Higgs wrote:I never recline my seat but I always pay for extra leg room seats. Just did that very thing for my flights tomorrow and Friday in fact.
This is the move, but obviously not affordable for everyone
I once watched a video that showed you were statistically more likely to survive a plane crash if you were within 6 rows of the emergency exits. I always choose the over wing exit seats and so figure I'll give myself the best chance of survival in the event of the plane plummeting to the earth in a fiery heap of twisted, screaming metal.
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Those seats often cost extra, and are not an option if you’re with a minor.
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Those seats often cost extra, and are not an option if you’re with a minor.
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Those seats often cost extra, and are not an option if you’re with a minor.
Also the supply is limited.
Short person logic is so flawed and amusing, isn’t it?
If given the opportunity, would you pay for two seats (your seat and the empty seat in front of you) if they were able to remove the empty in front of you for the duration of your flight?
bodysnatcher wrote:If given the opportunity, would you pay for two seats (your seat and the empty seat in front of you) if they were able to remove the empty in front of you for the duration of your flight?
What about just the back of the seat , so I could put my feet up?
It depends on the airline. I'm also tall and a reclined seat makes me feel crowded, but it rarely actually touches my knees/legs. I just go into any flight knowing I will be uncomfortable for a few hours regardless.
wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Those seats often cost extra, and are not an option if you’re with a minor.
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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wease wrote:I always recline. Sitting straight up kills my lower back. But I’ve never been in any plane seat that reclined any more than, what, 2 inches? It’s not like my head is in the lap of the person behind me.
It makes a big difference in leg room to tall people (see Ruddo’s post). And tall people should come first at every turn, as we’re superior organisms who simply choose not to rule those shorter than us. Don’t give us a reason.
Fuck tall people. They can get the seats next to the emergency doors
Those seats often cost extra, and are not an option if you’re with a minor.
