XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 12/01/2025 14:47, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   > On 2025-01-11, D  wrote:   
   >> As regular readers of my posts know, I had the unpleasant opportunity   
   >> to fly with ryanair, back to my refuge from the wokeness of western   
   >> europe.   
   >   
   > RyanAir is truly one of the world's worst airlines. With Spirit Air in   
   > the US doing their best to emulate them.   
   >   
   > As a libertarian, you should hate them even more, because they do their   
   > very best to milk government subsidies; they like to fly in and out of   
   > tiny regional airports attracted there by regional development agencies   
   > that want to bost that they village airport has international airline   
   > service.   
   >   
   >> There was one saving grace... a very beautiful female flight attendant who   
   >> let me sit next to my wife, so she could decrease my suffering. Before   
   >> landing she shooed me away so as not to affect the balance of the 737   
   >> (BS!) and I said that of course I have to take my bag and coat so as not   
   >> to "affect the balance" or else I would be afraid of the plane crashing.   
   >>   
   >> To my great surprise she smiled at my joke, and said, "well, I don't think   
   >> it would be that serious".   
   >   
   > I suspect the weight of your body is more that the weight of you bag and   
   > coat, so there may have been some rational thought in her answer, too.   
   If it gets you where you want to go at rock bottom prices, who cares?   
      
   --   
   “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit   
   atrocities.”   
      
   ― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de   
   Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de   
   M. de Voltaire   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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