Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

El Tomboto at 7:35 27 Apr 19

People who post on politics threads and still can’t internalize the 27% rule

I laughed several times while watching Still Open All Hours so adding myself to the savage list here

That they should die young of unnatural causes?

"27% rule" refers to The Crazification Factor, first laid out in 2005 as follows:

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is --

Tyrone: 27%.

John: ... you said that immmediately, and with some authority.

Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

John: Objectively crazy or crazy vis-a-vis my own inertial reference frame for rational behaviour? I mean, are you creating the Theory of Special Crazification or General Crazification?

Tyrone: Hadn't thought about it. Let's split the difference. Half just have worldviews which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means, and the other half are the core of the Crazification -- either genuinely crazy; or so woefully misinformed about how the world works, the bases for their decision making is so flawed they may as well be crazy.

John: You realize this leads to there being over 30 million crazy people in the US?

Tyrone: Does that seem wrong?

I agree with all that, but still say that some complete racists walking into the booth and seeing the names ALAN KEYES and BARACK OBAMA would've voted for Alan Keyes, even if he'd been a Democrat.

Both candidates might have been black, but one candidate was blacker – in this case, the one with the white mother.

feeling AA on the coffee date scene

Guy in the pub who dried his hands under the drier after having a piss.

No washing. Just drying.

give piss a chance.

idgi how else are you supposed to dry the piss on your hands

Wipe them on your trousers, obviously.

Guy in the pub who dried his hands under the drier after having a piss.

No washing. Just drying.

This post has been haunting me all day.

Wipe them on your trousers, obviously.

is putting your seat back on a plane considered rude??!

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 8:04 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All the way back is a dick move
Halfway is fine and expected

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 :-\

this is why i charter my own flights tbh

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.

Depends on how many extra rows of seats they've crammed in though doesn't it?

only acceptable if a) the person in front of you did it, and b) you are of a certain height

The worst are the people who luck out and get a row to themselves so they lie down AND put back all the seats.

i had three rows to myself once, transatlantic flight on xmas eve, even then i don't think i put them back!

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

Ok I think airplane seats used to go back a little further, but not in like the last 10 years

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

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

Everyone in the cabin putting their seat back is a kind of collective passive aggression that makes the flight less enjoyable for all

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.

EXACTLY

nah fuck that. it's a collective action problem. have some moral backbone.

My actual spine > my "moral backbone"

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.

#leanback

vg + unperson otm

I had to fly Spirit last week, the seats don't even go back! It is like leaning forward.

if a seat goes back it goes back

talk to the manufacturer if you have a problem with that

thanks for this insight into the mind of a savage

we were consulted in the initial design fyi the system works

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

the twinge id feel there would probably be my knees

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.

There is literally nothing you can do to make flying Ryanair anything less than an ordeal tbf.

... other than not flying Ryanair.

At least Ryanair don't go long-haul.

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

yep

aer lingus gone as bad lately tbh

I had to fly Spirit last week, the seats don't even go back!

spirit otm

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.

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

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.

> €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.

have i read that its 18 coins or is that a myth

that seems random

https://www.royalmint.com/help/trm-faqs/legal-tender-amounts/