New "high density" seating arrangements on planes; Redheads are awesome; carpet/drape bible reference?

[RandomAnthony]

Brace yourself...

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/run...

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

It looks like you would get more leg room than I've had on some flights lately. But, where would you put your carry on luggage?
I'm with Bun. I want trains!

[smetchie]

TRAINS! Please!

[Stephen]

Whatever it is you people are talking about, because I just got here and (according to British usage) can't be arsed to read back too far, I say Trains.

[Félix]

Trains.

[Cosmic Sher]

You know those seats look like they would fit one cheek of the average bottom. I can just imagine an 8 hour flight hanging half off one of those with the other side all numb & tingly. Yes, those crazy designers sure add style & comfort to our lives.... :|

[Sarah]

I think they said they would only use that arrangement for short trips. I don't think we'd let them cram us in that way on longer flights - we need our personal screens to keep us entertained, and a way to lean back and sleep. On the other hand, more leg room would be worth something. I'm not a large person, but I'm miserable in economy on international flights these days.

[Cosmic Sher]

Well, that's good then. I guess I could handle it for an hour or so but after that my 'oooh-people-so-close-creep-me-out' vibes tend to spike.

[Stephen]

It looks very uncomfortable, and these are supposed to be for the upper class seating? lol

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The seating itself doesn't seem so awful, it's having to face other people that would be a drag. Also, where are the seatbelts?

[Félix]

It's like riding the subway.

[Kevin]

i love airplanes. sitting scrunched up for hours on end (try economy seating on US Air for 12 hours to bejing) is not comfortable but being in china is

[Félix]

YES!!!

[[deleted user]]

Love Trains!!!!!!!!!!!!

[[deleted user]]

Are you inside or outside?

[Félix]

It takes a gigantic village to love trains properly.


[I have no idea what that means.]

[Sally, la reina]

I love trains. I was thinking today about reviving a train thread and talking more about WHY we don't have a better national train line.

I told Sweeter a weirdly discombobulated narrative that blamed deregulation and Regan. He didn't buy it.

[Sally, la reina]

Reagan?

[Félix]

Yeah, the Great Communicator.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally has developed a split personality, apparently.

[janine]

TRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[janine]

redheads are awesome.

[Félix]

janine wrote: "redheads are awesome."

Agreed.

[janine]

[Félix]

Exactly.

[Félix]

You can be.

[Félix]

Nothing lasts, Barb.

[Sarah]

I'm a redhead. It comes with skin so pale you fry when you step outside, Barb. I'm not sure if it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
I'm hoping my gray comes in like Bonnie Raitt's.

[Heidi]

I have gray like that, Sarah Pi. But I only got it after going through a ridonkulously stressful period in my life.

[Félix]

Damn it.

[Jim]

Damn it all to Hell!

[Cynthia]

Good Lord love a duck.

[Phil]

Redheads are fine, as long as the carpet matches the curtains. Nobody likes the mousy brown surprise when they think they're getting the fire of red.

[Phil]

Hmmm. I've not encountered that scenario. It seems like a pleasant surprise.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Hmmmm?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I don't know...if someone was brunette upstairs and I discovered they were a redhead downstairs, I'd be tempted to check for a random case of fire ants.

[Félix]

It seems hardwood flooring is more common these days.

[Félix]

Stacia! Fire ants! Yowch!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This thread has taken a groaning turn.

[Sally, la reina]

Why does anyone even CARE about the color of the carpet?

[Phil]

Because there are many times it's right there in front of one's eyes.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "Why does anyone even CARE about the color of the carpet?"

I don't understand this either.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil wrote: "Because there are many times it's right there in front of one's eyes."

So? And? At that moment aspects of interior decorating and color coordination are more important than anything else?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The whole "carpet and drapes" trope is so juvenile anyway. Could we, as a society, get past this phrase? It's stuck in some kind of frat boy 60s era. Did Frank Sinatra invent it?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Well, as it says in Ecclesiastes, "there is nothing new under the sun." So probably it dates from the Old Testament.

[Sally, la reina]

Biblical men were pervs.

[Jonathan]

Isaiah 21:5 "Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!"

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

If someone was going to bring oil into the carpet/drapes discussion, I wasn't expecting it to be Jonathan.

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, good lord. Good lord alive. Wow.

[Sally, la reina]

We dog pile him!