Don’t worry. If they’re a pilot, they’re gonna tell you.
Pilots, vegans, and polyamorous couples.
Don’t forget about Linux users!
For a while, people who did CrossFit too
They’re all suffering from injuries now.
Yay kipping pull ups
They still exist, but it’s not the cultural phenomenon it once was.
If someone is a vegan, polyamorous linux user who’s a pilot, which one would they mention first?
They give you a card.
i would carry around a cardboard spinner wheel as a joke at that point
😳
Arch btw
And marathon runners
Just taking a break from Crossfit to have a vape and read this comment. Very true! ( I use arch btw)
polyamorous couples
I mean how else would we recruit more people for our D&D sessions?
with a pineapple
Damn, as a polyamorous vegan with a pilot’s cert, I feel called out. But I wasn’t going to say anything about any of that until your comment performed a hat-trick and summoned me from the depths.
All pilots are vegans? And in a polyamorous relationship?
Well the poly kinda checks out, they’re banging every stewardess they come across, so…
They’ve kind of earned it. Just watching an airline pilot put 200 people down safely in a crosswind is all the convincing one needs.
then we clap
That’s vegans.
I’m always surprised they don’t have their own proprietary underground tunnel system to get around the airports. But no, they just walk through all the concourses with all the rest of us plebians.
How else would they flaunt their big pilot energy?
It’s a cultivated status. You have to have a lot of money to become one, you get paid a lot of money, and then you don’t get to have a domestic life once you become one. So a lot goes into selling they lifestyle of being a pilot, which is what aura really is but don’t tell the kids that.
But also nobody wants to see a pilot rushing through the airport, because they’re supposed to be calm, levelheaded people. And you definitely don’t want them rushing through takeoff procedures.
Yeah, they should be nice and relaxed. Maybe a few drinks at the bar would help
Aeroflot pilot has entered chat.
You mean the bar
The first two lines weren’t true until more recently. Becoming a pilot was expensive, but not out of reach. You could literally do it by earning money fueling planes up until ~20 years ago. Also, you didn’t get paid shit up until 10 years ago and they started desperately throwing money at new pilots to hire and keep them. Even some larger airlines paid like shit for newer pilots depending on aircraft for a really long while.
The dream was to make it to a major and put enough years in to make the big money.
But in the last decade things have really changed. Pay is decent even for a lot of the smaller aircraft (but not great, depending). But training costs are outrageous compared to 25-35 years ago.
Good to know. Thanks for the fact check
Not trying to contradict, just add a little updating and nuance.
No, I got you 👍
The escalator thing? He definitely wanted to look at her butt.
He probably practised his whole life for this moment, I bet he has other lines too
the best lines are airlines
What about the guys that pump the go-juice into the wing tanks?
they get fired
Pulped, digested, and fed back into the engine as fuel
Jet-A Green is people!!!
That’s the red variant.
The last line is in regular rotation.
The (air)bus drivers of the sky.
No thanks. I don’t simp for job positions.
This is a weird take to me. Why should we not idolize and revere workers who do critical labor on which our society depends? I understand objecting to the lack of idolization for other forms of labor. But to say that you dont afford respect and admiration to workers performing any labor is odd.
I respect workers by wanting them to get their fair share of the labor.
I don’t need to start rating people based on their profession and denigrating most workers for not having these auraful jobs.
Okay, I agree with that. Your use of the word simp was a bit open to interpretation.
Why would you idolize anyone? To err is human; we all have flaws and just because you have a fancy profession does not mean you are a good person.
I moreso meant that I think glorifying the labor of working class people in general is a good thing. Not any one particular form of labor, just all forms of labor in general. Of course all people have flaws and are imperfect, I never suggested otherwise.
I’m not a Marxist-Leninist, far from it, but I do appreciate broad strokes the art they made glorifying the labor of the working class. Even though they constantly disrespected workers and acted against their rights, they nominally fostered a culture that glorified the labor done by workers every day. I think that on the whole is a good thing. I think it’s good to show a reverence for workers of all types.
Fair enough but this doesn’t make much sense to me in the context of this post, since it implies that pilots are / should be idolized more than any of the other travelers (also mostly labourers of some sort) or other airport staff.
For pulluting the shit out of the skies, and bringing the end upon us, with their own two hands.
I do not understand why people do that for jobs that what, how many, 100’000? have.
I’m an accomplished native English speaker, but suspect this may be written in a foreign language. strokes beard adjusts bow tie .
I have native-level proficiency in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
adjusts glasses
(okay I didn’t wanna brag, but, I didn’t start it lol)
I don’t even understand what the joke is here? Is “aura” the word you’re taking issue with? It’s not like a sentence filled with Gen Z slang. And aura has been around for at least a hundred years.
You also have a positive score, so the comment about being down voted doesn’t make sense either.
Ah, are you?
You got me curious about something…
Oxford English Dictionary - Aura, 2.c.
[year] 1870–
A supposed subtle emanation from and enveloping living persons and things, viewed by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual, serving as the medium for the operation of mesmeric and similar influences.
”Peculiar substances can be charged with the efflux or aura of the human being.”
P. B. Randolph, Seership! (1884)
Thank you both. I’ve never had the honour of having a comment downvoted so many times on Lemmy, so I presume that I raised some Gen Z hackles with my response. I know what an aura is, of course.
