I will be showing them my "eco-friendly" middle finger.

If they gave me a cheap ticket I would stand up for two hours in the back with the stewardesses. Pillows and blankets are for babies.

Next up. $20 for a crap. $5 for a pee.

Maybe I'll buy my own supply and head to LAX and sell 'em for $5.00. Capitalism at its finest.

Anyone who uses an pillow or blanket provided by an airline is asking for trouble. My mother and mother-in-law were flight attendants (my mom for American and wife's mom for Delta), and my grandfather was a pilot for American. None of them would ever touch those things.

Jo,
Is that the middle finger you use to diddle your pussy with?

Who the fuck uses these things anyway?

It's time to bring back passenger trains. Maglev super-fast ones between major cities, and little inter-urbans between all towns with a population of at least 1,000.

ZED

It's time to bring back passenger trains....

I'm with you 100%. I took Amtrack up the coast to Oregon (beautiful trip) and across the U.S. from California to Newark. I love trains. I don't know why they aren't used more often and encouraged as a method of transportion.

Anyone who uses an pillow or blanket provided by an airline is asking for trouble

Yup. Mostly them blankets is used fer drunken sexual fumblings.

Hell, when the food and the movies both suck, getting a quick handjob under a blanket from some drunken chick you'll never meet again might be yer only real entertainment option.

Spud and his GF once tried flying United but the flight attendant kept stopping us.

Wotta bitch!!

Be Well.

With current train technology the trip between San Antonio and Houston could be a little more than an hour.

The Japanese can build efficient, high speed trains, but America can't because the "free market" won't provide it and rightwing fucktards hate public investment.

No, that's the middle finger that indicates your I.Q.

I use the Amtrak every week.

"Next up. $20 for a crap. $5 for a pee."

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Dammit! You beat me to it. I was thinking that there would be an incident with some guy being arrested on a flight for shitting on the floor because he didn't have enough money to pay for the bathroom.

Next up. $20 for a crap. $5 for a pee.

Posted by BlueInBushland

Sorry, but I'd say $100 for a crap. Taking a dump on a plane is horrible, for everyone else on the plane. That raunchy air gets circulated right back into the cabin. Squeeze it out in the terminal before you get on.

As long as the pillow and blanket are new that's maybe not such a bad thing.

As it stands now, the only way I'd use a pillow is for lower back support - I'd not want my face next to who knows what.

"The Japanese can build efficient, high speed trains, but America can't because the "free market" won't provide it and rightwing fucktards hate public investment." - Nulli

Today the JR group is a set of private companies, due to 200 Billion in debt (1987) to the "people", today they are thriving private corporations.

Regardless, local government and environmental concerns get in the way of every new rail system outlined to date. For reference check out BART at the SF airport(three seperate transfers, due local government intervention), or the LA-SFO high speed rail initiative, blocked due to environmental concerns of bird sanctuaries.

Private/Public funding is there its the right of way thats the problem.

Hummers are still what the traffic will bear.

The Japanese system was built by nationalized companies. The French system were built by nationalized companies. Period.

And the Mustang Ranch charges for a Prostitute, even while under Government control, too, what a JOB, literally.

OH, what the hell, comfort costs! At least you get to KEEP the pillow, and what you got at the Ranch, too!

being an internet surfer

i see ads everywhere

and for cheaper tickets

i wouldn't mind ads all over the interior and exterior of the airplane

New a-la-carte Airplane prices:

Boarding airplane: $75.00 (flat rate)
Sitting down: $20.00
Standing up: $10.00
Seat belt Buckled: $7.50 per buckling.
Window seat: $25.00
Aisle Seat: $24.95
Middle Seat: $24.90
Emergency Exit Seat: $50.00
Bathroom use (stand up only): $7.00
Bathroom use (sit down): $10.00
Toilet Paper: $1.00 per square
Water: $3.00 per second of use (metered)
Soap: $3.00 per Tsp.
Glass of soda/water/coffee/juice: $10.00
Cup: $2.00 rental fee, $2.00 disposal fee
Bag of Chips: $8.00 ($2.00 disposal fee for empty bag)
Napkin: Gratis
Barf Bag: $10.00
Sky Mall Magazine ($3.00 en-route rental fee)
Safety Speech from Stewardess: $15.00 (mandatory per FAA regulations)
Air Time: $1.00 per minute in flight
Tarmac/Taxi Time: $1.00 per minute of taxi time.
Pressurized Cabin: $50.00 flat rate
Heat: $5.00 per degree above 32 F.
A/C: $5.00 per degree below 80 F.
Take-off fee: $50.00
Mandatory Landing fee: $35.00
Captain pointing out landmarks to be seen out of window: $5.00 per landmark
Turbulence Fee: $5.00 per small bump, $15.00 per moderate shimmy, $20.00 per severe jostle.
Crash fee: $2,000.00 per crash

So this is what's up, huh? An airline raising prices is what's going on in the world?

. . . . .

Everyone knows the pillows are stuffed with dead Chinese orphan baby hair and the blankets are made from anal hairs harvested from syphyllitic Peruvian llamas.

Maybe we should make the oil companies pay to build up the passenger train system. Oh yea, and make GE supply the trains for free. After-all they make too much money as well.

Anyone who uses an pillow or blanket provided by an airline is asking for trouble. My mother and mother-in-law were flight attendants (my mom for American and wife's mom for Delta), and my grandfather was a pilot for American. None of them would ever touch those things.

This is the first I've heard about unsanitary blankets/pillows. Does this include the ones that come in the semi-sealed plastic bags for international flights or just the ones a flight attendant comes up with upon request for domestic flights?

What's the big deal. If you don't like it just fly first class.

"If you don't like it just fly first class."

OK.
Your credit card details, please.

"It's time to bring back passenger trains. Maglev super-fast ones between major cities, and little inter-urbans between all towns with a population of at least 1,000."

Posted by Zed

Fine. Are you gonna come up with the 100 gazillion dollars to build this system nationwide?

How much do you want to raise taxes to pay for infrastructure and subsidize ridership? Will a 50% tax hike be sufficient?

Oh, the riders will pay entirely for the system? Oh yeah, that'll fly!

Back in the 70s, Governor Lamm of Colorado wanted to revamp/rebuild the rail lines for passenger travel from Cheyenne to Albuquerque. At that time, it was projected to cost a paltry 10 to 20 billion dollars just to get it up and running.

"OK.
Your credit card details, please."

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Get a job dude! Or just vote for Obama. He's going to nationalize the airlines and make air travel free. Another plus is he is going to all solar powered jets.

"The Japanese can build efficient, high speed trains,"

So can the US. Comparing Japan to the US is the proverbial apples to oranges thing. Japan is very densely populated with little room for vast highway systems, few domestic energy resources, and high personal tax rates.

Land area:

Japan - 145,883 miles

US - 3,537,438 miles

Just a bit more ground to cover in the US.

Along the right and left coast of the US where population densities are large, rail travel is quite feasible because ridership would be high and frequent. But what about all those sparsely populated areas across the middle of the US where ridership would be low and far less frequent? Interstate bus lines have already severely cut or completely eliminated bus service to many small towns across the nation because it is simply not profitable. So those people who live in those rural areas who do not have a car or access to one are screwed.

Get a job dude! Or just vote for Obama. He's going to nationalize the airlines and make air travel free. Another plus is he is going to all solar powered jets.

Posted by FreddyK at 2008-08-06 09:04 AM

I thought it was going to be teleporters powered by faerie magic.

On a more serious note, we shot ourselves in the foot when we invested so heavily in highways, transport and travel by rail was pushed to the way-side and now it would be hideously expensive to get an effective rail system up and running. It's too bad that we Americans love our cars so much.

Zot,
I agree completely. Government has been subsidizing rail companies for years so that they'll visit some of the one-stoplight towns in flyover country. Everyone else may as well live in a Medieval hamlet if they don't own a car, because they ain't goin' nowhere by bus or train.

I rarely use that stuff but when I do, I'd rather pay $7 for my own then use a pillow that has been all greased up by someone on a prior flight.

For reference check out BART at the SF airport...
Posted by AndreaMackris

Sorry Andrea, I'm in Texas this week...*grin*

i live in the northeast

train goes from boston to nyc then down to dc

and everywhere in between :-P

sux to be you

There was a proposal some 15 years or so go to have TGV service between Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio. American and Southwest killed that off pretty quick.

I flew to Acapulco, Mexico two weeks ago from Phoenix non stop on US Air in first class. All I got in the way of food was a bag of peanuts for the 4hr+ flight and the only liquor aboard was whisky. They didn't even have any beer.

My return was on AeoMexico and was shocked I got a full meal, plenty to drink and snacks non-stop. Was like night and day. From now on I will always try to find a foreign carrier when making reservations and I am sure I am not the only one. When are the airlines going to wake up and understand that service is expected?

Justin

Try one of those Chinese charter airlines.
They let you bring your luggage aboard, providing it's tied up with string.
And they show Tom & Jerry cartoons in Chinese, non-stop.

Pillows and blankets will cost you but, hey, Cavity Searches are FREE!

Just bring your 9/11 stickers for a free cavity search!

You can have them check you prostrate gland for you while they are down there probing around.