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Author Topic: The "What makes me go insane!" thread Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-26-2009 10:31 PM                     I haven't watched TV news in ages and rarely ever switch the TV on except to watch an HD-DVD movie... I even watch the shuttle lift offs on NASA TV on the web. I generally read the news on the net... But that dam balloon boy thing is still getting big coverage. A full article in this weeks Time Magazine to boot! Iddiotts! Youa ll watch... there will be a tv show or at least a dum made for TV movie about all this .  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-27-2009 08:25 AM                        If these idiots get charged with and convicted of a crime (and if there is any justice in the world, they should serve hard time, not only for the hoax, but for making the rest of us GO INSANE having to listen to this tripe) then these media whores should be legally blocked from any profit whatsoever from subsequent media deals (books, TV movie, etc.). Putting hundreds of rescue workers at considerable risk for a media hoax certainly constititues a major crime. If they were to profit from, say, a TV movie, then the rest of the brainless hords will come out of the woodwork to try similar nonsensical stunts to get their ugly faces on the telly to annoy the rest of us even more.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-27-2009 06:27 PM                     This story really exemplifies just how copy-cat today's media has become.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 10-28-2009 01:36 AM                     Here's something that really cheeses me off. All film reviewers who use the term "mise-en-scene" in reviews. Why? Because it's ing annoying, that's why!  |  IP: Logged Betsie Beadling Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Fairfax, Virginia, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-28-2009 07:50 PM                     This Stupid Mcafee Program my Father put on my Computer, he thinks its better than the VCom Sys Suite!!! NOT!!! I hate Mcafee its slowed down my Comp and that Sucks!!!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-29-2009 04:18 AM                  Guys with ponytails! YUKKIE POO POO!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-29-2009 05:20 AM                       Soda straws that aren't cut cleanly (or have been flared out from having been carried around vertically inside a waitresses apron all day), and the fine little jagged edge keeps roughing up the inside of your lip.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-30-2009 01:41 PM                     quote: Brad Miller Oh and did I ever mention my love for the assholes that bring BABIES onto airplanes? Yes SCREAMING, SLOBBERING, PUKING, CRYING BABIES in an enclosed space that it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to get away from!!! This article appeared in the local paper today. I thought it would fit this thread well. San Jose Mercury News posted: Pamela Root's 2-year-old son was screaming for the Southwest Airlines plane to "Go! Plane! Go!" "I want Daddy!'' Adam shouted. Over and over again. Despite her embarrassment, the stay-at-home San Jose mom remained confident that once the plane took off and she fed him, Adam would calm down and take a nap — just as he had on the half-dozen other plane rides with Mom. The flight crew wasn't willing to find out. Root and her son, Adam, were on their way home to San Jose when they were kicked off Monday's Southwest Flight 637. "I left, rather embarrassed,'' Root said Thursday. "Then, I was so mad, I almost cried.'' With her luggage heading back home without her, Root was stuck in Amarillo, Texas, and forced to buy a portable crib and diapers and stay another night with her parents. Still fuming, she wants Southwest to apologize and compensate her for the flight and things she bought. Adam's father, Mike Root, a software engineer at Symantec, who was waiting for them in San Jose, is also livid. Southwest, with its fun and family-friendly reputation, immediately began looking into the matter on Thursday at the request of the Mercury News. Spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said it's "very rare'' to ask someone to leave a flight, and especially "unusual'' to remove a crying child. Root, 38, said she thought she had a foolproof flying routine with her son. Wait until takeoff to feed Adam so his ears wouldn't hurt. Then get him to take a nap on the flight. The routine always made him a bit cranky but never out of control, she said. There was always the bag of trucks and books about trucks for a backup. Monday, Adam was more than a little cranky. There were annoyed looks from fellow passengers, Root said. Then the captain made a surprise announcement: The plane would return to the gate because of a "passenger issue.'' At first, she dreaded what sounded like a delay. Then, she discovered the passenger was Adam. Suddenly, they were being escorted off the plane by an attendant who told Root something to the effect of: "We just can't tolerate that for two hours.'' "He'll be fine once we take off,'' Root remembers insisting. "We've heard that before,'' the flight attendant told Root. Like most other airlines, Southwest gives its flight attendants discretion in determining what constitutes a "safe and comfortable'' flight, McInnis said. And they give attendants leeway in figuring out how to "resolve'' situations. Other airlines have similar rules. United Airlines spokeswoman Sarah Massier said United has three pages of what they call "right-of-refusal" reasons. "But no,'' Massier said. "We don't have a policy on crying children.'' Tim Smith, spokesman for American Airlines, said it is "extremely rare'' for the carrier to deny boarding to a disruptive child — "far more rare than problems with disruptive adults, for sure.'' In June 2008, American Eagle removed a 2-year-old autistic boy and his mother from a flight in North Carolina because of a crying fit. Still, Root might not get much sympathy from frequent fliers whose journeys often get bombarded with cries, wails and snores. Palo Alto mom Kristin Loew, 32, sees both sides. "This is a tough one,'' said Loew, who helps design the Silicon Valley Moms Blog. On the one hand, Loew said that she definitely would have fed her girls, now 10 and 7, because she is hypersensitive to other passengers and remembers her pre-mom flying days with screaming kids on the flight. On the other hand, Loew said, "I certainly never would have kicked her off the flight.'' "Kids can't help it,'' she said. "And it's so ridiculous that people can't understand that.'' Yes, she's mortified, but Root admits to learning a lesson herself. When she rebooked her flight home Tuesday, she chose a 5 p.m. departure and fed Adam well before takeoff. How did he do? "He had his moments,'' she said. "I warned him what would happen if he acted up, that we'd get kicked off the plane.'' But soon enough, a nap kicked in and "he behaved beautifully.''  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-30-2009 03:17 PM                        Why do people with kids need to be flying to and fro so much anyway? Stay at home where you belong! The kid doesn't need to go out of state. Make relatives come visit you. The first time I was on an airplane, I was too entranced with the sheer awesomeness of flying that I didn't make a peep, though I was 5 years old.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-30-2009 05:01 PM                     Southwest Airlines is now my official airline of choice! quote: foolish Loew lady "Kids can't help it,'' she said. "And it's so ridiculous that people can't understand that.'' Again, if that is so, then LEAVE THEM AT HOME!!! They have no right to be flying. Any child old enough to actually remember the trip will be old enough to communicate via English and isn't a problem assuming the parent puts it to them, and if they aren't old enough to be talked to and controlled, they wouldn't have remembered anything about the trip anyway...so even if grandma had died and they were flying cross-country to her funeral, it doesn't matter because a screaming baby wouldn't remember it anyway. Leave 'em at home until they are old enough to fly. The rule should be that every passenger must be able to speak English relatively fluently. (That rule also works well for the illegals. This is America. If you don't speak the language, get out. ) Seriously, one of these days there will be an airline that gets a clue and starts designating certain flights as "baby free" and they will ALWAYS sell out. Everyone secretly hates babies on planes. I'm just one of the few people that will actually speak up for what everyone is thinking.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-30-2009 05:42 PM                        quote: Brad Miller Seriously, one of these days there will be an airline that gets a clue and starts designating certain flights as "baby free" and they will ALWAYS sell out. No they wouldn't, because (1) most people don't really have much choice on what day or time they fly and (2) the airline would probably charge a premium for the baby-free flight, and cheapskate travelers wouldn't want to pay it.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-30-2009 08:39 PM                     quote: an ignorant comment from Kristin Loew "Kids can't help it,'' she said. "And it's so ridiculous that people can't understand that.'' Um, it is even more ridiculous for grown adult parents to stupidly gamble on whether or not their infant is going to have an id-driven psychotic shit fit in a place where adults are cramped and confined for 2 hours or more. Yeah, I agree. Kids can't help it. Knowing that, you parents shouldn't bring them into that situation in the first place. Next time, try traveling by rail (where the screaming kid can be taken back to your private room) or better yet just leave the kid at home or even better still, make the other relatives travel to visit you. You have an infant child for crying out loud. And while certain realities are being realized, please keep those damned screaming 2 year olds out of the movie theaters while you're at it. Don't assume my intensely hateful anger at movie theater cellphone users equates to any slack given to parents who bring an irritated baby into a movie theater. That shit is going to piss me off very badly as well.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-31-2009 01:47 AM                     Uh Oh...From the "Better tell them we're sorry so we don't loose customers department": The San Jose Mercury News updates: Southwest apologizes, reimburses San Jose mom tossed from a flight with cranky 2-year-old Mercury News Posted: 10/30/2009 07:51:27 PM PDT Updated: 10/30/2009 10:18:43 PM PDT Southwest Airlines has apologized to a San Jose mom who was kicked off a plane along with her unruly 2-year-old son earlier this week. But Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told the Mercury News the airline did not regret its decision to yank Pamela Root and her son, Adam, off the plane — which flight attendants made in the interests of safety, she said — just the inconvenience it caused the family. Root said Friday she accepts Southwest's apology, "and in the future we just hope that children are not separated from their luggage." The crew bounced Root and her son off a flight in Amarillo, Texas, on her way home to San Jose because passengers could not hear preflight safety announcements, McInnis said. "We have to abide by FAA policies and be able to deliver safety announcements," she said, adding that the crew tried to soothe the child. "Our flight attendants gave the child juice and coloring books, and we're sorry she was inconvenienced." Root will receive a refund for the flight and a $300 travel voucher to cover her expenses. She was stuck in Amarillo and forced to buy a portable crib and diapers and stay another night with her parents.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-31-2009 02:17 AM                     At least they only apologized for the inconvenience. Now where is the apology from the mother for inconveniencing the rest of the passengers on that flight who were delayed?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-31-2009 09:19 AM                        Cinemas and churches solved this problem years ago with Cry Rooms. Perhaps the last row of aircraft could be designated for such people. When they call for "people who need assistance" to board first, then the FA could usher them DIRECTLY to the sound isolated row. . . .the very back row. Louis  |  IP: Logged

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