What, are you going to boo if the plane crashes?

your a patient alright 

I stand up immediately, like immediately. I’m 6'3" with a history of back and knee issues (though gone now) and the sooner I can stand up and extend my joints, the better. I flip the arm rest up and am usually the first person standing in my area by significant margin. If you want to take exceptions, take them with…

I’ve enjoyed relatively good health thus far, but when I herniated a disc about a decade ago, there was a period of time where I would have to stop the car twice on my 20-25 minute drive to work to get out and stand up, due to excruciating pain from my sciatic nerve that came after maybe 5 minutes or so of sitting in…

And many peoples’ schedules mean that the only time they are able to get sleep during the course of that particular day (or night) is during their flight - in which case, they obviously wouldn’t be spending the flight time standing. You don’t know everyone’s story, so don’t fool yourself into thinking you do (and…

I’ll bite.. as a heavy travaller, while I can’t (and won’t speak for EVERYONE on the plane, I can give some reasonable answers to this):

Heck, let ‘em stand. What I don’t care for is the ones who make a break for the door from the back of the aircraft. Sitting or standing, wait in order like the rest of us.

You can get a window and take all the time you want. Otherwise, you’re going when it’s our row’s turn to exit the plane.

You’re obviously young. When you get older, you’ll understand the need to stand. 

Some of them are standing because they are anxious about making a connecting flight.

Get over yourself. It is a level of anxiety many flyers get in both not wanting to bottle neck the flow of egress by not being prepared and also wanting to get off the plane as fast as possible themselves. I agree that there’s nowhere to go, but if someone wants to get as prepped as possible for leaving their seat…

One question for the clown that wrote this:

Can we all talk some shit about the assholes who sit behind you and use your headrest to pull themselves up out of their seats?  There is nothing like dozing off in your chair with some headphones on only to have your seat suddenly buck backward.  Or if you are really lucky, they will get your hair stuck between their…

Full disclosure: I’m firmly in team “no reclining”.

A seat in front of you that has reclined can be slowly and subtly pushed back to its full upright position. I’ve done this numerous times. I’ve also used the knee-blocking method if I can catch them mid-recline. 

I love the A/C idea and will be adding that to my…

and then I gouge your eyes out and call the police to charge you with assault. congrats on escalating to violence which leads to permanent blindness and a criminal record.

God, I hope that "lock him up" chant burned its way into his insecure little facsimile of a soul and we get a torrent of rage tweets about it tomorrow. HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!

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you poor bastards, at least there’s comfort in knowing it’ll all be over soon.

Starred for “Reclined seats are an affront to civilized behavior and rule-making is pointless.” 

The window seat has the window. The aisle has extra elbow room. That’s why you pick either window or aisle. The middle seat is fucked.