Hilarious Lego Airline satire video

Richman said:
The assumptions that some people make are downright hysterical sometimes.

When someone is bordering on crossing the border into "non-non-offensive", sometimes I give them a "before you go any further, you should know that....".

Generally, I go to great pains to not be toolish, but sometimes there needs to be a "learning point" for those involved.

Richman
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I used to love those moments. Captain I've just met goes on a ten minute hateful, right-wing, semi-racist rant, and then looks over to me for approval...then I say "so, uh, I guess you missed the giant 'airline pilots for Obama' sticker on my flight bag, huh?"

Watching wing nut heads explode is great entertainment. I can't believe some of you actively avoid it. :)
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I used to love those moments. Captain I've just met goes on a ten minute hateful, right-wing, semi-racist rant, and then looks over to me for approval...then I say "so, uh, I guess you missed the giant 'airline pilots for Obama' sticker on my flight bag, huh?"

Watching wing nut heads explode is great entertainment. I can't believe some of you actively avoid it. :)
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Three horrible words: "Merit Based Upgrade". Turns out, at XOJET if you make peoples head explode and embarrass them into 4 hours of complete silence because they were unknowing saying horrible things about your own religion and those of the customers in the back, they will stop at nothing to prevent your career progression.

Lesson learned.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
Three horrible words: "Merit Based Upgrade". Turns out, at XOJET if you make peoples head explode and embarrass them into 4 hours of complete silence because they were unknowing saying horrible things about your own religion and those of the customers in the back, they will stop at nothing to prevent your career progression.

Lesson learned.
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While I do hate religions of all sort, I also hate merit-based upgrades, so I sympathize. :)
 
Derg said:
Yes! All that sounds awesome to me!

Besides, Deadmau5 has been dropping bricks the last few albums. EDM is dead. When Paris Hilton draws a crowd as a "DJ", the genre needs a break.

But "I'm buying gold!"/"Obama is takin' muh GUNZ"/"See man, pre-merger and when we had 3.B.6 the company couldn't screw around with new airplane rates, they had to negotiate! How did you vote on the 777 TA back in 2000? I mean, come on man, Giambusso sold us out to dry and then I wrote him this 15 page letter (hands it to me) about why ALPA… blah blah BLARG"…

eh… I'm good.
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Paris Hilton doing anything gives me the willies.... why anyone on earth thinks she is hot is beyond me... enjoy this little tidbit....
 
Richman said:
THIS. Man that gets old. From anyone. As an aside:

I won't talk about politics.
I won't talk about money.
I won't talk about religion.

PERIOD. SO STOP ASKING!

Richman
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The best Segway from any of these topics: a horrendous fart. Guaranteed to change the subject.


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BEEF SUPREME said:
Three horrible words: "Merit Based Upgrade". Turns out, at XOJET if you make peoples head explode and embarrass them into 4 hours of complete silence because they were unknowing saying horrible things about your own religion and those of the customers in the back, they will stop at nothing to prevent your career progression.

Lesson learned.
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I admit I loved the idea when I first got on at Omni. Quickly turned sour as the reality set in: If you're not buddies with the right people, you'll throw gear the entire time.
 
dasleben said:
I admit I loved the idea when I first got on at Omni. Quickly turned sour as the reality set in: If you're not buddies with the right people, you'll throw gear the entire time.
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I think it is just human nature. I compared it to a high school popularity contest. Now the company I used to work for is parking aircraft because they can't keep FOs long enough. So everyone learned something.
 
Derg said:
Fine. Skywest pilots are solely responsible for taking an extra ten seconds per check-in saying drivel like "Hay! Memphis HOWYADOOIN, Skywest 1234 checkin' in witchya onboard at flight level 350 (whoops, I mean 290 because you stall a lot) SEEE YAAAAAH" :) *mic drop*
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Didn't know you heard me....
 
Staying away from politics and religion I can understand, but some of these other unwritten conversation rules make y'all sound like a real joy to spend four days with.

Let me see if I've got it right:
Pets ok, as long as it doesn't make you sound like a crazy cat lady, kids definitely not. Hobbies, maybe, as long as they're the right ones like home brewing or sailing, if it's anything aviation related you'll be silently mocked, same for certain other things like, say, model trains. Volunteering is good, but only if it can in no way shape or form be related to anything religious or political. Work is definitely off limits, as is anything about where you worked before.
What else am I missing that normal people would talk about that is for some reason not "cool" in the cockpit?
 
Roger Roger said:
Staying away from politics and religion I can understand, but some of these other unwritten conversation rules make y'all sound like a real joy to spend four days with.

Let me see if I've got it right:
Pets ok, as long as it doesn't make you sound like a crazy cat lady, kids definitely not. Hobbies, maybe, as long as they're the right ones like home brewing or sailing, if it's anything aviation related you'll be silently mocked, same for certain other things like, say, model trains. Volunteering is good, but only if it can in no way shape or form be related to anything religious or political. Work is definitely off limits, as is anything about where you worked before.
What else am I missing that normal people would talk about that is for some reason not "cool" in the cockpit?
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But Roger, do you like stuff?
 
ATN_Pilot said:
So, to summarize, no politics, no religion, no money, and no sports? What's left? Because I sure as hell don't want to hear about anyone's damned kids. :)
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Oh you can all you'd like but I may or may not actively participate in the discussion. Like I told @mikecweb yesterday, I generally avoid controversial topics because parts of my genetic makeup I can have a friendly, passionate, zesty Socratic debate but at some point if you start to piss me off and I'm not careful with recognizing it, I'll be making a phone call to a friend asking about bags of lime, bleach, a pickup truck, shovels and quiet meadows far off the freeway.

:)
 
ASpilot2be said:
Food, travelling, stupid stuff I have done, and other stuff.
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Food? Too controversial. People start talking about GMOs, gluten sensitivity, veganism, etc.

Travel? Too much like work.

See how stupid these rules are? Talk about whatever. Or nothing. But rules about what's off limits are just ridiculous. Especially since everyone talks about work and flying, anyway, even though they pretend that they're too cool to do so.
 
Ruck said:
First heard that around... 1993 or so? Still ain't happened. :p
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In its current form I mean.

It's always going to ebb and flow, but if I turn on BPM, it's "ooontz oontz oontz oontz… drum roll with a phase shift *shout something* OOOOWAAAAAAAAAOOOW *bass drop* synth ooontz ooontz ooontz ooontz" and then the DJ says "That's fresh out of Ibiza with Avicii + Tiesto + DJ Pauly Shore who are headlining EDC"

(Man, I'm all "Op-Ed" today aren't I? :))
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Food? Too controversial. People start talking about GMOs, gluten sensitivity, veganism, etc.

Travel? Too much like work.

See how stupid these rules are? Talk about whatever. Or nothing. But rules about what's off limits are just ridiculous. Especially since everyone talks about work and flying, anyway, even though they pretend that they're too cool to do so.
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I can't believe it but I'm agreeing with something you said.
 
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