People who clap
when their plane lands.

How fuckin' patronising is that to the bloke who is paid to fly the thing?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:11, 13 replies)

^ this
You don't applaud the bus driver when he gets to a stop, and it's pretty much the same job.
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:22, closed)

ive give a few trolley dollies clap

(omnishambles ™ has been fucking things up big style since, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 18:00, closed)

I'm usually still sleeping...
Unless captain kangaroo decides to bounce the plane to the terminal...
( snee held his breath since, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:24, closed)

I've flown KLM too
Never forget it, like an airborne roller coaster.
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:30, closed)

It's
a Russian tradition.
( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:26, closed)

I’ve never been the most confident flyer, and to be honest, it freaks me right out when you are touch down and before they’ve wacked the engines into a reverse thrust two thirds of the passengers are doing the Macarena.

Do they all know something I don’t? Like the pilot only has a fifty-percent landing ratio? No? Thought not. Well sit down, keep your seat-belt fastened until the captain turns out the light and be aware that the bags you stored in the over-head may have moved during the flight.

What I don’t want you to do is to make me go spazzy at you high-fiving each other and cheering because aviation is STILL safe.

When planes crash, do they boo and hiss in a pantomime stylee?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:39, closed)

Aviation has a 100% record...
Every fucking plane to go up HAS come down...

:)
( snee held his breath since, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 15:08, closed)

In Soviet Russia, pilot claps for YOU?

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:16, closed)

hehehehe
This is a Glasgow thing as well ... especially among the lower orders.

My work colleague swears she was on a plane that landed at Glasgow and one of the wee wifeys on board tried to arrange a whipround for the pilot!
(El Fandango carved a big EF onto his nemesis' doublet on .., Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:40, closed)

I flew with EasyJet
Coming back from Germany where a selection of amature Bristolian footballers did just that. They organised a whip-round for 'the driver'.

I felt obliged to part with a quid towards the cause. Before realising that me bunging a quid into a collection was like tipping a taxi-driver 'double fare' - the flight was that cheap that I ended up paying twice (more or less) by throwing a quid into the hat.

Ah well. They were a harmless enough bunch.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:45, closed)

lower order glaswegians
hobbits?
(omnishambles ™ has been fucking things up big style since, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 15:02, closed)

I was
on a plane landing in Karachi (sp?), firstly the wheels got stuck, then as they managed to get those down all the oxygen masks fell out of the ceiling.

We applauded when he landed that, but that was, I think, in congratulations for managing to land such an old rust bucket.
(dchurch bah, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 18:25, closed)

heard
Anyone heard Ryanairs celebration fanfare and speech if you land on time or early?
(Bludfoot rushing out since, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 0:53, closed)