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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: Asiana flight pics 'n stuff... |
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...I was in kindova bad mood 'cause neither the travel agent nor the Asiana ticket clerk noted my requests for a vegetarian meal, and I hadn't eaten all day. I also couldn't get an aisle or window seat and was situated between two rather hefty middle-aged Chinese ladies...The thirteen hour trip to JFK seemed like it'd be a grim ordeal...
I thought I'd better try to sleep through it as much as possible so I put on my blindfold, ear plugs, and air-pillow...As soon as I started to doze off there was an announcement that there'd be a traditional Korean fashion show put on by the flight attendants and that passengers were welcome to photograph them. I groggily took off my blindfold and thought about trying to reach my digital camera in my computer bag tucked away beneath the seat in front of me. Everyone was enthused, and flashbulbs were going off all over the cabin, but by the time I got my camera out the whole thing was gone (or so I half-sleepingly thought...)
After I put away my camera with some difficulty (bad back) and got my blindfold back on, the jovial Chinese lady to my right nudged me and indicated that they were coming back again. I frantically got my camera out, but I had trouble getting a decent shot - I must have taken at least five bad shots (mostly just windows) in a row - and they were gone again... Of course, I stupidly put my camera away again - and once again they came a few minutes later down one of the aisles - I had the Chinese ladies laughing hysterically at my photo-taking futility, but somehow I managed to get a few decent pics:
The following photo should dispel any notions about my being/looking weird:
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Jensen
Joined: 30 Mar 2003
Location: hippie hell
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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That's kind of...dif'rnt. 
I haven't ever seen the type of clothing the lady in white, top two pics, is wearing. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Haven't ya ever seen any Klan (KKK) rallies?  |
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Rteacher
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Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:57 am Post subject: |
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Well, those were the Asiana flight pictures. Here's the "'n stuff" part: A few bad photos of some of my older artwork displayed (or stashed behind a sofa...) at my aunt's house (I don't leave too much stuff at my parents' house 'cause my mother tends to throw it out or sell it dirt cheap at her garage sales...)
This one is a drawing circa 1972 which I signed "El Bizarro". The top two were done in the mid-90s. The first one is mixed-media affixed to a large mirror... |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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That's pretty decent artwork there Rteacher-you've got some talent-but then I like Salvador Dali so what do I know?
Now as far as the pic of the guy sleeping with the glasses over top of the eye shades-that's pure genius. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Er, yeah, he is (... I knew I must have looked freaky with all that paraphernalia so I blindly took my own ugly picture at close range - and the flash penetrated the blindfold - temperarily blinding me even more...)Upon close inspection, that's also me in the green sweater standing near the flight attendants...
On a totally unrelated note (relating to your avatar) I used to regularly play poker every week in high school with my Jewish friends (I was the only "gentile" in the group - though occasionally there was a swatza looking for some matza...) I used to almost always lose - I think mainly because (in five-card draw) everyone with good vision could see my hand reflected off my thick glasses... |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Asiana flight pics 'n stuff... |
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[quote="Rteacher]and was situated between two rather hefty middle-aged Chinese ladies...The thirteen hour trip to JFK seemed like it'd be a grim ordeal...[/quote]
Nice pictures. About this quote, I have noticed that whenever I fly asiana, I am always next to another foreigner as well, even when the plan is 90% filled with the local nationals. I wonder if that is their policy to stick the foreigners together? |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Asiana flight pics 'n stuff... |
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| I wonder if that is their policy to stick the foreigners together? |
Air NZ sticks to its child seating policy
27 February 2006
Air New Zealand is not backing down from a ban on seating unaccompanied children next to male passengers on flights, despite an official complaint by National Party political correctness spokesman Wayne Mapp.
He has filed a formal submission to the Human Rights Commission against the policy, which is used by both Qantas and Air New Zealand.
The submission comes three months after revelations that an Auckland man was asked to change seats with a woman passenger on a Qantas flight from Christchurch to Auckland to ensure he did not sit next to an unaccompanied child.
The commission has received 30 complaints since and is still trying to set up a mediation process to deal with them.
However, Air New Zealand spokesman Mike Tod said yesterday that the airline had not changed its policy since the issue hit the headlines.
Dr Mapp said: "The Air New Zealand/Qantas decision not to seat unaccompanied children beside male passengers is a breach of both the fundamental principles or our democracy and the Human Rights Act.
"The basis for this policy is that men are a greater risk to children than women."
Neither Air New Zealand nor Qantas have been able to point to a case where a man did something harmful to an unaccompanied child on an aircraft.
The heart of New Zealand's anti-discrimination law was that men and women had equal rights and were entitled to equal treatment, Dr Mapp said. The airlines had breached these fundamental principles by treating men and women differently on the basis of sex.
The airlines could not make this policy on the basis of greater risk.
"It would be wrong, for instance, for an airline to have a policy not to seat children beside young Maori men on the basis of the higher crime rate of young Maori men, compared to the general population. No airline would even think of having such a policy. They would know it would be both morally and legally wrong," he said.
Parents had a right to have their children seated where they could be safely monitored and protected, but had no more right to insist that a child not be seated next to a man than they would if they asked the airline not to seat their child next to a European or Christian.
Airlines had a duty to provide a safe environment for all their passengers, Dr Mapp said.
This duty was greater with regard to children as they were more vulnerable and needed greater supervision.
"Clearly they need to be seated where they can be more easily monitored by airline staff."
But airlines had a duty to manage seating arrangements for children without discriminating on the basis of sex, he said. The airlines had yet to justify their policies.
A spokesman for the commission said it was still trying to identify the best process for setting up a mediation involving all the parties. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: |
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If that's the case with Asiana, part of the rationale may be to improve efficiency in passing out immigration forms, etc. (just a guess...) Compared to American airline flight attendants, the Asiana staff is way more helpful, friendly and attentive to detail, I think...
As far as some airlines discriminatory policy with respect to seating male adult passengers next to kids, it would make more sense - based on frequent news reports - not to let American women teachers sit next to adolescent boys... |
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Rteacher
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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I somehow came across this photo of what Southwest Airlines flight attendants looked like in the '70s:
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Jensen
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ...Klan.. |
That's one thing that really bothers me about the KKK, having to look around through those little eye-holes when I'm burning crosses. And the white is soooo hard to keep clean... |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I somehow came across this photo of what Southwest Airlines flight attendants looked like in the '70s:
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A long time ago Braniff airlines that would run ads with some fat slob business man being pampered by sky hookers/stewardesses. The throw line was "Does your wife know you're flying with us?"
This was back in the day when only the top crust could afford to fly. Flying was an event. You wore a suit, even for economy class.
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| "They stole more husbands," remembers a Dallas society matron. "Braniff stewardesses were the original trophy wives. It didn't start in the 1980s, it started with Braniff. That's when I stopped wearing Pucci." (This woman held onto her husband.) Mary Wells herself became a second wife, marrying none other than Braniff president Harding Lawrence in 1967. Braniff was based in Love Field in more ways than one. |
Someone did a study and a large and disproportionate number of world leaders had wives who were ex stewardesses. |
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Rteacher
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Dang, there's a lot of source material available. This photo of a stewardess class from 1969 indicates that obesity was not the national problem it is now - or at least that no fat chicks were hired by airlines...
This circa 1972 photo - judging by the hats and hairdos - may be of flight attendants from an alien spacecraft:
http://www.jetpsa.com/stewgrad/stewgrad.html
(Who says all my posts are about religion?...) |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
I somehow came across this photo of what Southwest Airlines flight attendants looked like in the '70s:
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A long time ago Braniff airlines that would run ads with some fat slob business man being pampered by sky hookers/stewardesses. The throw line was "Does your wife know you're flying with us?"
This was back in the day when only the top crust could afford to fly. Flying was an event. You wore a suit, even for economy class.
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| "They stole more husbands," remembers a Dallas society matron. "Braniff stewardesses were the original trophy wives. It didn't start in the 1980s, it started with Braniff. That's when I stopped wearing Pucci." (This woman held onto her husband.) Mary Wells herself became a second wife, marrying none other than Braniff president Harding Lawrence in 1967. Braniff was based in Love Field in more ways than one. |
Someone did a study and a large and disproportionate number of world leaders had wives who were ex stewardesses. |
I remember those days well--flying in and out of Love Field. That was when flight attendants were stewardesses and they were good looking.
Nowadays I'd have to rate the girls on Cubana airlines as the hottest. However, there is a drawback--they use old Russian planes you have to duck to get in and they reportedly have the worst safety record of any airline in the world. But nobody knows for sure as they don't make their records public. It's a scary flight from Nassau to Havana but the Havana Club rum freely flows and, like I said, the Cubana babes are unreal. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Is it just me, or does RTeacher not look A LOT like Jeffrey Tambor?
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