Charlie O’HaraMar 16

KLM have definitely become the Rules airline. No usage of power banks. No photography on board. No drinking of alcohol not supplied by KLM. No charging your phone from the seat while taxiing. All on top of the normal stuff.

So very reassuring.

Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 16
In another country, transferring to a third country, I feel someone brushing my back in a queue. I turn around and hiss “Abstand bitte!” because of course the person behind me is German.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 16
I’d taken my bag off to retrieve a water bottle. In the 10 seconds that elapsed she had somehow gotten to within microns of my back.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 16
All is forgive as I’m in a location with MOUNTAINS. And OCEAN. ❤️
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
4am at a Spanish airport (a hastily arranged flight triggered by yesterday’s Berlin airport strike). I’m studying and respecting an old man, who is resplendent in a giant hat and enjoying a monumental glass of brandy.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
I now have 11 hours of travelling as I’m bounced around Europe to get home. I shall document my findings.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
This entire flight was full of Canadians. I fell asleep to the gentle lulling of “gee” and “sorry”.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
*This* flight is full of people wearing Disney merch. Several Goofy hats are in my eyeline.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
I am ashamed that several Disney Adults were queer coded.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
*My* queer people don’t do soft toys and cringe.
Show threadCharlie O’Hara
I can only assume I’ve made it to Vienna.
Mar 19 at 10:48amWeb
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
After 12 hours I’m finally boarding the last flight of my journey home.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19

I always delight in watching those folks who try to sneak past the gate boarding groups get publicly turned away. Absolute bloody schadenfreude.

I acknowledge that I’m quite the authoritarian in many ways.

Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
Also got to see someone role-playing the wife from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. She actually screamed when the electronic gates wouldn’t work for her. Shouting “go on love, try it a fifth time” probably didn’t help.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
Same woman tried to get her luggage out of the overhead compartment while were taxiing to the gate and got shouted at lol
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
The young normcore man next to me is asking ChatGPT what the dress code is for Berghain. This is where the world is at and I’ll be honest I want to follow him all the way there to see what happens.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
Anyway, after 13 hours I’m on the bus home. Hurrah.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
Could have flown to Vancouver in this time.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 20
There was some very nice skies on the last leg. Look at the three planes in formation and the shadows on those clouds!
Show threadIain CuthbertsonMar 20
@awfulwoman making me think of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. Or at least paperback artwork.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 20
@bigcalm oh yes!
Show threadkianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈Mar 19
@awfulwoman
Please tell me it told him full on leather Lederhosen.
Please.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
@kianryan it does make me think of a distributed AI poisoning attack against this particular prompt. Perhaps we can alter the entire dress code of the club.
Show threadchristian mockMar 19
@awfulwoman what is it with people's need to jump up and clog the plane as soon as allowed? I'll have to wait for my luggage anyways, so I can stay seated until the chaos subsides, no need to stand around in the plane.
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
@cm 100%. This is why I always book a window seat and happily wait.
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 19
@awfulwoman when i’m at an airport, my inner monologue is just my brain disdainfully hissing “SOCIAL CONTRACT” over and over again
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
@beep I always appreciate your black bike hidden underneath that layer of lovely politeness. ❤️
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 19

@awfulwoman i am no robert frost fan, but “good fences make good neighbors” goes a long way to describing my people/upbringing

💜

Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 19
@beep “an unanswered door is a happy door”
Show threadkonsonantenboyMar 19
@awfulwoman Jesasmariaundjosef, as we say here.
Show threadAegirMar 19
@awfulwoman Oof. 😍
Show threadRobee? Na! 🌈Mar 19
@awfulwoman It means nothing to me 🎶
Show threadchristian mockMar 19
@awfulwoman let's just hope you don't fall into a tourist trap!