Airplanes

[TheOne]

I feel bad for all of the pilots out there now. What ever happened to good old cockpit entertainment when a group of stewardesses used to come in for an orgy at 35,000 feet and they all used to be hot looking? Tsk, tsk...what has this world come to?!

Hey DM, youre my kind of guy although I don't remember the orgies! I do remember a few airline stederdesses getting me pissed on champagne on a few quite flights and then partying with them in various cites around the world after we landed. I also remember when you could sit up front in the cockpit and watch the landing, although I never took up the opportunity

I was wondering what would happen now if I asked to watch the landing from the cockpit lol

Prob shot he he

 

[drivermaker]

Hey DM, youre my kind of guy although I don't remember the orgies! I do remember a few airline stederdesses getting me pissed on champagne on a few quite flights and then partying with them in various cites around the world after we landed. I also remember when you could sit up front in the cockpit and watch the landing, although I never took up the opportunity

I was wondering what would happen now if I asked to watch the landing from the cockpit lol

Prob shot he he

I knew a group of transatlantic pilots that were avid golfers and they had some GREAT stories of happenings above the clouds in days of yore.

You wouldn't be shot...you'd be skewered like a shishkebob with your smuggled on pool cue that the Marshal found and used on you.

 

[Jude Rosenstock]

I get being upset by 9/11. I'm not a New Yorker and didn't lose anybody in the attack. However, I made it a point to go to New York the following spring and see things, be a tourist and go back to the city unlike some scared people who stayed away. And I am deeply angered by people being killed in the name of envy or irrationality, or some other irrational outlook of whatever sort. I get the security thing. I don't get the stupid rules that have done nothing whatsoever to increase safety. Pool cues on planes is a borderline deal. I can see that one going either way. But it is crazy to give up all our rights and conveniences to stop the last attack. There are infinite ways to attack innocent people. Most of the airline security rules they changed after 9/11 can only annoy the honest traveler and have done nothing to increase our safety. I really really take exception to the last sentence in your post. I don't care how a bunch of scared sheep feel. Whether they feel safe is their own psychological problem. The fact so many in our country cower in fear disappoints me, it is an insult to the founding fathers of this country. I will walk the streets of my country without fearing some nut lurking everywhere. (I do admit most of my walking is done in free states where citizens still enjoy their basic rights like carrying guns so that walking is safer, unlike those in NY ) Safety depends on rationally weighing risks and benefits of a particular policy. If the decision process regarding pool cues were rational, fine. But we know that little old ladies were hassled over a nail clipper while actual terrorists were still allowed to bring lighters for their C-4 on board. They finally got around to limiting lighters which were used in an actual incident, but a nail clipper with a file is ohhh so bad. it is nuts.

You know, every day I walk past a firehouse that lost 12 men in one hour. What you saw was television. It was a news story. You think you have an opinion but you really don't. You can say you do but in the end, even you know your opinion doesn't matter. You think it's unAmerican to live in fear and to create policies dictated by fear? You didn't see 3,000 people die. You didn't have the army at your front door with fighter jets flying overhead. You weren't in the dark for 2 weeks, wondering what was going on outside your bedroom window. You didn't smell the ashes for 3 months. You didn't call friend after friend to see if everyone was okay. You don't know what terrorism is. When you criticize a 9-11 policy, THIS is what you're up against. This is the argument you must overcome. Speaking of "free states" and toting your gun around Main Street isn't going to cut it. You're not even close.

It's a very simple policy and there are very affordable options. You can either check your cue in or you can ship it to your destination. If you and your cue are inseperable, I suggest reassessing what's important in your life. It may be an unnecessary measure, I don't know. What I do know is that it's a small price.

 

[TheOne]

All my mates who live in NYC saw all that and they think its ridiculous too. Don't be so willing to give up too much Jude. BTW they where all Brits and we've been getting bombed by the IRA for years.

But this all seems a little deep for a pool forum!

 

[Jude Rosenstock]

All my mates who live in NYC saw all that and they think its ridiculous too. Don't be so willing to give up too much Jude. BTW they where all Brits and we've been getting bombed by the IRA for years.

But this all seems a little deep for a pool forum!

But that's the thing, I don't think of it as "giving-up" anything. I look at it as RESPECT for others. Dude, I don't think one could subdue a plane with a pool cue but then again, that's not my responsibility. There are others who think so and some who are afraid of such. That's why I don't argue.

 

[Wally in Cincy]

All my mates who live in NYC saw all that and they think its ridiculous too. Don't be so willing to give up too much Jude.

BTW they were all Brits and we've been getting bombed by the IRA for years.

Your mates sound quite brave.

So when will the Brits remove the thousands of cameras that record every move in every major city in the country?

 

[TheOne]

Your mates sound quite brave.

So when will the Brits remove the thousands of cameras that record every move in every major city in the country?

Brave LOL, if you say so. I would have thought you need to be braver to fly with knives than pool cues?

As for the camera's, what a perfect example. Until they where mentioned after the London bombs I can honestly say I never knew about them, and they certainly never changed my life or millions of others. I sure hope they don't start scanning eyes, taking finger prints, removing shoes and belts, frisking old ladies, or god forbid ban pool cues before they let anyone ride the tube! And cosnidering the millions of brits that defied the terrorists and started riding the tube and buses the next day I think I may not be alone.

Sadly we will never be able to make everything safe. If they applied all these airline security measures to the tube or buses (as ridiculous as it sounds) do you think that would help? Or would the terrorists simply blow themselves up in a crowded square or shopping mall? Wouldn't catching/killing the terrorists and resolving some of the issues that cause their hate be better?

 

[landshark77]

I feel bad for all of the pilots out there now. What ever happened to good old cockpit entertainment when a group of stewardesses used to come in for an orgy at 35,000 feet and they all used to be hot looking? Tsk, tsk...what has this world come to?!

And the tables at Dennys are 50 feet from the booths.............