And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Actually kind of nice. I'm 81 so I remember when all stewardess's were slim and pretty. Yes, I know it is much fairer now to allow anyone to be a stewardess but those were the good old days.
DRUM ROLL ... You know what? I am wrong. I did not pay any attention to CW's title. He may be adhering to the "woke" weenies who think that titles should all be gender neutral. My bad!!!
A stewardess was hitting on me one time in the 90s, but I was too stupid to realize it. She looked like Lisa Loeb, who I had the hots for. Story of my life.
I worked as a bag destroyer for Braniff while in college. Nifty blue coveralls with orange stripes. The pilots flat refused to give up their black motorman uniforms. It was a decent place to work.
All of this conversation makes me harken back to the 1970's when there was a "Smoking Section" on every flight. The seat belt sign would go out and the plane stank of cigarette smoke like nobody's business. I know, I was a smoker back then. UGH!!!
Before I retired, I spent my career as an airline pilot. Began back in the late 80's, in the last days when a smoker was allowed to light up on plane.
An airplane is a metal tube into which air is pumped to bring the cabin pressure equivalent to what would be found at about 6000-8000 feet. This air pressure is controlled by an outflow valve which meters air out of the airplane. Without the outflow valve, the ever-increasing air pressure would cause the airplane to blow up like an over-inflated mylar balloon.
So back when you could smoke on planes, the smoke left the plane in the air dumped outside through the outflow valve. Over the years of flight-after-flight, that smoke would adhere to the ducts and valves inside the plane, and finally along the exterior of the plane just aft of the outflow valve. The planes in those days all had a brown smudge....like something you'd scrape out of a 70's-era casino ashtray...about 4-5 feet long right behind the outflow valve.
We paid a price for those beautiful stewardesses - a smoke filled steel tube. Flight attendants today are mean. Most of them are in a second career and they think they can be all snarky and rude-ish because they believe they've earned it in life. Kind of like my grandma was - at a certain age she felt entitled and demanded we respect that.
All I'm saying is Southwest Airlines had some pretty good ideas for the stew's uniforms back in the day. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh2nvzoctdaz01.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ad03482b198ecff1b1aa65bbd6978d7b7f429204ef691b975482dfd47b19d53a&ipo=images
The clown outfits are pretty bad the hairstyles are hideous.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the Karen hairstyles?
DeleteActually kind of nice. I'm 81 so I remember when all stewardess's were slim and pretty. Yes, I know it is much fairer now to allow anyone to be a stewardess but those were the good old days.
ReplyDelete"Stewards"? Funny, they don't *look* like men.
ReplyDeletePerhaps "Jabrwok" needs to take a reading lesson. The 81-year-old Anny specifically said the female version of the flight attendants.
DeleteJohn, jabrwok is right, you're wrong. The title of this post says stewards.
DeleteAnd John, you're right too, the outfits are hideous...
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DRUM ROLL ... You know what? I am wrong. I did not pay any attention to CW's title. He may be adhering to the "woke" weenies who think that titles should all be gender neutral. My bad!!!
DeleteI bet they hated them. The hottest stewardesses, in my experience, are the ones on Singapore Airlines. Those Asian saris. Oh, La La.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite plane ride in 1977 was on a brand new Braniff 727. New plane smell and leather seats, and a teal paint job.
ReplyDeleteWell I am sure that helped keeping them from getting hit on.
ReplyDeleteEastwood
Go Go Girls without their boots.
ReplyDeleteA stewardess was hitting on me one time in the 90s, but I was too stupid to realize it. She looked like Lisa Loeb, who I had the hots for. Story of my life.
ReplyDeleteI hit the mile high club in '74 with a Lufthansa stewardess. Yawohl!
ReplyDeleteI worked as a bag destroyer for Braniff while in college. Nifty blue coveralls with orange stripes. The pilots flat refused to give up their black motorman uniforms. It was a decent place to work.
ReplyDeleteAll of this conversation makes me harken back to the 1970's when there was a "Smoking Section" on every flight. The seat belt sign would go out and the plane stank of cigarette smoke like nobody's business. I know, I was a smoker back then. UGH!!!
ReplyDeleteLemme tell you about the "Smoking Section".
DeleteBefore I retired, I spent my career as an airline pilot. Began back in the late 80's, in the last days when a smoker was allowed to light up on plane.
An airplane is a metal tube into which air is pumped to bring the cabin pressure equivalent to what would be found at about 6000-8000 feet. This air pressure is controlled by an outflow valve which meters air out of the airplane. Without the outflow valve, the ever-increasing air pressure would cause the airplane to blow up like an over-inflated mylar balloon.
So back when you could smoke on planes, the smoke left the plane in the air dumped outside through the outflow valve. Over the years of flight-after-flight, that smoke would adhere to the ducts and valves inside the plane, and finally along the exterior of the plane just aft of the outflow valve. The planes in those days all had a brown smudge....like something you'd scrape out of a 70's-era casino ashtray...about 4-5 feet long right behind the outflow valve.
azlibertarian
But those nicotine stains made it easy to spot cracks in the fuselage...
Delete"Stank"? Wudna she one of Richard Pryor's forgotten loves?
ReplyDeleteWe paid a price for those beautiful stewardesses - a smoke filled steel tube. Flight attendants today are mean. Most of them are in a second career and they think they can be all snarky and rude-ish because they believe they've earned it in life. Kind of like my grandma was - at a certain age she felt entitled and demanded we respect that.
ReplyDeleteAll I'm saying is Southwest Airlines had some pretty good ideas for the stew's uniforms back in the day.
ReplyDeletehttps://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh2nvzoctdaz01.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ad03482b198ecff1b1aa65bbd6978d7b7f429204ef691b975482dfd47b19d53a&ipo=images
Is that pronounced "pukey"?
ReplyDeleteBack before flying waitresses had delusions of grandeur.
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