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Airline to Offer In-Flight Adult Movies
Soon the loud passenger who's had too much to drink on your red-eye flight will be the least of your travel worries. Ryanair Airlines chief Michael O'Leary plans to launch an app that will allow passengers to watch porn on their tablets and smartphones during flight. Mr O'Leary told the Sun: "I'm not talking about having it on screens on the back of seats for everyone to see. It would be on handheld devices. Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn't we?" Best of all, the app could also be used to gamble or play games in case you got bored during the speaking parts of your in-flight adult movie.
You know, the one from the early 90's with a bunch of guys sitting around talking. David Spade says "I knew I should wear a condom...but I figured, hey, when was I ever going to be in Guam again?" Phil Hartman says "I know the guy is coming out of prison, but he says he wants to turn his life around, so Sheila and I are going to give him a place to stay." Bob Odenkirk says "I know it's over, but I'm going to tell my wife about that affair", and so on...
Anyone remember that skit?
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It's Ryan Air, O'Leary pull these type of stunts every other month just for the free PR
If there was ever an article that should be tagged "What could possibly go wrong?" it's this one...
I'm really not sure that I want to be flying on an airline whose chief can't tell the difference between a private hotel room and an airplane with dozens of other people sitting right next to you.
Preferably handheld devices that can be held in one hand.
-Turkey
And have the flight attendants give blowjobs instead.
I wouldn't trust those blankets.
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If people do not watch porn on their own mobile devices in public places such as planes, it MUST be because the airline does not offer an APP for that.
O'Leary is a master at using trolling for free publicity (see his previous proposals for standing-room-only flights and charging passengers to use the toilet, which as far as I know have not come to pass). This is just more free advertising for Ryanair.
My thoughts exactly. I had to look at my calendar to confirm it wasn't April 1st. Regardless of people's desire to apparently have limitless access to porn 24/7 and that most people that determined to be looking at smut on a flight can download it to their phones easily enough, I am still trying to fathom that there's a universe and market niche that actually feels compelled to look at porn while in flight, surrounded by hundreds of people. Is the airline also going to hand out tissue packs and "spank screens" so its customers can jerk off in private? If this is the best the CEO can come up with to increase his airline's profile, he needs to be shown the door.
Remember those gorgeous young women in thight uniforms? Well. Good news everyone! They kept them on and retirement age be damned! Some need a zimmer frame to get around. The young ones that is.
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This has got to be a new low or high on the list of bad ideas. Are they going to provide extra bathrooms on these flights?
It's more that, traditionally, playing pocket billiards is done at home, by your self, or with a very good friend, and not in a cramped tin box sitting next to a stranger.
also, Aircraft air is stale enough without adding the musty odour of after-sex.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
Is he kidding
Basically, yes. O'Leary periodically says outrageous things about the future of his incredibly awful airline but they rarely materialize. It's about publicity.
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This is Michael O'Leary just drumming up some free PR by proposing something completely outrageous so that it gets mentioned in all the papers. Last time it was suggesting that they'd charge people to go to the toilet.
That proposal (like this one) will never actually happen.
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Due to Rule 34 I can't tell if you're joking. But it's pretty funny either way.
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Well 2 huge flaws, 1. The intent of porn tends to cause a physical change in male viewers that other passengers would rather not witness. 2. I'm as much against censoring of porn and such as anyone else, but when someone is going to play it in visible view of my 5 year old without my consent, that is where the line has to be drawn.
It's RyanAir; this is just a publicity stunt since O'Leary hasn't been in the new recently for stating stupid ideas that'll never happen.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
...and not in a cramped tin box sitting next to a stranger.
Speak for yourself.
You haven't taken a Metro Transit bus in Seattle for some time, have you?
Have gnu, will travel.
It should be noted that the RyanAir proposal would actually have eliminated that problem, since he went into a rage when he was PREVENTED from looking at porn...
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Personally I would just shrug and hop over them and go about my day.
I said traditionally.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
Kids have ages where they mature, ages where they repeat everything they see whether they are old enough to understand it or not at the location where it is least appropriate. When my son was 3 he heard me mutter ah shit. He didn't repeat it, I thought I was in the clear, until the next time he saw his grandma and repeated it 40 times. Now ready to imagine what the end result would be if say a 2-3 year old were to pull off his diaper and attempt to re-enact something he'd seen at a pre-school. If the parent is lucky the child will just get thrown out of the school, if not DSS can have the power to assume the parent is unfit. All because some other jerk that the parent has no control over, couldn't wait for the plane to land?
You haven't taken a Metro Transit bus in Seattle for some time, have you?
Damn those metrosexuals.
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