Well, I'm markedly unlikely to be signing up for meet and seat, like, ever.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 5:46:51 pm PDT #27447 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 5:46:53 pm PDT #27448 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I look sideways at your friend. Maybe a 4-year-old is OK to leave alone, but leaving a 2-year-old under the supervision of a prekindergardener? Oh HELL no!
You can look sideways at me then - my kids are 4 and 14 months and they play alone in the bath most nights.
Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2012 5:47:34 pm PDT #27449 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, that's...that's weird.
I mean, you have to give them your profile, so you know what you're getting into. "Hey, please pre-stalk me before sitting next to me in a confined space for twelve hours!"
Kat - Mar 20, 2012 5:50:22 pm PDT #27450 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just read--how old is old enough to leave sitting in a bath by themselves while you answer the door, presumably out of really easy earshot?
I leave Noah and Grace in the tub pretty frequently, usually to go get pjs or a washcloth or something. Granted our house is tiny so I can hear them all the time, but Grace also has a trache that would allow her to drown more easily than the average bear.
Also, speaking of bathtime, I had another mom of the year moment. Noah stood up to be washed and jammed his back into the faucet. Which means I scooped him out unsoaped up. Oh fucking well.
Kat - Mar 20, 2012 5:52:42 pm PDT #27451 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
OH! And I also cursed in front of my class. We were talking about the difference between pity and sympathy and I said pity is when someone looks at Grace and says, "Oh, I don't know how you do it. So sad for you." and my response to that is "Fuck you! I love my life and my daughter."
Any time someone says something to you as, "That's so sad" and you want to respond with "Fuck you" it's probably pity.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 5:59:13 pm PDT #27452 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
the ability to look at the Facebook/LinkedIn profiles of your possible seatmates!
Um. No. NO. And someone needs to have a very strongly worded chat about privacy and boundaries with the marketing person that came up with that.
Strix - Mar 20, 2012 6:04:00 pm PDT #27453 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ITA. What the hell, people? I don't want to know anything about my seatmate on an airplane other than (1) Are you a serial killer? (2) Do you have B.O.? and (3) Are you going to try to talk to me other than a polite "Hello" and "Excuse me." None of which should be accesible info on-line, IMHO.
Someone plopped down to me and was all "Hey, how's the (insert random personal detail here?) I read about on FB/LinkedIn," I am afraid I would ask for another seat or an air marshal.
Vortex - Mar 20, 2012 6:07:36 pm PDT #27454 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile. Although if I know that someone has shared their profile, I would not sit next to them.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:08:56 pm PDT #27455 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile
Well, I don't know how they're going to get them otherwise, so I'd figure so.
Kat - Mar 20, 2012 6:10:16 pm PDT #27456 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm not creeped out about the social seating thing on KLM at all. In December, when they announced it, I thought, huh, weird. But you have to opt in and share info and you don't have to do it. I'd use social seating to avoid anyone who USED social seating as means of meeting people. It would be a handy filter.
xpost with Vortex!
That is if I were ever to fly again.