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rudymomanAug 14, 2010
Dugg for Megan Fox pic. That'll help anyone get over flying fears.
jameslowellAug 14, 2010
Dugg for the look of fear in a child's eye
1storytellerAug 14, 2010
Agreed. Flying just doesn't feel right
Closed AccountAug 14, 2010
I love flying
thezonerAug 14, 2010
if Nights in Rodanthe was on my flight, i'd gouge my eyes out
ssomu007Aug 14, 2010
a child is nervous. Don't cry child. mom comes.
jrod4040Aug 14, 2010
Sucks to be him.
cfuseAug 14, 2010
What sort of sick f**k finds flying a pleasure?
Closed AccountAug 14, 2010
Flying is fun.
layokkAug 14, 2010
Cause it's f**king amazing right now and nobody's happy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtEQB-9tvk
vendrakeAug 14, 2010
<Raises Hand>
Find a security line with a hot chick security guard. Then even the pat downs become fun.
bdbrAug 14, 2010
The ones in first class.
ricoduedAug 15, 2010
I love it so much I'm going to get my license for recreational purposes.
cfuseAug 15, 2010
You all know exactly what I mean. Not the people flying the damn plane, not the people being served diamond water in a solid gold cup in rich class, and not the people that get turned on by being forcibly finger banged in the ten mile long boarding line. Normal people, the ones that are being turned into spam in the hell class seats.
As for being happy about the amazingness of life, it's short sighted nostalgia to assume that starving people with polio weren't bitching about the state of carriages in their day too.
layokkAug 14, 2010
I was/am a f**king terrified flyer. Growing up, I flew constantly and never loved it but never feared it either. On average, I went on 3-4 international and 5-6 interstate flights per year. From time to time, I'd get a little nervous with turbulence, etc but for the most part it wasn't a problem. For some reason, my phobia started to pop up in my early 20s. I really noticed it when I was on a super long flight from Florida to Korea to Australia and I was just on edge the whole time.
A couple years later, I was on my honeymoon flying from Florida to Ireland and we almost crashed upon our return (20 min out from Atlanta). Lightening struck the plane's left engine, killing it, and we banked hard left and lost about 2000 feet of altitude. The plane literally felt like it was about to roll over. The f**king flight attendant was screaming. You know things are bad when a flight attendant loses it. We're still dropping hard when the other engine goes into overdrive. We continued to drop but at a more steady pace. The pilot got on the speaker and told everyone to brace for a "hard landing."
After landing, I said f**k this s**t... I'm not flying again. That was 10 years ago. Earlier this year I had to travel to Vegas for a business related trip. I did what has become the norm for me.... planned a ridiculous road trip. The problem is that my work/family schedule didn't really allow for 48 hours of driving each way. I decided to suck it up and just fly. I reserved the tickets and put it out of my mind. As the day neared, my anxiety went through the roof. I wrote my wife a goodbye letter and wrote out a will. I kept asking myself wtf this dramaqueen s**t was all about.
So, I did a google search for fear of flying just to find something to help me deal with it. I found an extremely cheesy looking site (http://www.fearofflyinghelp.com/) that looked like it was designed in 1997 for geocities. Given the cheese factor, I almost skipped it but decided to try their course. Well holy s**t, it totally worked. I was actually pretty chill for my four flights.
If you have a serious phobia like I have, I'd advise checking it out.
kyanAug 14, 2010
That's the best spam comment I've ever read. Dugg.
fearnloathingAug 14, 2010
Sir, I have no idea if you are serious, spamming, or making some strange jest at comment spam. Regardless, it has been dugg.
layokkAug 14, 2010
LOL, I am being dead serious. I hate spammers as much as anyone but that s**t honestly helped me out. I'm sure a psychologist/psychiatrist could have helped just as much but I didn't have a stack of hundreds burning a hole in my pocket. Anyway that site is free and doesn't have any ads so getting hits wouldn't even make any sense.
sunsetprojectsAug 15, 2010
That site helped me out too. It was designed by a pilot. I try getting a sit as far to the front of the plane as I can less turbulence.
mabakerbrakerAug 14, 2010
This is one messed up article. Really childishly written and offers zero advice.
kyanAug 14, 2010
But has the southWest Airlines rap. That was a nice touch.
dlan4327Aug 14, 2010
I hate flying but for unusual reasons. Not fear, not motion sickness... It's the smell. Air inside planes or specifically the smell inside planes makes me nauseous. It doesn't just smell/feel stuffy, it smells like a mixture of detergent & vomit and it's so dry. It makes me ill.
rootsm3Aug 14, 2010
I used to be afraid of flying but as I got older and grew more and more sick of people and their bulls**t, I think to myself "Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if this thing crashed and burned into the ground"
eccentric4Aug 14, 2010
Turbulence make you nervous? Sudden drops in altitude send your stomach up to have lunch with your tonsils?
Try flying in a small plane. No, not an airline 50-seater, I'm talking a two-seat Cessna 150. Putz around on a windy day in that sardine can, and you'll find nearly every single airline flight smooth as silk. I do.
I've flown small planes since high school, and nothing an airline has flown through has caused me to raise an eyebrow.
layokkAug 14, 2010
Excellent point... and if you knew the types of stresses a large plane could handle, you wouldn't bat an eyelash. Even severe turbulence only taxes a large plane like 1% of its tolerance levels.
ricoduedAug 15, 2010
Yep. I remember seeing a video of a Boeing airplane (7-something, don't know what) having the flexibility of it's wings tested.
Those f**kers went damn near vertical with no issue.
joe8packAug 14, 2010
Xanax exists for a reason.
rahazAug 14, 2010
I'm terrified until I get seated and find out that I'm not sitting next to a fat guy or a baby or that ugly girl who decides to talk to you.
prodevelAug 14, 2010
nerve-wracking... really?!
taaybAug 14, 2010
I love flying and always have. It's hard for me to understand why people are so afraid of it.
Even if the plane crashes I'm not going to feel any pain or be left in coma. I'll die instantly. I'm much more nervous getting up every day and going to work through rush air traffic than I ever am boarding a plan.
ricoduedAug 15, 2010
"Even if the plane crashes I'm not going to feel any pain or be left in coma. I'll die instantly."
That is not really the case. Lots of people live through plane crashes. s**t, Travis Barker lived through one and spent months in the hospital because of all the burns.
But yeah, keep telling yourself it'll be painless ;)
computer_kidAug 14, 2010
♫ Trains Good... Planes Bad... Who Who! ♫
v73pontiacAug 14, 2010
cool story bro
hredhAug 14, 2010
Best airline: alaska
Worst: Hawaiian
librarykrystalAug 14, 2010
It appears that the author got bored after #6 and had a child finish the list with "things about airplane rides."
hhp2kAug 14, 2010
The SouthWest Airlines Rap video was f**king epic. I wish I was on that flight. That guy deserves a raise.
oryxAug 14, 2010
Don't even comment about flying till you've flown certain Eastern European lines!
The seats fold forwards to convert to cargo area; "No Smoking" signs are social commentary; passengers offer attendants drinks from their own vodka supplies.
And you're always waiting for the announcement that "one of the engines has flamed out, but is of no concern"
bermudianguyAug 15, 2010
"You are sitting on a chair in the sky and no one cares" - Louis Ck .I remind myself that everytime I fly and it makes it suck a little less.
atarioAug 15, 2010
Dugg for the Southwest Airlines Rap.