Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Pinno wrote:
    What's with Stuey Hogg ?

    Dunno. Good player. Just irritates me. Maybe it's because he runs like a chicken.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    People on aircraft that fully recline their seats thereby cramping the space for the passenger behind. Then when they repeatedly get up to go the bog or reach something from the locker above, brace themselves on said reclined seat back, forcing it back a few more inches. Bastards!!
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Ballysmate wrote:
    People on aircraft that fully recline their seats thereby cramping the space for the passenger behind. Then when they repeatedly get up to go the bog or reach something from the locker above, brace themselves on said reclined seat back, forcing it back a few more inches. Bastards!!

    Yep.

    I was on a flight to Crete once where the ***t in front of me did this, not even space to hold a book FFS!

    I put my knees in the back of his seat and just kept them there. He was wriggling about and complaining to his missus that he couldn't get comfortable etc. I just thought "good", and 'went to sleep'. he got up at one point to see what the problem was, and whilst shuffling about by his seat he "accidentally" kick my foot to try to get me to move.

    I see no point in reclining seats on aircraft if there's no room to use them without inconveniencing others. I've seen a little device you can buy that fits into the back of the seat in front to stop it reclining....

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  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    I had the same thing on a long haul flight once - w@nker in front reclined his seat as far as he could the second the seatbelt light went out. Wouldn't mind but he was in the front row anyway and had all the legroom in the world. I could barely get the tray table down & couldn't really see the screen in the seat back without folding myself into a spine wrecking position & sliding down my own seat. As above, I made a point of jamming my knees into the back of the seat, repeatedly "accidentally" bashing his seat and loudly exclaiming discomfort every time he moved. I had my daughter in the seat next to me & as I was almost pinned into my seat we struggled to get out to use the loo - was fun having her clamber all over his seat to get out & thereby denying him any chance of sleeping. In the end when drinks/ mealtime came the stewardess had to politely ask him to move his seat back to a more upright position so that I could actually eat. Needless to say the selfish c*nt had the right arse and started spouting off about his rights, his need for sleep & that it was someone making a "fuss about nothing""- I asked him at that point if he'd care to swap seats if was such a triviality & he soon shut up. Spent the next ten hours regularly slamming the tray table up & down and loudly laughing at the in flight entertainment. He looked totally knackered when we landed for some reason......
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  • hamish_mctavish
    hamish_mctavish Posts: 142
    Passive-aggressive anti-seat-reclining silliness.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Staying on the subject of flights...airlines ripping people off at £25 a pop to reserve a seat.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Ballysmate wrote:
    People on aircraft that fully recline their seats thereby cramping the space for the passenger behind. Then when they repeatedly get up to go the bog or reach something from the locker above, brace themselves on said reclined seat back, forcing it back a few more inches. Bastards!!

    Oh yes, very much this! At least they have stopped attaching the tray directly to the seat back though, my wife ended up wearing her in flight meal when some inconsiderate twunt decided to recline whilst she was eating.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,673
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    seanoconn wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?

    Definitely by the wings. If the whole thing falls to bits in mid-air, you absolutely want to be with the part that can fly.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,673
    Ballysmate wrote:
    People on aircraft that fully recline their seats thereby cramping the space for the passenger behind. Then when they repeatedly get up to go the bog or reach something from the locker above, brace themselves on said reclined seat back, forcing it back a few more inches. Bastards!!
    Absolutely. I wouldn't dream of reclining my seat and inconveniencing the person behind but then I'm generally too nice to get anywhere in life.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Chocolate with mint in it.
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Giraffoto wrote:
    seanoconn wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?

    Definitely by the wings. If the whole thing falls to bits in mid-air, you absolutely want to be with the part that can fly.

    You ideally want to be with the black box, at least you'll get your remains buried.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    seanoconn wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?

    Definitely by the wings. If the whole thing falls to bits in mid-air, you absolutely want to be with the part that can fly.

    You ideally want to be with the black box, at least you'll get your remains buried.

    I hate flying. Shuddup you lot.
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Pinno wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    seanoconn wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?

    Definitely by the wings. If the whole thing falls to bits in mid-air, you absolutely want to be with the part that can fly.

    You ideally want to be with the black box, at least you'll get your remains buried.

    I hate flying. Shuddup you lot.

    Isn't there a quote from someone or other that says the flying bit is fine, it's the falling I don't like!
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,816
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Isn't there a quote from someone or other that says the flying bit is fine, it's the falling I don't like!
    Falling from a great height isn't dangerous. Tends to be the sudden stop that is a problem.
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  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    As an aside, was just reminded by the wife of the same trip mentioned above. On the return leg the landing was an absolute horror show - loads of rain, cross winds... plane was all over the place but the pilot landed it (with a hell of a bump). As we were disembarking the cabin crew by the exit were doing the usual "thankyou, have a nice trip" thing when the old dear in front of us deadpans to one of them:
    "young man, was that a landing or were we shot down?"
    then ambles away

    I was in bits
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Over to Portugal was seamless, coming back was the turbulence from hell, maybe it was left overs from Imogen. Can anyone explain what turbulence actually is? I understand turbulence in the sense of mixed up air or chasing down that trattor but at 36,000 ft ?!
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    seanoconn wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    ...and people who care where they sit on a plane, as long as it's on the inside who cares :D

    Sitting at the back means you're more likely to survive a crash.
    I thought that was in the middle by the wings?

    Only if you want to be sitting over and next to the plane's main fuel tanks when it hits the deck.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pinno wrote:
    Over to Portugal was seamless, coming back was the turbulence from hell, maybe it was left overs from Imogen. Can anyone explain what turbulence actually is? I understand turbulence in the sense of mixed up air or chasing down that trattor but at 36,000 ft ?!

    There's different types but the most common is clear air turbulence which gets caused at the edges of jet streams where the fast jet stream air mixes with the slower surrounding air. I think you also get it in clouds where the air density is varying.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    A few years ago I flew to Copenhagen with a mate who happens to be a BA pilot. When the pre-flight safety display was happening and they were putting on the life jackets, he turned to me and said "if we are going to crash land on the sea, forget the life jacket - I'd rather crash land on a ploughed field any day of the week"
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Pinno wrote:
    Over to Portugal was seamless, coming back was the turbulence from hell, maybe it was left overs from Imogen. Can anyone explain what turbulence actually is? I understand turbulence in the sense of mixed up air or chasing down that trattor but at 36,000 ft ?!

    i always thought it was to do with air at different temperatures. The warmer stuff is less dense so the plane isn't held up as well as in the cold stuff, if you fly through a warm patch, the plane drops.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    According to a site I have just perused, turbulence is ANY disruption to air flow. Low level turbulence is caused by buildings, geography, variations in air pressure.
    CAT: Clean Air Turbulence at higher altitudes - +30,000 ft can be due to storms (even up to 100 km away) rather like ripples across a pond when you throw a stone in, changes in air pressure. There are no vacuums as people think and vertical movement of the plane is less than 10 feet 95% of the time.
    A plane is designed to flex because a rigid structure is more prone to failure.
    I still don't like it.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Kingstonian wrote:
    A few years ago I flew to Copenhagen with a mate who happens to be a BA pilot. When the pre-flight safety display was happening and they were putting on the life jackets, he turned to me and said "if we are going to crash land on the sea, forget the life jacket - I'd rather crash land on a ploughed field any day of the week"

    Has anyone ever been rescued after a plane crash at sea?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    ^ Has the OH taken your handcuffs off for your evening's hour in the yard Bally?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    It's 11 pm so I can come out to play
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Kingstonian wrote:
    A few years ago I flew to Copenhagen with a mate who happens to be a BA pilot. When the pre-flight safety display was happening and they were putting on the life jackets, he turned to me and said "if we are going to crash land on the sea, forget the life jacket - I'd rather crash land on a ploughed field any day of the week"

    Has anyone ever been rescued after a plane crash at sea?

    Tom Hanks?
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Things that annoy me - women pretending to like each other when they actually can't stand the sight of the other person.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Kingstonian wrote:
    A few years ago I flew to Copenhagen with a mate who happens to be a BA pilot. When the pre-flight safety display was happening and they were putting on the life jackets, he turned to me and said "if we are going to crash land on the sea, forget the life jacket - I'd rather crash land on a ploughed field any day of the week"

    Has anyone ever been rescued after a plane crash at sea?

    50 people survived the crash in the sea off the Seychelles. There have been others.

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