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I've sorted out my entertainment for the long flight - why can't you do the same?
I think he has sorted out his entertainment for the flight. He'd like to watch some films as part of the service he has paid for.
I think he has sorted out his entertainment for the flight. He'd like to watch some films as part of the service he has paid for.
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Pan pan i can see your point of view totally, but when someone sitting next to you decides they would like a chat, is it not rude not to converse with that person even to say to them "I'm sorry i really don't feel like talking" but I am one that is happy to talk to someone even if I am on a business trip. That does not mean I want to do anything other than just answer the question. None of the cabin crew i have ever come across, I have never made them feel that I am winging and they would not make you feel like you are. I have customer service training as all do in this industry when confronted by a customer "they are always right" regardless of what you think inside, I would never put any cabin crew member down they do amazing jobs, I used to seal them up in their tubes enough times with nasty pax to know that!
I was just saying that if the IFE was not working there are loads of other things you can do on a long haul flight to while the time away and yes if it means sleeping with your socks off then why not
that is why BA and others have their cots.
TnT
I was just saying that if the IFE was not working there are loads of other things you can do on a long haul flight to while the time away and yes if it means sleeping with your socks off then why not
that is why BA and others have their cots.TnT
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Well, I have just had a written apology from BA and as a "gesture of goodwill" they have given me 20,000 airmiles..
Can't grumble, but earlier poster's point remains valid, airmiles are fine, but will the IFE work next time??
Can't grumble, but earlier poster's point remains valid, airmiles are fine, but will the IFE work next time??
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Hey Radar, do Jasper Carrott's words go through your mind ....
When the nutter gets on the bus, why does the nutter always sit next to me?
I was on the bus the other day and I could hear this nutter getting on behind me. I can tell he's a nutter because he's calling out...
'Eeek! Has anyone seen my camel!!?'
And everyone on the bus is praying quietly ‘Please God don’t let the nutter sit next to me. I’ll do anything you want but please don’t let the nutter sit next to me’
Nutters love showing you things, "I've got an atom bomb in here!"
And he shows me a corned beef tin ...
Well once you've got the nutter everyone else can enjoy it...
Cheers
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I was on the bus the other day and I could hear this nutter getting on behind me. I can tell he's a nutter because he's calling out...
'Eeek! Has anyone seen my camel!!?'
And everyone on the bus is praying quietly ‘Please God don’t let the nutter sit next to me. I’ll do anything you want but please don’t let the nutter sit next to me’
Nutters love showing you things, "I've got an atom bomb in here!"
And he shows me a corned beef tin ...
Well once you've got the nutter everyone else can enjoy it...
Cheers
Whirls
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Well Whirls they do not let nutters on planes you should know that, they get stopped at reception and not boarded if they are a danger or threat to pax or crews.
So your point is?
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So your point is?
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My point is ... a joke between Radar and myself. I'm sorry if you think there's any more to it.
Cheers
Whirls
Cheers
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I don't think there is anything more in it but it is a bit derogatory to anyone who has been on a plane when there is a pax unfortunatley with a condition such as turrets or something else that others may deem as being a "nutter"
that is and was all I was highlighting in this instance. I just thought it was a little inappropriate to make an inhouse joke on here when you can send a pm to the person.
it also is a deviant away from the IFE problem this thread is about
TnT
that is and was all I was highlighting in this instance. I just thought it was a little inappropriate to make an inhouse joke on here when you can send a pm to the person.
it also is a deviant away from the IFE problem this thread is about
TnT
Last edited by tall and tasty; 3rd Sep 2007 at 16:22.
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Yes well and goodness me! No sane person would reasonably suggest that Tourette's syndrome could possibly form any part of in flight entertainment, however amusing the language or chattering being bandied about. Nonetheless, the title of this thread is 'in flight entertainment' and thus, by extension, any form of amusement that whiles away the long hours in the aluminium tube, perhaps composite these days, is presumably open for discussion? I would suggest that there is much further scope here for the discussion of amusing airborne pastimes than simply a broken IFE?
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Turrets syndrome?? Is that where they attach the inner tube from kitchen foil to their face and spin their heads around yelling "Digga Digga Digga" in a machine gun like fashion? That would be dashed good IFE.
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One the subject of extended in flight entertainment then, shall we move on a little.
A great friend of mine, not me by the way, was flying from London to Bangkok not so very long ago. He happens to be vertically gifted and was not terribly amused to find himself seated in the middle of the middle row. He was even less amused when a rather shaky shaker festooned with ear rings came and sat down on his left and no sooner airborne than secretively into his duty free. This guy was a one sided conversationalist and began forthwith to bludgeon my friend with the details of what he proposed to do with and to all sorts of Thai girls upon arrival in the less savoury fleshpots for which those Siamese sirens are renowned. My friend, being by now driven almost to distraction by the chimpanzee chattering on his left managed, when a suitable toilet stop was required by his tormentor, to slip a Mickey Finn into his drink. Two Valium tablets, 20mgs in total! After all, the chap was young and as well as evidentiary proof of alcohol addiction had already admitted to more than a passing friendship with drugs, so he was used to the stuff.
Nine hours or so of blissful quiet ensued as the irritant factor snoozed his way through the skies only to surface on finals into Bangkok with a querulous demand for information as to his whereabouts.
Now of course, there may be some who do not approve of this sort of course of action. But for certain, there will be many who have been there who do. I should just point out that Valium tablets may be purchased across the counter at almost any Portuguese pharmacy, although these days the pharmacists are not too keen to distribute the 10mg tablets unless you are known to them.
Toodle pip. Happy dreams.
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Turrets syndrome?? Is that where they attach the inner tube from kitchen foil to their face and spin their heads around yelling "Digga Digga Digga" in a machine gun like fashion? That would be dashed good IFE.
Now a can of worms is about to be unleashed
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I'm disabled and I've amused people with my disability.... 
anyway...
ON THREAD
Yes, of course you should expect to be 'entertained' by films and such like, especially if you are in a premium seat. However things do go wrong and it's wise to have a back up plan, no?
so i take on board supplies for my own amusement in case the entertainment system is defunct and I do expect other pax to do the same and not regale me with tedious muntinae of their lives.
anyway...
ON THREAD
Yes, of course you should expect to be 'entertained' by films and such like, especially if you are in a premium seat. However things do go wrong and it's wise to have a back up plan, no?
so i take on board supplies for my own amusement in case the entertainment system is defunct and I do expect other pax to do the same and not regale me with tedious muntinae of their lives.
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There needs to be a distinction made here before some of the more enthusiastic travellers jump into their armoured cars and start roaring around going off half cocked like some sort of demented Gatling gun operator who has been smoking Dagga!.
Now let me try to explain. Tourette's syndrome or disease is an unfortunate condition, which usually manifests itself during childhood with a tic or two. Later in life it can be characterised by many symptoms including coprolalia or echolalia. It is not particularly funny.
Turrets, on the other hand, was mooted by one correspondent on these pages as a condition, the affliction with which might lead others to consider the sicko a nutter?
Turrets is a condition apparently undocumented in the annals of medical history. It seems fair and reasonable to speculate as to what the symptoms of this interesting and only recently conjectured condition might be, especially when the creator of this malaise is readily on hand to describe in detail the manifestations of this affliction before it is lost to medical science.
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cavortingcheetah,
I hope you friend had a prescription for those valium as well as a Thai translation else he could find himself in deep dwang at BKK customs.
This just isn’t the place to be bringing any medication without the necessary and correct paperwork, seriously.
I hope you friend had a prescription for those valium as well as a Thai translation else he could find himself in deep dwang at BKK customs.
This just isn’t the place to be bringing any medication without the necessary and correct paperwork, seriously.
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CC......
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(i can't get the pprune smileys to work.... and my capital letters keep being reverted back to lower case?!)
:d :d :d :d
(i can't get the pprune smileys to work.... and my capital letters keep being reverted back to lower case?!)
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Thank you ZFT. It is a year ago now but yes, it was a trifle unwise of him to be quite so cavalier. The shadow lines between drugs and medication, even Paracetemol, are blurred in certain countries and deep doom awaits the innocent transgressor of local laws.
Perhaps a topic for a new thread from those with certain knowledge of the pitfalls?
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There was an excellent post about 6 months ago from someone in IIRC the oil industry that posted a very useful travel guide which included info on various countries medication peculiarities. I'll see if I can locate it.