Yeti coolers fad

[killbilly]

Ahhhh, the good ole days!

Now it’s all about gym time, exotic healthy new fad diets that require more bags and prep to haul than a 2 week international trip of clothes, manscaping for the VLOGs and lamenting on their own personal grind and struggle to their viewership on how it took an excruciating 2 whole yrs to go from newly minted CFI to B747 f/o and how they should be able to hold a Capt slot in 6 months.

Meh. I know you meant this tongue in cheek, but we're a lot smarter about health and health risks than we were back then. There's also probably a lot more older career-changers (like myself) who are trying to make the healthier habits work. I don't mind the extra work for food prep if it makes me feel better.

And I say this as a bloke who was a pack-a-day smoker for 22 years. I get it, believe me.

As a new B727 f/o back in 1988 I had a very senior Capt at TOC look at me and asked (rhetorically, of course..I think), if I minded if he smoked a cig. To this day I’m not really sure if he was actually asking a question or simply making a statement. He then proceeded to chain smoke all the way to SEA from SDF. I think he drank each one of his meals on the layover and his form of exercise was to walk to the drug store next to the hotel to buy more cigarettes and beer. Then bypassed the stairs in the hotel to hop onto the elevator while cracking the tab on his next meal. Dude will probably out live me…..

Amazing how everything has changed….some for the better, some worse.

Here's a little perspective - 20 years prior to that, we had doctors advertising cigarettes on TV. 20 years prior to NOW was just two years prior to Colgan 3407.

I am just - just barely - old enough - and yes, I'm slightly ashamed of this - that I have smoked a cigarette on a flight.

I'd say overall the changes are for the better.

 

[Richman]

Going to try to say this without being a get off my lawn type but when did this fad of carrying a massive yeti cooler designed for a 24 pack become a thing? I get carrying healthier food with you on the road but seeing these massive cubes with the yeti logo plastered on them hanging off the back of a roller board in the terminal seems a little odd to me. Really gaining in popularity it seems. They make crew coolers that are much more subtle lol.

Materialized about the same time as when people started carrying around their personal sippy bottles. The way people carry jugs of water around, you'd think they were about to dissolve into crystals like they had the Omega IV virus.

Don't get me started on people dragging their dogs around where they don't belong. Blessed be Publix where they finally laid the law down.

As for health fads, I present the 1970s:


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