what's the deal with guys who insist on sitting with their legs spread far apart even when they're like sitting in coach on an airplane and there's fuck-all leg room in the row?

I know people who use VCR parts as tape delay!

Ha... I like the anonymity of "some girl." I'm assuming it wasn't a stranger who just happened upon you sitting cross-legged.

xpost Jon VCRs make really badass tape delays if you have the equipment to splice and two VCRs to mangle (so you can get another play head in there after the record head).

Air travel is horrible enough without clods like this making it worse. If you need the extra leg room then pay for a business class or better ticket

Are there plans for building tape delays from VCRs anywhere???

I dunno of any on the net. I suppose you could try googlin' about (tho my cursory glance at a search on "tape delay" AND "vcr" didn't find anything really). I made mine with three old VCRs (only one of which worked) and the guts from an old Boss CE-1 (cause I put a switched chorus effect on one of the delays). I originally built it to use with guitar, but I've since used it most recording vocals or just to make normal sounds into hard-to-recognize noise.

Mine's completely mechanical... like the longest delay I can get out of it is a function of how far away I can move the heads down the tape path.

Hm. Maybe I should start selling the random shit I build.

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Pay the money, otherwise leave my personal space alone

Cause if you pay the same amount as the guy next to you, and then he takes up an extra inch of your already small seat, that doesn't really make sense. At least on the subway we're not talking about the same kind of fare to ride.

Also "jokers" who make comments about the flight crashing or go "oh god" JOKINGLY when anything makes an odd noise. They are not scary, they are not funny, and they deserve severe pain. ignorant twats.

um, i usually just end up folding my arms/hands towards my torso because there isn't enough elbow room anyway. it's really uncomfortable because i have FUCKOFF MASSIVE TITS OMG PHEAR MY ESTROGEN but i don't make that anyone else's problem.

I'm pretty thin, so this isn't that big of a deal, but I will first strike on the armrests should you dare to invade my personal space.

I am not torn between that any longer, since I take up about 2/3rds of the width of an airline seat and inevitably get the great "oh since your ass isn't taking up the entire seat and mine takes up more than one seat I'm just gonna start inching over a bit and makin' mahself comfortable" psychological experience (this is actually inexplicably WORSE on Amtrak, which has bigger seats so it makes no fucking sense at all that someone would need to take up all that space). The only problem is that this doesn't predict the occurance of the average sized man who wants to spread every part of his body out everywhere, but I have only once had a problem telling one of those dudes to please stop kicking my purse so I just don't really think about it much.

Now imagine your nipples are being crushed with a vice between your legs.

DIIOTODIS!

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Too bad Jefferson didn't add this to his list of indictments in the Declaration of Independence

Also this thread manages to completely ignore the real villains; the capitalist space hoarders who don't provide ppl enough room to sit comfortably on various forms of transport.

i am not a large person but i find the CTA seats (especially on the newer trains, which are awful) uncomfortably small. there have been instances where someone will attempt to sit down in the seat next to me and more or less sit directly on my leg.

i have to sit like this to fit in the seat even on the airplanes that supposedly have more legroom than the norm

I've had this "discussion" w/my gf. I cross my legs alot (which can be even worse space-wise and I avoid it on crowded transport) but is it cool if my knees are no wider apart than my shoulders? Sometimes the nads are sensitive and prone to pain. I don't want to be the db who imposes on someone else's space but can I get credit for a couple extra inches of knee space for appendages that womenfolk don't possess or is that bad? God knows I've had some bosoms (and God knows what other appendages) pressed into my back on crowded evening buses and I've made exceptions for things which aren't voluntary.