If we can have traffic courts and immigration courts, it’s about damned time that we have federal airline courts, and since pilots have to retire earlier than most careers, only THEY would be eligible to be its judges.
And unlike the “three strikes” rules, it should be a strict progression - one major strike like starting a fight or two minor strikes like arguing with a flight attendant and you’re out - permanently. Not just from that airline, but from all commercial aviation.
"If more agencies asked Meddling Kid for advice, it would be a fine world. (I venture to guess some of the advice would be 'Go out of business; you are not needed, and are in the way.')
A sub comment dealt with a passenger "testing mildly positive" for hantavirus. I had a prof in math who said getting an integral part right is like getting a girl part pregnant - you either do or you don't. Same thing for a virus, if indeed it is a virus. It's a PCR test. PCR can generally be used to show that anyone has any disease you want to pick on that day. It can also be used to scare the media into believing that we should all start wearing masks and gloves and go into lockdown because it might be contagious.
I remember when a guy flew into Dallas, was sick on the plane, & went to hospital & died from ebola & the county judge tried to act like ebola was no big deal! County Judge went to the guys apt, shamed anyone that complained. Two nurses got it, one hospitalized, other went shopping for a wedding dress & he insisted it was no big deal. No other casualties or anyone getting it. It was major news here til the nurse was released. She sued the hospital for being exposed to it. But when covid showed up, County Judge was arresting people right & left.
I have very very few flight plans for my future. I want to be as anonymous as I can be and with more and more biometric shit going on, I just would rather not put myself in places where it will be used. Also I hate traveling by plane because of the mass of people - sardines in the plane, in the terminal - it is gross and disgusting in most cases.
We want to go to Alaska again but have to fly to our land/sea port from Illinois to anchorage. Thought about the Canadian Rockies train option to Alaska. Hubby doesn’t want to fly that initial distance nor take the cruise. It’s our 60th anniversary next year. Anyone done that, the train or both? It’s our big trip to do while we can.
Yep, we did it last year. Seward to Vancouver. Then train for two days up to Banff. The cruise was just OK, meaning the ports were really crap. The ship was great and only 720 passengers. If you do excursions, pay the money and go with a smaller group. I wish we would’ve done that. I hate cruises anyway, and this one I was supposed to be taking my mother-in-law since she had not traveled in a long time and really missed being able to travel. Her husband had a fall and she couldn’t go with at the last minute so rather than cancel and pay the extortionist fees they charge you if you have to cancel my husband and I decided to go. Banff was beautiful.
Susza, please translate this: "If you do excursions, pay the money and go with a smaller group." for someone who still rides Greyhound. I wouldn't know an "excursion" if it crawled up and bit me on the leg, and UNLESS it crawls up by its self, I'll have no other way to find it.
The cruise lines has excursions available, which they book with local groups at each port. For an extra fee. You can book with the groups themselves for a lower cost, and the groups are typically smaller.
Hey Janet, What a fantastic idea! I know a few Canucks who took the train threw the Rockies and lived to tell the tale! 😂
But seriously, it’s supposed to be a spectacular trip. Hubs and I did the treacherous drive and I had a panic attack a few times. I have never seen anything so grand and magically beautiful.
We took a tour combined with a cruise in Alaska about 10 years ago. It was a great trip, flew to Fairbanks, bused around, train on last day of ground travel and 3 days cruising thru glaciers. I’d do it again.
Sailing out of Seattle was one of the easiest, fastest embarkation process we've ever experienced. And the Alaska cruise!! Amazing. Do it. It was by far our favorite cruise we've ever taken. I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.
If I never have to go to an airport and get on another airplane for the rest of my life, that will be more than OK with me. Ironically, my oldest daughter is a flight attendant!
I've traveled a fair amount and no longer find the process intriguing. I remember my first trip to London. I was 5 or 6. I wore a light grey wool doubled breasted suit with mother of pearl buttons, pleated skirt, little white socks and probably Mary Janes. One dressed to travel. Grateful to have had the experiences and memories. These days I try to avoid the masses, in the air and elsewhere.
Yes, I remember those days, long gone by. And I am with you, avoiding the masses is a high priority. I live in rural Texas AWAY from the madding crowd of DFW, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. And I love it!
Idaho here, but too many Californians. Nice people, often conservatively minded, but their only frame of cultural reference is CA. They totally lack any self awareness. But Land Rover is their official car. Thinking about Wyoming.
Oh my gosh, yes! Even when they finally get a TX license plate, they leave the CA area frame on the car, and frankly, they might as well announce they're NOT from Texas. And just as the Californians they are, they're so easily identifiable it's kind of funny.
I don't know which is funnier - texting someone that you're about to fly over their house and them responding with a plane overhead is that you? - or you promising not to bite, Jenna!!!
"Mildly positive" 🤣 That's hilarious! Do they really expect this fear porn to work again? Is the general population really this stupid? (don't answer that!)
I love the "Humanity is collapsing but we can still laugh"!
And yes, yet another reminder that my decision to stop flying was a good decision.
My son just asked me this morning on the way to school if everything is going to shut down again. The damage they did to kids is disgusting. He was in 6th grade when the world shut down and life was a complete nightmare. Now he's getting ready to start his senior year and he's terrified they're going to do it to him again.
I think you are channeling Ambrose Bierce, Jenna. It is such a delight to read your sarcastic, pithy and ascerbic thoughts grounded in one of the best examples of common sense.
My wife is claustrophobic, so we don’t fly. I don’t miss it because of The Airport Experience- I’m sure I’m on another list due to the muttering under my breath and general hostile attitude while involuntarily acting out my small part in Security Theater. So we drive everywhere, and rarely see arguments, let alone fist fights, in the minivan.
If we can have traffic courts and immigration courts, it’s about damned time that we have federal airline courts, and since pilots have to retire earlier than most careers, only THEY would be eligible to be its judges.
And unlike the “three strikes” rules, it should be a strict progression - one major strike like starting a fight or two minor strikes like arguing with a flight attendant and you’re out - permanently. Not just from that airline, but from all commercial aviation.
This is genius, love it.
"If more agencies asked Meddling Kid for advice, it would be a fine world. (I venture to guess some of the advice would be 'Go out of business; you are not needed, and are in the way.')
A sub comment dealt with a passenger "testing mildly positive" for hantavirus. I had a prof in math who said getting an integral part right is like getting a girl part pregnant - you either do or you don't. Same thing for a virus, if indeed it is a virus. It's a PCR test. PCR can generally be used to show that anyone has any disease you want to pick on that day. It can also be used to scare the media into believing that we should all start wearing masks and gloves and go into lockdown because it might be contagious.
Nailed it 🎯
I remember when a guy flew into Dallas, was sick on the plane, & went to hospital & died from ebola & the county judge tried to act like ebola was no big deal! County Judge went to the guys apt, shamed anyone that complained. Two nurses got it, one hospitalized, other went shopping for a wedding dress & he insisted it was no big deal. No other casualties or anyone getting it. It was major news here til the nurse was released. She sued the hospital for being exposed to it. But when covid showed up, County Judge was arresting people right & left.
@Mom- WTF...
Flying is becoming inhumane. Kinda goes with promoting 15 minute cities.
I have very very few flight plans for my future. I want to be as anonymous as I can be and with more and more biometric shit going on, I just would rather not put myself in places where it will be used. Also I hate traveling by plane because of the mass of people - sardines in the plane, in the terminal - it is gross and disgusting in most cases.
This is what is keeping me from that Alaska cruise my wife wants to go on. Well that, and having to fly into and board the ship in Seattle.
We want to go to Alaska again but have to fly to our land/sea port from Illinois to anchorage. Thought about the Canadian Rockies train option to Alaska. Hubby doesn’t want to fly that initial distance nor take the cruise. It’s our 60th anniversary next year. Anyone done that, the train or both? It’s our big trip to do while we can.
Yep, we did it last year. Seward to Vancouver. Then train for two days up to Banff. The cruise was just OK, meaning the ports were really crap. The ship was great and only 720 passengers. If you do excursions, pay the money and go with a smaller group. I wish we would’ve done that. I hate cruises anyway, and this one I was supposed to be taking my mother-in-law since she had not traveled in a long time and really missed being able to travel. Her husband had a fall and she couldn’t go with at the last minute so rather than cancel and pay the extortionist fees they charge you if you have to cancel my husband and I decided to go. Banff was beautiful.
Susza, please translate this: "If you do excursions, pay the money and go with a smaller group." for someone who still rides Greyhound. I wouldn't know an "excursion" if it crawled up and bit me on the leg, and UNLESS it crawls up by its self, I'll have no other way to find it.
The cruise lines has excursions available, which they book with local groups at each port. For an extra fee. You can book with the groups themselves for a lower cost, and the groups are typically smaller.
Hey Janet, What a fantastic idea! I know a few Canucks who took the train threw the Rockies and lived to tell the tale! 😂
But seriously, it’s supposed to be a spectacular trip. Hubs and I did the treacherous drive and I had a panic attack a few times. I have never seen anything so grand and magically beautiful.
We took a tour combined with a cruise in Alaska about 10 years ago. It was a great trip, flew to Fairbanks, bused around, train on last day of ground travel and 3 days cruising thru glaciers. I’d do it again.
Whatever yall end up doing, have a great time!
Sailing out of Seattle was one of the easiest, fastest embarkation process we've ever experienced. And the Alaska cruise!! Amazing. Do it. It was by far our favorite cruise we've ever taken. I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.
@Pastor- DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did the same itinerary last August. DO IT!!!!!!!
Tested "mildly positive"?
Sorta "could be", "maybe", we're just not sure...
Not sure... but still, you should be *afraid*. 🤣
...and NOT JUST MILDLY AFRAID either!!!
Downright terrified! One little whiff of those little buggers and Fauci will have the population wearing four masks!
Indrek - How about these interesting nuggets:
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is why nightclubs have bouncers.
Getting bounced at 30,000 feet could be a bit extreme.
I'd totally film that!
@Curtis- LOL!!!
Give them a parachute.
If I never have to go to an airport and get on another airplane for the rest of my life, that will be more than OK with me. Ironically, my oldest daughter is a flight attendant!
I've traveled a fair amount and no longer find the process intriguing. I remember my first trip to London. I was 5 or 6. I wore a light grey wool doubled breasted suit with mother of pearl buttons, pleated skirt, little white socks and probably Mary Janes. One dressed to travel. Grateful to have had the experiences and memories. These days I try to avoid the masses, in the air and elsewhere.
Yes, I remember those days, long gone by. And I am with you, avoiding the masses is a high priority. I live in rural Texas AWAY from the madding crowd of DFW, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. And I love it!
Idaho here, but too many Californians. Nice people, often conservatively minded, but their only frame of cultural reference is CA. They totally lack any self awareness. But Land Rover is their official car. Thinking about Wyoming.
Oh my gosh, yes! Even when they finally get a TX license plate, they leave the CA area frame on the car, and frankly, they might as well announce they're NOT from Texas. And just as the Californians they are, they're so easily identifiable it's kind of funny.
I find it both overwhelming and tedious. I'll have to remember to revive my sense of humor!
The worst part about travelling is the travelling part.
Now you know why I haven't flown since 1983. But I know others who love it.
'83? A little early, but it makes sense now.
I believe my last flight was around 2017. 1983 does sound "too early" for giving up flying.
I don't know which is funnier - texting someone that you're about to fly over their house and them responding with a plane overhead is that you? - or you promising not to bite, Jenna!!!
"Mildly positive" 🤣 That's hilarious! Do they really expect this fear porn to work again? Is the general population really this stupid? (don't answer that!)
I love the "Humanity is collapsing but we can still laugh"!
And yes, yet another reminder that my decision to stop flying was a good decision.
My son just asked me this morning on the way to school if everything is going to shut down again. The damage they did to kids is disgusting. He was in 6th grade when the world shut down and life was a complete nightmare. Now he's getting ready to start his senior year and he's terrified they're going to do it to him again.
😢 That's truly sad.
I spent a few minutes on BlueSky (not advised) and they were all in panic mode. Someone even posted "I'd sure feel better if Fauci was involved!"
The little I glimpsed on Twitter was a ton of people laughing at the WHO and their dire warnings.
Clown World: Ariplane Edition. 🤡✈️ Ugh. Bad ass. 🤬🍑😘🥰
Your P.S. is my laugh of the day 🤣 I LOVE the idea of mildly positive illnesses haha.
I think you are channeling Ambrose Bierce, Jenna. It is such a delight to read your sarcastic, pithy and ascerbic thoughts grounded in one of the best examples of common sense.
My wife is claustrophobic, so we don’t fly. I don’t miss it because of The Airport Experience- I’m sure I’m on another list due to the muttering under my breath and general hostile attitude while involuntarily acting out my small part in Security Theater. So we drive everywhere, and rarely see arguments, let alone fist fights, in the minivan.
LOVE a road trip!