I fly regularly and the thing that makes me giggle the most is the moment the plane has landed and the seat-belt sign goes out... *ping* it then becomes a race to be stood up first. The best bit is those who are not on an end seat and they stand there in the middle seat, stood up but not being able to stand straight due to the overhead lockers. Then you can look back down the plane and see herds and herds of people stood uncomfortably for quite a few minutes while the steps or the landing thingy are brought up to the plane, the safety checked and then the doors opened. If I am on an aisle seat, I stay seated until the people about 2 rows in front start to move forward and then I just stand up in the aisle get my bag from the locker and move down to the door. I get off at the same time as the people around me who have been standing for 10 minutes. People are odd.
Bit of an overreaction to some harmless choking. What about the ones that jump up while the plane is still taxi-ing down the runway? Nutters the lot of them.
If I do that it's not because I'm trying to gain a place in the queue off the plane, or that I'm expecting those between me and the aisle to stand up and get on with it because I have. It's because I just want to stand as I've been sat down for hours and I'm quite content to just stand hobbled over until I can walk. I am odd though, can't disagree with that.
Same on the IOW ferry (and I am not blameless)....the Captain says please stay seated until we are secured alongside....this is strangely heard as stand up and shuffle so close to the doors that staff can hardly move.
Yes, well along with the safety to passengers aspect, that many people moving to one side of the ship can actually change the trim and balance of the vessel. I expect the Captain knows very well how to position the ferry even with the trim changing as he does it. He'd just like an easier day and not find that someone is holding him responsible for them getting hurt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34592937 Nottingham offer the use of their bell sound after news that Big Ben may be silenced by the need for £40 million repair (presumably not just the bell). My guess....they will use a recording of Big Ben in the interim. Thanks anyway, Nottingham.
The people who piss me off are the ones who get up and down like a yo yo to their case in the overhead without actually doing anything but annoy other passengers. On one flight to Malaga one woman must have gone to her case 5 times during a two hour flight ggggrrrrr
Building Cars Live was very interesting indeed and James May was an excellent presenter for the show. Right up his street, one might say. There was a bloke called Ant and Kate Humble with her stat cat to voc cal del liv ery. I'm afraid that annoys the hell out of me. I understand it was a reaction to her being very nervous when she first started presenting, but she's an old hand these days so stop doing it please I particularly liked the attention to detail and quality that is applied to the vehicles and was rather surprised to find that every single car is subject to such tests and checks. The use of computers to control machinery has meant that once an expert has programmed the computerised machinery, that particular process will reproduce a part to the same standard every single time, be it a door or an electronic fuel injection nozzle. Repeatable high quality throughout the vehicle for a mass produced price. A total impossibility as little as 20 years ago [or Vauxhalls to this day ]
A revived and re-named version of the hugely-controversial “Snoopers’ Charter” is set to give spies a “dizzying” range of surveillance and hacking powers, The Times has reported. The new legislation will be introduced next month, the paper reported. The new powers will please MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, which have said in the past that they lack the powers to be able to protect the country against threats. But they are likely to anger privacy campaigners, many of whom united to defeat the Snoopers’ Charter when it was first presented. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-introduced-in-the-coming-weeks-a6702301.html Lapras must be worried....
