Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by bilmore
This is why I always get better seats and service than Abba.

Hey now, I said SOMETIMES I am an asshole. I am ridiculously charming most of the time. And I am rarely if ever mean to a bartender or server. Ancient Abba Proverb say "Be not ass to he who bring me drink."

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
As to doggy bags, don't be such a cheap bastard. You probably aren't going to eat that cold shit when you get it home anyway, so give the poor waiter a break.

Sometimes doggy bags are used for...wait for it...doggies!

TM

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Again, so what, you prissy bitch? (wow, gratuitous name-calling is fun!) You have a FA whose supervisor or training manual told her "The FAA requires this." You, of course, have the enormous knowledge garnered from sitting in the exit row on a dozen flights (probably the number of flights this FA works in a single week -- but still, your knowledge is clearly impressive.)

The lady's got plane full of stressed out people who hate travelling. Give her a frigging verbal response. You had to do it anyway, and you had to know that would be the result.

These criticisms do not apply to TM's story or the other stories about people using legal knowledge to prevent someone from screwing them over. But hating an FA because she asks you to say "yes" instead of nodding your head? You poor, poor baby.

Sidd, sweetheart...Let me ask you a question.

Suppose you are on a flight with Mrs. Finch. You and she are chatting and the FA begins her safety features demonstation. You know how to operate the seatbelt, the oxygen mask and you have already located the exits nearest you. As you and the Missus continue to chat, the FA stops her demonstation, taps you on the knee and says "Sir, I really must insist that you pay attention."

Would you not find that irritating? Would you not want to punch her in the face? Would you not think that FA's just love to fuck with passengers because they can?

Cause that's my point. They fuck with passengers because they can. Because they hate passengers too. As much as we hate them. The difference is, its their fucking job.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Bob
SD is mostly correct here. It amazes me that more people don't realize this.

And it applies to the people in the office, too. You don't think that that idiot real estate partner who yells at the IT staff is last on the list when his computer crashes? Or that the chick in corporate who is snotty to the word processing clerk doesn't have her "must have" agreement shoved to the bottom of the stack?

I'm nice to people just to be nice!!!! Not b/c it will possibly come back to haunt me if I'm not!

:angel:

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Again, so what, you prissy bitch?

You're so cute when you get tough.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Sometimes doggy bags are used for...wait for it...doggies!

TM

Mom's gotta eat, eh?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bilmore
This is why I always get better seats and service than Abba.

The downside, of course, is that I don't get to experience that rush of raw power that comes from berating the peasants . . .

Hey, the peasants are usually more amusing than the sludge sitting nearby at any table of more than five associates. "Seeeeww, lets talk about that Fluggerbladder case, that's a real humdinger how that agreement fell apart..." Fuck, I'd rather talk music with the dumb young art student who's serving really bad manhattans behind the bar. At least he's not involuntarily celibate, socially maladjusted wallflower or loudmouth jackass mimicking William Buckley (see: Ih8djfkjr).

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm nice to people just to be nice!!!! Not b/c it will possibly come back to haunt me if I'm not!

:angel:

They go hand in hand.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Mom's gotta eat, eh?

Damn. Blindsided by the most obvious self-set up in the history of all posts. Nice work.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Sidd, sweetheart...Let me ask you a question.

Suppose you are on a flight with Mrs. Finch. You and she are chatting and the FA begins her safety features demonstation. You know how to operate the seatbelt, the oxygen mask and you have already located the exits nearest you. As you and the Missus continue to chat, the FA stops her demonstation, taps you on the knee and says "Sir, I really must insist that you pay attention."

Would you not find that irritating? Would you not want to punch her in the face? Would you not think that FA's just love to fuck with passengers because they can?

Cause that's my point. They fuck with passengers because they can. Because they hate passengers too. As much as we hate them. The difference is, its their fucking job.

Truthfully, no, that would not irritate me. It's her job. She cannot read my mind, she does not know that I know how to operate the equipment. It really does not hurt me to stop my conversation for 30 seconds. And it's simply not a big enough deal to get irritated over -- life's too short.

Why treat FAs like the enemy? Why assume that they are "fucking with you because they can"? Not everyone gets off on these little power trips that you imagine they are having, and perhaps they wouldn't hate you if you weren't so irritable about them doing their jobs or didn't challenge their knowledge of FAA regs.

Can't we all just get along?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Suppose you are on a flight with Mrs. Finch. You and she are chatting and the FA begins her safety features demonstation. You know how to operate the seatbelt, the oxygen mask and you have already located the exits nearest you. As you and the Missus continue to chat, the FA stops her demonstation, taps you on the knee and says "Sir, I really must insist that you pay attention."

When they say "please pay attention", they really mean "shut the fuck up so other people can hear me." Surprisingly, people who don't travel often don't know that stuff, and really do want to hear it.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Hey, the peasants are usually more amusing than the sludge sitting nearby at any table of more than five associates. "Seeeeww, lets talk about that Fluggerbladder case, that's a real humdinger how that agreement fell apart..." Fuck, I'd rather talk music with the dumb young art student who's serving really bad manhattans behind the bar. At least he's not involuntarily celibate, socially maladjusted wallflower or loudmouth jackass mimicking William Buckley (see: Ih8djfkjr).

My mom owned a restaurant when I was in college. She worked 15 hours some days.


Although it was great for me. Making your own free drinks is a wonderful thing. I had so many more friends then...

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm nice to people just to be nice!!!! Not b/c it will possibly come back to haunt me if I'm not!

:angel:

Good boy. But I'm talking to those imaginary friends who aren't currently nice to people. To point out the folly of their Not Niceness, I figured I would appeal to their self-interest.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why treat FAs like the enemy? Why assume that they are "fucking with you because they can"? Not everyone gets off on these little power trips that you imagine they are having, and perhaps they wouldn't hate you if you weren't so irritable about them doing their jobs or didn't challenge their knowledge of FAA regs.

I think you're fucking with BnB just because you can. The fact is, she knows by the tone in the stewardess' (yeah, I said it. Stewardess. I'll say it again.) voice and the look on her face whether or not she was being annoying just because she wanted the rush that comes with exerting some power. She was there, you weren't. I give BnB the benefit of the doubt on this one, because so many flight attendants need their livers removed with a spoon for being bitchy. The fact is, it is their fucking job to be polite. Especially when people are trapped in a plane and at their mercy.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
didn't challenge their knowledge of FAA regs.

You know, their knowledge of only one reg keeps me quiet: interference with a flight crew. Supporting TM's theory, they love to pull that card out right quick, especially in DC. And the results of an arrest for that apparently aren't too pretty, because now it's assumed your a terrorist, apparently, even if your crime was being a surly drunk.