Taking things for granted.
Mar 27, 2016 | 5:18 pm
#16
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Either way, it's pretty rare.
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Mar 28, 2016 | 3:12 pm
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Mar 28, 2016 | 3:15 pm
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Mar 29, 2016 | 6:50 pm
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Here's the Louis CK clip. The airplane rant starts around 3:50, but it's all hilarious. I couldn't agree more with his observations.
Louis C K Generation of Spoiled Idiots - YouTube
Louis C K Generation of Spoiled Idiots - YouTube
My undergrad degree is Math/Physics. I totally get the theory and concept of how low pressure/high pressure from fluid dynamics work. I can probably still do the dang Bernoulli equations to solve for the pressure differential.
But every time I get on an airplane, no matter how many hundreds of times I've done it, I still have at least one moment where the following thought goes through my head: "I'm 6 miles up in the air in an aluminum tube along with 250 other people, going 600 miles per hour from place X to place y. This is just f*ing magic!!!!!"
Mar 29, 2016 | 7:52 pm
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But every time I get on an airplane, no matter how many hundreds of times I've done it, I still have at least one moment where the following thought goes through my head: "I'm 6 miles up in the air in an aluminum tube along with 250 other people, going 600 miles per hour from place X to place y. This is just f*ing magic!!!!!"
Mar 30, 2016 | 5:31 am
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Mar 30, 2016 | 5:49 am
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ding-fast.html
And if you grip too much you end up:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...a-stories.html
But on a more serious note (well, sorta, kinda anyway), a few years back after the appetizer on an Alitalia flight in Magnifica they ran out of red wine. Now, as I am sure you assumed as well, red wine should run out of the taps on Alitalia but I learned it does not.
I next assumed, also incorrectly, we would divert to fix this! I mean it was Alitalia after all. I was told I would have put up with* Champagne and white wine.
*(did I miss the point of this thread)?
Mar 30, 2016 | 10:40 am
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I agree with so much of this. Especially the part about the magic of flight.
My undergrad degree is Math/Physics. I totally get the theory and concept of how low pressure/high pressure from fluid dynamics work. I can probably still do the dang Bernoulli equations to solve for the pressure differential.
But every time I get on an airplane, no matter how many hundreds of times I've done it, I still have at least one moment where the following thought goes through my head: "I'm 6 miles up in the air in an aluminum tube along with 250 other people, going 600 miles per hour from place X to place y. This is just f*ing magic!!!!!"
My undergrad degree is Math/Physics. I totally get the theory and concept of how low pressure/high pressure from fluid dynamics work. I can probably still do the dang Bernoulli equations to solve for the pressure differential.
But every time I get on an airplane, no matter how many hundreds of times I've done it, I still have at least one moment where the following thought goes through my head: "I'm 6 miles up in the air in an aluminum tube along with 250 other people, going 600 miles per hour from place X to place y. This is just f*ing magic!!!!!"
Apr 1, 2016 | 8:25 am
#25
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This thread is funny to me because I am the guy the OP talked about. Last year Mrs. Archer had to go to Singapore so we flew MCI-DTW-NRT-SIN. She booked D1, per her company policy. I splurged on a D1 seat as well. I was like a kid on christmas morning waiting to board the 747 in DTW. I took pictures, videos, and all kinds of stuff like I was a blogger reviewing, but it was just for me because I did not know if I'd ever have that chance again. I couldn't begin to express my excitement about flying in the "upstairs" of a plane. Plus that trip pushed me into GM for Delta.
I realized why the GM benefits are great when it came the traveling at Christmas. The Sky Priority check in and security line in DTW made life so much less stressful for the holiday travel. It's all a matter of perspective.
I realized why the GM benefits are great when it came the traveling at Christmas. The Sky Priority check in and security line in DTW made life so much less stressful for the holiday travel. It's all a matter of perspective.
Apr 1, 2016 | 8:44 am
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Everything is a matter of perspective. It's a matter of how far you want to go in that perspective. Your two hour delay due to weather or MX and missing an "important meeting" is insignificant in life compared to a malnourished kid starving in Africa who's been forced to be a child soldier.....What perspective one should take is of course, a matter of opinion and one which is directly and indirectly debated throughout the forum (as evidenced by frequent comments of "first world problem" in many threads).