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As passengers, we all hope that the people keeping our plane in the sky take their jobs seriously. And, of course, they do. But that doesn’t mean those who work on board can’t have a laugh about it. After all, a little fun makes even long-haul days easier to handle.
That’s where the Instagram page Aviation Humor comes in. It’s filled with posts that perfectly capture life above the clouds, from relatable crew moments to the quirks of those traveling with them. Scroll down to see their funniest memes and don’t forget to upvote your favorites.
P.S. You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy them—if you love everything about flying, you’ll feel right at home.
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R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
And Mercs, Audis and the worst offenders of them all....Tesla driver's!
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Michael Largey 4 weeks ago
Not using your turn signal has nothing to do with memory and everything to do with selfishness.
Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
That's true, but this is a JOKE, because saying it in a serious straightforward way doesn't seem to work.
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Ghostchaplain16 4 weeks ago
Never has a meme more accurately reflected the feeling when you realize you've just done this. Give that OP an Academy Award!
Nira Amana 3 weeks ago
I feel worse when someone, usually very politely, sends me email back asking for attachment. The shame!
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Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
If only they wouldn't stick the 📎 icon right next to the ✉️ icon where a fat finger can aim for one and accidently press the other and oh sh!t I just sent a half written message with no attachment... [at least give me an "are you sure? you're a dumbárse, so are you *really* sure?" prompt before sending!?]
Shelli Aderman 4 weeks ago
I’ve sent this meme a few times when, specifically, I’ve done this! 🤣
R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
Hahaha! So true! It happen to me in a few occasions here at work! No to mention that suddenly my right-hand worker or my brother appear in my office, wanting to waterboard me for forgetting the attachment 😄
Isn’t it kind of mind-blowing that humans, who can’t even flap their arms fast enough to leave the ground, somehow figured out how to soar thousands of meters into the sky?
Today, flying feels so routine that we barely think twice about it. Planes take off, people sip their tiny coffees, and a few hours later, they’re across the world. But it wasn’t always this simple or safe.
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R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
A really GOOD boy! I'm willing to bet he's the one who got all the attention of the stewardess with snacks and all the rest of goodies! 😊
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Nosirrow 3 weeks ago
I was sitting in a passenger seat in an ambulance. The driver ignored a red light on an empty road outside of the city. I thought he was just a mindless idiot. He started pulling my leg, saying he's colourblind. Whatever, man, crash the ambulance and end us all, see if I care.
Amused panda 3 weeks ago
But just the guy you want when flying through those cloudy skies and fog.
Before commercial flights and low-cost airlines, there were centuries of wild ideas, daring experiments, and, yes, a few painful landings. The dream of flight is as old as civilization itself, and the story of how it turned from myth to everyday life is nothing short of extraordinary.
The very word aviation has poetic roots. It comes from the Latin avis, meaning “bird,” and the suffix -ation, which implies action or progress.
It was coined in 1863 by a French pioneer named Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle, who literally wrote the book on air navigation, long before we had any planes to navigate.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 4 weeks ago (edited)
Stay expressionless if you want it to go faster!
Seadog 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily true. Dad flew small planes. He loved buzzing friends houses. He and a friend went up one day and the friends son was with him. Friend asked dad if it was okay if he came along. Dad asked if he would be okay with his flying. He said no problem as he is an Air Force pilot. First buzz they look back at this young man and he's white as a ghost. They had to climb to a few thousand feet and fly straight and level for this Air Force pilot to get himself in balance again. That was the end of dads day out.
Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
I've never bothered going bungee jumping because it seemed kind of pointless after going skydiving 8 or 9 times. I can appreciate the humor, but I doubt that fighter pilots would bother with most amusement park rides unless they're going with somebody.
Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
I guess this is a side issue, but I'm looking at the other people's faces and thinking, 'you do that for fun?!!' I might do it if someone gave me lots of money.
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Still, people’s fascination with flight goes back much further. Thousands of years ago, people in China were flying kites, experimenting with air currents, and studying how the wind behaved.
Elsewhere, ancient stories told of people trying to lift themselves off the ground. One of the most famous is the Greek tale of Daedalus and Icarus, the father and son who made wings out of feathers and wax. It didn’t exactly have a happy ending, but it showed just how far people were willing to go to understand the skies.
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PenguinEmp 4 weeks ago
And they can't find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.
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Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
WD-40 and gaffer tape - the two products that keep the world functioning. 👍
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Ghostchaplain16 4 weeks ago (edited)
This is me every time I fly. I'm not on a no-fly list, but I'm pretty certain I'm on a "make him run" list.
R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
I'm telling you! Some airports around the world are run by very sadistic people! You arrive in the right area and suddenly they make you run to the other side of the bloody airport to catch your flight...arghh!
Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 4 weeks ago
Because there is no gate 1 at any airport in the world. It is allways gate 4389 at terminal 24
John Glunk 3 weeks ago
My flight into Atlanta was delayed. We got out at gate A-12. My connecting flight was at gate E-7. It left in 10 minutes. For those of you who have been to Atlanta you understand the problem. It, of course, took me 20 minutes to get to the gate. Too late. I asked the gate attendant if there was another flight she could get me on. No problem! It left in 15 minutes from Gate A-11. Really? Yes, I made it!
Linda Johnson 2 weeks ago
OH SOOOOOO TRRRUUUUUUE!!! I'm always grateful I have a disability and need wheelchair assistance to and from the gates....I'd never make it....the absolute worst so far was DFW !!! OMG!! I think they take you to another planet to catch your connector flight !!!!!
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R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
If that was a malfunction, maybe ok...but if someone did it deliberately, head is by now on a spike
And then came the real-life attempts. Around the 9th century, Abbas ibn Firnas, a scientist from Córdoba, Spain, decided to make flight happen himself. He covered his body in feathers, strapped on wings, and actually managed to glide for a short distance.
Unfortunately, the landing didn’t go very well—he forgot to build himself a tail to slow down. A few centuries later, Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English monk, tried something similar and had the same result. Gravity, as it turned out, wasn’t easy to beat.
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WindySwede 4 weeks ago
"But what he also doesent know, ive arranged for Amsterdam family to meat him at destination.."
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
"Spilling the tea," or related phrases, now apparently refers to gossip.
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Major Harris 3 weeks ago
"airplane" scene- "cream?" "no thanks, i like it black, like my men."
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Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
I've seen this as general weather forecasting, with a dustbin lid taking the place of the stone. Still funny, though.
The first true success in getting off the ground came from the Montgolfier brothers in the 18th century. Their invention, the hot air balloon, finally allowed humans to rise into the sky.
At almost the same time, hydrogen balloons followed, and scientists began uncovering the physics behind flight. Sir George Cayley, often called the “father of aerodynamics,” figured out the principles of lift and drag, laying the groundwork for everything that came next.
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MissyMoo 3 weeks ago
Haha and the DEI pilots need to have designed the plane, flown 100000 hrs, taught the training, wrote the check list and manuals, seated passengers, run safety cards and serve refreshments…. And yet only got the job because they are DEI
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Verena 4 weeks ago
Actually, this is what I did multiple times. It works, if you take that opportunity serious and actually put in all the effort necessary to be good at what you chose to do. It is not the easy way, so only choose that path with stuff you are truly interested in learning and doing.
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Tucker Cahooter 4 weeks ago
And screaming at the other planes on the taxiway: "Get outta my way a**hole!! W*F do you think you are doing?? Move it pal, I'm in a hurry!"
Laserleader 3 weeks ago
Yup, because rain avoids the windshield of planes, so you need to feel it.
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John Dilligaf 3 weeks ago
am I the only one that actually misses when we had gauges for oil temp, oil pressure, alternator, and so on? Nowadays all we get is a check engine light that comes on.
R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
The only thing that gets my vote is, he has the mandatory stereo system
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
That's old school. Here in the modern age we have the glass cockpit.
By the 19th century, inventors everywhere were experimenting with gliders, steam-powered contraptions, and early prototypes that barely stayed airborne. Otto Lilienthal in Germany made more than 2,000 glider flights, while Sir Hiram Maxim’s flying machine actually lifted off the ground, though control was another story.
These early dreamers set the stage for the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who would change everything.
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Sarah 4 weeks ago
If carmex lip balm slightly melts/ softens it can trigger something in US security. Know someone this happened to. Taken aside to room and questioned. Can’t remember what or if they were told what that ingredient was
Bi.Felicia 3 weeks ago
If Carmex is in a tube or a jar it's considered a gel, so it must follow TSAs liquid rules. Which are, it needs to be 3.4oz/100ml or less, in a single quart sized bag and must be in your carry-on luggage.
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HappyShannon 3 weeks ago
Ice is legally allowed through TSA. We take our water bottles with just ice in them through all the time. Some agents will so NO though. We dont argue the rules, we just dump the ice.
Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
As long as there's no liquid when they look at it (easy to do if you know how to unscrew the cap and drink) then it's very definitely allowed. It would be extremely difficult, but if you can freeze a gallon of gas it becomes permissible because the official rule is that "Any flammable liquid fuel, such as cooking fuel, is prohibited."
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Bob Brooce : one rule I've just read is: "Explosives and flammable substances and devices that can be used, or appear capable of being used, to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of an aircraft are completely forbidden:" - that's British Airways. The restriction appears to be generally applied by airlines. I've also just seen an AI summary explaining - with sources - that you're not allowed to carry hexamine (solid fuel often used in camping stoves) on an airliner.
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In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved what no one else had before: controlled, powered flight. Their plane, the Flyer, might look simple by today’s standards, but it was a miracle of design.
Just a few years later, planes evolved rapidly—by 1909, aviation pioneers were experimenting with new materials, building floatplanes, and even using aircraft for communication and military observation.
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Geoffrey Scott 4 weeks ago
The bare bones flights are rudimentary, but, we got an Allegiant flight from Toledo to Ft Walton, round trip for $150 each.
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Paul C. 4 weeks ago
One of the greatest planes ever built. One accident and it's taken out of commission. If that was the case with Boeing they wouldn't have a plane in the sky!
Ace 4 weeks ago (edited)
It wasn't the accident that did for it - they went back into service with BA and Air France a year later with some safety modifications, but the general airline slump after 9/11 rendered them uneconomic and they were eventually withdrawn from service two years later. Shame, was a beautiful thing. There was an out-of-servie one parked on the apron close to my office when I worked at BA for a while in the 90s. Absolutely glorious. But tiny, when you saw another, wide-bodied, plane next to it.
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Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
In the UK as a child I used to live on the flight path of Concorde flying to the US, and yeah, used to watch it fly over. Now in France I live on the route the BelugaXL sometimes takes to get between somewhere in Germany (Belgium?) to St. Nazaire or Bordeaux and... I don't see that one so often because for a plane that looks so weirdly massive that it shouldn't be capable of flying, it's remarkably quiet. By the time I've heard it, it's been and gone. Your average Boeing, particularly the Dreamliner, makes so much racket that even though it flies twice as high as the BelugaXL, I have time to put my coat on, step outside, and look at Flightradar24 to see where it's going *before* it passes overhead.
Pferdchen 4 weeks ago
That looks similar to an Airbus Beluga, which is an amazing plane! I assume it's for similar purposes (transporting oversize cargo, such as airplane wings and fuselages).
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Pferdchen: that's actually an Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Turbine operated by Airbus way back - they were basically converted Boeing 377 Stratocruisers/C-97 Stratofreighters (first flight 1947, and derived from the B-29 Superfortress. The ones Airbus operated had had the original piston engines replaced by modern turboprops). Airbus retired its Super Guppys in the 1990s mostly because they were very expensive to maintain by then. The Airbus Beluga transport aircraft replaced them in the 1990s - all built new to a design based on the Airbus A300. As far as I can tell, the original Belugas have all been retired (January this year) and replaced by the Beluga XL, built new to a design based on the Airbus A330. The Beluga XLs are painted up with an actual "cute whale face" design on the front. I get to see one every now and then - I live not very far away from an Airbus factory (I mean, I'd not want to walk there from here, but it's close by if you're flying...) Wikipedia links follow.
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From there, aviation took off, literally and figuratively. Airships, like those designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, ruled the skies for long-distance travel until the 1930s, when large flying boats began crossing oceans.
After World War II, land-based planes and jet engines took over, making air travel faster and more accessible than ever before.
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Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
If I remember correctly, hard landings though uncomfortable tend to be far safer than soft landings due to something in physics relating to air
Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
Pilots never want a hard landing, but a hard landing is one that exceeds the manufacturers published limits.For airliners that's a maximum descent rate of 600' per minute or 6.8mph. If you want to experience landing that fast you can DIY by stepping off of something that's a staggering 19" high. Pilots may want a firm landing when hey want the wheels to immediately spin up to speed to avoid hydroplaning on a wet runway or to maintain control in crosswinds. A firm landing also gets enough pressure on the landing gear to activate the spoilers to k**l lift. If things go well a soft landing is good when conditions are good, but landing creates "ground effect" by squeezing air between the plane and the ground. That creates (extra) lift and can cause the plane to float above the ground. Not a problem if there's plenty of runway in front of you, but it's a bit problematic if landing long uses runway that you need for braking.
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Then came the digital age. In the second half of the 20th century, aviation saw huge progress with fly-by-wire systems, better navigation tools, and aircraft that could handle much of the flying automatically.
Today, the field has advanced even more. Drones, electric planes, and designs that once seemed impossible are now part of reality. From early experiments with feathers and wood to modern jets, aviation has come a long way. And even now, watching a plane lift off the ground never stops being impressive.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 4 weeks ago
Please don't give Ryanair any ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Not a good PR for Boeing, isn't it? After ALL the crashes they've been having recently
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Russell Bowman 3 weeks ago
in the military aviation world they use "speed tape"
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A-7BFH: Qatar Cargo (Qatar Airways) Boeing 777-FDZ. It's been repaired and it's in service. A url can be reconstructed from this: www DOT flightradar24 DOT com\data\aircraft/a7-bfh\
UnclePanda 4 weeks ago
I spent several minutes on that question. I think the leading edge hit the pole and then it popped through to look like it was impaled.
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Bob Brooce 3 weeks ago
That's 210 hours more than the minimum for a private certificate, and while it allows you to legally accept compensation for flying it doesn't mean anyone will hire you for anything important. In theory you can be a flight instructor and meet your first student when you've got 250.00 hours, but in practice you probably need more. Minimum for an air transport certificate, which is a minimum requirement to fly even a small airliner, is 1500 hours.
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nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
I think an F-16's stall speed might be more than a Cessna's top speed. Just a guess.
General Anaesthesia 4 weeks ago
I just looked it up: depending on configuration F-16 stall speed can be as low as 130 knots without flaps, Cessna 172 has a maximum speed 163 knots
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R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
What is the old saying? "If it is Boeing I'm not going"...or something like that
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Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
To recieve the remaining luggage kindly upgrade to premium at just $599 a month or a one time payment of $7199 to recieve benefits for up to a year. Benefits include whatever’s left of your luggage, a s****y window seat that doesn’t have a window along with a complimentary crying child to really bring up the mood of everyone around.
Virginie Michaud 3 weeks ago
So the foot-aromatherapy poking between seets from behind and hanging-over-seat-in-front hair decor is extra then? 😂
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Glix Drap 4 weeks ago
The day after yesterday (sounds more complicated than it is).
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Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
There's a retail and leisure development in Liverpool called Liverpool One. It's got a shop selling Everton football club stuff called Everton Two. So, the shop's address is Everton Two, Liverpool One (etc). 😁
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Christina Dutta 4 weeks ago
The after-burner is known as God's gift to the oilman in the oil industry.
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Hmmm hmmmm 4 weeks ago
Yorkshire pilots : aye, you'll be reet, luxury compared to what I used to fly in. My ma just chucked me in a cardboard box, with a hole in it. And I were glad for it for I had nowt to do.
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This is only semi-joking. Speed Tape is the stuff they actually use to hold aircraft together - it's higher spec than normal duct tape. url in my next post. "In the aviation industry, speed tape is a crucial tool for making temporary repairs on aircraft. It’s a type of heavy-duty aluminum adhesive tape, specially designed to withstand extreme conditions such as high speeds, temperature changes, moisture, and UV exposure. Pilots and ground crews use it for quick fixes on both the interior and exterior of aircraft, allowing for continued operation without causing delays"
R1MV4Superleggera 3 weeks ago
So that's the last minute repair on those Boeing airplanes before taking off, huh? Hope your life insurance is up to date! Oh, and don't forget to kiss your relatives "goodbye"! You might never see them again
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Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago (edited)
That is entirely contrary to Australian safety regulations! They should use duct tape.
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Martin König 2 weeks ago
That poor woman HAD to stand there with the baby in her arms just because the plane just stopped. Tough life.
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WindySwede 4 weeks ago
Same here, no deaths. 𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉𝗌://𝗐𝗐𝗐.𝖻𝖺𝖺𝖺-𝖺𝖼𝗋𝗈.𝖼𝗈𝗆/𝗌𝗂𝗍𝖾𝗌/𝖽𝖾𝖿𝖺𝗎𝗅𝗍/𝖿𝗂𝗅𝖾𝗌/𝖼𝗋𝖺𝗌𝗁/𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗌/𝖮𝖸-𝖪𝖧𝖮-𝟥.𝗃𝗉𝗀
Ace 4 weeks ago
I thought for a second you'd found a way round the BP no-links stupidity, but whatever you actually did to the text it's rendered it unusable, browsers are not recognising it as a URL.
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Nosirrow 3 weeks ago
I saw two women with a golden retriever on a train. The dog was walking around, turning against the seats. When we were about to leave, I saw how much fur was left on the edge of seats. Handfuls. The women saw that and thought: s***w everyone else, we have the right to inconvenience people bc we are monsters without conscience or morality.
Linz Endell 3 weeks ago
After 20 years of train commuting, I will happily take dog hair over anything left by people.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago (edited)
I once met a guy who actually used to hitch around Africa with a parachute. He'd hang around airports, waiting for a light plane going his way. When over the place he wanted to be, he'd jump out and land at his destination. Sheer genius!
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
Plane tickets are cheaper than they've ever been. That's why the experience is so shіtty.
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Michael Largey 4 weeks ago
Nothing in their safety record indicates they will.
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Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
So that's the reason some people didn't/don't get any passion to even be a passenger. I was a nervous wreck in departure lounges, just going on holiday, but haven't flown for 30 years now. Great relief.
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DH 4 weeks ago
They mean that if the layover is very short it is always in a very nice place and if it is long, always in a worse place.
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Linda Johnson 2 weeks ago
yep....get hardly enough time to see the City you're in overnight, but it's a luxury hotel, so do you go out or stay in??? ....but you get stuck for 3 days and get the hotel room in the slums.....
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Charlotte Ingle 4 weeks ago
USA censored history of the Enola Gay because someone mistook it for being history from a gay perspecy
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Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
Go and see a psychologist to find out why you love these.
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David Paterson 4 weeks ago
They need a medical station half way along to treat runners who are dying from a heart attack.
Mary Peace 3 weeks ago
The medics are there but there's no actual station because they work while running with their patient.
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Arrived late for a flight change in Hong Kong. Little [truly petite] Chinese young woman in chic red with a clipboard asked in one breath "Are you so-and-so? Can you run?". And we ran!
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