Gemmill

One for the plane geeks: 9pm tonight on the National Geographic channel, a documentary about some fuckwit pilot who let his 15 year old son at the controls of a commercial jet. Not surprisingly, it crashed. It's called Kid in the Cockpit, which sounds worryingly like a Smooth Operator thread title.

The moderate muslims have to make themselves more vocal in their disapproval I think. Also, they should be willing to "grass" the nutters up to authorities. However, sometimes I get the feeling even the moderates have strong sympathies with the fundamentalists. I hope they prove me wrong. 89713[/snapback] Exactly. There should be widespread condemnation of the way the protesters are going about things, but if there has been, I haven't heard too much of it.

Anyone see the "50 most shocking moments in comedy" last night. Catholics were very badly represented by this humourless wanker who sat with an expressionless face talking about how appalling Father Ted and Life of Brian are and how they make a mockery of his faith. His title that appeared under his name was "Disgruntled Roman Catholic". He was a total tosser though, and far from representative of the Catholics I know.

I'm flying to the good ol' US of Stateside in May and I'm not even scared - NAILS!

"Have you tried unplugging the monitor?" 86775[/snapback] "What so you mean to tell me it's toontastic.linuxdriven.net?? And I'm not banned??"

Just another day at the office for supernerd tbh.

It can't be done! Surely!

How would NASA have even the remotest idea that they were alive after the explosion though? Presumably the explosion caused everything to......explode.....preventing them from knowing anything about what was going on up there?

My brothe was once electrocuted in the shower because the stupid plumber put a nail straight through the power cable. Fortunately, the fuse blew immediately. I've been a bit scared of electric showers since.... 86553[/snapback] What was your brother doing showering with the plumber? Not the only nail he drove home that day tbh.

So the list of things you're scared of so far is: Planes Coconuts Mice that emerge from video recorders. Owt else? 86539[/snapback] Showers. 86541[/snapback] Forgot about them, the griftin little get! 86543[/snapback] Fuck off, we shower the same amount, just at different times! Just because I don't suffer from night sweating and bed wetting like you.... 86545[/snapback] No nightsweats here daft lad. You stink - FACT!

So the list of things you're scared of so far is: Planes Coconuts Mice that emerge from video recorders. Owt else? 86539[/snapback] Showers. 86541[/snapback] Forgot about them, the griftin little get!

So the list of things you're scared of so far is: Planes Coconuts Mice that emerge from video recorders. Owt else?

Car crash isn't gonna get you on the news though, is it?

There was a plane a few years ago in America that lost a section of it's tail and flew upside down for 15 minutes before eventually crashing and killing all on board. To compound matters, I have heard when the body is stressed like this time goes into slow motion "survival mode" and it would have felt like hours to the victims. Horrendous. 86247[/snapback] Handy in a way though cos it could give you time come up with an escape plan.

At the end of the day it's statistically safer to fly than drive though. Something that's escaped the attention of everyone in this thread, it would seem.

Not to mention the sound of your tears sizzling as they hit the hot plate.

Strange. I've flown direct from Corfu to Newcastle direct in a 757 before. Apart from an emergency evacuation once, my most fightening experience on a plane was when I was flying back from America, about 1 am local time, the 31st September, 1997. The pilot announced "he had some terrible news for us". Already being a nervous flyer, I nearly shit my pants, convinced he was going to say that an engine had blown and we weren't going to make it to land or something (I was well aware we were in the mid-Atlantic). Thankfully, he went on to say "there's been a terrible car crash in Paris, and Dodi Fayed is dead and Dianna is critically injured". There was an audible sigh of relief from everyone on board. By the time we landed at Manchester, Dianna was declared dead. Later on I found out the match against Liverpool was cancelled. 86025[/snapback] Another example of the gross overreaction to that bint's death tbh. 86031[/snapback] Renton is Billy Liar man. There's only 30 days in September. This is just his way of feeling like he played a part in the whole Diana story - like people who have 9/11 stories and that. 86033[/snapback] August the 31st then. It's a true story as it happens, not really worth making up. 86039[/snapback] I was actually working at Manchester Airport that day in the food court in T1 arrivals. I know cos we had to turn all the fryers and broiler off as a mark of respect. 86215[/snapback] It's what she would've wanted.

That's spot on about Hugh Laurie in House. His accent is AWFUL. Don Cheadle's cockney accent in Ocean's 11 deserves a mention too. Dick Van Dyke-tastic!

All that was missing was the 'whistling dixie' in the background! 86071[/snapback] Perhaps Renton could drive the General Lee whilst he's flying 86087[/snapback] Renton P Coltrane tbh.

Hollywood Irish accents do tend to be awful. Brad Pitt's in that IRA film a few year's back was desperate. Tom Cruise as well in that thing with Nicole Kidman. Really, really bad.

I was first like.

Not sure I follow. It's a fact you're more likely to drive on the way to the airport than on the flight itself (especially in some foreign countries), but that doesn't help people who have developed phobias much, unfortunately, no matter how much you tell yourself it. 86035[/snapback] Aye, the pilot'll very rarely let you have a go like.

Strange. I've flown direct from Corfu to Newcastle direct in a 757 before. Apart from an emergency evacuation once, my most fightening experience on a plane was when I was flying back from America, about 1 am local time, the 31st September, 1997. The pilot announced "he had some terrible news for us". Already being a nervous flyer, I nearly shit my pants, convinced he was going to say that an engine had blown and we weren't going to make it to land or something (I was well aware we were in the mid-Atlantic). Thankfully, he went on to say "there's been a terrible car crash in Paris, and Dodi Fayed is dead and Dianna is critically injured". There was an audible sigh of relief from everyone on board. By the time we landed at Manchester, Dianna was declared dead. Later on I found out the match against Liverpool was cancelled. 86025[/snapback] Another example of the gross overreaction to that bint's death tbh. 86031[/snapback] Renton is Billy Liar man. There's only 30 days in September. This is just his way of feeling like he played a part in the whole Diana story - like people who have 9/11 stories and that.

Probably the scariest flight I've ever been on was going to Florida when I was 8. The turbulence was horrendous, and there were loads of those moments where the plane just drops like a stone and you think it's never gonna right itself. Most of those moments were followed by various drunk people throughout the plane shouting "YEEEEEEHAWWW!" like the Dukes of Hazard though, which made it all seem a bit less worrying. Good old Brits abroad.

Flying into San Francisco for the first time is a bit of a "This can't be right...." moment. You fly in over the bay, and the runway starts right at the edge of it, so it looks for all the world as if you're about to ditch into the water and just as you touch down the runway appears beneath you - if you're on the right side of the plane, you can only see water all around until the very last second. I will admit to being a bit worried.