What is wrong with people?
#46
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Now that novel and film I did not expect to read about here. The eponymous heroine had lively language to put it mildly, and was foul mouthed to put it less charitably.
#47
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I hear you...What I worry about is what kind of offspring do they bring forward who will be electing governments in the future ?
#49
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Why doesnt DL do this at all of their stations?
#50
Join Date: Feb 2015
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Definitely not leisure travellers. The worst offenders are usually the middle manager business traveller types - Raymond Queneau put this wonderfully in "Zazie dans le Metro" as something like "les hommes d'affaires, satchel en main, avec leur air de savoir voyager mieux que tout le monde". A little bit of status and you're into the worst sorts of self centred arrogance.
Last edited by Saint4805; May 2, 2019 at 1:51 pm
#54
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Could it be that this happens on every flight ever, but you only noticed it because you were on holiday? Dont know about you, but on a work trip Im in a totally different frame of mind than on a leisure trip!
#55
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As others have said some passengers are just pillocks, paid hard enough attention and you'll see some on most flights.
Or my favourite,...flying Garuda ex-DPS where the gate agent held a "Business Class" placard and simultaneously rang a handheld bicycle bell whilst shouting "Business Class! Business Class!".
Or my favourite,...flying Garuda ex-DPS where the gate agent held a "Business Class" placard and simultaneously rang a handheld bicycle bell whilst shouting "Business Class! Business Class!".
#57
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Do that for all posts, BAEC will take very little space on FT servers. !
#58
Join Date: Sep 2010
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On a recent flight in CW from MCO I witnessed a male passenger literally shoulder barge another out of the way to be in front of him to scan his boarding pass and board. As I've got no particular desire to sit on the aircraft longer than is necessary (with two children under the age of 4) so hung back and waited for the initial scrum to clear. I literally have no idea why people think that's an acceptable way to behave or indeed why they would want to sit on the aircraft for longer than is absolutely necessary.
Hence me being, what you lot call, "Gate lice".
#60
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