New Constitutional Amendment

[bestrfcplayer]

I haven't been on an airplane since they started posting Nazis at the airport gates and with God's help I hope I never will have to.

Drat those 16-18 hour car drives though.

Since when did they put Nazi's at airport gates? And how do you know their political ideologies?

 

[Ghpstage]

If you want more space between you and the person in front, take the train.

That... depends heavily on the route you take....

EDIT - doh as it was linked from somewhere else I didn't realise how old this was...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Carry a garrotte.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

That... depends heavily on the route you take....

EDIT - doh as it was linked from somewhere else I didn't realise how old this was...

That looks more like a subway or possibly a very unfortunate regional rail train, rather than a train you would take as an alternative to air travel.

It's much more like this:

 

[onejayhawk]

Trains are where it's at.

Where does the one to Hawaii board?

J

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Where does the one to Hawaii board?

J

Guy is walking along the beach, and kicks a bottle loose from the sand. He picks it up and starts brushing the sand off, and a genie pops out...

Guy: I think I've been in this joke before....
Genie: You have released me, you get a wish.
Guy: A wish? What happened to three?
Genie: Times are hard. One wish, take it or leave it. And none of that wishing for more wishes nonsense. Try a conundrum loop and I'll hang you with it.
Guy: Okay, take it easy. Look. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I hate flying. So I want a bridge.
Genie: I told you, times are hard. A bridge to Hawaii would need regular gas stops, probably places for you to stop overnight. Too much for one wish. Try again.
Guy: Well, hmmm. I've always wanted to really understand women, and have them understand me. Y'know, so we could really communicate.
Genie: Would you need four lanes, or could we go with just two?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Where does the one to Hawaii board?

J

We all live on a yellow suuubmarineee yeellow submariiiinee.

Also, underwater tunnels. If people during the early 1900s can lay several thousand kilometres of cables through the Atlantic, I'm sure we could get something going on.

 

[bhsup]

Guy is walking along the beach, and kicks a bottle loose from the sand. He picks it up and starts brushing the sand off, and a genie pops out...

Guy: I think I've been in this joke before....
Genie: You have released me, you get a wish.
Guy: A wish? What happened to three?
Genie: Times are hard. One wish, take it or leave it. And none of that wishing for more wishes nonsense. Try a conundrum loop and I'll hang you with it.
Guy: Okay, take it easy. Look. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I hate flying. So I want a bridge.
Genie: I told you, times are hard. A bridge to Hawaii would need regular gas stops, probably places for you to stop overnight. Too much for one wish. Try again.
Guy: Well, hmmm. I've always wanted to really understand women, and have them understand me. Y'know, so we could really communicate.
Genie: Would you need four lanes, or could we go with just two?

Saving that!

But to seriously address the point, just take a boat to Hawaii.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

We all live on a yellow suuubmarineee yeellow submariiiinee.

Also, underwater tunnels. If people during the early 1900s can lay several thousand kilometres of cables through the Atlantic, I'm sure we could get something going on.

Having traveled to Hawaii by submarine I strongly recommend a surface vessel.

 

[Harv]

Would you support an amendment to the US Constitution mandating that all airplane seats (sans business class and first class) disable the ability to lean back the chair, and thus are required to maintain the upright position?

I'm fairly tall (~ 6'1" or ~185 cm), and it drives me crazy when the idiot sitting in front of me decides to lean his chair back the WHOLE DAMN WAY, leaving me with no leg, arm, or face room.

It can always get worse, right?

You could be in the middle seat, stuck between two guys with BMI in the mid-40's, (350 pounds each) flying across the Pacific Ocean - AND the guy in front of you wants to be fully reclined.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Having traveled to Hawaii by submarine I strongly recommend a surface vessel.

You a soldier/in the navy?

I doubt there's any joyrides which are basically "so let's take this submarine that the US government is totally not looking for since, bunch of time, y'know".

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You a soldier/in the navy?

I doubt there's any joyrides which are basically "so let's take this submarine that the US government is totally not looking for since, bunch of time, y'know".

Was Navy. On a boat that changed home ports from Puget Sound to Pearl Harbor, so I did actually make the trip in question. There is no such thing as a 'joyride' on a submarine. Quarters are cramped, and the view sucks.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Where does the one to Hawaii board?

J

Show me where I said railways should replace air travel 100% of the time and we should never use airplanes again.

Although if I were going to Hawaii I would probably ride something like this:

or this:

 

[Smellincoffee]

This is not an issue worthy of a Constitutional amendment. It's uninspired enough to be an act of Congress, though.

 

[Zack]

It can always get worse, right?

You could be in the middle seat, stuck between two guys with BMI in the mid-40's, (350 pounds each) flying across the Pacific Ocean - AND the guy in front of you wants to be fully reclined.

There are worse ways to kill someone than with a rifle. Doesn't make it any less worse to die by rifle.

 

[Colonel]

This most surely should not be an amendment, that is an extreme measure and it is simply not worthy of being in the Constitution. I wouldn't even say Congress would need to enact a law to do this. If you were going to make this a rule the simplest way would be a rule from the FAA to the airlines but even then it would run into some legal issues as you can't impose something like that on a company. Ability to recline on an airline has been going away for quite some time especially on shorter flights (in fact I know of a few RJs that don't have the ability to recline at all). Its all about what you pay for and what you can afford. If they could get past the safety issues I wouldn't be surprised if we get to a point with the shortest flights going to a standing model as it would reduce the cost considerably of the ticket.

 

[cybrxkhan]

The one time to Hawaii was the only time I flew on this really big planes that have, what, twelve seats per row or something?

Oh well.

Either way, I'd like to be able to recline the seat myself, I do it a lot. Despite being 6'1" myself people reclining seats has never been an issue for me. The bigger issue is how much space the seats give me to move my arms around and wiggle my butt.

 

[Flying Pig]

This most surely should not be an amendment, that is an extreme measure and it is simply not worthy of being in the Constitution. I wouldn't even say Congress would need to enact a law to do this. If you were going to make this a rule the simplest way would be a rule from the FAA to the airlines but even then it would run into some legal issues as you can't impose something like that on a company. Ability to recline on an airline has been going away for quite some time especially on shorter flights (in fact I know of a few RJs that don't have the ability to recline at all). Its all about what you pay for and what you can afford. If they could get past the safety issues I wouldn't be surprised if we get to a point with the shortest flights going to a standing model as it would reduce the cost considerably of the ticket.

RyanAir have actually tried to do that, giving you seats where you strap in vertically.

 

[Colonel]

RyanAir have actually tried to do that, giving you seats where you strap in vertically.

I knew the Europeans have been doing that a little bit but its a security/safety concern in the states.

 

[RFC_Viceroy]

I never understood why that wasn't in the Bill of Rights anyway.

Maybe because the BoR is older than planes?

Also: Planes are privately owned, so it should be up to the airline.