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I would say like 99% of my plane rides have been enjoyable. I am having a hard time remembering a bad experience, and I've flown upwards of 30 times in my life. If you go into a flight thinking it will suck it will suck. If you go into it thinking it will be a good time to read a book or watch a movie or whatever while a chauffeur takes you to your destination then you'll probably have a good time.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:36
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I admit to have never flown more than 3-4 hours at a time, but why would you ever get on a plane without your own food? I always have a few granola/nut bars in my carryon bag and you can bet if I was flying longer than 8 hours I'd have at least one sandwich in my bag even I had to buy it at the airport.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:38
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TMMadman posted:I admit to have never flown more than 3-4 hours at a time, but why would you ever get on a plane without your own food? I always have a few granola/nut bars in my carryon bag and you can bet if I was flying longer than 8 hours I'd have at least one sandwich in my bag even I had to buy it at the airport. Yeah the only thing you can't bring onto the flight is your own drink from home but you can buy one at the air port. I always figured if terrorists really wanted to it probably wouldn't be hard to get a job at the McDonald's at the airport and smuggle poo poo in. I bet they don't check the bags of the employees at the air port
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Oct 28, 2015 16:45
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TMMadman posted:I admit to have never flown more than 3-4 hours at a time, but why would you ever get on a plane without your own food? I always have a few granola/nut bars in my carryon bag and you can bet if I was flying longer than 8 hours I'd have at least one sandwich in my bag even I had to buy it at the airport. Personally, I don't understand the idea of having food and waiting for later, which is why I have already eaten lunch today.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:45
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Magnus Gallant posted:Yeah the only thing you can't bring onto the flight is your own drink from home but you can buy one at the air port. They do.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:46
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CCKeane posted:They do. How do you know? DO YOU WORK AT AN AIRPORT?? I DONT THINK SO. Anyways they dont check jack poo poo on trains, at least every train I've ridden down here in NC. So trains are very easy to target if you wanted to.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:48
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In Mongolia I stayed in the yurts of nomadic families who herded goats, horses, sheep, or yaks to survive out on the steppe. They had no running water or toilets. They drank fermented mare's milk from a leather bag hanging by the doorway. I ate boiled sheep lungs with them from a huge pot over the stove in the middle of the yurt, which was fired with dried dung. They were happy to have me as their guest for the night for the huge sum, for them, of $10. They will probably never fly in an airplane at all, but they seemed like happy, uncomplaining people, living in natural beauty and peace, tending their flocks, raising their children, and rich in ways other than money. I appreciated the opportunity to share their way of life while I was there. When I fly, I appreciate the marvel of being able to fly through they sky in a metal box, to arrive far away in a matter of hours, being offered fizzy sugary drinks and salty snacks, with music and tv at my fingertips. They even have flushing toilets, running water, and air conditioning on those things!
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Oct 28, 2015 16:49
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Magnus Gallant posted:How do you know? DO YOU WORK AT AN AIRPORT?? I DONT THINK SO. Yes, I have worked in an airport for a job.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:49
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CCKeane posted:Yes, I have worked in an airport for a job. Do they check all the hamburgers and ingredients?
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Oct 28, 2015 16:51
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I am worried that it's not real beef they're using.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:53
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Magnus Gallant posted:Do they check all the hamburgers and ingredients? I'm not going to get into details relating to airport security, so feel free to think you've outwitted everyone as much as you want.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:53
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > Mafia Discussion Thread - Play with the NSA!
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Oct 28, 2015 16:56
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Instead of air travel, I will tell you all about my most unique boat trip. A few years ago my family had taken a ferry from Marco Island to Key West for a day of fun. The 3.5 hour trip there passed with no issues as people were having fun and looking forward to a day spent drinking in the sun. The fun part was the return trip as pretty much everyone on the boat except for mine and one other family were pretty well plastered and most of them went to the upper deck to keep drinking. Unfortunately the weather had turned a bit windy and we were heading straight into it. So what should have been an easy 3.5 hour trip turned into something like 5 hours of up and down action plus some side to side rolling. Every on the ship got sick except for my family (although my mom had to focus on her portable DVD player) while my dad and I laughed while listening to 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. I don't know what exactly happened on the upper deck but apparently it involved a lot of vomit.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:57
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I believe if someone is determined enough to do something they'll find a way
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Oct 28, 2015 16:58
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One time, out in Hawaii, I went on a boat ride with a few strangers. It was only supposed to be for a few hours, but the boat crashed and we ended up on an island for a long time. It was pretty brutal, I was able to use a lot of my engineering/chemistry knowledge to build some devices, but I wasn't able to build a raft because I skipped all my naval engineering classes at school. Managed to hook up with a movie star though, that was pretty cool.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:02
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CCKeane posted:One time, out in Hawaii, I went on a boat ride with a few strangers. It was only supposed to be for a few hours, but the boat crashed and we ended up on an island for a long time. It was pretty brutal, I was able to use a lot of my engineering/chemistry knowledge to build some devices, but I wasn't able to build a raft because I skipped all my naval engineering classes at school. Was it supposed to be only 3 hours?
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Oct 28, 2015 17:03
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CCKeane posted:One time, out in Hawaii, I went on a boat ride with a few strangers. It was only supposed to be for a few hours, but the boat crashed and we ended up on an island for a long time. It was pretty brutal, I was able to use a lot of my engineering/chemistry knowledge to build some devices, but I wasn't able to build a raft because I skipped all my naval engineering classes at school. Did you eat the rich?
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Oct 28, 2015 17:03
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TMMadman posted:Instead of air travel, I will tell you all about my most unique boat trip. A few years ago my family had taken a ferry from Marco Island to Key West for a day of fun. The 3.5 hour trip there passed with no issues as people were having fun and looking forward to a day spent drinking in the sun. I've only ever been on small ferries or little riverboat tourist things. I've been on the maid of the mist at Niagara Falls several times. I have no unique boat stories because those are all short and very routine.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:04
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Magnus Gallant posted:Was it supposed to be only 3 hours? It was advertised as 270 minutes.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:05
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Oh, I don't know if this is a unique boat trip story, but it is a boat and plane story and is something I have experienced many times. In Toronto there is an airport downtown on an island in Lake Ontario and for the longest time the only way to get to the island was this little ferry that is one of the shortest ferry rides in the world and so drat pointless. It takes 90 seconds to cross the little bit of water from dock to dock. It takes 15 minutes for it to arrive, everyone to get off and on (cars too), go across the water, empty and fill on the other side and come back. They finally, just 2 months ago, finished building a pedestrian tunnel to the airport.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:10
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While in high school, I lived in Germany because my father was stationed there. This afforded me additional opportunities to travel around Europe, especially in conjunction with my studies. During an Art History course, we went down to Florence via train. I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but my passport became misplaced on the way down there, which I didn't realize until I was unpacking. Being a teenager and even more full of myself back then, I simply proceeded with an air of confidence and ease, not caring that my lack of passport could cause me serious issues if I was caught by any government forces. And indeed, everything seemed to be doing well, until I was caught up in the middle of a riot protesting all of the tourists coming to Florence and damaging the objet d'art. I managed to sneak into a side building and wait out the worst of things, and avoid the police. Which of course may well have inspired an idea for the return trip. I hadn't really been thinking about the return trip until I got back onto the train, but what I did was wait for the passport folks to get close to my cabin, before sneaking out and locking myself in the bathroom. Since Italy and Germany are both in the EU, border security is relatively minimal between the two countries, so I was able to make with my autosmuggling with success. A few months later, my passport was mailed to where I was currently living. I assumed that the train personnel found it on the train that I took down, and were able to find my current address from the information within.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:12
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I like the ferry at Toronto island v vIt must be really nice to travel to a different country. I've been meaning to take a bus trip to new york but haven't been able to yet, so I have my sights set on next summer!
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Oct 28, 2015 17:19
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How the gently caress did I miss page 420
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Oct 28, 2015 17:56
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BottleKnight posted:How the gently caress did I miss page 420 Because you got high Because you got high Because you got high BottleKnight if you were alive in the early aughts you would have appreciated that joke.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:59
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CCKeane posted:Because you got high I feel obligated to tell you I got the joke because I really am young enough to put your toddler jokes in a kind of twilight zone.
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Oct 28, 2015 18:01
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BottleKnight posted:I feel obligated to tell you I got the joke because I really am young enough to put your toddler jokes in a kind of twilight zone. What does that mean? Either way it's a lyric from a woman abusing rap musician. And as such should never be uttered ever
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Oct 28, 2015 18:04
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BottleKnight posted:I feel obligated to tell you I got the joke because I really am young enough to put your toddler jokes in a kind of twilight zone. Hopefully it will be that twilight zone without dialogue.
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Oct 28, 2015 18:07
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BottleKnight posted:I feel obligated to tell you I got the joke because I really am young enough to put your toddler jokes in a kind of twilight zone. WHEN THE BULLET HITS THE BONE
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Oct 28, 2015 18:23
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CCKeane posted:Hopefully it will be that twilight zone without dialogue. 
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Oct 28, 2015 18:24
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What's the point of life? I have a hard time seeing any real point in anything. What do you guys think? What's the meaning of life
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Oct 28, 2015 19:31
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I lived in Moscow, Russia for three years and as part of the deal between my parents for me moving out there, I flew back to visit my dad in Michigan five times a year, yes five times round trip. Crossing the ocean was about 9 hours and then whatever connection I had added 3-4 hours to that. Luckily it was during the Golden Age of Game Boy Color and Pokemon so I brought plenty of batteries and a book or two. I actually really like flying nowadays, it gives me a chance to catch up on my reading. I hate the airports but my coping mechanism is to get loaded before I go on any flight longer than 3 hours.
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Oct 28, 2015 19:31
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Magnus Gallant posted:What's the point of life? I have a hard time seeing any real point in anything. What you make it bb
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Oct 28, 2015 19:36
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Magnus Gallant posted:What's the point of life? I have a hard time seeing any real point in anything. Right now I'm not sure there is one
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Oct 28, 2015 19:37
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I mean a lot of people gain a sense of purpose from their children but those feelings are just evolutionary traits based on making sure the human race survives. Humans actively destroy the environment, and kill animals for no reason. Why should we continue to exist.
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Oct 28, 2015 19:41
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Magnus Gallant posted:What's the point of life? I have a hard time seeing any real point in anything. Connections, bonds. With people with places, it doesn't matter. They are what you leave behind, they are what you take with you. They are your legacy.
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Oct 28, 2015 19:45
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There is no reason other than an instinctual desire. It's all random anyway
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Oct 28, 2015 19:47
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Magnus Gallant posted:What's the point of life? I have a hard time seeing any real point in anything. I mostly see my life purpose as causing mischief and tomfoolery. I hope I meet a genie who grants me wishes so I can use my first wish on "I wish you wouldn't grant me this wish"
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For example I will now "troll" this thread by pointing out that sports are good.
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