Giddy Up! New Airline Seats
Just as I finally recovered from a nasty bout with adult onset bowleg brought on by a lack of vitamin D and watching bad television while straddling a large pipe outside a neighbor's bedroom window, the airlines decide to release this crap to save money:
It's going to make those flights from Toledo to Pittsfield a real bitch from now on.
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I was just reading about this on Yahoo News. This looks horrible on so many levels. Even the chick in the picture looks like she's squishing her own nuts.
There was an article a while back about an Asian airline that was doing something similar, but with nothing to sit on. Basically it was just a padded board one leaned against with a harness to keep everyone from ending up in a big pile in the aisle on take off.
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There was an article a while back about an Asian airline that was doing something similar, but with nothing to sit on. Basically it was just a padded board one leaned against with a harness to keep everyone from ending up in a big pile in the aisle on take off.
Here's the article I read: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-09-10-airlinestanding10_ST_N...
I love how they basically say, "If a cowboy can do it, so can you."
Fuck that...I only fly two or three times a year. I'm sitting on a cushion.
There was an article a while back about an Asian airline that was doing something similar, but with nothing to sit on. Basically it was just a padded board one leaned against with a harness to keep everyone from ending up in a big pile in the aisle on take off.
Here's the article I read: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-09-10-airlinestanding10_ST_N...
I love how they basically say, "If a cowboy can do it, so can you."
Fuck that...I only fly two or three times a year. I'm sitting on a cushion.
A couple of flights back there was a midget who was flying solo (go ahead, let your mind go there) across the aisle from me. She was so tiny she had to rest her heels on her backpack so her feet weren't suspended straight out from the seat.
I can't imagine her, ok I can imagine her, trying to balance on one of these in a moving aircraft.
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I don't think putting more seats per plane is the answer. There are already too few flights, more and more of which are being canceled without notice, and nothing's more infuriating. "What do you mean it's been canceled? You mean delayed, right?"
Although, I am very much in favor of the pre-reclined-seats movement. Just because the person in front of me always does it when I'm trying to type on a laptop, and then I don't want to be an a-hole to the person behind me, so I don't put mine back, etc. If they were all reclined just a little bit by default, problem solved.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7864921/Ryanair-to-sell-5-t...
RyanAir has been trying to do this for a while now....
Cowboys can do all kinds of shit I can't do. Is that the standard now?
There is hope, but not for us.
RyanAir has been trying to do this for a while now....
The standing room only 'seats' in the RyanAir link were the one's being touted on domestic China flights a while back.
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That's fucked up.
No wai. I has betar solushion
Ok, the guy stands up and is held in place by the padded metal rings, and there's a soft cushion he can lean against. And there's thick non-slip rubber padding like they have in restaurant kitchens for him to stand on.
You'd save so much space
That looks like an astronaut bed.
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I'd like to squish her nuts! Hay-OH!
anyways, don't they have a hard time selling seats on planes as it is? That's what william shatner would have me believe. They ought to be enlarging the seats. have first class be where you get your own little cabin car like on a train.
If they are going to go this route though, they might as well go all the way and install old-timey carousel horses for people to sit on. At the very least, they'd look prettier.
"In the event of an emergency, your seat will not become a flotation device. It will however become detached and rocket you, end-over-end, to the front of the plane where your flailing corpse will maim a number of our first-class passengers."
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Eventually terrorist attacks will be done just to destroy plans with these seats.
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First they start charging for their shitty fucking peanuts and now this. They are willing to sacrifice safety and comfort to stuff a few extra fat asses into seats. Speaking of even now every time I fly I am packed next to a heffer that ate too many Big Macs and should have bought 2 seats, so now they have to take up 3/4 of the seat I have now too. They should have to pay me for this shit. Only they don't even acknowledge their own fatassedness they just sit there stretching their arms our ever hour or so smothering me.... these people will not even close to fit in these seats. I swear one of these days I'm going to fork stab one of these fuckers. Hopefully these seats will not be put in US planes and only places where people stay relatively small, like Somalia.
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Sporkstab.
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Yes, right in the throat. Stupid Spork probably won't even do anything.
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