https://xkcd.com/2862

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Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.

  • Keris (They)
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    586 months ago

    Wow, has it been that long since I last flew? We didn’t even have the hole, let alone the tail gunners. Once we’d hit an aircow or two we’d have swarms of them coming at us constantly, biting at the tail of the plane. Meanwhile the first set of pilots are being replaced because the lack of cow catcher just let them right in through the front windshield. Truly a terrible experience, 7/10 would fly again but only on sale.

    • @kerrypacker
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      256 months ago

      And you can’t even smoke any more.

      • @ladicius
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        126 months ago

        You still can smoke on planes. It just got much more expensive.

        • @Daft_ish
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          56 months ago

          Not if you only smoke cock.

        • @jaybone
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          16 months ago

          And then you can’t get on a plane anymore afterwards.

    • @awnery
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      • @jaybone
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        36 months ago

        Cows are the new AI. They will take all of our jobs.

        • Keris (They)
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          26 months ago

          Take your angry upvote and go make cheeseburgers :|

          Though that does make one wonder… Cows with guns versus SkyNet?

  • @[email protected]
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    426 months ago

    I love diving in aviation fuel. The fuel tank seats are genuimely the most relaxing. Like an isolation tank, except you get to slosh up against the other passergers every time the aircraft makes a maneuver. nice, cozy, intimate, communal and lubey experience.

    • @Intralexical
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      276 months ago

      The fuel tank seats are genuimely the most relaxing.

      …That may just be the benzene.

    • @fruitSnackSupreme
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      -96 months ago

      Am I retarded? I don’t get the relevance of this comment, is it just totally random?

      • R0cket_M00se
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        66 months ago

        You see the seats in the wings, right? The joke is that they’re inside the wing tanks where the fuel is stored.

      • @marcos
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        56 months ago

        The comic filled the fuel tanks with seats.

  • @fireweed
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    266 months ago

    Everyone’s going for the gunner seats… An I the only one whose restless legs are excited to have the opportunity to pedal?

    • @sizzler
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      156 months ago

      If you pause we die

      • @fireweed
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        226 months ago

        Fully honest audit of my cycling abilities: we never left the ground in the first place

    • @RGB3x3
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      66 months ago

      I’d rather the mega-fun bumper car seats

      • @fireweed
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        56 months ago

        Imagine a coast-to-coast red eye in the bumper car seats. Or a transatlantic flight. RIP anyone on a non-stop from Singapore to NYC. And that’s assuming there’s no turbulence…

        • @[email protected]
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          86 months ago

          After about an hour, someone would figure out how to get the bumper cars out of the arena and there’d be a death match by the trash hole.

    • @dual_sport_dork
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      26 months ago

      Yes, but allow me to present this compelling counter proposal:

      Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka…

    • @[email protected]
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      346 months ago

      “It is unlikely that two passengers can match the power of a jet engine. [citation needed]”

    • @Evotech
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      16 months ago

      I still don’t get it

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        Basically a joke on how planes could have more seats.

        The main part of the plane is mostly the same. Front for first-class. Middle for economy. I’m assuming the bumper seats are more expensive cause they should be more fun. The penthouse is just the premium first class, assuming that they get they’re own room. The tail gunners might be the best seats cause you don’t have to do anything and get to earn extra miles. People in front of the back wing seem to be on death row.

        Wing seats don’t make sense cause wings are thin and you would be sitting on top of them but then you just die. Wings thick enough for people to sit at aren’t possible (I think) or they could just where you lie down, which would be preferable to sitting down. Peddling seats could be free but require a lot of leg work, not sure if they’re expected to peddle always or just in an emergency. Look out seems rather pointless, radar would be more reliable.

        The side car just seems dumb, likely to get torn off due to wind resistance.

        The cow cather is to catch cows, as the name implies.

        The hole for trash seem to be a bit unethical, littering and all that.

        Fighter escort seems pointless, planes rarely get shot down. Unless you’re flying over interesting countries.

        • @PopShark
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          136 months ago

          Wings are also where the majority of fuel is stored in commercial aircraft so any passengers inside them might drown

  • @[email protected]
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    136 months ago

    If you like to fly alone and have best view, the best seat is the “lookout”. It’s also cozy and quiet.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      Yeah it may sound like it but nobody tells the truth about them … If u sit there u must blink They let u chose the colour red on one side and green on the other …

    • @bartvbl
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      126 months ago

      I believe it is also meant to catch agrathean sperm whales and bowls of petunias.

      • @KepBen
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        46 months ago

        Really though you never know what you’ll encounter six miles up, but you can be prepared to catch it

  • LCP
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    86 months ago

    I’ll gladly take the extra legroom seats!

    • Karyoplasma
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      46 months ago

      I know that feel. I’m 1,93m (that’s 6’4’’ in America) and I feel DVT crawling up to me every time I sit in an airplane seat.

      • LCP
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        16 months ago

        I had to travel on a very short notice 2 weeks ago. Chose the cheapest flight I could find - Spirit.

        They have the option to bid for exit row seats and the large front seats. I bid $3 for the exit row seats and … won! Spread my legs out gloriously throughout the entire flight.