Please, please, no more FFDO tirades...
Pretty please? It's making this (enjoyable) thread a complete PITA!
Peace...

 

No more from me buddy, the crazies can clutch their p**is replacement in the cockpit before it is banned.

Please somebody describe / transcribe the rap video for posterity, it has been taken down!

 

Close your eyes and let... wait, don't close your eyes, you need to read this.

Imagine if you will a mid-40's man; fit, gingered, high on life, probably born again. Now picture this man in a bedroom with no adornments, just a very expensive microphone, a computer, and a keyboard. Layer this vision with really bad music that said man thinks is awesome. (Imagine the most typical mid-90's alternative but badly produced, repetitive, and a heavy reliance on guitar effects and someone who thinks they sound like Scott Weiland (RIP)).

This scene now set, our ginger hero, smiling psychopathically happy, begins to sing us his melody while the video cuts to scenes of him enthusiastically doing a walk around on a CRJ-900 like he just won the damned lottery. He can't help himself from giving rock n roll devil horns every ten seconds, encouraging his FO to do the same in the flight deck. This progresses to cuts of him back in the "studio" and then to the infamous scene of him happily "heelying" himself through RDU in uniform in full view of the public.

Repeat the above for 5:17.

He should have an interview at JB or SWA tomorrow.

Oh, and this entire sequence begins with his monologue to the passengers from the galley (which was filmed from seat 1C, and likely to an empty plane) in which he says, emphatically, (paraphrased from memory), "Hello ladies and gentleman, sorry for our brief delay, but I'll tell you what, you are in good hands here today, because you have Captain Lee at the controls! What does that mean? Well, I can't do much about the delay, and I can't stop Mother Nature, but I can control one thing, and that's the speeeeed of this aircraft!!! So here's what I propose, I told the ground crew to go ahead and throw 1000 pounds of extra gas on board this airplane because once we get in the air I'm going to go as fast as possible and fly this thing like I stole it! Most importantly I'm going to get you there as safely as possible. Welcome aboard."

 

As the Beatles said, "Happiness is a warm gun...Bang! Bang! Shoot! Shoot!"

 

What the heck is this suppose to mean? I watched the video. As Deadhead mentioned, there are simply no words! But why would you attach a phrase you know many people take very seriously with his silly over the top production?

 

PotatoChip:

Did you really need to waste even a second to try and explain something like that?
C'mon man!

 

A stereotype, a Ned Flanders-esque happiness and optimism.

 

Someone asked, so I provided. I found it gratifying as well humorous. I also forced my wife to watch it. But hey, different strokes...

 

That's strange--you'd think a doctor would know at least some Latin. Maybe not. "Non sequitur" means "does not follow," which of course does not apply to my post, regardless. It refers to a conclusion that doesn't logically derive from the available or presented evidence. I presented verifiable facts and statistics, but inferred no actual conclusion, which could therefore neither logically follow, nor "not follow." The facts and statistics I listed (since you didn't bother to list any) merely demonstrated that your conclusions failed to follow any known logic.

Good one, Doc. You're a hoot. I guess personal insults ("cowboy mentality" and "fantasy world") falls under your definition of "reasonable actions." Or perhaps it's a "reasonable understanding."

And nice buzzword-rationalization in that paragraph; you must have copied that straight from a medical ethics text. The problem is that you actually listed no empirical data or evidence from which to arrive at those actions and understandings, reasonable or otherwise.


Ahh, more personal insults. What a surprise. You must be a hellava doctor. Great bedside manner, I'd bet:

Patient: "Doc, my chest hurts!"
CardioMD: "Screw you, gun nut!"

Remember Doc, it was you who invited a new thread to discuss this. You asked for scenarios and and information for an analysis. Nobody else--just you.

So I obliged your request. I started a new thread, actually answered your questions, listed verifiable facts, listed statistics, etc. And your response? Why to turn turtle, of course. Rather than address the glaring discrepancies between the actual facts and your personal prejudices, you chickened out and went back to heaping insults, and pretended that actually justifying your lack of logic was somehow beneath you or something. Then just go on to ignore.

You know, I don't actually personally know you as a doctor or anything, but let's see what I can infer so far, from your posts on this board:

- You appear to seek out precisely zero facts prior to drawing your conclusions. You then just present them as "obvious." Personal prejudices seem to guide your ideas, instead of logic and facts.
- You heap personal and pigeon-holing insults on everyone who holds differing opinions than you.
- You appear to have acted with moral cowardice, running away from a discussion that you yourself invited; opting instead just to fire off more personal insults as a response.
- On the plus side, however, you do seem to know a lot of buzzwords and catchphrases. You clearly don't know what they all mean, but boy, can you spout 'em.

Hey, all in all, I'm sold! Just what I'm looking for in a doctor! I really hope you take my airline's insurance, should up I ever have heart problems.

Bubba

 

Albie pretty nailed in regards to cardio in a previous post.

Which is kind of funny. Because in the safety section, I used a bunch of acronyms and terms that are specific to aviation, mostly airline transport turbine type terms. Stuff that most GA just doesn't really deal with, etc.

And he got on his high horse and basically slammed for using them. Probably because most of it was over his head. As was much of the discussion IIRC.