Comments | jinyo: UK: The Voyage Home

jinyo

UK: The Voyage Home

Apr 27, 2009 15:16

Finally, I have come to the end of my UK posts ( Read more... )

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solaria April 27 2009, 22:47:16 UTC

I laughed at the Red Bull story. (I think the airport regulations are a bit ridiculous sometimes. I get where they're coming from with the liquids, but it's a bit over-the-top to not allow in unopened beverages.)

Each seat in coach had a video system installed, with dozens of movies to choose from, as well as TV shows and assorted games. And it was all included in the price of your ticket.
Aren't most international flights like that? Then again, I've only flown international once, on Quantas.

jinyo April 27 2009, 23:00:57 UTC

You'll get my Red Bull when you pry it from my cold, dead belly!
*burp*

I don't know if most int'l flights now have personal video entertainment systems, but the Virgin flight to Heathrow was the only flight I've been on that had them. The flights I took to/from Italy a few years earlier didn't have them, nor did the flights I took to London and back from Paris a couple of years before that. And considering how long airlines keep their planes in service without changing them, I'm sure a lot of int'l planes are un-upgraded pre-video-system models.

solaria April 27 2009, 23:45:17 UTC

It probably varies by airline. My flight to Australia had them six years ago.

agentsakur9 April 27 2009, 23:16:11 UTC

you were in the UK?

jinyo April 27 2009, 23:17:43 UTC

God, no. What in the world would make you think something like that?

agentsakur9 April 27 2009, 23:23:15 UTC

are you there now? are these posts real time?

jinyo April 28 2009, 00:01:41 UTC

Of course! All internet posts are real time!

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jinyo April 28 2009, 00:00:53 UTC

I was especially annoyed because I knew I'd be flying home on a plane with a video system, and I was actually looking forward to kicking back and watching a buncha movies on the ride home. But my seat was the only one with a broken video system! Or maybe it was only the three-seat cluster I was in. Whatever. Everyone else on the plane was working video, except for me! That made me even madder. And it was a full flight, so I couldn't change seats.

praedestinatio April 28 2009, 02:58:40 UTC

It made me sick to my stomach just reading about chugging red bull @.@

jinyo April 28 2009, 04:24:11 UTC

It was by far the fastest I've ever consumed a can of Red Bull.

hoshikaji April 28 2009, 15:35:29 UTC

YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO STOP POSTING NOW. You've established a rhythm!

jinyo April 28 2009, 21:11:27 UTC

o.o
Uh... like in jazz, sometimes you need to break the rhythm or predictability ensues...?