I'm surprised they didn't just chain him up and throw him into the cargo hold mid-flight. I thought smoking on the toilet is pretty big deal, but it almost sounds like they would've let him get away with it had he not got aggressive.
"I'm French, F--k you!"
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I'm surprised they didn't just chain him up and throw him into the cargo hold mid-flight. I thought smoking on the toilet is pretty big deal, but it almost sounds like they would've let him get away with it had he not got aggressive.
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I suppose people should go and find something about an obese, loud, gun-toting, flag-waving arsehole and judge all Americans because of it.Ah, an entire nation distilled into one irate passenger.
It's not that the stereotypes are literally true, it's that this guy embodies the stereotypes associated with the French so well as to be a walking caricature, and does so with flair. See: Sheriff Pepper in The Man with the Golden Gun. "I'm French, fuck you!" is the best line I've heard all week.
I suppose you must have missed the story a few years ago about Richard Reid...
I think the problem in that case was the explosives he tried to set off with a lighter, not the lighter itself.
I agree that people shouldn't bring explosives onto a plane.
But since people can't smoke on airplanes anyway, why would they *need* to bring a lighter or matches onto the plane?
If you're a smoker you want to light up ASAP after a flight, believe me; having to put your lighter in the check-in baggage or buy a new lighter on arrival would be a major inconvenience.
^ Still, they wouldn't be able to smoke until they left the airport, at which time they should already have their luggage anyway.
Often there are places to smoke before you get to the baggage claim area (where you then have to wait a while anyway during which you could already smoke), or at least there used to be. Also not everybody even travels with check-in luggage.
And as I mentioned above there are countries where you can smoke in the airport.
Ah, an entire nation distilled into one irate passenger.
'I'm French, f--- you!': smoker on flight charged with assault
Also: three air marshals on the flight?
You're French, f--- YOU!
Meh. American, Australian, same difference.
More seriously: if Switchbk is Australian, I consider myself pwned. I consider the diffused anti-French sentiment very disturbing, because the ethnic stereotyping could be just as easily directed against any nationality or groups. Somehow, it seems like French people are apparently fair game. It makes me mad, and apparently careless. My purpose was to show the OP how annoying is stereotyping, and I fell in the same trap. Good job, Iguana. In frustration, I lashed out without reason, and I apologize.
Exactly the kind of lazy thinking I'd expect from an Italian.
(I jest, just to be clear.
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(I jest, just to be clear.
God, I love the French!
I love you too, hon.
My brother collects cigarette lighters. Shortly after the christening and launch of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, a co-worker gave him a rare commemorative lighter from the launch. At the airport, my brother discovered he could not board with the lighter so he mailed it to me from the airport for safekeeping.
I give a cigarette to zee baby. Fuck vou.
Why are the French the only Europeans to receive all the negative stereotypes in America? Maybe its just my personal life experience but I always hear jokes about the French being cowards and other nonsense. I never hear mean jokes about other Europeans, just the French. This is kind of ironic considering that if it weren't for France there would be no United States.
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That's what she said.
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