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That is about the best burn on Seinfeld I’ve ever read. Bravo!

I agree on the embarrassment humor. Cringey stuff is worse than the most hellacious and gory horror to me most of the time.

Sienfeld never really hit me that way, though. It just seemed stupid and contrived in a very “look how edgy and relevant I am” sort of way.

No worries. Now I know it exists…maybe I can find a translation or translate it myself with Google if I can get a copy at all 🤣

I can’t find an English edition, unfortunately for me.

Yeah, I found the same books, and they don’t seem like the right one.

So is it Brock Allan Turner, convicted rapist, or Brock Allen Turner, convicted rapist? I want to be clear regarding who we’re discussing.

Hey, are we talking about convicted rapist Brock Allen Turner?

So are the other browsers Power Rangers?

A host of r/relationships posts absolutely support that assertion!

Umm…I think my wife’s going to be upset when she learns I’m getting a girlfriend…

French cologne, my ass! He wears WAAAAAAY to much Axe Body Spray like a patriotic American bro who doesn’t understand geography should.

I would think Walz.

Now all we need is a DHD, a MALP, and a power source, and we’re in business.

You gonna bail me out when I get arrested for trying to open the door mid-flight? 😂

Seriously, though, all you guys here are right about everything you’ve said. I’ll undoubtedly be forced to fly again, and I’ll remind myself of these things when I do.

Of course, if I’m on the one flight that does disintegrate in midair, well…my last thoughts of y’all might not be terribly charitable. 😉

I unfold paperclips and use the smaller end. One caveat that make me realize it’s not the best idea: the point I unfolded can break. I’ve never lost one in my ear, but I could imagine it happening.

Funny, I use shampoo over my whole body because the equivalent soap doesn’t have the menthol in it that I use to wake me the heck up every morning. That tingly feeling of freshness I get is phenomenal.

Yeah, escape pods have been implemented in some aircraft in the past, but the idea has always ended without wide scale adoption for the reasons so many have stated here.

Honestly, I do understand that ejector seats are not a good idea, but I was thinking something more like this. It’s more like a lifeboat and would be equipped as such to address the same sort of concerns a disaster at sea would require to allow folks to survive and be tracked.

I get that the expense and weight appear prohibitive, but it’s insane to me that we put people 30,000 feet in the air with no plan other than prevention and measures that don’t completely address all dangers.

I know nothing will likely ever be done in this vein, and probably rightfully so, but it sure feels like airlines are the ultimate “you pays your money and you takes your chance” experience. Given my own limited experience with flying, it increasingly scares the hell out of me personally. I didn’t have occasion to fly until I was in late middle age, and I found the experience thoroughly terrifying.