I have a good friend who’s a flight attendant. I asked him what he thought of Steven Slater and he agreed to let me post his response so long as I left his name and airline out. As a flight attendant, I’m very curious about the passenger involved. What happened to her? Why isn’t her […]
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Fed-Up Flight Attendant Story Gets Better… and Better!
As Paul reported yesterday, a JetBlue flight attendant finally got fed up with being jostled around by rude passengers, cussed one out, and then activated the inflatable slide to escape. YESSS!!! Naturally, a story like this needs further elaboration, so here you go. From Gawker: The altercation culminated in him announcing over the plane intercom, […]
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A Hero to Customer Service Specialists Everywhere
This is a thing of beauty: A jetBlue flight attendant upset because a passenger refused to apologize after accidentally striking him with luggage, allegedly spewed obscenities over the PA system, then activated and slid down a plane’s emergency chute before disappearing into a terminal at John F. Kennedy airport Monday, an airport official said. I’m […]
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Pilot Fakes Passing Out: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?
A pilot fakes passing out, thereby freaking out his passengers. Yes, possibly faked. But it raises a greater question: If true, in this case does humor trump cruelty? (I’d like to think it always does.) Pilots faking passing out as a gag (if you’re not in the plane): CONDEMN OR ALLOW?
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Kid Cudi Punch Party!
Does listening to Kid Cudi make you feel like taking a swing at him? Me too. Still, I probably wouldn’t climb up onstage and actually do it. But for one fan at Cudi’s hometown show in Cleveland, the urge proved too impossible to resist: And watch Kid Cudi fight back! This isn’t the first time […]
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Cultural Animal Commodities
The New York Times reports on the uproar over a Citibank promotion offering a 15% discount at a Singapore restaurant serving shark’s fin soup. The story prompts The Huffingtom Post‘s “abolitionist vegan” Tim Terhaar to ask the following: Is US treatment of chickens substantively different than Chinese treatment of sharks? Both practices are conducted in […]
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For the Love of God… Can’t You Just Let this Poor Monkey Vomit in Peace?
I get it, oh, I get it. It’s a monkey. Vomiting onto a wall. But do you really have to laugh and take a picture of it? Then you’re gonna run home and upload the photo to the internet, aren’t you… which will do nothing but further humiliate this poor vomiting monkey. UNBELIEVABLE. And as […]
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Men, We Have a Sacred Duty to See The Expendables.
If I ran a movie studio (RIGHT?! If only! Who else wants Dirty Work 2: Dirtier Work?!), the person I’d hire to run my marketing department would be io9’s Garrison Dean. Dean made that amazing 2012 trailer a while ago; last week he cranked out a great ’80s-riffic credit sequence for Firefly; and now he’s […]
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Breaking News: Jean-Claude Van Damme Got Lame.
THE EXPENDABLES It’s Stallone vs. Lundgren vs. Li! I HOPE THEY ALL BECOME FRIENDS True, I’m a sucker for ’80s action flicks, but goddamn, I can’t wait for The Expendables, a movie that looks like it’s been hewn out of concentrated badass and lit dynamite. The New York Times has a bit of background on […]
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Thinking Really Hard About Dicks with Etienne Gregoire
Attention Portland glory hole users: This is totally the guy you’re being blown by. Everyone else: Sorry for inflicting this on you. I recommend washing out your eyeballs and never reading Shakespeare again. Per Best Laid Plans [Queer issue, June 17]: One can understand Spider’s dismay at seeing various male units coming through glory holes, […]
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Zombie Hitler Needed to Teach Children Valuable Lesson.
I’m guessing there’s no way this is legit (what kind of preschool teaches kids about WWII?), but still: If I was in preschool and this happened? I’d either (A) shit my pants thanks to overwhelming terror, or (B) realize that this was about as awesome as things were gonna get, education-wise, for the next 18 […]
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Another Stupid Mercury Training Video
Well, the word just came down from the HR department that I’ve once again violated some stupid rule in the employee handbook, and now I’m forced to show all my underlings the following video. EMPLOYEES: I think when the creepy puppets in this clip advise you to “tell someone” when a manager slaps or spanks […]