If you are on a 10 hour trans-Atlantic flight with children...
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You should start bringing some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Get a seat closer to the galley. Then get a steward to fancy you, which should provide and endless sourse of free-cheap wine. It works for trans-pacific at least...
what, mr. bigshot rock star didn't get to fly first class?
...says the guy with the new baby....that's some bad karma right there. You're ass is going to get bitten...
Here is better advice. If you have new born children don't travel long distances.
So I get back to Oakland from the airport to unload gear and my wife picks me up. My son screamed and cried most of the 1 hour drive home. (he's already teething)
It was music to my ears.
:biggrin:
Have you bought round-trip tickets for 10 people to Europe recently? It's kinda expensive. Yeah...kinda.
The camera-phone video showing up on Youtube is hilarious. The little mics on those phone don't work so well in front of a 120db sound system.
Jeez you're just on fire ain't ya?
10 hours....baaahhhh, I mock your piddly puddle jumper. Cross a real ocean, poof.
BTW- whoever suggested chemicals for flying is a genius.
BTW- whoever suggested chemicals for flying is a genius.
He's not really burning, that's just jock itch.
you're hungry... babies are delicious... I think this problem could have solved itself.
After I crammed in my earplugs THEN crammed in my earphones it wasn't as bad. The seat kicking had me wanting to fling the kid out the plane though.10 hours....baaahhhh, I mock your piddly puddle jumper. Cross a real ocean, poof.
BTW- whoever suggested chemicals for flying is a genius.
I've done the flight back from Japan with screaming kids behind me. It was just dreamy.
True, but Italian babies are too greasy. I am on a diet anyway.
that's nuts....CONTROL THEM.
Incessant screaming baby. His two year old sister kicking the back of my seat the WHOLE FLIGHT.
the parents should be put in cargo hold.
our kids have taken plenty of short and long flights and i don't want to brag, but random strangers have repeatedly told us that they are very well-behaved.
The last flight we did with the girls was hell. They'd always been good prior to that one.
They were crazy tired. We had driven three hours to Vancouver from Seattle prior to the flight from Vancouver to Montreal. Neither of them would sleep at any point....and if i recall correctly, Emily was just coming down with a cold and she was acting like her ears were bothering her A LOT.
I have much more empathy now than I once did.
They were crazy tired. We had driven three hours to Vancouver from Seattle prior to the flight from Vancouver to Montreal. Neither of them would sleep at any point....and if i recall correctly, Emily was just coming down with a cold and she was acting like her ears were bothering her A LOT.
I have much more empathy now than I once did.
Liar. You're as bad as Mmike.
Besides... that's olive oil... not "grease."
This baby was nuts. He was about a year old and would either be eating or screaming or running up and down the aisle or everything all at once. He was huge. He ate a whole mini-pizza.that's nuts.
the parents should be put in cargo hold.
our kids have taken plenty of short and long flights and i don't want to brag, but random strangers have repeatedly told us that they are very well-behaved.
The dad tried to strap the kid in his own seat for landing. The stewardess had to explain to him for 5 minutes why it wasn't safe (as the baby was squirming out of the seatbelt and onto the floor)
IDIOTS.
Have you ever flown Alitalia? That airline is AWESOME. Smoking from row <something> back and NO enforcement of seat belt use. 
hey SS, the 90s are behind us now.Have you ever flown Alitalia? That airline is AWESOME. Smoking from row <something> back and NO enforcement of seat belt use.
when our company relocated us ex-pats, they flew everyone business class.
i wasn't on this flight, but apparently one of the guy's daughters was so bad that at least one person left business class and found a seat in coach.
it's not a bad idea to leave Colorado every once a while.This *was* '99...
Have they changed?
That would be sad.
First time I flew to Europe was '92. Free booze and smoking allowed in the last 1/3 of the plane.This *was* '99...
Have they changed?
That would be sad.
Non-stop 14 hour drunken smoking party. People had to be lifted into their seats for landing.
How did the tour go?
you're making the assumption that they have their own sound tech 
I flew to Harare with QANTAS in '93. Back third for smoking, half full flight on a 747. About halfway across the Indian Ocean one of the pilots came up the back and chatted with our group for about half an hour. One of my friends got to sit up front in the jump seat for landing.
Different world now mate.
lthumbsdown:lthumbsdown:Fortunately, on the airlines I fly anyway, you can still get tanked for free and audio/video on demand is the greatest thing ever....if it works.
Our sound man is a genius. Seriously.you're making the assumption that they have their own sound tech
Buggery hell!!!!
I tell ya what too, it's gonna be hard to go back to the farm now that I've seen Paree.*heavy sigh*
Solution -> private jet
C'mon, you're a rock star.........do it right.
C'mon, you're a rock star.........do it right.