Unless they get the say-so from the pilot, no flight attendant is going to want you to wander around while the seatbelt sign is on. The law says the pilot can’t move that plane during takeoff, landing, or on the surface, if everyone isn’t in their seats. So by letting you get up and walk around, they’re committing…

yeah what employee is looking at this situation like “well thank god they almost killed that guy, i really didnt want to take the bus”

I feel like I am not doing a great job of capturing, in words, the dread that this produces in me. Across the room, one of my dogs is licking its asshole with intense fervor; it is making sounds like the stirring of a pot of macaroni and cheese. Also, large bees are thumping loudly off the glass of the window with…

Fortunately, fewer people fly with any sort of regularity than the people who fly all the time think.

Armed officers of the state enforcing a corporate policy (which is not a law.) Awesome.

Rookie mistake. If you think Forced Sodomy Air is just about the sodomy, then you haven’t met the new Forced Sodomy Air.

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

what pisses me off about this is the whole employee transfer thing. that united would rather 1) offer $3200 for people to disembark to save, what, $2000 flying the employees on another airline? and very obviously 2) beat the fucking shit out of a guy and settle the inevitable multi-million dollar lawsuit that results…

Falling in line every time JUST MOVES THE FUCKING LINE.

“Well, I don’t love the customer service of Forced Sodomy Air, but they are $13 cheaper than JetBlue, so I guess I’ll have to suck it up.”

“Shrug! THE FINE PRINT IS PARAMOUNT! He would have gotten some monetary compensation! He should have accepted his fate without complaint!”

Counter counterpoint: he has made all his legal remedies more valuable and effective by raising the stakes.

Your rights were basically forfeit the second you purchased the ticket. Passengers agree to being bumped (with compensation) whether they read the fine print or not. Dude probably should have read the fine print. The police shouldn’t have body slammed him.

Mencken said that no one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people, and I would argue that no one ever went broke underestimating their apathy. It’s amazing the kind of mental logic people will put themselves through to avoid even questioning the status quo a little bit. The (insert…

The American people, especially the honest folk of middle America, are not kind decent folk. Well, they may be, until they encounter hierarchy.

Then they become craven asskissing bootlickers. We are a nation of joiners and toadies, and I will put a huge amount of money on a very strong correlation with joining a…

This whole “OBEY ANY AND EVERY ORDER YOU ARE GIVEN OR YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FORFEIT” deal aboard airliners is getting really old.

Apropos of nothing: I keep thinking of Jared’s wife as the first lady, and apparently the New York Times does too:

What kind of heinous shit would a decent college football team have to do, for this to happen on the same scale?

Maybe the cheerleaders did something completely disgusting and amoral, like going to a restaurant with a married man.

Rumor has it the cheerleaders were also part of a pyramid scheme.