Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
For anyone that has ever ridden in the back of the plane, and maybe for those who don't commute and put AVOID deadheads on their PBS bid, they don't realize how many stinking PA's the flight attendants make. For crying out loud, everybody shut up.

Oh.
My.
God.
I get hawking the credit cards and whatnot, but an agressive sales pitch can be condensed into about a tenth of the bandwidth we're using now. Seriously, its beyond noise pollution.
I'm about ready to start thinking that the PA needs to have a guarded switch and using it should require a detailed safety report as to why.
And instructions (and demos) on the technicalities of seatbelt use. In 2012. Really?