if i were going to i would probably ask the person behind me if they mind but the only reason i would want to is the person in front of me did :-\
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
this is why i charter my own flights tbh
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
If it's a redeye, it's fine (bring up during food service). If it's daytime, you should look behind you to gauge if they put their seat back or are short.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
Depends on how many extra rows of seats they've crammed in though doesn't it?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
only acceptable if a) the person in front of you did it, and b) you are of a certain height
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
The worst are the people who luck out and get a row to themselves so they lie down AND put back all the seats.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
i had three rows to myself once, transatlantic flight on xmas eve, even then i don't think i put them back!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
What the shit kind of planes are u people going on where there even is an “all the way back” to the seat. It goes back like 4 inches on every plane I’ve ever taken
― thewufs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
Ok I think airplane seats used to go back a little further, but not in like the last 10 years
― thewufs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
I’m relatively tall, I’m fat, I paid 350 bucks for my round trip ticket, people in front of me put their seats back all the time. I’m putting my goddamn seat back
― thewufs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
the only flights i ever take anymore are international flights but i will be fucked if i’m not putting my seat back every single time BESIDESthe “upright position” means the seat-back is slightly forward anyway because airlines are assholes so “back” is barely reclining anywayif that makes me a savage i dont care
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
Everyone in the cabin putting their seat back is a kind of collective passive aggression that makes the flight less enjoyable for all
― calstars, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
the only flights i ever take anymore are international flights but i will be fucked if i’m not putting my seat back every single time
BESIDES
the “upright position” means the seat-back is slightly forward anyway because airlines are assholes so “back” is barely reclining anyway
if that makes me a savage i dont care
Agree with all of this. My last 3 plane trips were Newark/Norway (twice) and Newark/Stockholm. I'm 6'2". I'm putting my seat back as far as it will go, and if I have an aisle seat I am sticking my fucking legs out into the aisle. Planes fucking suck; do everything you can to maximize your personal comfort, because I guarantee you no one else on the plane (crew or fellow passengers) gives the tiniest fuck about you.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
EXACTLY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
nah fuck that. it's a collective action problem. have some moral backbone.
― adam, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
My actual spine > my "moral backbone"
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
I am flying for a cumulative 54 hours this month. I am going to die. I did finally start using knee high compression socks though.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
#leanback
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
vg + unperson otm
I had to fly Spirit last week, the seats don't even go back! It is like leaning forward.
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
if a seat goes back it goes back
talk to the manufacturer if you have a problem with that
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
thanks for this insight into the mind of a savage
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 June 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link
we were consulted in the initial design fyi the system works
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
amidst the discomfort there is a twinge of satisfaction at the systems failure to work when the person in front of me tries to recline their seat and it immediately hits my knees and doesn't move
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
the twinge id feel there would probably be my knees
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
You know there's a cheap plastic widget you can buy which you attach to your tray table and which prevents the person in front of you from putting their seat back. I've never tried it but then again I normally fly business class.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
There is literally nothing you can do to make flying Ryanair anything less than an ordeal tbf.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 June 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
... other than not flying Ryanair.
At least Ryanair don't go long-haul.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 6 June 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
The last time I flew Ryanair was when my Easyjet flight to Belfast got cancelled and the Ryanair desk immediately doubled the prices of their flight to Dublin plus wanted to charge us something like £60 to print out boarding passes for the flight we were buying for immediate travel at the desk
(which we did not pay because the attendant at some tropical holiday company desk let us print them out on her printer for free, hurrah - and then Ryanair said they were the wrong size and printed out a new copy for us for free anyway...)
we remarked that Ryanair were the only airline that can piss you off more than the one that actually cancelled your flight
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 6 June 2019 09:35 (four years ago) link
yep
aer lingus gone as bad lately tbh
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
I had to fly Spirit last week, the seats don't even go back!
spirit otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
Supposedly if you buy a seat that reclines you are allowed to recline no matter what. So even those knee defender things won't help.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
shoutout to the woman in front of me in the supermarket queue last night who paid what seemed like the bulk of a €40 grocery bill in coppers
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
I am six feet tall and on many airline seats, the space into which you are reclining is precisely where my knees are.
I don't recline unless the seat behind me is unoccupied.
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
> €40 grocery bill in coppers
in the uk anything more than 20p in coppers isn't legal tender and they don't have to accept it. not sure whether that's 20p in 1ps and 20p in 2ps or 20p total.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
have i read that its 18 coins or is that a myth
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
that seems random
https://www.royalmint.com/help/trm-faqs/legal-tender-amounts/
― koogs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
deems is making a funny joke and is hurt that you* don't get it
*also i
― mark s, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
sorry, too busy reading about the 25p coin and the £5 coin which has the same name, size and shape.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
No wonder the supermarkets added a slot to the self serve coin bucket. Used to love throwing the coppers in on occasion.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Still do when I feel I've got a point to prove
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Obligatory "legal tender only applies to debts and is irrelevant to supermarkets" post
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
fyi im not making a funny joke
ive done tesco cashier time and it was either 18 individual coins or anything greater than 88c you didnt have to accept
but it always had the ring of idk freemenesque bullshit, always pushed in whispers by the established tillsitters never by anyone in authority
we shall never know i spose
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
these kinds of posts always intrigue me even though they don't make any sense
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
(to me)
lol is 'these kinds' a ref to just...me posting them or is there somethin else goin on?
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Monday, 17 June 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Your posts definitely come up and also others. I mean it in admiration
― Dan S, Monday, 17 June 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
It’s amazing to me that we speak the same language but I often find your posts so confounding. I like it just to be clear
― Dan S, Monday, 17 June 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
last sentence has two, interpretations
― forensic plumber (harbl), Monday, 17 June 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
Should’ve been a comma, sorry, i’m on a phone
― Dan S, Monday, 17 June 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link