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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.philosophy
Subject: Re: On the indignity of flying.
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:47:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-11, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> As regular readers of my posts know, I had the unpleasant opportunity 
> to fly with ryanair, back to my refuge from the wokeness of western 
> europe.

RyanAir is truly one of the world's worst airlines. With Spirit Air in
the US doing their best to emulate them.

As a libertarian, you should hate them even more, because they do their
very best to milk government subsidies; they like to fly in and out of
tiny regional airports attracted there by regional development agencies
that want to bost that they village airport has international airline
service.

> There was one saving grace... a very beautiful female flight attendant who 
> let me sit next to my wife, so she could decrease my suffering. Before 
> landing she shooed me away so as not to affect the balance of the 737 
> (BS!) and I said that of course I have to take my bag and coat so as not 
> to "affect the balance" or else I would be afraid of the plane crashing.
>
> To my great surprise she smiled at my joke, and said, "well, I don't think 
> it would be that serious".

I suspect the weight of your body is more that the weight of you bag and
coat, so there may have been some rational thought in her answer, too.