What gets your panties bunched up? - Page 2

Kaosium · 22nd December 2012, 01:02 AM

Links that take my browser to another page instead of opening a new one. In order to prevent having a dozen pages active at once I have the habit of closing the page when done reading, which in the case of the ones that go to another page mean I lost the one I started at. Then I have to fumble through the history to try to bring it back.

I hate that!

lionking · 22nd December 2012, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by mijopaalmc

And how about that airline food?

Speaking of airlines, as a frequent flier for me it's DYKWIAs*. They demand special treatment, priority boarding, carry oversized cabin baggage, recline seats during meals, ask for upgrades (it never works) and hold everyone up on boarding and disembarking while they fiddle with their baggage and electronic toys.

*Do You Know Who I Am - people with frequent flier status usually lower than your own.

GlennB · 22nd December 2012, 01:08 AM

The BBC World news tickertape thingy.

While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match):

"England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about.

BBCW will say:

"England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe".

anglolawyer · 22nd December 2012, 04:26 AM

Easyjet.

I have missed two Easy jet flights due to their incompetence,, the second time being refused permission to board while at the gate with the plane standing right outside ('we can't open the doors, sir' 'why not?' 'we can't open the doors sir and if you're going to start swearing we will call security') and yet I have been on a flight which was delayed by some latecomer for whom they did open the doors! I still can't get over the sheer injustice!

anglolawyer · 22nd December 2012, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by GlennB

The BBC World news tickertape thingy.

While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match):

"England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about.

BBCW will say:

"England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe".

A beautifully pointless gripe and exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

anglolawyer · 22nd December 2012, 07:35 AM

Harry Potter, Tolkien and any other fiction in which any crisis, no matter how dire, is predictably averted by means of some random, last-minute magical power the author conjures up arbitrarily.

Modified · 22nd December 2012, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by sgtbaker

When you stop in a parkinglot to let someone cross but they are moving at a snail's pace because they are so engrossed in their phone.

Usually they don't have a phone out, they're slow just because they are jerks. The hustle-walk almost everyone used to use in that situation seems to have disappeared.

Ampulla of Vater · 22nd December 2012, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by GlennB

The BBC World news tickertape thingy.

While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match):

"England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about.

BBCW will say:

"England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe".

This is so funny because I hate the random and stupid abbreviations used by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX BUSINESS and wish they would just spell it all out. Are we really in that much of a hurry we need the crawl to be abbreviated and butchered? You spend more time attempting to determine what the phrase means than you would if they would spell it all out and phrase it so the average human can understand it. I guess I will have to start watching BBCW if we get that channel.

fishbait · 22nd December 2012, 11:43 AM

Humid weather always makes my shorts bunch up accompanied by prickly heat and a nasty rash. Crotchpot cookin' southern style!

StankApe · 22nd December 2012, 12:03 PM

Yankees

ETA: also ,carpetbaggers ;-p

Beerina · 22nd December 2012, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by aggle-rithm

Speaking of Texas, it gets my goat (his name is Farquar) when someone says they are going up to Dallas, when in fact they are going to Fort Worth.

Fort Worth is my home town. It is NOT a suburb of Dallas. It is the county seat of a completely different county. It has its OWN suburbs. And, most importantly, one can drive through it without being constantly shunted into decaying neighborhoods with a higher crime rate than Juarez.

What makes me even more angry is when I mention this pet peeve, and people say, "So what? Who gives a flip about your home town?"

St. Paul feels your pain!

Well, I'm gonna guess they do.

lionking · 22nd December 2012, 10:31 PM

Keeping on a flying theme, how about those passengers who are obviously not disabled but insist on a wheelchair so they can board first and get good seats? I'm not making this up. The people who use them getting on find it quite easy to get off without them (where they would have to wait until others disembark). The Flight Attendants can cure people!

sts60 · 23rd December 2012, 06:03 AM

Stupid YouTube videos - in other words, pretty much all of them - and stupid trendy Web sites, and stupid trendy cliche words - and news organizations talking about them. Like this morning, sitting and nursing a cup of coffee, NPR starts talking about some idiot popular video. I paused the feed, and kept checking back, and heard "...found out on Facebook and Twitter" <pause>... "4chan and reddit" <pause>... "tumblr" <pause>... "meme" <pause>...

It's a fine morning to be a cranky old man, thank you. And you kids get off my lawn!

And here's one more, completely unrelated: restroom sinks the size of Lake Ontario that have a faucet reaching about two centimeters out over the edge of the bowl, so you can get maybe one finger under the water when you try to wash your hands.

anglolawyer · 23rd December 2012, 07:16 AM

Air stewards/stewardesses who ask you to do things 'for them'. 'Can you fold your table up for me?'

sgtbaker · 23rd December 2012, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by lionking

Keeping on a flying theme, how about those passengers who are obviously not disabled but insist on a wheelchair so they can board first and get good seats? I'm not making this up. The people who use them getting on find it quite easy to get off without them (where they would have to wait until others disembark). The Flight Attendants can cure people!

Flight attendants call them miracle flights. What confuses me about that is why the race to get strapped into a seat for longer than everyone else? If the flight's full, the flight's full, you are going to be squished whether you are the first person on or the last.

zeggman · 23rd December 2012, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Bikewer

For me, the check-it-out-yourself lanes have been a blessing.

I went to one of the self-checkout lines last week with my wife's keys. She has the keychain version of all those "club cards" that virtually every store has started using now, so they can track your purchases in exchange for "discount" prices. I refuse to participate in that nonsense. I usually only buy a few things at a time, so if the cashier rings up a higher price than the one I saw on the shelf, I'll point out the error. If the cashier says "Oh, that's the CLUB price" chances are I'll be leaving the store without making any purchase.

Anyway, I was only buying a bottle of milk, so I just carried the keys in one hand and the milk in the other. I scanned and bagged the milk, and then moved to press the "Finish and pay" button, when the display flashed "Unknown item". It told me to set aside the unknown item until a cashier could come by and okay the transaction. It wouldn't let me cancel and start over. There was no "unknown item"; the system had just scanned the barcode on one of those damned club cards. One more reason to hate the things.

TragicMonkey · 23rd December 2012, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by sgtbaker

Flight attendants call them miracle flights. What confuses me about that is why the race to get strapped into a seat for longer than everyone else? If the flight's full, the flight's full, you are going to be squished whether you are the first person on or the last.

It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it.

Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me.

It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now.

RedRatSnake · 23rd December 2012, 08:15 AM

People that take things way to seriously on internet forums and demand things of others to feed their own narcissistic ego.

anglolawyer · 23rd December 2012, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Slocie's

People that take things way to seriously on internet forums and demand things of others to feed their own narcissistic ego.

You gotta cite for that?

RedRatSnake · 23rd December 2012, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by anglolawyer

You gotta cite for that?

Why you SOB ~

LOL

angrysoba · 23rd December 2012, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it.

Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me.

It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now.

Recently they have been thinking a lot more about this stuff. I can't remember where the article and studies are though so please just take my word for it. Oh, wait. I read about it in the Economist. I think I was waiting for a flight. The article explained some smart way of getting people on the plane. The people at the gate hadn't read the article.

Ampulla of Vater · 23rd December 2012, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by TragicMonkey

It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it.

Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me.

It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now.

I just returned from Italy in September and what amazed me was the new boarding priority of A, B, C, D. On your ticket you are assigned a boarding order. You can, of course, pay to upgrade to an "A" or a "B" for additional money. I was a "D" so I boarded last but I didn't even know what it meant until we were being called in alphabetical order.

SezMe · 23rd December 2012, 02:59 PM

The idea of a boarding order is to get those people at the back of the plane on first, then work forward. That way, someone with a seat near the front is not holding up people seated in the rear. I don't think there is an upgrade because all letters are in the same cabin.

LashL · 23rd December 2012, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by anglolawyer

What gets your panties bunched up?

I actually like the "knickers in a twist" phrase better than the "panties in a bunch" phrase.

Anyway, one relatively insignificant thing that annoys me is websites that have something like "top 8" this or "top 10" that but instead of just having them all on the same page, whether in ascending or descending order, you have to click through a bunch of pages to see them.

I typically only get through the first two or three before I decide that I can't be bothered with the rest.

SezMe · 23rd December 2012, 08:01 PM

Posters who quote a loooong previous post in its entirety then add only a few words of commentary.

anglolawyer · 23rd December 2012, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by LashL

I actually like the "knickers in a twist" phrase better than the "panties in a bunch" phrase.

Anyway, one relatively insignificant thing that annoys me is websites that have something like "top 8" this or "top 10" that but instead of just having them all on the same page, whether in ascending or descending order, you have to click through a bunch of pages to see them.

I typically only get through the first two or three before I decide that I can't be bothered with the rest.

LashL - is your hair on fire?

Passive aggression. Although I admit I admire it in pure form as practised by 'customer service' departments the world over.

anglolawyer · 23rd December 2012, 11:51 PM

People who wish me Happy Christmas get my knickers in a twist. It's Merry Christmas. Strictly speaking 'merrie'.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Madalch · 23rd December 2012, 11:56 PM

Improperly-done sodomy.

anglolawyer · 24th December 2012, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Madalch

Improperly-done sodomy.

Can't think of anything worse.

22nd December 2012, 01:02 AM	#41
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22nd December 2012, 01:07 AM	#42
lionking In the Peanut Gallery Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne Posts: 29,643	Originally Posted by mijopaalmc And how about that airline food? Speaking of airlines, as a frequent flier for me it's DYKWIAs. They demand special treatment, priority boarding, carry oversized cabin baggage, recline seats during meals, ask for upgrades (it never works) and hold everyone up on boarding and disembarking while they fiddle with their baggage and electronic toys. Do You Know Who I Am - people with frequent flier status usually lower than your own.
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22nd December 2012, 11:43 AM	#49
fishbait Raggin' the Blues Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New York Posts: 1,013	Humid weather always makes my shorts bunch up accompanied by prickly heat and a nasty rash. Crotchpot cookin' southern style!
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22nd December 2012, 12:03 PM	#50
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22nd December 2012, 12:05 PM	#51
Beerina Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: A floating island above the clouds Posts: 23,835	Originally Posted by aggle-rithm Speaking of Texas, it gets my goat (his name is Farquar) when someone says they are going up to Dallas, when in fact they are going to Fort Worth. Fort Worth is my home town. It is NOT a suburb of Dallas. It is the county seat of a completely different county. It has its OWN suburbs. And, most importantly, one can drive through it without being constantly shunted into decaying neighborhoods with a higher crime rate than Juarez. What makes me even more angry is when I mention this pet peeve, and people say, "So what? Who gives a flip about your home town?" St. Paul feels your pain! Well, I'm gonna guess they do.
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22nd December 2012, 01:08 AM	#43
GlennB Jellied eel and offal fancier Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arcadia Posts: 8,923	The BBC World news tickertape thingy. While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match): "England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about. BBCW will say: "England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe".

22nd December 2012, 04:26 AM	#44
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Easyjet. I have missed two Easy jet flights due to their incompetence,, the second time being refused permission to board while at the gate with the plane standing right outside ('we can't open the doors, sir' 'why not?' 'we can't open the doors sir and if you're going to start swearing we will call security') and yet I have been on a flight which was delayed by some latecomer for whom they did open the doors! I still can't get over the sheer injustice!

22nd December 2012, 04:27 AM	#45
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Originally Posted by GlennB The BBC World news tickertape thingy. While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match): "England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about. BBCW will say: "England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe". A beautifully pointless gripe and exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

22nd December 2012, 07:35 AM	#46
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Harry Potter, Tolkien and any other fiction in which any crisis, no matter how dire, is predictably averted by means of some random, last-minute magical power the author conjures up arbitrarily.

22nd December 2012, 08:06 AM	#47
Modified Illuminator Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SW Florida Posts: 4,062	Originally Posted by sgtbaker When you stop in a parkinglot to let someone cross but they are moving at a snail's pace because they are so engrossed in their phone. Usually they don't have a phone out, they're slow just because they are jerks. The hustle-walk almost everyone used to use in that situation seems to have disappeared.

22nd December 2012, 11:34 AM	#48
Ampulla of Vater Muse Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: North of the White Line of Toldt Posts: 611	Originally Posted by GlennB The BBC World news tickertape thingy. While CNNi will say(of an upcoming international cricket match): "England's Tim Bresnan faces late fitness test before 3rd Test Match", and anybody with the slightest interest in cricket will know what they're talking about. BBCW will say: "England fast bowler Tim Bresnan, who suffered a suspected cruciate ligament strain in training yesterday, will undergo a late fitness test tomorrow morning before the commencement of the third Test Match at Headingley, states England physiotherapist William Pilkington-Smythe". This is so funny because I hate the random and stupid abbreviations used by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX BUSINESS and wish they would just spell it all out. Are we really in that much of a hurry we need the crawl to be abbreviated and butchered? You spend more time attempting to determine what the phrase means than you would if they would spell it all out and phrase it so the average human can understand it. I guess I will have to start watching BBCW if we get that channel.

22nd December 2012, 10:31 PM	#52
lionking In the Peanut Gallery Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne Posts: 29,643	Keeping on a flying theme, how about those passengers who are obviously not disabled but insist on a wheelchair so they can board first and get good seats? I'm not making this up. The people who use them getting on find it quite easy to get off without them (where they would have to wait until others disembark). The Flight Attendants can cure people!
	__________________ A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill

23rd December 2012, 06:03 AM	#53
sts60 Graduate Poster Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,525	Stupid YouTube videos - in other words, pretty much all of them - and stupid trendy Web sites, and stupid trendy cliche words - and news organizations talking about them. Like this morning, sitting and nursing a cup of coffee, NPR starts talking about some idiot popular video. I paused the feed, and kept checking back, and heard "...found out on Facebook and Twitter" <pause>... "4chan and reddit" <pause>... "tumblr" <pause>... "meme" <pause>... It's a fine morning to be a cranky old man, thank you. And you kids get off my lawn! And here's one more, completely unrelated: restroom sinks the size of Lake Ontario that have a faucet reaching about two centimeters out over the edge of the bowl, so you can get maybe one finger under the water when you try to wash your hands.
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23rd December 2012, 07:16 AM	#54
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Air stewards/stewardesses who ask you to do things 'for them'. 'Can you fold your table up for me?'

23rd December 2012, 07:47 AM	#55
sgtbaker Philosopher Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,546	Originally Posted by lionking Keeping on a flying theme, how about those passengers who are obviously not disabled but insist on a wheelchair so they can board first and get good seats? I'm not making this up. The people who use them getting on find it quite easy to get off without them (where they would have to wait until others disembark). The Flight Attendants can cure people! Flight attendants call them miracle flights. What confuses me about that is why the race to get strapped into a seat for longer than everyone else? If the flight's full, the flight's full, you are going to be squished whether you are the first person on or the last.
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23rd December 2012, 08:06 AM	#56
zeggman Graduate Poster Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,760	Originally Posted by Bikewer For me, the check-it-out-yourself lanes have been a blessing. I went to one of the self-checkout lines last week with my wife's keys. She has the keychain version of all those "club cards" that virtually every store has started using now, so they can track your purchases in exchange for "discount" prices. I refuse to participate in that nonsense. I usually only buy a few things at a time, so if the cashier rings up a higher price than the one I saw on the shelf, I'll point out the error. If the cashier says "Oh, that's the CLUB price" chances are I'll be leaving the store without making any purchase. Anyway, I was only buying a bottle of milk, so I just carried the keys in one hand and the milk in the other. I scanned and bagged the milk, and then moved to press the "Finish and pay" button, when the display flashed "Unknown item". It told me to set aside the unknown item until a cashier could come by and okay the transaction. It wouldn't let me cancel and start over. There was no "unknown item"; the system had just scanned the barcode on one of those damned club cards. One more reason to hate the things.
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23rd December 2012, 08:09 AM	#57
TragicMonkey Poisoned Waffles Pither Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Monkey Posts: 30,053	Originally Posted by sgtbaker Flight attendants call them miracle flights. What confuses me about that is why the race to get strapped into a seat for longer than everyone else? If the flight's full, the flight's full, you are going to be squished whether you are the first person on or the last. It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it. Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me. It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now.
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23rd December 2012, 08:15 AM	#58
RedRatSnake Slithering Through life Join Date: May 2008 Location: Southie, Massachusetts. Posts: 1,625	People that take things way to seriously on internet forums and demand things of others to feed their own narcissistic ego.

23rd December 2012, 08:41 AM	#59
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Originally Posted by Slocie's People that take things way to seriously on internet forums and demand things of others to feed their own narcissistic ego. You gotta cite for that?

23rd December 2012, 09:04 AM	#60
RedRatSnake Slithering Through life Join Date: May 2008 Location: Southie, Massachusetts. Posts: 1,625	Originally Posted by anglolawyer You gotta cite for that? Why you SOB ~ LOL

23rd December 2012, 09:12 AM	#61
angrysoba Philosopher Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 8,504	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it. Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me. It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now. Recently they have been thinking a lot more about this stuff. I can't remember where the article and studies are though so please just take my word for it. Oh, wait. I read about it in the Economist. I think I was waiting for a flight. The article explained some smart way of getting people on the plane. The people at the gate hadn't read the article.

23rd December 2012, 02:27 PM	#62
Ampulla of Vater Muse Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: North of the White Line of Toldt Posts: 611	Originally Posted by TragicMonkey It's about storing your carryon baggage close to you. The later you are getting on the plane, the more likely you'll either have to place your bag many rows away from your seat, meaning greater delay in disembarking...or worse, there won't be any room left at all, and they'll "check your bag", ie lose it. Personally, I think people making connecting flights should be given priority as far as carryon baggage space, and seating at the front of the plane. Thanks to flight delays, I've had to literally sprint as fast as I could to make connecting flights before (when I always make sure to leave at least an hour between flights just in case), but of course if they "checked my bag" that means the bag will not arrive with me. It's amazing to me that such an expensive industry, that's been around for so very long, has yet to master the ideas of process improvement, customer service, and efficiency. I don't fly unless I absolutely have to. Someone in my family must actually die before I will fly now. I just returned from Italy in September and what amazed me was the new boarding priority of A, B, C, D. On your ticket you are assigned a boarding order. You can, of course, pay to upgrade to an "A" or a "B" for additional money. I was a "D" so I boarded last but I didn't even know what it meant until we were being called in alphabetical order.

23rd December 2012, 02:59 PM	#63
SezMe post-pre-born Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 16,370	The idea of a boarding order is to get those people at the back of the plane on first, then work forward. That way, someone with a seat near the front is not holding up people seated in the rear. I don't think there is an upgrade because all letters are in the same cabin.

23rd December 2012, 06:29 PM	#64
LashL Goddess of Legaltainment™ Administrator Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 26,174	Originally Posted by anglolawyer What gets your panties bunched up? I actually like the "knickers in a twist" phrase better than the "panties in a bunch" phrase. Anyway, one relatively insignificant thing that annoys me is websites that have something like "top 8" this or "top 10" that but instead of just having them all on the same page, whether in ascending or descending order, you have to click through a bunch of pages to see them. I typically only get through the first two or three before I decide that I can't be bothered with the rest.

23rd December 2012, 08:01 PM	#65
SezMe post-pre-born Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 16,370	Posters who quote a loooong previous post in its entirety then add only a few words of commentary.

23rd December 2012, 09:50 PM	#66
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Originally Posted by LashL I actually like the "knickers in a twist" phrase better than the "panties in a bunch" phrase. Anyway, one relatively insignificant thing that annoys me is websites that have something like "top 8" this or "top 10" that but instead of just having them all on the same page, whether in ascending or descending order, you have to click through a bunch of pages to see them. I typically only get through the first two or three before I decide that I can't be bothered with the rest. LashL - is your hair on fire? Passive aggression. Although I admit I admire it in pure form as practised by 'customer service' departments the world over.

23rd December 2012, 11:51 PM	#67
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	People who wish me Happy Christmas get my knickers in a twist. It's Merry Christmas. Strictly speaking 'merrie'. Happy Christmas everyone.

23rd December 2012, 11:56 PM	#68
Madalch The Jester Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: The wet coast. Posts: 8,697	Improperly-done sodomy.
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24th December 2012, 12:10 AM	#69
anglolawyer Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: surrey, england Posts: 3,167	Originally Posted by Madalch Improperly-done sodomy. Can't think of anything worse.