Ryanair - Something to make you laugh in these time of Global Recession

[AZOffaly]

Sorry, I just realised I missed Eamonn's point. I think you're right J70. He's probably talking about people with reserved seats rushing to get on the plane first.  I assumed because it was a Ryanair thread....

Anyway, heffo's probably right, it's about the carry on. When I'm flying Aer Lingus or BA, I prefer to be on early (although not in a mad panic to get on) just to get settled, get the headphones out, etc etc. Might as well be sitting in the seat on the plane as the plastic seat in the Heathrow departure lounge!

[Donnellys Hollow]

Nice touch from Michael O'Leary in donating 200K to the JT McNamara fund.

Fabulous gesture.

[Sheedy]

Nice touch from Michael O'Leary in donating 200K to the JT McNamara fund.

Fabulous gesture.

fair play. brilliant gesture

[Orior]

Is this Michael O'Leary's first venture into the world of philanthropy or one of many?

[Eamonnca1]

I'm thinking of the fact that the big-shots in first class usually board first.  Parents with small childer?  Okay, I can understand you might want a bit of room to work and get all your gear stashed away which is easier to do when the cabin's still empty.

What really drives me nuts is the people who crowd the gate before their zone number has been called.  I have to ask "Excuse me, are you in Zone 3?  No? Then step aside please. Excuse me, are you in Zone 3?  No? Then step aside please. Excuse me, are you in Zone 3?  No? Then step aside please."  Have to swim through the crowd just to get on the bloody plane, as if these people think that blocking the entrance to the gate is going to get them on the plane quicker, and why they'd want to do that I just do not know.  Drives me f***ing insane.  Worse than the pole-vaulters who jump up out of their seats as soon as the plane arrives at the gate and the seat belt sign goes out.  Where do they think they're going?  They're going to be standing in the aisle for the next 5 minutes while everyone in front of them gets gathered up and shuffles out.

God I've come to hate air travel.

[Orior]

It is always important to remember that if you rush like hell then you will get there. After the plane comes to a halt I always remain in my seat - standing wont get me off any quicker.

And anyway, I will get stuck behind the two old folk who cant manage stairs very well (that could be me someday). Or the wall of chattering women who dont know how to pull a suitcase.

And often we all gotta queue at immigration, and you will always pick the slowest queue.

And often we all gotta wait at the luggage carousel anyway.

[Eamonnca1]

Oh aye. The luggage carousel. Don't get me started on that. The people who have to get standing right up against the side of it even when there's no sign of their bags, don't have the presence of mind to stand back and only step forward when their own bag appears. Then they look at you like "WTF is he doing?" when you say "Excuse me" and have to squeeze through them to get in there and reach your bag out.

Bloody unseasoned travelers. Is it any wonder I hardly ever check baggage?

[seafoid]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum. 

[Itchy]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

Scum? I think you need to take a look in the mirror judging by your questionable morals in other threads.

[Tony Baloney]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

I'm sure JT McNamara has climate change on his mind.

I will retract that personal comment - no need on my part. Seafoid, as you will see below I called you an arsehole. 

[thewobbler]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

Climate change is only 'happening' because it has the most woolly and least tangible of effects.

I wonder what they thought of the big snow in Glenarm in 1962. Climate change? No. Act of god? No. Just one if these things that happens every once in a while? Yes.

[orangeman]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

I'm sure JT McNamara has climate change on his mind. What an arsehole.

Better than a kick in the nuts.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

Climate change is only 'happening' because it has the most woolly and least tangible of effects.

I wonder what they thought of the big snow in Glenarm in 1962. Climate change? No. Act of god? No. Just one if these things that happens every once in a while? Yes.

Let's try a few irrefutable scientific facts.

• Atmospheric CO2 parts per million (PPM) prior to the Industrial Revolution (circa 1760) stood at about 260. It's currently at 395, and rising steadily.
• CO2 traps heat, and methane, for example, which is currently being released with thawing permafrost, is about 20 times more potent as a heat-trapper than CO2, and to which it (methane) eventually decomposes in any case.
• Glenarm, for example, is not the Globe. (And whilst overall global temperatures are indeed inexorably rising, 'Global Weirding' might be a more reflective description of the local realities.)
• January 2013 was the 335th consecutive month with a global temperature above the twentieth-century average.

"woolly and least tangible of effects" my arse.

[thewobbler]

O Leary is a Grade A arsehole.

Climate change is happening and it's only going to get worse. Deniers like him are scum.

Climate change is only 'happening' because it has the most woolly and least tangible of effects.

I wonder what they thought of the big snow in Glenarm in 1962. Climate change? No. Act of god? No. Just one if these things that happens every once in a while? Yes.

Let's try a few irrefutable scientific facts.

• Atmospheric CO2 parts per million (PPM) prior to the Industrial Revolution (circa 1760) stood at about 260. It's currently at 395, and rising steadily.
• CO2 traps heat, and methane, for example, which is currently being released with thawing permafrost, is about 20 times more potent as a heat-trapper than CO2, and to which it (methane) eventually decomposes in any case.
• Glenarm, for example, is not the Globe. (And whilst overall global temperatures are indeed inexorably rising, 'Global Weirding' might be a more reflective description of the local realities.)
• January 2013 was the 335th consecutive month with a global temperature above the twentieth-century average.

"woolly and least tangible of effects" my arse.

Please explain to me how exactly 'they' have managed to calculate PPM for 1760.

Then start me again with 'irrefutable' scientific facts.

Thanks in advance.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Please explain to me how exactly 'they' have managed to calculate PPM for 1760.

Then start me again with 'irrefutable' scientific facts.

Thanks in advance.

Oh dear, you really don't have a grip on this 'science thing', do you?

You've never heard of ice-cores then, such as the Vostok? Ice-cores hold an abundance of atmospheric data from many millenia ago right up to the present.

It takes a particular type of (wilful?) ignorance to question scientific data without even a smidgen of knowledge, fair dues for the brass neck.

Edit: Ice-cores are not the only historical record open to science:  others include ocean and lake sediments, geomorphic surface features, tree rings, coral, stalactites and stalagmites, etc.