Today's Pet Peeve - Tuesday, November 16, 2010 (houses, story, city, people)

[Suncoast Guy]

Hello Peevers!! Hpappy Tuesday! Woo-hoo... we made it through Monday... only 4 more days 'til the weekend!

Today's Peeve: Airline speak (ex- "The lavatories ARE equipped with smoke detectors, so DO refrain...")

I remember this when I was headed to Kansas City, MO back in June. I remember saying to the guy next to me... "Don't smoke in the bathroom... that's all she has to say. Trying to impress us with your mobo-jobo talk isn't impressing me... it's just giving me a headache! "

[wisconsin woman]

I have to agree with you there. A pilot is a pilot, a plane is a plane, and if you are indeed a REAL pilot, please just speak lingo the rest of us can relate to and be done with it! And....if youre not a real pilot, dont talk/act like one.
Same goes for doctor wanna-be's...movie star wanna-be's...know-it-all wanna-be's....even boss wanna-be's...

[njmike]

Originally Posted by 115db

I have to agree with you there. A pilot is a pilot, a plane is a plane, and if you are indeed a REAL pilot, please just speak lingo the rest of us can relate to and be done with it! And....if youre not a real pilot, dont talk/act like one.
Same goes for doctor wanna-be's...movie star wanna-be's...know-it-all wanna-be's....

Wanna-be's are wanna-be's cause they can't-be whatever so they try to talk the talk and walk the walk to impress everyone else but only impress themselves.

[AksarbeN]

The one very small area of the plane where you have a large concentration of methane gas and YOU want to take a chance of lighting a match! YOU’RE crazy.

[wisconsin woman]

Im still laughing, thats a good post Askarben!

[tijlover]

I've known people, when they've gotten really, really angry, the smoke pours out of their nose, ears, mouth and belly button.

This could occur, even going to the bathroom on a plane. They sit there, trying futilely to have a bowel movement, and the anger rises and rises every minute they sit there.

And all they would have had to do is ask the flight attendant for a glass of orange juice!

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Suncoast Guy

Hello Peevers!! Hpappy Tuesday! Woo-hoo... we made it through Monday... only 4 more days 'til the weekend!

Today's Peeve: Airline speak (ex- "The lavatories ARE equipped with smoke detectors, so DO refrain...")

I remember this when I was headed to Kansas City, MO back in June. I remember saying to the guy next to me... "Don't smoke in the bathroom... that's all she has to say. Trying to impress us with your mobo-jobo talk isn't impressing me... it's just giving me a headache! "

Well... a lot of times I enjoy watching an attractive female flight attendant demonstrating the aircraft's safety features..

BTW, they are referred to as lavatories because they are not true bathrooms, and they are really.. very fancy out-houses!

[Nomadicus]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Well... a lot of times I enjoy watching an attractive female flight attendant demonstrating the aircraft's safety features..

BTW, they are referred to as lavatories because they are not true bathrooms, and they are really.. very fancy out-houses!

And they have flights right over cities where we live.

[Nomadicus]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

The one very small area of the plane where you have a large concentration of methane gas and YOU want to take a chance of lighting a match! YOU’RE crazy.

Sort of like the man who threw his cig down the port-a-potty and blew himself up and then wanted to sue...

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

And they have flights right over cities where we live.

LOL... Do you remember a story that made the news around the mid 1990s? It was about.. shall we say.. frozen waste matter, that somehow leaked out of an aircraft at cruise altitude and it did some serious damage on the roof of a house or a car. Something like that could have killed somebody, and thank God it didn't.