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he he, don't mix threads! :lol:
are you MINE?? :p
nope sorry....
I hate that so much. Flying I guess is a necessity if one has to go far, but I don't like it anymore. Was it a small plane, mir? If you hit turbulence with a small plane, it's way worst. It scares the dickens out of me. It really feels like the plane is going to come apart. Of course I'm an engineer and have confidence in engineering, but it's still nerve rattling.Quote:
Originally Posted by mir
yeah, i think it was . . . i'm always afraid that it will just fall right out of the air!! Although, i've found that if i don't look out the window, and concentrate on something else (like a book), it isn't that bad. :)
Plus, i recently read Airframe, by Michael Crichton, and now i'm expecting every plane i get into to fall apart into a bunch of little pieces! :p
oh Im not afraid of flying at one time I wanted to be an airstewardess but my mum had fits over that one and Im too short and ugly :S
as for the captain well I dont think I could stand THAT much responsibility , I would like to learn to fly though...
Is anyone here fond of bangles like these :D
http://www.tiptopindia.com/images/ca...INT-120(1).jpg
I love bangles and bracelets! I collect them in fact, one hundred and still going :p I especially love buying jewelry at my local Oxfam shop. They have really beautiful gold bangles straight from India there. :D
Me too :D I dont wear them often, coz of work and all, but on occasions I do :D I have a similar type shown in picture (hanging one) and almost in all colours as well.
they look nice..
Hee. We have quite a bit of that with small planes here. I've lived here about 23 years. Two small planes have hit near the house, one in a hayfeild below the house and one right across from the kids elementry school. Both had no injurys. But the mountain I see from the front porch has plane skeletons on it, and people have died up there. The last crash, about 5 years back, the guys walked out, but both were injured badly. I found one plane skeleton while wandering up there. Eerie feeling, that. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/c075.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Oh, p'shaw, I'm more worried about the pilot not being certified. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by mir
Maybe I dont want to learn to fly then....:eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
:eek: Waaaaaaaa . . . :bawling:
And bangles are cool. :p
I always try to avoid films (dont know about books) that are about plane disasters...like that one that they show on tv way too often about a plane crashing in the middle of nowhere, a mountain i think, and the survivors resort to cannibalism to survive...:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: Even reading the plot makes me want to scream... I've never seen it in fact. Yeah now I scared you all :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by mir
Ohh Nighty I would have never wanted to become an airstewardess, it's like being a waitress but you're up in the air so just not safe! :o
Besides, you don't even get any tips, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
:p
don't do that Koa. I've done it a couple of times and it's worse than flying. It takes forever, is incredibly expensive (190 Euros ONE WAY from Germany, but only if you're lucky and it's a special offer; I suppose from Italy it would be even more?) and the worst part is that you can't take a shower or change your clothes (let alone sleep, unless you pay for a sleeper compartment) so you feel very yucky by the time you arrive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
Plus, the Brussels station is a maze and nearly as big as Amsterdam Schiphol (sp?) airport... *exaggerating*. you have to change loads of times, too
You get the tips, cher! "COULD I GET A DRINK, MISS? LIKE THIS YEAR? WE OWN THE AIRLINE YOU KNOW! CHOP-CHOP!" http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/party/beerchug.gif
Hm, I flew to LA for two weeks, I think I've gotten over any fear of flying becuase I've been flying cross-country since I was 2. There have been a couple flights with big dips and lots of turbulence...I once had a teammate in the seat next to me start screaming and freaking out...it was so awkward to hold her and whisper to her like some kind of mother...:p
My sister and her boyfriend just flew over here from LA with 3 stops (UGH!!!) and, of course, lost their baggage on the way (they were changing airlines each time, UGH again). Then I saw a news report on CNN about 68 luggage bags with airline tickets still attached found in a dumpster behind a pet store in some state I can't remember...the luggage was still packed with clothing and gifts and United Airlines had to take responsibility for it at the local airport and sort it out...luckily my sister's bag did come through, must have not been in that dumpster...
I'm much more worried about losing check-thrus than my plane crashing. Do you know there's a store in Nevada that takes unmarked luggage with lost tickets and sells their contents? They figure if there's no way to return the stuff, they may as well sell it. Ugh. I mark my baggage in about 4 different ways with my name, address, and phone number ever since I heard that!
Yes, losing luggage is one of my biggest fears. As I said, I hate everything about flying, I'd die if i had to cross continents.
I wasn't so serious about the train, but well... it's less worrying...
It just so happens that I have to fly pretty often, and yes, Koa, I've got to cross the continents. With that radiation thing and everything, flying becomes worse and worse. I just hope terrorists won't think of anything else to make flying even more dangerous.Honestly, I don't think I'd ever fly if i didn't have to.
radiation??? no its the ten minute flights I worry about, when I was younger ther was a flight we would take every year pretty much the same one last thursday in aughust 700 the one year we didnt need to go ( wed move by the) the plane crashed it was about a 12 minute flight noone survived.
That creeped me out. But generally speaking I love flying although for somne reason the alps always give the heebeejeebies and trans atalantic flights are nasty for turbulance.
well personally if I have to be a waitress Id prefer to be in the air than on the ground I just love flying.....:D
As to the radiation - i was talking about that case with the Russian "spy", Litvinenko, when the whole crew and all the passangers of that fly were freaking out. YOu might not believe it, but I almost got the ticket for that one...serious....
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Originally Posted by Sleepywitch
You guys (or should I say girls? :p - Oh, this horrid political correctness...) make me feel so homesick. Euros! Germany! Amsterdam Airport! Brussels (though admittedly I've never been there before)!.....
I don't really mind flying - the radiation isn't really healthy if you do a lot of it, but in small amounts....With our family spread across two continents, we tend to do quite a bit of it (though still not so much for one to really worry about radiation). And my orchestra also does a lot of international touring. But due to my studies I haven't been on a plane since last year, and I miss it so much that I would give anything to fly internationally again...Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
Planes aren't really that bad, of course there can be rarities when they're rather uncomfortable (small planes can be terrible and even on big planes, sitting at the very tail generally is a very turbulent affair)...but generally they're comfy. Cathay Pacific, for example, are great, and KLM are good too...Austrian have pretty narrow seats, last time I flew them my friend and I were elbowing each other a lot accidentally, but luckily we're both skinny so it was fine otherwise. :D
Well there we go - a longish post in defence of the aeroplane. I guess I'm a bit biased, though...first time I sat on a plane I was less than half a year old. ;)
homesick? I thought you were from Australia or somewhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Darcy
hang on, your custom line says memories of Nuremberg?????
heeehee, I'm from Nuremberg :)
Yes, I am "from Australia or somewhere" ;), actually born here, but travel frequently to Europe where my mum's side of the family is (in the Czech Republic, but we always travel a lot throughout Europe as well). :)
You're from Nuremberg? How lovely! :) We used to go there quite a lot...beautiful architecture, excellent shopping...;) My "Memories of Nuremberg" is slightly random, though, I thought it would go nicely with Dürer...By the way, do you have any particular preference for spelling...? Because sometimes one sees it spelt "Nurenberg", sometimes "Nuremburg", or "Nuremberg"...as a local, which do you prefer?
hum, actually I've never come across Nuremburg or Nurenberg as an English spelling. The only one I'm familiar with is Nuremberg, which is funny seeing as Nürnberg is spelled with an 'n' in German but we pronounce it more like Nürmberg with an 'm' :)
I suppose Nuremberg is the most widespread one (cf. Nuremberg Trials; the city's official homepage and the homepage of the airport have Nuremberg, as well)
wow, the Czech Rep isn't too bad either! They've got lovely food there :)
:lol: I can trump that ... I was 2 weeks old. Then again one my sisters was even a week old the first time she was on a plane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Darcy
morning :D:wave:
I must say, Night, you have loooooooooooooooooooooong experience with planes. ;) Where were you flying? Moi from Australia to Prague. It was lots of fun, of course. And I remember it perfectly. :D
And morning to you too...well, it's "Night" here, but what does that matter when at Night's 'tis day? ;)
*Begins to dance - is as happy as a fish at this wonderful travel topic :p - and don't ask me where I got that simile*
Well now mine was only a 2 hour plane journey across KSA. But my sister was 7 hours heathrow to Cairo back when it was 7 hours instead of 6, has anyone elses noticed flights seem to keep getting shorter?
Good evening:D
Even a two-hour flight is impressive at 2 weeks old! Wow. :) And your sister one week old.....Well, you two certainly must not find the aeroplane experience at all alien. :D Really, you're the next best thing from being born on an aeroplane! :p
I knew almost nothing about flying; made my first flight about ten years ago. I had a coach ticket but didn't understand why I couldn't just waltz into some lounge for business and first class types at Heathrow airport. Sheesh. We are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others....:lol:
There's been a UFO citing at Chicago O'Hare International airport by US Airways employees...which makes me laugh because my bf and I flew through Chicago, on US Airways, on our way back from LA :)
WAKE UP GIRLS! Before the guys get the upper hand in their coffee meetings :p
Co-fee mee-tiing? Please excuse. When I see She-who-must-not-be-named, I thought theese coffin mee-tiing. Must fly. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e035.gif
:lol: Perhaps we shall have a tea party in an abandoned graveyard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
I love tea.. especially peppermint tea...
As for the graveyard... why not?!? :)
Graveyard??? :eek2:
What will we do if the cookies start flying in the air, suddenly? Or, if the tea got poured on its own into the cups? :eek2: *looking worried*
MMM...I love coffee...and cookies too. But I don't know what i'll do if they start flying. Probably try to catch them before they float away! We can't let perfectly good cookies go to waste! That's just shameful! :) And graveyards are cool in a creepy sort of way. On the plus side we could always start chatting about what happened to the people residing there... Hehe.