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Author Topic:   What price political correctness?
kuresu
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Message 16 of 63 (338920)
08-10-2006 10:51 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by jar
08-10-2006 10:25 AM


man I'm glad i got back from sweden when I did.

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kuresu
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Message 19 of 63 (338931)
08-10-2006 11:24 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by jar
08-10-2006 11:03 AM


No laptops, phones, ipods, pagers carried on.
good security measure, and it'd work for all the short flights. you know, those less than and hour and a half. unless you're on an overnight flight, that doesn't leave you much to do on the plane, and trust me, and eight hour flight is just a touch boring without some music (and if you want to listen to the on plane music, it's cost five bucks to get the headset, 'cause your's most likely won't work unless you've got a hairband, gum, or rubber band).
i guess the solution would be to rework the entire US flight infrastructure to support short hops to airports to get cross country.

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kuresu
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Message 23 of 63 (338945)
08-10-2006 11:58 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by jar
08-10-2006 11:30 AM


i suggest we leave it to the generation gap. from what I understand (your belief statement) you're from the can-do generation, the one that won the second war to end all wars. or rather, the generation that grew up with the war, or something like that.
me, i'm just getting into college, having grown up with the stress of the fast-paced american life.
point is, you're easily twice my age.
good points though. I don't know if motion-sickness people can read on planes though .

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kuresu
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Message 31 of 63 (338960)
08-10-2006 12:46 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Omnivorous
08-10-2006 12:39 PM


same here. and I've grown up flying. i flew before I was four months old, and I've never tired of sitting at the window seat (hopefully well behind the wing or just in front so you can see things) watching down. looking at several layers of clouds, or even a massive thunderhead from above is always amazing.

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kuresu
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Message 38 of 63 (338974)
08-10-2006 1:42 PM
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08-10-2006 1:21 PM


On the way to europe they make them overnight. and it does help with the jetlag. it's the way back that's during the day. damn 8 hours of being ahead (colorado--sweden, that is).
you've had better luck with headphones than I have. The ones I flown recently, they now charge 5 bucks (used to be free, like when I was 10-13), and on the international ones they do an evil trick. the end of the jack has to have two prongs in order to work correctly--and they sell those on the plane. The way around is to stick your single prong jack halfway in, and then you have to make sure it says in that positions, and you can use an elastic band of some sort, or gum (like my brother).

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