what's the deal with guys who insist on sitting with their legs spread far apart even when they're like sitting in coach on an airplane and there's fuck-all leg room in the row?

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see also "racism doesn't exist anymore cuz there's like civil rights now and stuff"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, calling out blatant hyperbole is exactly the same thing as saying that sexism no longer exists. Well done, Marilyn Vos Savant.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno, Jody, tell that to the huge pile of shouty obnoxious bitches who were sitting quite all spread out on the subway last night down to Penn Station...they didn't seem to fear arrest. Unfortunately.

couldn't you just ask the person to move over a bit?

― Allyzay, Monday, 14 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

on a plane? no i couldn't.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, you can, actually.

― Allyzay, Monday, 14 June 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"I realize you're airing your lungnuts, but would you mind terribly removing your knee from my right titteh? Thanx and smooches."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I HATE YOU AIRPLANE PEOPLE! I HATE YOU SO MUCH I AM AN ANGRY BEAR!

http://www.timnortonart.com/paintings/symbolic/angry-bear.jpg

*LIGHTNING!!!

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, shooting lightning out of your mouth is WAY more intrusive than sitting with your legs apart.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.timnortonart.com/paintings/symbolic/escort.jpg

fly Air Glaucoma

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

velvet elvis bear art saves the day once again!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

the best part is that the angry bear picture costs $800! just looking at it is like being pleasured by majestic sloths with fronds in place of their claws

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I want that bear painting to be on the cover of my album someday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i only do this when i am wearing a kilt.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm glad you're not ashamed of your caledonian roots

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

altho judging by the size of your sporran, perhaps you should be

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

caledonian "root"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm often found tossing my caber

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ha ha, or...MASTURBATING!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG this thread reminds me of trying to sit on The Beastie at King's Island on Friday and how my legs are so fucking long the only way I fit in the car was to sit kinda side-saddle with my legs overtop of my son's and even then it hurt like shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

tall people: classic or dud?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yesterday I was sitting cross-legged and some girl was like "isn't it crushing your balls to sit like that?" and I realized, why yes, yes it was crushing my balls to sit like that, ow.

x-post TALL PEOPLE CLASSIC WORLD BUILT FOR HOBBITS DUD

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, one of the side-effects of my immaculate posture is that I have learned to manage legroom in awkward settings very well; ie not nutbreathing & invading the legroom of others with my infinite chicken legs.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

However, this requires no slouching/leaning on my part and thus most people confuse me with someone who is far less of a slacker than I am.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

nutbreathing!!!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe airlines should consider supplying a belt at magazine/sick bag holder level that could be strapped around male/female splayers knees by a dominatrix-type cabin crew member?

― penelope_111, Monday, 14 June 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It sucks when my short friends call shotgun and I'm like "Yo b, I got longass legs!"

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Kate! with broken electronics, dirty drone rock boys can get SICK DELAY.

I know people who use VCR parts as tape delay!

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yesterday I was sitting cross-legged and some girl was like "isn't it crushing your balls to sit like that?"

Ha... I like the anonymity of "some girl." I'm assuming it wasn't a stranger who just happened upon you sitting cross-legged.

xpost Jon VCRs make really badass tape delays if you have the equipment to splice and two VCRs to mangle (so you can get another play head in there after the record head).

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Are there plans for building tape delays from VCRs anywhere???

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Any time! *stretches out, gets comfortable*

Air travel is horrible enough without clods like this making it worse. If you need the extra leg room then pay for a business class or better ticket

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

On airplanes I am more bothered by the loudly-mouthbreathing smells-of-old-meat stinkers than any other kind of person.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

People with little kids who let them run around and kick seats and scream, etc. are the ones I want to be banished from air travel.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry about the OT interruption...

Are there plans for building tape delays from VCRs anywhere???

I dunno of any on the net. I suppose you could try googlin' about (tho my cursory glance at a search on "tape delay" AND "vcr" didn't find anything really). I made mine with three old VCRs (only one of which worked) and the guts from an old Boss CE-1 (cause I put a switched chorus effect on one of the delays). I originally built it to use with guitar, but I've since used it most recording vocals or just to make normal sounds into hard-to-recognize noise.

Mine's completely mechanical... like the longest delay I can get out of it is a function of how far away I can move the heads down the tape path.

Hm. Maybe I should start selling the random shit I build.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: Paying $400 more for a plane ticket vs Annoying brittle people

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

You guys are humongous assholes. My sensibilities have been seriously offended by the motivation behind this thread. SOME GUYS HAPPEN TO HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH MEATY SUCCULENT THIGHS, BIG ASSES, AND YES...
LUNGS FOR SACKS WITH A NEED TO BREATHE.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

You must be this portly to ride the Redeye

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Bwahaha it's LEGZ AKIMBO:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/going_out/images/log270.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: Paying $400 more for a plane ticket vs Annoying brittle people

Pay the money, otherwise leave my personal space alone

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Ask to be seated next to a woman next time? I do try to stipulate 'no fat businessmen' when I fly and it works, especially if asking a camper steward.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I am torn sometimes between the feeling that everyone should be treated as equal on a plane and the feeling that people should be charged based on the amount of room they will take up.

Cause if you pay the same amount as the guy next to you, and then he takes up an extra inch of your already small seat, that doesn't really make sense. At least on the subway we're not talking about the same kind of fare to ride.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

also, armrests between the window seat and the window: why? they just make it worse.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

They need somewhere to put that little button for tilting the seat back.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

erm, so you'll have someplace to rest your arm?

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

why the fuck do i need to "rest my arm"?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"i just flew in from _______ and boy are my arms tired" joke to thread!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

without arm rests i'd go mad i think. and it's where your joypad is stashed innit.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

at the very least the armrest should be adjustable so i can put it up and have the two extra inches if senor lungballz is getting all up in my shit.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

don't even get me started on people who put their seats all the way back

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

because where the fuck else would it go!!! would you rather it floated in limbo for a five-hour flight?? do you want to do that thing where your arm divots into your lap so it looks like you're reaching into your crotch for loose change/assorted bricabracs?? NO FUCKING WAY DO YOU WANT THAT!!

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

grumble ingrates argle bargle

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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