How to pronounce:

How to pronounce potable in British English

This is a better explanation:

http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I'm guilty as charged on the "potable" thing. Also, over in the charter world, I've been calling "crudités" "crew-dites". Guess I'm a real man. To me it's veggie tray.


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Jerrycans & potable water
 

The famous Jerrycan (alternative spellings OK) was actually a 1930s German design, part of their logistics run-up to WW II. Held 5.3 gallons, had handles for one or two-man carrying, and was reverse-engineered for the US Army, under MIL-C-1283.

Made of steel, now replaced by a plastic one.

I remember many of them mis-labelled as 'Portable.' Of course, they were that, also.

To pronounce any word in the British manner, simply raise your nose, wrinkle your upper lip, and imagine that you just smelled a skunk. :p

The Piedmont gate agent that wouldn't check us in at 10:55 for a 11:10 flight, that's 5 minutes to do a 20 second job, I know it was Close but cmonnn man

ANY gate agent that WONT list you for the JS because the flight is "full" and there's 2-3-4-5 JS'er ahead of you.

Only to have no shows and misconnects. And all 2-3-4-5 pilots listed for the JS end up getting a seat in back.

Or the one that wouldn't list me on my own airline because I stood in line for 10 minutes and got to the podium at 29 minute to departure. Apparently 30 minutes is the cutoff time for Jumpseat listings. I had to call dispatch to call the captain to flex his muscles. She printed out my pass in about 30 seconds.


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Along those lines I nominate today's tool a certain center controller who kept on pronouncing Papa like puh-pAAAH. There was an aircraft with that in its tail and it quickly got annoying.

It is not the 1960's anymore and you are not Audrey Hepburn. :rolleyes:

Pretty much any blue streaker who decides to step all over you immediately after you request a ramp clearance from CLT. I've never seen such clockwork douchery in my life. Even the clt controllers have complained about it. I've been trying so hard never to say "br-wn streak" but I'm getting close.

Also whoever told the ground controller yesterday you had a pregnant woman in labor on board just to get a faster taxi clearance, I'm sooo sorry you got denied...:rolleyes:

My favorite JFK controller is back. Just an unpleasant human.

Today at 0700, some helicopter calls and is ignored. Calls back again and the Tower angrily answers "stand by, I'll get to you when I can". Mind you, nobody has made a radio call for 10 seconds when the chopper called. There was a short line for 31L to takeoff, and not a whole lot of landings going on. So, (seemingly) a full minute goes and not a single radio call yet Mr. Controller must be very busy on his smart phone or something since he still hasn't answered the helicopter. Finally somebody else makes a radio call and the controller then calls the chopper back.

Turns out the chopper was trying to report a near miss with a drone, but proving his schwanze was bigger than the pilot's, the controller was obviously too busy to handle that. So he gets around to asking the helicopter pilot where the incident occurred. Man do I wish the chopper pilot would've answered "I'll get back to you when I have a chance..."