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Random Thoughts.....What are you thinking?
 Lakshmi.Flavin
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-04-05 14:09:45
Ramuh.Rowland said: Make sure you keep a pack of gum with you Liela. Your taste buds will be off but if you keep chewing it'll keep your ears from popping due to the change in altitude. And you know that feeling in your stomach you get when you're on a roller coaster or swinging really high on a swing? It'll be like that for take off. It's been a couple years since I was on a plane last, but I had a backpack and one bigger suitcase that I put in the overhead compartment. The backpack went under the seat in front of me. I believe you only get one piece of carry on these days.
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By Odin.Liela 2011-04-05 14:10:50
Thanks for the tips, guys. :D I will remember them! Chew gum, be prepared for roller-coaster tummy at takeoff, stuff anything I am worried about for carry-on in my suitcase. This will be so exciting!
*can't stop grinning like a giddy schoolgirl*
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2011-04-05 14:12:22
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Odin.Liela said: Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D You know I think you are the first grown up I've ever met that was excited to fly for the first time. Almost everyone I've known is all afraid and stuff lol. Have fun I would never step foot on an airplane. <_< I love how people are always trying to point out that more die in car wrecks than planes, but when you get in a car wreck, you're on the ground (for the most part) you aren't plummeting from 10,000 feet in the air. Actually the point is more people die in car wrecks than from flying. And dead is dead no matter where you are I was going to talk about this but cmon guys its her first ride on airplane lets not worry her with stuff that won't happen... She's got plenty of time to forget it, besides she doesn't exactly seem nervous to fly to begin with..
My fear of planes is a combined fact of I do NOT like having my life in someone else's hands (I can't run into the cockpit and say GTFO to the pilot if I feel he's doing a ***job, nor can I just jump out/force him to slam on the breaks to get out) and my fear of heights.. I'm not actually afraid of small heights, but once it gets more than 50 or so feet, I start developing a real fear of heights.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2011-04-05 14:13:19
Odin.Liela said:
*schoolgirl*
Erm.. Yeah I'll keep my mouth shut <.<;;;;
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By Asura.Abriannah 2011-04-05 14:14:33
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: Odin.Liela said: Best day ever! I found out today that in June I will be able to go see my mom, I haven't seen her since I was 9 years old. And I'll get to see my brother (it's been a couple years since I saw him) and his wife, and by then they will have their baby, my new niece Addison. Exciting! Can't wait to see my Mama! Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D Awww Liela, I'm so happy for you!! That's amazing! I'm starting to get nervous about my plane traveling in June.. So many transfers. XD Yeah pay attention to where the transfers are too.. I stopped over in philly one time on my way to D.C. and the plane I was transferred too was on the complete opposite side of the airport and I didn't have a lot of time to get to it. luckily I made it in time. That's happened to me before as well. We were last on, and they were waiting for us because our transfer was late. I have two transfers. 55 minute layover for just one of them.. I need to check the second one. It's all about being on time.. 2 transfers is brutal! Flying is supposed to get you there quicker... are you travelling really far from home?
Washington to Iowa. Transfers in Arizona & Chicago.
 Bahamut.Dasva
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-04-05 14:17:45
Odin.Liela said: *can't stop grinning like a giddy schoolgirl* But aren't you one techinically?
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By Odin.Liela 2011-04-05 14:18:18
Bahamut.Dasva said: Odin.Liela said: *can't stop grinning like a giddy schoolgirl* But aren't you one techinically?
Technically. But only for another month! :D :D
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-04-05 14:19:06
Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Odin.Liela said: Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D You know I think you are the first grown up I've ever met that was excited to fly for the first time. Almost everyone I've known is all afraid and stuff lol. Have fun I would never step foot on an airplane. <_< I love how people are always trying to point out that more die in car wrecks than planes, but when you get in a car wreck, you're on the ground (for the most part) you aren't plummeting from 10,000 feet in the air. Actually the point is more people die in car wrecks than from flying. Isn't that exactly what I just said? <_< Sure but you made it sound like there was something worse to dieing at 10k feet than on the ground. There isn't.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-04-05 14:22:41
Asura.Abriannah said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: Odin.Liela said: Best day ever! I found out today that in June I will be able to go see my mom, I haven't seen her since I was 9 years old. And I'll get to see my brother (it's been a couple years since I saw him) and his wife, and by then they will have their baby, my new niece Addison. Exciting! Can't wait to see my Mama! Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D Awww Liela, I'm so happy for you!! That's amazing! I'm starting to get nervous about my plane traveling in June.. So many transfers. XD Yeah pay attention to where the transfers are too.. I stopped over in philly one time on my way to D.C. and the plane I was transferred too was on the complete opposite side of the airport and I didn't have a lot of time to get to it. luckily I made it in time. That's happened to me before as well. We were last on, and they were waiting for us because our transfer was late. I have two transfers. 55 minute layover for just one of them.. I need to check the second one. It's all about being on time.. 2 transfers is brutal! Flying is supposed to get you there quicker... are you travelling really far from home? Washington to Iowa. Transfers in Arizona & Chicago. Wow.. thats such a crappy flight path except for the fact that you get to stop over in the awesomeness that is Chicago! you could probably travel to Iowa and back by the time you get there ; ;
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By Asura.Abriannah 2011-04-05 14:22:44
Ramuh.Rowland said: Hahahaha Iowa.
What! I'm excited!
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By Asura.Abriannah 2011-04-05 14:24:41
12 hours of traveling.
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By Asura.Abriannah 2011-04-05 14:26:15
Not an hour away from me!
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-04-05 14:32:03
Asura.Abriannah said: 12 hours of traveling. at least it would still take longer to drive... but 12 hours is jsut ridiculous...
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-04-05 14:38:36
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: 12 hours of traveling. at least it would still take longer to drive... but 12 hours is jsut ridiculous... Could be worse... last time I flew back home it took 22 hours to get back home and that was only 2 timezones and I was flying... and then I got back and the power was out for like 12 hours and it was below freezing in my house... which was a bit better than outside since it was 0 outside lol
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2011-04-05 14:52:53
Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Odin.Liela said: Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D You know I think you are the first grown up I've ever met that was excited to fly for the first time. Almost everyone I've known is all afraid and stuff lol. Have fun I would never step foot on an airplane. <_< I love how people are always trying to point out that more die in car wrecks than planes, but when you get in a car wreck, you're on the ground (for the most part) you aren't plummeting from 10,000 feet in the air. Actually the point is more people die in car wrecks than from flying. Isn't that exactly what I just said? <_< Sure but you made it sound like there was something worse to dieing at 10k feet than on the ground. There isn't. Oh no, I meant that people are always saying "more people die in car wrecks every year than they do in plane crashes" to which my thought is "yeah, but in a car wreck you're not falling from 10,000 feet" as in.. Your death is nearly certain when falling from 10,000 feet, when you slam into a wall at 60+mph, there's a good chance you're going to live.
Statisticly flying may be 'safer' but when you compare car wreck to plane wreck, well.. I'd much rather be in a car wreck (in fact I've already been in 2, one that ended up flipping the car 2 1/2 times).
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By Bahamut.Lolserj 2011-04-05 14:55:32
Ramuh.Rowland said: You're living in the wrong place then!
Speaking of which, I could use a roommate in June, you can move to Nebraska and be that much closer to Bart :P
sounds like a trap
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By Asura.Abriannah 2011-04-05 14:56:53
Ramuh.Rowland said: You're living in the wrong place then!
Speaking of which, I could use a roommate in June, you can move to Nebraska and be that much closer to Bart :P
Haha.. Thanks for the offer but if it possible I'd just move with him! But, still another year left of school for my BA. Not that he's offered, he doesn't get to offer.
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-04-05 14:59:50
I drove through Iowa once...I didn't even notice I had left Missouri and entered Iowa for an hour....it was all the same. Corn, soy and nothing. Missouri...Misery....sound similar to anyone else?
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-04-05 15:04:43
Bahamut.Dasva said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: 12 hours of traveling. at least it would still take longer to drive... but 12 hours is jsut ridiculous... Could be worse... last time I flew back home it took 22 hours to get back home and that was only 2 timezones and I was flying... and then I got back and the power was out for like 12 hours and it was below freezing in my house... which was a bit better than outside since it was 0 outside lol due to weather conditions?
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-04-05 15:05:36
Asura.Abriannah said: Ramuh.Rowland said: You're living in the wrong place then! Speaking of which, I could use a roommate in June, you can move to Nebraska and be that much closer to Bart :P Haha.. Thanks for the offer but if it possible I'd just move with him! But, still another year left of school for my BA. Not that he's offered, he doesn't get to offer. That whole comment confuses me....
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-04-05 15:07:48
Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Valefor.Slipispsycho said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Odin.Liela said: Edit: AND! I will get to fly there on an airplane! Never been on a plane before. Wheeee! :D :D You know I think you are the first grown up I've ever met that was excited to fly for the first time. Almost everyone I've known is all afraid and stuff lol. Have fun I would never step foot on an airplane. <_< I love how people are always trying to point out that more die in car wrecks than planes, but when you get in a car wreck, you're on the ground (for the most part) you aren't plummeting from 10,000 feet in the air. Actually the point is more people die in car wrecks than from flying. Isn't that exactly what I just said? <_< Sure but you made it sound like there was something worse to dieing at 10k feet than on the ground. There isn't. Oh no, I meant that people are always saying "more people die in car wrecks every year than they do in plane crashes" to which my thought is "yeah, but in a car wreck you're not falling from 10,000 feet" as in.. Your death is nearly certain when falling from 10,000 feet, when you slam into a wall at 60+mph, there's a good chance you're going to live.
Statisticly flying may be 'safer' but when you compare car wreck to plane wreck, well.. I'd much rather be in a car wreck (in fact I've already been in 2, one that ended up flipping the car 2 1/2 times).
Well yeah but we aren't talking about living we are talking about deaths... if you want to bring that up you'd need to bring up all the other non fatal crashes which just becomes a rediculous comparison. Alot things are almost always fatal when ***goes wrong doesn't mean you should be more afraid of them.
Sure I'd rather be in a car wreck than a plane wreck. But it isn't a question of which worst case scenario you'd rather be in. I'd rather be in no wreck
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-04-05 15:08:39
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bahamut.Dasva said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Asura.Abriannah said: 12 hours of traveling. at least it would still take longer to drive... but 12 hours is jsut ridiculous... Could be worse... last time I flew back home it took 22 hours to get back home and that was only 2 timezones and I was flying... and then I got back and the power was out for like 12 hours and it was below freezing in my house... which was a bit better than outside since it was 0 outside lol due to weather conditions? Yeah lots of snow. Most of the last 8-10 hours of that was in below 0 conditions...
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
Inb4thisthreadgetsreallywtf
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