I agree with Armageddon. A silly one that gets me, that is a bit cheesy (in this scene at least), is in Con Air when Nicholas Cage finally gets to meet his daughter and gives her the bunny.

They say in this industry 1 bad review reaches a thousand or so people, where as 1 good review only reaches a couple of dozen.

In AF’s defence, I wouldn’t say the plane was a wreck. Perhaps just ‘tired’ or aged. Unfortunately, for airlines, passengers expect exceptional interior now-a-days for a low price. And with a fleet the size of AF’s, it must cost a lot and take a long time to upgrade their whole fleet. But I generally agree – I wouldn’t enjoy flying in that aircraft.

No way to put a high-bypass engine back there. Or your landing gear would have to be 7 meters high.

Unless they strapped a whole load of hover boards to the bottom 😀

Each to their own I suppose pagen, but there is so much more to the World than the UK. All your points for NOT travelling could be countered by going to a good airport, for a flight with a decent departure time, on a great airline in business class away from everyone else 😉

Anyway…I’m lucky enough to have been quite a few trips so I will try and think of some good examples. Fiji has probably been the most tropical and idyllic place I’ve been – do the northern islands, not Nandi and Suva. I hear the other Pacific Islands are just as nice though.

I’ve had great times travelling round the states. I spent a month on the west coast a couple of years ago and that was a great experience, though I did the whole post-student hostel thing and only booked hostels a couple of nights ahead so was pretty much free to do what I wanted.

Europe should never be discounted, even though it is close. The south of Germany, in the country, is very beautiful. Around the border of Austria, or Austria itself.

I always love it when someone at work gets the latest one of his articles and forwards it on! Genius. I really hope they are all genuine.

I know fat people. I’m sure most do. And I’m sure most overweight people regret being overweight. But, something can be done about it!

As I’ve argued here before, more exercise and better food in the right portions is all it takes. You can’t tell me that someone that exercises 1 hour a day, eats bran/oats and fruit for breaskfast, salad with no dressing for lunch and lean red meat/chicken with steamed vegetables for dinner is going to get fat?! No.

Relating this to the topic: I, like others, find it extremely uncomfortable if I have to sit next to an overweight person in economy and would find it very unnerving if I am behind them in a queue to get out of a single over wing exit with the plane on fire. Swerve is right, there are seats big enough for overweight people and this is the price they should pay if they can’t fit in a regular economy seat. In fact, it will be cheaper if they buy two economy seats which is the main argument here.

I believe this is a topic where the argument is going to be heavily weighted on one side of the see-saw 😉

The England score! And the fact that I won’t be in the UK to witness the British media and their: “WE WERE ROBBED!” and “WE WERE SO CLOSE TO REPEATING 1966 – ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN WE WON IN ’66? CAUSE WE DON’T MENTION IT THAT OFTEN!”

But yeah, tough luck old chaps 🙂