What's a Kettle?
Dec 7, 2010 | 1:45 pm
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Dec 7, 2010 | 2:29 pm
#78
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Sure signs of Kettledom at the airport:
Walking with a pack of people cluelessly so no one behind you can get by
Not-Walking on a moving sidewalk make me want to comment "Its a moving sidewalk, not a ride at Disney"
Stopping at the top or bottom of an escalator.
Thinks the overhead space above his seat is his personal o/h space
Now what do you call the elite guy standing at the gate reader an hour before his flight so he can be the first to board?
Walking with a pack of people cluelessly so no one behind you can get by
Not-Walking on a moving sidewalk make me want to comment "Its a moving sidewalk, not a ride at Disney"
Stopping at the top or bottom of an escalator.
Thinks the overhead space above his seat is his personal o/h space
Now what do you call the elite guy standing at the gate reader an hour before his flight so he can be the first to board?
Dec 7, 2010 | 2:54 pm
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A gate louse without a Club membership.
Dec 7, 2010 | 6:11 pm
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There are a lot of reasons people stand on a moving sidewalk. They don't all involve ignorance. Please cut those who have difficulty walking long distances, even if they don't have an externally visible disability and can handle short distances well enough, a bit of slack. (They should stand to one side so others can pass, but that's a separate issue.)
Dec 7, 2010 | 6:49 pm
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There are a lot of reasons people stand on a moving sidewalk. They don't all involve ignorance. Please cut those who have difficulty walking long distances, even if they don't have an externally visible disability and can handle short distances well enough, a bit of slack. (They should stand to one side so others can pass, but that's a separate issue.)
Dec 7, 2010 | 8:08 pm
#82
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I used to play a game called "Lesbian or Midwestern?", at least as far as women go.
For men, it's jeans, some kind of shirt from some low brow brand like Kirkland or some generic Costco made in China crap...also, Camo pattern anything.
For men, it's jeans, some kind of shirt from some low brow brand like Kirkland or some generic Costco made in China crap...also, Camo pattern anything.
Dec 7, 2010 | 8:41 pm
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There are a lot of reasons people stand on a moving sidewalk. They don't all involve ignorance. Please cut those who have difficulty walking long distances, even if they don't have an externally visible disability and can handle short distances well enough, a bit of slack. (They should stand to one side so others can pass, but that's a separate issue.)
Dec 7, 2010 | 9:13 pm
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Dec 7, 2010 | 10:15 pm
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For example, T3 in SFO, viewing from the moving walkway all those *A widebodys parked at Terminal G, glistening in the early afternoon golden Pacific-American sunshine. Add a slight buzz from the 8 G&T's consumed on the incoming IAD-SFO flight, and Wes Montergomery's "Willow Weep for Me" or Dennis Ferrer's "Hit It Off" or especially Souldoubt's "Work It" on the iPod, and you've moved into the realm of the sublime!
Dec 7, 2010 | 10:16 pm
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For example, T3 in SFO, viewing from the moving walkway all those *A widebodys parked at Terminal G, glistening in the golden early afternoon Pacific-American sunshine. Add a slight buzz from the 8 G&T's consumed on the incoming IAD-SFO flight, and Wes Montergomery's "Willow Weep for Me" or Dennis Ferrer's "Hit It Off" or especially Souldoubt's "Work It" on the iPod, and you've moved into the realm of the sublime!
Dec 7, 2010 | 10:31 pm
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I always stand well to the right, as far away as possible from all those effete, tightly contracted-sphincter types trying to churn billable hours while blathering away on their Blackberrys, and simultaneously cantoring like a recently castrated Rhode Island Red on the way the taxi stand.
Dec 7, 2010 | 10:32 pm
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I always stand well to the right, as far away as possible from all those effete, tightly contracted-sphincter types trying to churn billable hours while blathering away on their Blackberrys, and simultaneously cantoring like a recently castrated Rhode Island Red on the way the taxi stand.
Dec 7, 2010 | 10:45 pm
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One of the virtues of the true FF'ers is the ability to experience deliberately the sublime, easily overlooked aspects of air travel, and do so with a light step, minimally intruding into others' space. Perhaps it is the cultivation of the light step or the minimal intrustion that, once mastered, allows one to experience those things about which Francis Ponge said, "Kings...know nothing of this pleasure."
Dec 7, 2010 | 11:23 pm
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