Bring in the snakes

drjekel_mrhyde: Bring in the snakes

Oh, I'm ready for it!

/damn well better not be obscure!

I would prefer the Russian subway system.

Genius dogs randomly board and deplane in specific countries.

5 baby rats? Spontaneous germination? Intelligent Design? I want answers.

They are gonna smell like pee?

I don't know why they were worried. Qantas never crashed. Definitely never crashed.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Rodents Of Unusual Flight Characteristics

All you can do after a ROUFC attack is go through their pockets and look for loose change. Mostly ...

ecmoRandomNumbers: New York has one of the best public transit systems in the world.

They are studied and emulated.



Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

beerbaron: Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

Hmm, you can't be writing about NYC, because it has about the highest farebox recovery rate. The subway service is actually profitable. I don't think that's true of anywhere else in the U.S. (Capital costs is another story, of course.)

It could be about Boston, but that system doesn't have a urine smell everywhere.

Philly?

Enemabag Jones: I would prefer the Russian subway system.

Yeah, but service to downtown Russia is really lacking.

I was thinking something like this:

Little kid: daddy, why is that man sleeping under the newspapers in the row behind us?

Dad: because; he is what we call a "bum".

*slight pause*

Little kid: daddy, what's a "bum"?

Dad: someone who is less fortunate; who relies on other people to provide for them.

Little kid: oh, you mean like uncle Berry; borrowing all that money and never paying it back?

*scene*

/ for those of you who see what I did there; I keed, I keed

Ugh, one flight I was on recently had a stopover in Dakha (we stayed on the plane while about half of the passengers got off.) As soon as the doors opened a swarm of mosquitoes came in to the plane and started to fly in and around landing feeding on people. I've never had a stopover where more bugs came on the plane then people.

I see what you did there.
I think.
If so, I AM OUTRAGED!!!!

/if not, then whatever
//not really outraged, either

Damnit, where are those snakes when you really need 'em?

NOT SAFE FOR WORK
Link (funny and NSFW)

Funny as all hell rat scene. Keep keyboards and drinks away.

There are things worse than rats on a plane . . . people who not understand that buying a ticket entitles one to recline their seat should they so desire.

So there will be shadowy rapists on airplanes?

I guess it's better than sharing a flight with Bronson Pinchot.

KrustAsian: Damnit, where are those snakes when you really need 'em?

But then we're stuck with snakes!

Barakku: But then we're stuck with snakes!

They serve snake soup in first class.

I once brought my ferret on a flight to SC. He hid in my blazer.

If only it were closer to becoming your mom, so that everyone gets a ride for $5.

You mean I'll be able to fly anywhere I want for $2.25, at any time, 24/7?

Cool. I wish flights were more like the subway.

Doc Daneeka: You mean I'll be able to fly anywhere I want for $2.25, at any time, 24/7?

Cool. I wish flights were more like the subway.

Yeah, no kidding. Plus you'd have some guy walking back through the cabin yammering on about his kids until enough people throw in change to make him move on to the next cabin...

ecmoRandomNumbers: New York has one of the best public transit systems in the world.

They are studied and emulated.

Airlines -- not so much. I just sent my mom and my nephew to Florida on Southwest Airlines. I was frustrated because I wasn't able to buy them more than "cattle class" boarding. And I printed their boarding passes exactly 24 hours before the flight.


That's Southwest in a nutshell. Er, it's a feature, not a bug. Statusless travel. Delta goes to Fla a lot; maybe they are a better choice for you. Get there early...

Is it more like this subway?

Or Link subway?

beerbaron: Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

unlike most towns and villages that shut their trains down for 6+ hours every day, NYC is one of the few systems in the world that are 24/7. That means they don't have an entire shift free of users so they an go and clean every day.

ecmoRandomNumbers:

And let me make it perfectly clear to anybody who might be afraid of New-Yorkers -- They are proud of their city, and you just need to be polite and ask the right questions. They will point you in any direction you need to go. New York is full of good people.

Most of us are proud to be able to direct people. However, ask us "where the empire state building is" when you are on 34th and 5th, or "hey, where can we find a Cheesecake Factory?" and we WILL send you to Newark.

Hey rats contain vitamin C, eating them helps prevent scury on those long waits on the tarmac.

LemSkroob: unlike most towns and villages that shut their trains down for 6+ hours every day, NYC is one of the few systems in the world that are 24/7. That means they don't have an entire shift free of users so they an go and clean every day.

It has more to do with the breakdown of the social compact. Here in LA, people DON'T PISS IN THE SUBWAY.

Well, I have and idea for a way to de-verminate an aircraft in about an hour.

Pilots don oxygen masks and take it up to the operating ceiling for half an hour without pressure.

Would probably work for snakes also.

Whoop-dee-frickin-do, Qantas! American and United had bigger rats on their planes nearly ten years ago.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: beerbaron: Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

Yeah, getting a Metro card is a complete nightmare. You have to stand in front of those infernal machines in one of New York's 450 subway stations for as many as 30 seconds at a time

And the cards are made of farking toilet paper that if you even look at them funny they stop working. "But I had $20 on that card!" "Fark you." Perhaps they have fixed that by now but when I was there it was a big gripe. Here you get a nice solid TAP card that has a rfid in it and lasts forever. And if you lose it, you don't lose all the money on it. People make fun of public transit in LA but it is actually one of the best systems in the country and getting better all the time.

And yeah, the NYC subway is great. The lines that are still running that is! Don't get me started on the LIRR. I can see why that dude got all shooty. I remember one lovely trip where some Hasidic dude was clippping his toenails right in the coach, just letting them fly! We had to change our seats. Farking gross. You never see that kind of shiat out here. In NYC it is a daily fact of life. Why do so many people in New York lack the most basic understanding of how to behave properly in public?

beerbaron: Eddie Adams from Torrance: beerbaron: Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

Yeah, getting a Metro card is a complete nightmare. You have to stand in front of those infernal machines in one of New York's 450 subway stations for as many as 30 seconds at a time

And the cards are made of farking toilet paper that if you even look at them funny they stop working. "But I had $20 on that card!" "Fark you."

I have a monthly unlimited card. I swipe the same card every day, twice a day, for a month.

Never had a problem.

Doc Daneeka: I have a monthly unlimited card. I swipe the same card every day, twice a day, for a month.

Never had a problem.

They must have fixed the issue, but when I was there it was a big problem. The cards were ultra thin cardstock and the slightest wrinkle made them unreadable. You'd think that they would get something like that right before rolling it out.

Like I said, my friend lost the better part of $20. She filed a form to get a refund, which never came.

And there is that whole eastern city mafia big labor thing New York epitomizes. I hadn't been back east in like twenty years, and I almost shiat myself when I saw three or four guys riding along with the garbage trucks. All the garbage trucks out here have a giant robotic arm that grabs the can and dumps it. One guy runs the whole show. Been that way for at least twenty years. But not back east! Gotta keep those union guys in patronage jobs. Same thing with the roads. Gotta stop all the time and pay a toll. Tolls which go 100% to paying the toll collector's huge salaries and not for roads. Pretty stupid if you ask me, but the morons back there just put up with that kind of crap and it never ever changes.

The young of rats are called pinkies, not babies. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Neeeeeext stoooooopMELBORNEAUSTRALIA! *doorslam!*

seek3r: drjekel_mrhyde: Bring in the snakes

Oh, I'm ready for it!

/damn well better not be obscure!

C'mon. Bring it.

/kiss me goodbye

beerbaron: Eddie Adams from Torrance: beerbaron: Trains always late, bus system is a joke, deployment of fare cards an absolute disaster, surly employees, urine smell everywhere, farebox recovery among the lowest in the nation...

Yeah, getting a Metro card is a complete nightmare. You have to stand in front of those infernal machines in one of New York's 450 subway stations for as many as 30 seconds at a time

And the cards are made of farking toilet paper that if you even look at them funny they stop working. "But I had $20 on that card!" "Fark you." Perhaps they have fixed that by now but when I was there it was a big gripe. Here you get a nice solid TAP card that has a rfid in it and lasts forever. And if you lose it, you don't lose all the money on it. People make fun of public transit in LA but it is actually one of the best systems in the country and getting better all the time.

And yeah, the NYC subway is great. The lines that are still running that is! Don't get me started on the LIRR. I can see why that dude got all shooty. I remember one lovely trip where some Hasidic dude was clippping his toenails right in the coach, just letting them fly! We had to change our seats. Farking gross. You never see that kind of shiat out here. In NYC it is a daily fact of life. Why do so many people in New York lack the most basic understanding of how to behave properly in public?

You do realize LA, esp the roads, sidewalks, and the public transportation system, is *literally* used as a case study in every urban dev, urban sociology, civil engineering, etc class for how *not* to construct transport?
/not kidding, I'll happily scan textbook pages if you want

Skyd1v: seek3r: drjekel_mrhyde: Bring in the snakes

Oh, I'm ready for it!

/damn well better not be obscure!

C'mon. Bring it.

/kiss me goodbye

I'm gonna make it out alive!

/I can see the venom in their eyes

beerbaron: It has more to do with the breakdown of the social compact. Here in LA, people DON'T PISS IN TAKE THE SUBWAY.