The song is "Vintersaga" from 1984, written and originally sung by Ted Ström. The more well known version is a cover by Monica Törnell. The title means "Winter Tale". Very Swedish.

She's not Swedish, nor even Scandinavian. ;)

Some of the talented pilots handle the challenge surprisingly well, while others decide landing on the nose gear is an acceptable method. Others abandon the landing altogether and go-around to try

+1. Water is enough unless your workout is over an hour or if you're working out in a very hot environment (e.g. Florida) where you sweat a lot. And even in those cases you should not go full Gatorade. 1 part Gatorade in 5 parts water is more than enough. Actually adding a pinch of sea salt and a bit of honey to your…

Fair dinkum. The problem with discussing stuff with strangers in writing is that irony and such don't travel well. :)

Why not just call them Airplane Paid Eye-Candy

Those you mentioned are "Euro-Fords", though. ;)

Clarkson takes the piss but for the record he loved the Ford GT so much he bought one. (And then he had massive reliability issues with it, but that's another story.)

My use of "she" wasn't a gender statement so much as something I had to do in order to get around a grammatical constraint. I had to choose he or she in my sentence*. Since flight attendants are more often than "she" than "he" (and definitely on Singapore Airlines), I chose "she".

One of the major causes of death in survivable accidents tends to be not finding the exits and succumbing to smoke and fire. This probably happens to people not paying attention to the safety demo.

Kudos to you.

I agree. Management investing in the staff would be awesome. I think that's one of the central issues on North American carriers. Flight attendants don't feel as if management cares. So many layoffs and paycuts over so many years. Hard rosters. I don't blame them for throwing up their hands and going "meh".

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Well put. One big issue with US carriers is that it is a tough industry that has had a lot of layoffs and pay cuts. I can understand if employees aren't massively motivated.

I don't think they need to be drop dead gorgeous. In fact if you look closely the percentage of actually drop dead gorgeous flight attendants on Asian carriers is about the same as on any other carrier (if you factor in aging).

Many Asian airlines don't have to adhere to age discrimination laws, so they can bring in new, young talent on a regular basis. A rotating staff also allows them to keep payroll costs low while unionized flight attendants earn tenure and can't be fired when they no longer rock the skirt.

Nitpick follows. This is a palette.

This car and similar tiny ones is brilliant if you live in crowded European cities with narrow streets. In a country like the US, not so much.

There. Fixed it for you. From personal experience I (and probably every other parent in the world) can tell you that convincing your kid to go to sleep takes a lot more than that.