe or back I've ever been on there's just people standing around chatting or strangely standing by themselves. I get the quick stretch to prevent blood clots and such but not for hours at a time. Sit down, get drunk and pass out like the rest of us!
Boredom.
I somehow made it to my gate for my flight to Italy without going through security. This was after 9/11.
I had peanuts and orange juice, and it was from Seattle to Spokane.
When I was 5 my dad and his coworker friend took me up in a little plane, hell if I remember what it was it just had like enough for 3+ in it, and I got to be copilot. I was adorably shy though and I was too afraid to do anything because of the coworker friend next to me. It was still really fucking cool.
Before all of that I flew from Seattle to Phoenix with a stop over in Denver. I don't remember that one, as I was 3.
that's, like, an hour's drive
edit: okay four and a half hours, nevermind
for some reason i thought it was in the vicinity of tacoma
That being said, I still love flying commercial because, as was said earlier in the thread, it's flying. (Although, if anybody ever wants to buy my vote, just tell me that you'll dissolve the TSA and the DoHS.) Having been to a fair number of airports, I really like DFW because it's darn near impossible to get lost and just about as hard to miss a connection. You can get from any point in the airport to any other point inside of 10 minutes. O'Hare is a labrynthine mess in comparison (but I like it anyway, because it has some style).
The absolute worst airport was, is, and always will be Heathrow. God forbid you have to change terminals for a connection at Heathrow, and if you're connecting there, you will. When I finally made it to my departing gate, I really wanted the "found it" music from Legend of Zelda to play, it was THAT difficult.
LAX isn't half as bad as Newark. I had an early flight out of LAX once and it was crowded, but not objectionably so. The one connection I made through Newark I thought I was going to get mugged at the gate. I didn't think Vegas was bad, other than it was filled with people going to and from Vegas. The weirdest thing there was the constant droning of C-major chords from the slot machines.
Since I work in aircraft design, I'm pretty chill on the airplane once we're solidly into climbout. If something really bad is going to happen, it'll probably happen on takeoff or landing, and if the weather is good at the destination airport, that all but eliminates landing problems.
I've had a blind emergency landing due to a sudden sand storm where the blades on one side like a foot off the ground when we landed.
Another time the black hawk ahead of us in our group was slinging some cargo and ran their blades into it while landing severely injuring everyone on board.
Fuck flying helicopters in the desert.
Hovercrafts are teh future!
Hovercopters!
I really wanted to pat that dog but Dont think that would've gone down well with the security people
and don't call me Shirley
There was that one time I was queuing up for the metal detector and realized I had a keepsake knife in my jacket pocket. I'm not the most inconspicuous guy when I get nervous, so a guard pulled me out of the queue from halfway across the room. He took me to a side room where they had one of the then brand new body scanners. He was quite disappointed when he didn't find narcotics iny bum, but he's the one who told me to remove my shoes and jacket first.
Also, phone posting sucks.
This is the guy who also once woke up in a morgue.
That was... different.
Steam ID - VeldrinD
So he's "the nameless one" from Planescape: Torment?
Stale is the only person I'd believe if they said they'd woken up in a morgue.
Like, with a mortician in the middle of embalming him. "You're...You're supposed to be dead," they whimper while backing up against the wall.
"I'm walking it off!" Stale screams while looking for his pants.
Beagles is quarantine. Looking for foodstuffs and things like leathergoods. Customs is the big dogs.
Or Jake from Shadowrun SNES.
Schiphol is by far the most user-friendly airport I've been through, for hassle-free security and check-in, ease of transfers, easy access to Amsterdam, and general atmosphere, although I do miss the days when you could smoke in some of the bars and cafes in the terminal arms. On the other hand, there is Heathrow, which is literal poop from a butt; getting stuck there during a transfer due to a bomb threat was not fun. Fiumicino looks like it should be a pile of crap, but is surprisingly decent, and it helps that the train connections to Termini are even better than in Amsterdam.
I had a fun experience in Athens three years ago when I forgot to take one of these out of my carry-on. They were pretty cool about it though, and the only consequence was a stern finger-wagging. They didn't even bother to pat me down after.
Now to start looking for hotels. I'll probably try and stay at a few different ones.
no I was found still "alive" in one or that is what I was told
Still I have jumped out of planes and really do find people scared of heights rather curious. I mean how can you be scared of being on top of the ladder when I have seen the ground zipping by at 7000 feet or more.
But to repell out of helicopters while taking fire is still a scary thing you feel so vulnerable.
one of the worst rides was a seaking in a storm as we were transfering from a boat to another. In the south china sea during the summer is always fun with the number of storms {winter is somethign to sea when it snows at sea] so we are being buffeted in the storm with the wind and we begin to see tons of lighting. the co-pilot beings to joke with us about how we have not puked and how this is the weridest roller coaster he has ever been on {he said land based ones were tame and he was not kidding}
Still it was an impressive job they did to land they hit the deck square on and powered down and ran for it because they lighting was comming in fast .
You weren't grumpy at me when he said it!
Ok, you weren't grumpy at me, for that particular reason when he said it.
Satans..... hints.....
: /
Last time I flew I was wearing a hoodie and the guy started screaming at me "YOUR SWEATSHIRT YOUR SWEATSHIRT!!" I'm like "yea what about it?" "TAKE IT OFF!!" what the fuck dude, first of all stop screaming at me like I'm a prisoner and you're a guard, I'm the paying customer here, show some respect.. And why do I have to take my sweatshirt off? It says "hats and jackets must be removed".. does a hoodie look like a fuckin jacket to you, jackhole? fucks sakes.
Then there's the whole "put all your liquids in a baggie" thing, yeah I don't bother with that anymore. Every time I fly now I just throw my toothpaste and shampoo and everything else in my bag, it goes thru the x-ray no problem, they never say anything, and I walk right on the plane with it. Hell one time I had a half-pint carton of orange juice in my bag, I just forgot it was in there... whooops.jpg
Satans..... hints.....
hey, show some respect, man.
these people train for minutes at a time and have the care and dedication to their job of a 16 year old looking to make a few bucks to buy some bullshit they will forget about in an hour
oh that is the respect they deserve. got it!
save that stuff for later.
I promise, I hardly ever fly with massive amounts of contraband shoved up my ass anymore.