The thread IS on track. The pilots who weren't spanked as kids are the ones who wear their sunglasses in the terminal at night, sometimes on their face, sometimes up on their heads, sometimes backwards, sometimes on or with some sort of hat, sometimes outside of work like at a hotel, sometimes at a store or somewhere else they have to stop on the way to/from work.

The common thread is that they're all awesome because they weren't spanked, because this one study showed that spanking is 100% bad all the time.

Carry on.