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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..

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Originally Posted by Virgil

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.

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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.gif

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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

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Oh, p'shaw, I'm more worried about the pilot not being certified. ;)

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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.gif

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Maybe I dont want to learn to fly then....:eek2:

:eek: Waaaaaaaa . . . :bawling:

And bangles are cool. :p

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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

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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:

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

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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

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Besides, you don't even get any tips, right?

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LOL..
I should try and go back to England by train... or maybe not.. but hmm...arrggghh...

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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.
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...