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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Another masterpiece from the Guru. Well done, matey! |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Natalia wrote: |
| But then I suppose unless you're from distant Australia or New Zealand you really can't appreciate just how uncomfortable travelling to other countries can be. |
Yeah, my 20 hours in the air to get here means I am incapable of appreciating just how uncomfortable travelling to other countries can be.  |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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On my honeymoon flight, this guy had taken his shoes off, and I swear to God, the entire zone I was sitting in smelled like his feet. I buried my nose in my husband's shoulder, and the passengers in front of us were turning around to see who it was. Another passenger caught my eye, and she mouthed "It's not me!" and indicated it wasn't her group. After take-off, a flight attendant came by with a deodorizing spray and sprayed the floor. The culprit moved to the last row of the cabin, so we didn't have to deal with his stench anymore.  |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Ah...one more.
If you're seated behind me, please don't grab the back of my headrest and jerk it to pull yourself up.
On a visa run to Osaka some Canidiot did this twice after I politely asked him not to. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| fadedgirl wrote: |
ok gotta say...I'm one of those people who moves her seat back. I have to otherwise, I'm left pressing my face against the freezing cold window, trying to get some sleep.
But that being said...I don't move it ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way back. Just enough wall space so I can prop my head on the side and sleep.
and yes I take my shoes off.
and yes. I get up at least once an hour to walk around the plane otherwise my legs will be killing me (and I have tendonitis under my kneecaps...). |
Umm, maybe you could try an aisle seat?
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
Ah...one more.
If you're seated behind me, please don't grab the back of my headrest and jerk it to pull yourself up.
On a visa run to Osaka some Canidiot did this twice after I politely asked him not to. |
Oo, that too.
OO, I have thought of another
I was on a flight to London via Singapore in the summer and there was a group of Chinese students around around me. The guy infront of me was one of those people who likes to have their chair allllllll the way back and every time he sat down he had to literally jump into his seat which banged his seat into my knees again and again and again. 
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't mind if people put their seats back during a long-haul flight. Hong Kong to Toronto is 17 hours, and they turn all the lights off and close all the windows. But on a flight from Incheon to Narita, you don't need to put your seat back, that I don't get. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when I travelled on an airplane as a kid, I had books, comics, and a gameboy. I was in such a marvel at just looking out the window though.
Last time I flew to Korea there was a family that fell asleep, well, except for their little boys. As father is sleeping (with his seat all the way back) the kids are screaming, running around, and throwing paper and garbage. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| On my honeymoon flight, this guy had taken his shoes off, and I swear to God, the entire zone I was sitting in smelled like his feet. |
This, more than anything else, is what I and probably Seoulsucker are concerned about. I've been on flights like you've described and it's unacceptable. I've been in Korea ages, so it's inevitable that I've also attended apartment parties where someone's foot odour was just rancid. Smelly feet + ondol floors = Gag Concert. In one case it was so bad that I talked with the hosts in their kitchen to see what could be done. (I mean, it's a fucking dinner party, you stinking scumbags!) They didn't dare say anything, so I took it upon myself to go out and tell a crowd of complete strangers (which didn't make it any easier) to make use of the hosts bathroom to wash their feet.  Ungracious as hell, but the prospect of spending several more hours and having a meal(!) in that nasty environment demanded desperate action. I've even had that happen at a house party of my own, too. There of course I knew everyone and could get away with saying whatever I wanted. "If someone doesn't take care, we're moving this party outside! Fvkerz! "
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| I buried my nose in my husband's shoulder, and the passengers in front of us were turning around to see who it was. Another passenger caught my eye, and she mouthed "It's not me!" and indicated it wasn't her group. After take-off, a flight attendant came by with a deodorizing spray and sprayed the floor. The culprit moved to the last row of the cabin, so we didn't have to deal with his stench anymore. |
I say boot his stinking ass out one of the emergency exits "located here, here and here". I was on a bus once in Korea, stuck way in the back, we're packed in like sardines. Traffic was backed up to hell, and we were slowly inching our way over a long, serious hill. This is the highway coming from Gyeonggi-do into Seoul that ends at the Sadang Station intersection.
It's winter, so the heater's on. At one point people start to notice an odd, unpleasant odour coming from who knows where. I'm standing, and this middle-aged coot in the seat beside me keeps staring at me, down at my shoes, back up at me in the most accusatory way possible. Then others start looking around and, of course, they all stare at the one lonely "stinky" waygook on the bus. Geez, the daggers I stared right back at them. I fantasised about bringing my briefcase down upon his ajosshi noggin, then apologising for "losing my balance/grip" 
The smelly, sweaty, jam-packed bus continues chugging up that damned hill at a speed of about two car-lengths per minute, the foul odour is only getting stronger, people keep on staring at me, I'm burning with embarrassment and indignation ("Would you fucking stop looking at me, you turds! It's not from me!") and just basically hating life. I can start to feel right through my shoes & socks that the floor of the bus is getting hotter than it should be from just the heater running. Then all of a sudden, and I mean as if on cue like synchronised swimmers, the row of ajummas sitting in the very back bench and the next-to-the-back seats leap forward en masse, shoving their way toward the front of the bus, screaming. This naturally triggers full-scale panic. Passengers were climbing over seats, over passengers in those seats, clawing their way past, around, under & over _ME!!_ No obstacle was going to slow them down.
Imagine a busload of lazy half-sleeping Koreans one moment, and the next a massive, adrenaline-drenched, fight-or-flight mad scramble for the exit, as if a fucking tiger had bounded onto the bus. I was half trampled. Really scary few moments there. They acted as though the bus was about to explode into flames and we'd all die a grisly death on the Gyeonggi-do/Seoul border. The driver stopped, we all got out and some waited for the next bus. I knew all buses would be filled to the gills, and having just had my daily dose of Third-Worldish pandemonium, I walked the rest of the journey into Seoul. About 30 minutes of slipping on the ice covered footpath.
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
Ah...one more.
If you're seated behind me, please don't grab the back of my headrest and jerk it to pull yourself up.
On a visa run to Osaka some Canidiot did this twice after I politely asked him not to. |
God, I hate that- ppl can use the back of their own seat. I always get my hair pulled that way. Could be worse, though- you could be seated with the bulkhead behind you and unable to recline your seat much. Or some kid kicking the back of your seat.
Guru, good story. What was the deal? The ajummas found a dead body in the back row? |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when I travelled on an airplane as a kid, I had books, comics, and a gameboy. I was in such a marvel at just looking out the window though.
Last time I flew to Korea there was a family that fell asleep, well, except for their little boys. As father is sleeping (with his seat all the way back) the kids are screaming, running around, and throwing paper and garbage. |
I tried to police a kid that was making a ruckus in the cabin once. I did it jokingly, but his mother, who had had her nose buried in a book, totally went off on me. Even after that, she didn't say anything to the kid. A schoolteacher approached me after that and said she deals with parents like that all the time (i.e. parents who don't actively parent/ supervise their kids). She said it was frustrating, and a big problem in the school system (this was on a US flight, btw). |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| Guru, good story. What was the deal? The ajummas found a dead body in the back row? |
The engine (located in the tail) had overheated, and we could see some (though not much) smoke coming from there once we were outside the bus. I would imagine the ajummas in the very back two rows probably got the "hot seat" (literally). Nothing else explains the split-second timing of their simultaneous leaping and scrambling. I'll say it again, it was as though a friggin tiger had leapt into the bus, only the rest of us saw no tiger. Definitely a surreal few moments, being caught up in that mad panic and stampede. I think most of us were about 100x more unnerved by the reaction of those freaked-out ajummas than by any conscious, reasoning assessment of our safety. |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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My biggest pet peeve is when someone is wearing heavy perfume, or worse yet, decides to douse themselves with it on the plane. I hate duty free for that. Gee, thanks, now I get to have a pounding headache for the remaining 8 hours of my flight. 
I have been a bad passenger before though. When Air Canada canceled their meals and wouldn't honour the fact that ours had been purchased before the change, we planned ahead and brought Kimchi. (it was a short flight) |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: |
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the unpleasant dong huffer who shadowed me on my last visa run griping vocally about a crying baby ON A 2 HOUR FLIGHT needed to be shut up with a concrete oral rinse.
he demanded that he be moved to another seat on a crowded plane.
it's a 2 hour flight. it's a baby. babies' ears pop, and they don't know what's going on, therefore they cry. it's not going to stop. be a man and endure the noise, douche. the main thing you're doing by making a scene about something you can't change is proving to the people in your general vicinity that you're a girlboy who makes a scene when he detects a pea under his mattress. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
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I remember when I travelled on an airplane as a kid, I had books, comics, and a gameboy. I was in such a marvel at just looking out the window though.
Last time I flew to Korea there was a family that fell asleep, well, except for their little boys. As father is sleeping (with his seat all the way back) the kids are screaming, running around, and throwing paper and garbage. |
I tried to police a kid that was making a ruckus in the cabin once. I did it jokingly, but his mother, who had had her nose buried in a book, totally went off on me. Even after that, she didn't say anything to the kid. A schoolteacher approached me after that and said she deals with parents like that all the time (i.e. parents who don't actively parent/ supervise their kids). She said it was frustrating, and a big problem in the
school system (this was on a US flight, btw). |
Yup, it's a huge huge problem. My mother is a teacher in Canada..she spends hours and hours with parents telling them to supervise and if they threaten to punish, follow through. Of course, it's easier to do nothing. |
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