How to handle irritating seatmates

Relmar · 10-19-2007, 12:12 PM

If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a bus, plane, or train follow these instructions:

1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start it up. Make sure the person who is annoying you, can see the screen.
4. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.
5. Then hit this link

**Trooper** · 10-19-2007, 12:14 PM

also could be used for how to get arrested.

**Tarenth** · 10-19-2007, 12:29 PM

Too true. I don't think practical ignorance could be used to explain an implied bomb threat like that.

Also, wear a turban. <sarcasm>I mean, its not like we don't profile these people</sarcasm>. Anyone translate that text or is it just flavor chicken scratches?

Relmar · 10-19-2007, 01:15 PM

It's a joke, I say it's a joke, son.

**.tritone.** · 10-19-2007, 01:18 PM

I liked this thread better when it involved jugular stabbing.

icky · 10-19-2007, 01:29 PM

I'm disappointed in that clock. It looks like
seconds:100ths of seconds:100ths of seconds again

No self-respecting irritating person is going to fall for that.

Better to just calmly and quietly say to the stewardess: "Can you move me to a more isolated spot please? I forgot to take my pills this morning and I don't want something to set off the demons again. Thanks."

**BigGaayAl** · 10-19-2007, 01:34 PM

That reminds me of a famous journalist in Belgium. He was making a light-hearted report for a show called "man bites dog" on the small towns in the mid-west of the Us.

If he rang at a door and didn't get an interview, he would drive accross town quickly to try another door, as the police cars moved into the doorbell he rang at first.
Every time people would send the cops in.

Pulling this joke would definitely land you in jail, and into a lot of trouble. Think of the guy that was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with arab writing!

It would be funny though, until you get arrested

.

Kerostasis · 10-20-2007, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by icky

I'm disappointed in that clock. It looks like
seconds:100ths of seconds:100ths of seconds again

No self-respecting irritating person is going to fall for that.

Actually, if you look closely, its "Hours : Minutes: Seconds", except that its ticking at the rate of about 30 or 40 minutes per second. Either way, its a little difficult to believe.

Hambergler · 10-20-2007, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigGaayAl

That reminds me of a famous journalist in Belgium. He was making a light-hearted report for a show called "man bites dog" on the small towns in the mid-west of the Us.

If he rang at a door and didn't get an interview, he would drive accross town quickly to try another door, as the police cars moved into the doorbell he rang at first.
Every time people would send the cops in.

Pulling this joke would definitely land you in jail, and into a lot of trouble. Think of the guy that was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with arab writing!

It would be funny though, until you get arrested

.

"Man Bites Dog" was one of my favorite movies of the nineties, any relation?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

darksteel525 · 10-20-2007, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigGaayAl

That reminds me of a famous journalist in Belgium. He was making a light-hearted report for a show called "man bites dog" on the small towns in the mid-west of the Us.

If he rang at a door and didn't get an interview, he would drive accross town quickly to try another door, as the police cars moved into the doorbell he rang at first.
Every time people would send the cops in.

Pulling this joke would definitely land you in jail, and into a lot of trouble. Think of the guy that was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with arab writing!

It would be funny though, until you get arrested

.

Yeah I was thinking of this too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kerostasis

Actually, if you look closely, its "Hours : Minutes: Seconds", except that its ticking at the rate of about 30 or 40 minutes per second. Either way, its a little difficult to believe.

I wouldn't be looking at the screen thinking about that.

MagnaCentipede · 10-20-2007, 03:39 PM

This is the kind of stupid crap that people who aren't funny post on the internet in an attempt to be funny, and not only is it a waste of bandwidth then, but invariably people who aren't funny think that it was somehow successfully funny the first time and then repost it elsewhere, turning it into some sort of non-funny e-cancer.

Fie. There should be some sort of place for people who aren't funny to try to be funny, where their crap would evaporate within an hour. Oh wait, there is such a place.

gb2/b.

Acreo Aeneas · 10-20-2007, 03:48 PM

The OP was funny, really funny. I was laughing my lungs out for a few minutes.

Now if there was a red and white wire running from your laptop to your bag on the floor. That might make the "timer" believable.

Santa · 10-20-2007, 04:45 PM

Rargle rargle rargle I have no idea what a joke is rargle rargle rargle.

sc1ence · 10-20-2007, 08:29 PM

anyone know what the writing above teh countdown says?

**BigGaayAl** · 10-23-2007, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hambergler

"Man Bites Dog" was one of my favorite movies of the nineties, any relation?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

I didn't know there is a movie with that name at all. I'd say they probably were inspired by the movie, so I'll have to check it out.

10-19-2007, 12:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Relmar Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 336	How to handle irritating seatmates If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a bus, plane, or train follow these instructions: 1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case. 2. Remove your laptop. 3. Start it up. Make sure the person who is annoying you, can see the screen. 4. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky. 5. Then hit this link

10-19-2007, 12:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trooper Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In my wifes house......if she says i can Age: 25 Posts: 8,895	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates also could be used for how to get arrested. __________________ that sounds like a good idea trooper. -Vulcan

10-19-2007, 12:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
Tarenth Join Date: May 2006 Location: California Posts: 2,199	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates Too true. I don't think practical ignorance could be used to explain an implied bomb threat like that. Also, wear a turban. <sarcasm>I mean, its not like we don't profile these people</sarcasm>. Anyone translate that text or is it just flavor chicken scratches? __________________ My sanity is not in question... It was a confirmed casualty some time ago. \|TG\|Tarenth Battlefield 2142 Mirra World of Warcraft Light, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they ticked me off.

10-19-2007, 01:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
Relmar Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 336	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates It's a joke, I say it's a joke, son.

10-19-2007, 01:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
.tritone. Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 22 Posts: 577	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates I liked this thread better when it involved jugular stabbing. __________________ Perhaps you should read the SOPs

10-19-2007, 01:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
icky Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ottawa Valley Posts: 6,154	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates I'm disappointed in that clock. It looks like seconds:100ths of seconds:100ths of seconds again No self-respecting irritating person is going to fall for that. Better to just calmly and quietly say to the stewardess: "Can you move me to a more isolated spot please? I forgot to take my pills this morning and I don't want something to set off the demons again. Thanks." __________________ Peace through fear... since 1947!

10-19-2007, 01:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
BigGaayAl Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: gent, belgium Posts: 1,500	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates That reminds me of a famous journalist in Belgium. He was making a light-hearted report for a show called "man bites dog" on the small towns in the mid-west of the Us. If he rang at a door and didn't get an interview, he would drive accross town quickly to try another door, as the police cars moved into the doorbell he rang at first. Every time people would send the cops in. Pulling this joke would definitely land you in jail, and into a lot of trouble. Think of the guy that was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with arab writing! It would be funny though, until you get arrested . __________________ Support your right to arm bears. ~Cleveland Amory I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger

10-20-2007, 03:39 PM	#11 (permalink)
MagnaCentipede Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,957	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates This is the kind of stupid crap that people who aren't funny post on the internet in an attempt to be funny, and not only is it a waste of bandwidth then, but invariably people who aren't funny think that it was somehow successfully funny the first time and then repost it elsewhere, turning it into some sort of non-funny e-cancer. Fie. There should be some sort of place for people who aren't funny to try to be funny, where their crap would evaporate within an hour. Oh wait, there is such a place. gb2/b. __________________

10-20-2007, 03:48 PM	#12 (permalink)
Acreo Aeneas Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: DePaul University (Chicago) Age: 22 Posts: 4,691	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates The OP was funny, really funny. I was laughing my lungs out for a few minutes. Now if there was a red and white wire running from your laptop to your bag on the floor. That might make the "timer" believable. __________________ Current Obsessions: Netbooks and other low-cost, small, and portable PCs. RSS Feeds: Bamboo

10-20-2007, 04:45 PM	#13 (permalink)
Santa Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 19 Posts: 3,355	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates Rargle rargle rargle I have no idea what a joke is rargle rargle rargle.

10-20-2007, 08:29 PM	#14 (permalink)
sc1ence Join Date: Feb 2007 Age: 36 Posts: 4,211	Re: How to handle irritating seatmates anyone know what the writing above teh countdown says? __________________

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)

Sponsored links

Sponsored links

Sponsored links

Sponsored links