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Brian BilstonA short passive-aggressive poem, written on an aeroplane.
Lockheed/tc2142@brianbilston A poem composed such that the text is shaped like the subject of the poem itself.. This has gotta be one of the most creatively artistic poems I've ever seen
@tc2142 I’m a big fan of ‘concrete’ poetry, although there are weight restrictions when I write it on an aeroplane.
Su_G😭 Have you tried carrying it on in your handbag?
(Based on advice I just read by frequent travellers - as handbags are not weighed 🙂 )
Simpike.instanceyou should check out more of Brian's work then - he has a number of these :-)
Massimiliano Polito 🇪🇺🇮🇹
Space Hobo@brianbilston
Seats should recline by moving the base forward, not the top back. Reclining should cost the recliner space, not their neighbours.
Seats should recline by moving the base forward, not the top back. Reclining should cost the recliner space, not their neighbours.
arclight@spacehobo @brianbilston Minimum standards for passenger space on aircraft should be increased. If reclining a seat inconveniences the person behind, the aircraft seating plan is too cramped.
Let's put the blame where it belongs.
@arclight @brianbilston I dunno, I don't think of flying around the planet in kerosene-guzzling jets to be any kind of human right or anything. Really we should just fix rail networks to replace overland flights.
dragonfrog@arclight @spacehobo @brianbilston If any airline replaces the rows of seats with stacks of cots, like a capsule hotel, they will win my loyalty forever.
GlitzersachenPure genius.
Oskar im KellerSince it's not obvious from the #ALTtext, the whole poem is written so that the layout and arrangement of the words form the shape of a single airline seat with its back reclined.
Maier Amsden@brianbilston I blame airlines. It's like torture for a big borderline claustrophobic guy with bad knees like me. I don't lean the seat back because I honestly can't tell the difference. Now the seat-back's at 92.6°! Comfort!!
Pitch perfect. 😁
Joseph Meyer@brianbilston I wonder if there is a correlation between seat back angle or seat back acceleration and score on the psychopathy checklist.
@JosephMeyer There needs to be an academic study of that.
James Just James@brianbilston @briankrebs We need to stop normalizing the pitting of passenger vs passenger. It's the airlines that are squeezing us not our fellow traveller. Go after them instead to make minimum comfort laws.
Log 🪵@brianbilston That shape poem goes back a little too far to invoke the shape of a real airline's moneybag containers. I mean passenger seats.
A civilized society would require passenger transport services to provide at least two standard deviations above the median for femur length in standard seating. Which would be mostly in trains. On electrified rail. Powered by wind, thermal, tidal, solar, and thorium-232/U-233. On a wider track gauge. With a real dining car. And a murder mystery.
Kevin RussellThe seats recline for one reason. It is not to let you rest.
Seats recline on planes so you will blame another victim of airline crowding and not the airline for crappy seats.
That's it.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@kevinrns @brianbilston Your choice. You can have more space if you want more space. You pays your money and you takes your choice. Choose crappy seats, pay for crappy seats, and guess what, you get crappy seats.
@TimWardCam@c.im @brianbilston
Health insurance designed to deny care, airlines designed for discomfort, this is a mistake in the system. Not travellers.
The system changed this 👇 into what travelers suffer today, so yachts can be bigger, for the people who matter.
No economy class.
Trish Roberts@brianbilston @caity 😬😄Also trains