This is why you shut your babies up on flights and don't recline.

[Svnla]

Apparently air rage is somewhat common in China.

Their President actually had to ask people to behave themselves as they were making the country look bad.

Making the country look bad? You don't say so.

Defecate on an airplane = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Chinese-family-let-toddler-DEFECATE-seat.html


Defecate on the street, in broad day light = https://badcanto.wordpress.com/2014...ic-defecation-incident-next-magazine-version/

Spitting, littering, cutting into lines, flouting traffic laws and allowing their children to relieve themselves in public pools. Some restaurant owners complained of Chinese filling up doggy bags at buffets. = http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/15/chinese-tourists-ugly-americans_n_5150905.html

 

[OverVolt]

I don't get it. The plane background noise is like 4x baby crying noise.

 

[tortillasoup]

Then your parents may not have been using all the tricks. As a frequent transoceanic parent my son was well regulated. He didn't eat until we got on the plane and up to altitude. Feeding at cruise means the little rugrats swallow/chew thereby equalizing pressure. Slip a properly dosed benadryl in there and they sleep. Wakey time means game time, coloring, cards, gameboy, etc. On descent give em something chewy to nom on.

While there are some circumstances in which kids crying persistently is unavoidable I would say it's preventable more often than not.

That's smart but I don't think that works for people who have a genetic pre-dispostion to having clogged sinuses like I do. I get it from my Mom who got it from her Mom. Sinuses get clogged really easily on children so I guess if my dad was a child and was experiencing that, chewing probably would have been enough. But for me, I did everything and nothing worked at that age. It was only when I got to around 7/8 years old, doing the exact stuff I was doing since when I first flew, I was finally able to equalize the pressure in my head/ears/sinuses.

I mean I guess you could say, don't fly on an airplane with a head cold! But I didn't remember being sick all the times that I flew but knowing how dry the air is in the plane, that might have had an effect on the Sinuses causing them to clog, not allowing them to equalize or something.

 

[Markbnj]

I don't get it. The plane background noise is like 4x baby crying noise.

An orchestra is louder, too.

 

[master_shake_]

Given my knowledge of China is based almost exclusively on Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies, I'm not remotely surprised that a country full of ninjas would choose to settle its differences through physical combat.

lmfao

 

[Zorander]

I always bring my IEMs with me. Little buggers can't pierce through those (unless I'm unfortunate enough to ne seated next to one).

 

[Homerboy]

Keep your fucking baby off the plane if it's going to be a nuisance for everybody on board.

I had a dad change his 2 years old baby's diaper on the seat beside me instead of using the toilet's change table a few years ago. What a fucking asshole.

Right... because people know if their kid is going to be a nuisance from flight to flight. Fuck, I don't know if my 13 and 11 year olds will be be nuisance when I get home from work tonight or not. Babies don't tell you "Hey dad/mom, you know that trip to see grandma in Arizona in March? Yeah, I plan on being colic that week and screaming my fucking head off for all 4 hours of the flight. You might want to cancel it as to not upset the sensitivities of Number1"

Here's the trick -- I've been on countless flights, and WAY more often than not it's the adults who are bigger pain in the asses than any kid. So maybe we should just make sure nobody is getting on the flight that supersedes everyone's sensitivity thresholds?

 

[Ruptga]

I can sympathize, I once had the pleasure of hearing some kid scream all the way across the Atlantic, literally. It's really a no-win situation, but I hold the airlines ultimately responsible. It's unavoidable that people will eventually freak out over the course of an hours-long game of sardines. They like to talk about fuel prices and how they can't keep business class seats filled, but that's their business and their problem. Do it right, don't do it at all, or accept the blame for the natural outcomes of treating people like cattle.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I had to hear a baby cry as I flew across the country in a matter of hours, a trip that would have taken days by rail or months by wagon 100 years ago WHAAA!!!

Bunch of entitled cry babies. Listening to you babies cry is way more annoying than hearing a young child cry.

Now get off my lawn! 😛

 

[NetWareHead]

What fucking plane has a changing table in the lavatory? You can barely turn around in those damn things😕

Admittedly I haven't been in one for many years despite all my travels, but I have never seen one and can't imagine how they could integrate one into that tiny ass space

You have gotta be joking if you reference "many years despite all my travels" and never paid attention to the airplane bathroom? This has been a defacto standard on US/euro flights for at least the last decade!

Google image search "airplane changing table"

There is no fucking excuse to change a baby on the seat when a table is in the bathroom for such a reason. I would have said something to that dumbass father! D::thumbsdown:

 

[corwin]

You have gotta be joking if you reference "many years despite all my travels" and never paid attention to the airplane bathroom? This has been a defacto standard on US/euro flights for at least the last decade!

Google image search "airplane changing table"

There is no fucking excuse to change a baby on the seat when a table is in the bathroom for such a reason. I would have said something to that dumbass father! D::thumbsdown:

I only fly domestic, and I avoid those tiny shitters like the plague

 

[JulesMaximus]

I only fly domestic, and I avoid those tiny shitters like the plague

Many of the larger aircraft used for flying domestic and certainly international have changing tables in the lavatory. I have actually changed a diaper on one. Some of the smaller regional jets may not. I don't recall ever using the lavatory in a regional jet.

 

[corwin]

Nearly all of the larger aircraft used for flying domestic and certainly international have changing tables in the lavatory. I have actually changed a diaper on one. Some of the smaller regional jets may not. I don't recall ever using the lavatory in a regional jet.

Yep, I'm almost always in RJ's or at best an MD-80, never saw a changing table in any of them...

 

[RampantAndroid]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

 

[ViRGE]

I don't get it. The plane background noise is like 4x baby crying noise.

The sound of a baby crying is specifically engrained in our genetics to be just about the most annoying sound on the face of the earth. This way we don't ignore our young.

Sadly some people have evolved a resistance to it, and they're the parents oblivious to the annoyance their child is causing on a flight.

 

[madoka]

I travel a lot every year for work, crying babies are the least of your worries, body odor from adults happens WAY more often

I concur. With a crying baby, you can use headphones and with any luck, the baby will eventually stop.

On the other hand, there is no way to block or stop body odor. I once had a trans-Pacific flight where I sat next to around 20 Indian farmers, who all wore sandals with no socks. It was seriously as if they just walked off the fields and headed straight to the airport. That was not very pleasant. I sat wondering the entire flight how they could afford to be on that plane.

 

[corwin]

I concur. With a crying baby, you can use headphones and with any luck, the baby will eventually stop.

On the other hand, there is no way to block or stop body odor. I once had a trans-Pacific flight where I sat next to around 20 Indian farmers, who all wore sandals with no socks. It was seriously as if they just walked off the fields and headed straight to the airport. That was not very pleasant. I sat wondering the entire flight how they could afford to be on that plane.

Oh god D:

Clear illustration how babies are the least of your worries...

 

[CLite]

I have the perfect solution for parents that can't shut their kids up in flight. There should be a dedicated airtight soundproof bin to stick crying children in so that others that relax in the flight they paid so much of their hard earned money for.

For safety, the airtight soundproof bin should have a glass window and padding to make sure the little bag of noise is protected against shocks from turbulence and doesn't bang around too much.

It's a trillion dollar idea. :thumbsup:

People paid for a mode of transportation, not for relaxation. I fly a lot for business and babies never bothered me even before I had a kid. Enlarged people whom arms drip sweat on my side of the armrest with sheets of BO rolling off are by far the most uncomfortable experience.

Also my 13 month old has flown across country, had multiple mid-distance trips and will shortly be on a 5 hour flight to the Caribbean and get his first passport stamp. Feel free to put yourself out to pasture and live a boring life after having a kid, but don't stamp your feet and throw a hissy fit if others aren't so inclined.

 

[JTsyo]

If only there was more interest in high speed trains across our nation

Elon Musk is trying.

 

[Sonikku]

If I made baby tranquilizer darts I could make millions. :hmm:

 

[SheHateMe]

There is nothing worse than being seated next to a crying baby though. I figured out that if I pick seats close to the emergency exists, there is little chance I will be seated next to any babies.

 

[amdhunter]

There is nothing worse than being seated next to a crying baby though. I figured out that if I pick seats close to the emergency exists, there is little chance I will be seated next to any babies.

You're a woman right? I would have thought women would have been more sympathetic to a baby being a nuisance. Go figure. 😵

 

[feralkid]

Given my knowledge of China is based almost exclusively on Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies, I'm not remotely surprised that a country full of ninjas would choose to settle its differences through physical combat.

Ninjas are Japanese, not Chinese.
Just FYI.

 

[corwin]

There is nothing worse than being seated next to a crying baby though. I figured out that if I pick seats close to the emergency exists, there is little chance I will be seated next to any babies.

Stink trumps noise any day, unless your nose is broke😛

 

[MrDudeMan]

You're a woman right? I would have thought women would have been more sympathetic to a baby being a nuisance. Go figure. 😵

Stupid comes in all shapes, sizes, and genders.

I fly with my kids all the time. 90% of the time they're perfect, 5% of the time they need some intervention here and there, and 5% of the time they're an issue. I do my best to keep them in line, but you can go fuck yourself if you think I'm going to stay home over that. The plane ticket gets you from A to B and not a single thing more was promised to you. Drive or STFU.