Wouldn’t say a word but with a little cheese and time, she’ll wish I was speaking with my mouth. Hopefully the collateral damage will understand that they suffer for a noble cause.
She IS peasant class. Working for a living is peasant class
She could be merchant class. Probably is.
Bought airport food? Didn’t have free corporate airline lounge meal as high-margin customer? Peasant.
Not knowing poster, is anyone sure this isn’t ironic usage of “peasant” before the pitchforks are distributed?
I’m guessing this person isn’t a real frequent flyer if shes expecting a chatterbox and has a sandwich with her.
Probably just shock how how much worse planes have gotten.
But who knows
Is she someone I should know? Otherwise I could see my peasant-ass joking about the same thing, especially if I’m grinding for a middle seat on a row that apparently didn’t even have a window.
Now, if she’s one of the privileged, that’s an entirely different joke.
Apparently she’s an author of self help books. “#1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits, CEO of Vision Advertising, TEDx Speaker and America’s Happiness Coach.”
Yeah, she can eat a bag of dicks. But, we’re not the audience for her terrible joke, it’s her rich friends.
That’s the fun thing about social media though–the size of the audience can rapidly expand! I would say people should be more careful what they say online but nobody that should hear that will be listening anyway 🙂
#1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits
Notice how Bestselling refers to author, not the book, and with her probably being the only author, she can prefix it with any superlative she wants.
CEO of Vision Advertising
Imagine calling yourself CEO unironically for the maybe 3 person gig you’re running to have some overpaid management fill their calenders with instead of doing actual work.
TEDx Speaker
This is not the flex you (edit: she) think(s) it is
America’s Happiness Coach
Complains about other travelers… preemptively.
Dont you have to fund getting a TEDx talk, Like they didnt invite you, you paid to have the time and platform.
Yeah, TED as far as know invites you to present, TEDx you pay for a platform to talk on… which shows how much people value your message.
Ah yes, a bloodsucker.
Author of The Six Habits
Is this lady the hitchhiker from There’s Something About Mary, copying Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
Hitchhiker : You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Ted : Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the exercise video.
Hitchhiker : Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7… Minute… Abs.
Ted : Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you’re going.
Hitchhiker : Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin’ there, there’s 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Ted : I would go for the 7.
Hitchhiker : Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Ted : You guarantee it? That’s - how do you do that?
Hitchhiker : If you’re not happy with the first 7 minutes, we’re gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That’s it. That’s our motto. That’s where we’re comin’ from. That’s from “A” to “B”.
Ted : That’s right. That’s - that’s good. That’s good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you’re in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
Hitchhiker : No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody’s comin’ up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won’t even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Ted : That - good point.
Hitchhiker : 7’s the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that’s the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch. You know that old children’s tale from the sea. It’s like you’re dreamin’ about Gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly Brie time, baby.
I just got off of a flight, it was about 40 minutes in the air, and there were people who paid to upgrade to ‘first class’ for a 40 minute flight.
I’d rather be peasant class than so weak that I couldn’t stand 40 minutes sitting 6 inches closer to the person next to me.
How do you know they paid? When I was a frequent flier I’d always get upgraded on short flights because… No one paid for first class on those flights but the airline could consume an upgrade.
If you have a long layover, flying business or first on any leg gives you (or used to) access to the premium lounge, so sometimes you can recover what you pay for the upgrade, but most of the time they give them to the gold or whatever members who are flying
They give out money in the lounge?
They give food, beverages and comfortable chairs
That’s not enough to make up for the difference in price
Upgrading on those short flights is usually less than $40. If you have a long layover you can definitely get your money back. Even just being able to sit in a comfortable chair adds some value
wow, 40$. Upgrading on my flight home was 800€ (which I did not take obviously). It’s a long distance but still
I’ve never seen an upgrade that cheap, but the shortest flight I’ve ever taken (and actually frequently take) is 90 minutes - and the upgrade cost is still an order of magnitude over $40.
But yeah, that would be worth $40.
I’ve seen $40 a few times with Delta during check in on flights of less than 2 hours. I guess it’s like a last minute deal trying to sell the upgrade instead of giving it to someone with premium status
If you had chronic back pain, you might consider paying for that upgrade. Normal plane seats are painful.
Hell, some airlines have seat pitches so low that I can’t even fit in the seat.
… Am I the only one who doesn’t have a problem calling it “peasant class”? It’s the kind of slang I’d use and I always fly economy.
That’s our word, she can’t use it
Exactly haha. A poor person can say it to joke about themselves and their circumstances, a rich person doing so is just in poor taste…
Yeah, but would you post a picture of yourself online saying that, with a fake smile and undertone of smug superiority?
I joke about calling it steerage. Just keep walking back until you hear the Irish fiddles.
Personally, I call it cattle class.
Imho it’s less about calling out the airplane than preemptively shitting on her neighbour. It’s the whole “I’m with the plebes so my neighbour will be a pita” that makes her sounds so disdainful.
Also, I call it cattle class when I fly because that’s how it makes me feel.
Peasant class? I like that. Where is my pocket guillotine again?
I think the thing you are looking for is a cigar cutter. A bit small, but it is great for cutting off another type of head.
Rabbi Tuckman?
Tbf calling it peasant class is more honest. The new planes economy sections must have been designed by the same people who designed cattle cars.
This is why I hate the Boeing max line. It’s not because of the safety things, for those I decide are self-correcting and thus I can wait those out.
No, it’s the new layouts they enable and offer that has seats cramped even harder, washrooms without full enclosure - no really, a public restroom divider with a 4-inch gap at the bottom between my farts and the galley - and cheap porous plastic everywhere. The whole thing is a McDonald’s lobby you can’t escape for ours at a time, nor express the slightest frustration at being in.
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
Temple Grandin has done a significant amount of work on designing animal handling facilities for minimal stress and ease of flow.
We would be so lucky if she turned her skills towards airlines.
Knowing Boeing, there would be a boltgun waiting for you at the exit.
Yeah but it wouldn’t work anyway
I don’t care who you are, on a plane I’m putting on my noise canceling headphones and reading.
I wouldn’t have known who she is without the comments and even then i still have never heard of her books.
I bought earbuds in flesh color. I tend to only ever have one on to stay alert and I listen to podcasts. I’m not ashamed to admit that I bought them in flesh color so that I can pretend it’s a hearing aid so I can ignore strangers on transit. I like to pretend like it’s off and I can’t hear you
That’s why I like headphones, sends a clearer signal I feel.
wait people write shit like this on LinkedIn?
There was a post where a kid was shooting a penalty against a professional goal keeper and the goalkeeper was blocking every shot. He was also posturing against the kid.
People were commenting on how great that was to make strong men.
That’s the kind of weird shit I’ve sorta come to expect from LL but people referring to economy as peasant class is kind of wild even for this kinda community haha
If I was next to her and knew about this post, my introverted self would suddenly be the most chatty asshole to ever fly.
What an asshole.
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She’s not Boomer, maybe Gen X, if she aged well but most likely early Millenial.
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Her seat, my cheeks.
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