Re: On the indignity of flying.

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.philosophy
Subject	Re: On the indignity of flying.
Date	2025-01-12 20:19 +0000
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 12/01/2025 14:47, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> On 2025-01-11, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>> As regular readers of my posts know, I had the unpleasant opportunity
>> to fly with ryanair, back to my refuge from the wokeness of western
>> europe.
> 
> RyanAir is truly one of the world's worst airlines. With Spirit Air in
> the US doing their best to emulate them.
> 
> As a libertarian, you should hate them even more, because they do their
> very best to milk government subsidies; they like to fly in and out of
> tiny regional airports attracted there by regional development agencies
> that want to bost that they village airport has international airline
> service.
> 
>> There was one saving grace... a very beautiful female flight attendant who
>> let me sit next to my wife, so she could decrease my suffering. Before
>> landing she shooed me away so as not to affect the balance of the 737
>> (BS!) and I said that of course I have to take my bag and coat so as not
>> to "affect the balance" or else I would be afraid of the plane crashing.
>>
>> To my great surprise she smiled at my joke, and said, "well, I don't think
>> it would be that serious".
> 
> I suspect the weight of your body is more that the weight of you bag and
> coat, so there may have been some rational thought in her answer, too.
If it gets you where you want to go at rock bottom prices, who cares?

-- 
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit 
atrocities.”

― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de 
Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de 
M. de Voltaire

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  Re: On the indignity of flying. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 11:15 +0000
    Re: On the indignity of flying. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-12 19:29 +0100
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  Re: On the indignity of flying. Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-01-12 14:47 +0000
    Re: On the indignity of flying. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-12 19:31 +0100
    Re: On the indignity of flying. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 20:19 +0000
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      Re: On the indignity of flying. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-13 21:32 +0000
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        Re: On the indignity of flying. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-14 19:06 +0100
  Re: On the indignity of flying. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 15:42 +0000
    Re: On the indignity of flying. D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-13 20:09 +0100
      Re: On the indignity of flying. John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-01-13 13:07 -0800
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