Classy
Mar 26, 2019, 6:27 pm
#46
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The photo shows best the situation and has the good sense to leave off the man's face.
Shoes on is slobbish to me. However, I'll presume innocence due to cultural ignorance and/or health reasons such as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Preventing Blood Clots
Wear loose-fitting clothes, socks, or stockings.
Raise your legs 6 inches above your heart from time to time.
Wear special stockings (called compression stockings) if your doctor prescribes them.
Do exercises your doctor gives you.
Change your position often, especially during a long trip.
from ahrq.gov
Shoes on is slobbish to me. However, I'll presume innocence due to cultural ignorance and/or health reasons such as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Preventing Blood Clots
Wear loose-fitting clothes, socks, or stockings.
Raise your legs 6 inches above your heart from time to time.
Wear special stockings (called compression stockings) if your doctor prescribes them.
Do exercises your doctor gives you.
Change your position often, especially during a long trip.
from ahrq.gov
Mar 26, 2019, 6:38 pm
#47
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exactly my thought, not having been in such hallowed territory myself I’m somewhat surprised that it doesn’t meet my expectations of s Wetherspoons
Mar 26, 2019, 6:45 pm
#48
Join Date: Nov 2015
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He should take the shoes off, but people lie on their sofas at home, so why not in a lounge? If BA didn’t want the chance of so-called ‘slobbish’ behaviour in their lounges then they’d only provide single soft seater chairs.
For what it’s worth I find these ‘shaming’ photos incredibly boorish - the BA lounge has generally been a place to help and educate each other (and b*tch about CW) but shouldn’t really be a place to post pictures of your fellow travellers.
For what it’s worth I find these ‘shaming’ photos incredibly boorish - the BA lounge has generally been a place to help and educate each other (and b*tch about CW) but shouldn’t really be a place to post pictures of your fellow travellers.
Mar 26, 2019, 6:59 pm
#49
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We're not talking about someone clipping their toenails here. Unless just out of frame there were three people wanting to sit there, this guy really has nothing to be ashamed of.
Mar 26, 2019, 7:02 pm
#50
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And it sofa looks to be missing a button too. In the First lounge, this is what caught my eye as being shameful
Mar 26, 2019, 7:32 pm
#51
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To the OP, did you do anything beyond snapping a picture and posting it here? After the taking the picture did you go over, wake him and rebuke him for his behavior? Failing that did you bring his conduct to the attention of the lounge attendants so they could remedy the situation if they so chose?
In the absence of any immediate action, the individual will continue his behavior next time. Even in the unlikely event he sees this thread his face isn't visible so any social media shaming will be minimal to non-existent. So other than expressions of dismay and other assorted posturing in this thread nothing of consequence was accomplished.
In the absence of any immediate action, the individual will continue his behavior next time. Even in the unlikely event he sees this thread his face isn't visible so any social media shaming will be minimal to non-existent. So other than expressions of dismay and other assorted posturing in this thread nothing of consequence was accomplished.
Mar 26, 2019, 7:50 pm
#52
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How do you shame somebody that nobody knows?
The pic is nothing but informative of human nature
The pic is nothing but informative of human nature
Mar 26, 2019, 8:20 pm
#53
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Did he/she/it have fish lips, LV bags and a boarding pass to Dubai?
Mar 26, 2019, 9:16 pm
#55
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Really? Do you think it's ok for Janet, who is going on her first holiday in two years to sit on the same sofa with her arm resting where this selfish mans feet once were.
Janet is wearing white and this top is now dirty = life ruined!
Do you think Janet thinks it's acceptable to have shoes on the arm of a pubic sofa?
Janet is wearing white and this top is now dirty = life ruined!
Do you think Janet thinks it's acceptable to have shoes on the arm of a pubic sofa?
If janet is such a germaphobe she probably shouldn’t be flying in an airplane. The airplane seat has probably been farted in over a thousand times.
Also people’s hands and cell phones are likely more dirty than feet.
would you take issue to a cell phone sitting on the armrest?
$100 says the op was to scared to say anything to the individual but has no problem posting pictures on the internet to shame behind a keyboard.
Mar 26, 2019, 11:57 pm
#56
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I see someone in the background of the photo with two big bags and another. I hope he/she was just carrying the 2nd big bag for someone else and they weren't all his/hers.
As for the photo of the person hogging the sofa and with his/her feet (or ankles, depending on one's perspective...) on the armrest, it's not really identifiable without the face so I don't really think it's that terrible to post it even though it's not exactly the best of manners (neither is hogging the sofa with feet/ankles on the armrest).
As for the photo of the person hogging the sofa and with his/her feet (or ankles, depending on one's perspective...) on the armrest, it's not really identifiable without the face so I don't really think it's that terrible to post it even though it's not exactly the best of manners (neither is hogging the sofa with feet/ankles on the armrest).
Mar 27, 2019, 1:17 am
#57
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I strongly suspect that the Moral Highground protagonsits who consider that taking photographs of a slob like this to be reprehensible are concerned that next time it could be them. My own thoughts are that if you conduct yourself in a public place in a manner that is considered uncouth by most people then in a world where everyone is equipped with a phone, then you are asking for this to be all over the Internet. If the picture was in anyway falsified if untrue that would be very wrong.
Mar 27, 2019, 1:35 am
#58
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I strongly suspect that the Moral Highground protagonsits who consider that taking photographs of a slob like this to be reprehensible are concerned that next time it could be them. My own thoughts are that if you conduct yourself in a public place in a manner that is considered uncouth by most people then in a world where everyone is equipped with a phone, then you are asking for this to be all over the Internet. If the picture was in anyway falsified if untrue that would be very wrong.
Mar 27, 2019, 2:04 am
#59
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Mar 27, 2019, 2:10 am
#60
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I strongly suspect that the Moral Highground protagonsits who consider that taking photographs of a slob like this to be reprehensible are concerned that next time it could be them. My own thoughts are that if you conduct yourself in a public place in a manner that is considered uncouth by most people then in a world where everyone is equipped with a phone, then you are asking for this to be all over the Internet. If the picture was in anyway falsified if untrue that would be very wrong.
As someone mention, this could be a soothing position. If my autoimmune disease flares up right after a flight (as it might unfortunately happen) I might take comfort in this position to soothe the pain. I would certainly not asked for me to be on the Internet.
So no, some might truly believe that taking a picture of someone and posting it in a public place is simply morally reprehensible. It is also illegal in several jurisdiction. So the idea that "next time it could be them" is ludicrous and probably tell more about yourself than people genuinely thinking that the OP itself is not a classy act.