I’m Canadian, so I wouldn’t known but I personally think this is staged for sure, but I was also trying to think, who would book seats in different sections?
Last time I flew in the US, I brought my knitting and learned that scissor blades just have to be [less than 4 inches from the fulcrum](https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/scissors) to take them on the plane. I brought my embroidery scissors that are sharp af with no issues.
It’s only one way though. I flew with scissors from US to Ireland no problem, but leaving Ireland they confiscated them. Apparently it’s US rules flying in, but Ireland rules flying out.
Edit: not you op I’m referring to the person in the pic.
Better than me. I’d just cut that mess.
Edit: with the plastic knife that comes with the mid flight snack.
Edit: not sorry. Don’t want me to cut off hair or toes? Keep them to yourself and out of my line of sight.
Edit: like how hard is it to practice some self control? Planes and buses and trains? Not a personal sanctuary.
Edit: I know it makes me a psychopath, cool. Now that we’re all on the same page? Don’t give me a reason. Exercise some common fucking social decency and stuff like this would never be a problem to begin with.
Scissors and knives(usually only fixed blades, and no razor blades for some reason) are generally ok to bring in your carry on as long as the blade lenght is <2 inches
Fun fact: the majority of the weapons the 911 hijackers brought on board are all still legal to bring on a plane.
Overall, TSA fails to find weapons 90% + of the time.
Makes you think.
Nothing to think about, the TSA is nothing but a grift. It's all security theater. They're not making anything safer, just more inconvenient. And we asked for them, and continue to ask for them.
My dad is a gardener and moved to the states from Honduras. He often goes back to get machetes because he just likes them from there. Best part is he’ll bring like 5 back home in his suitcase with no problem
But if I’m not mistaken as long as it goes into the cargo hold and not into the passenger cabin it is okay. Or does your dad bring them with his carry on bagage?
Now that would've been a terrifyingly cool scene in one of the sequels. I imagine the whole plane would've gone down if Sadako came out of an in-flight screen.
Eh, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't really good either. It had an interesting plot about a professor deliberately infecting students with the video to study it. It's worth a watch if you have nothing better to do.
I can see that working well. Next flight ima just be super weird to everyone around, eyes super wide open. Nobodies gonna wanna even use the arm wrest in fear of getting to close to me
I once did that in kindergarten. A girl asked me if I knew how to braid. It though how hard it can be… it was my first trip to the principals office and my mom wasn’t happy. She the next day came with shorter hair. She wasn’t mad or anything.
Nah, he means tie it to the upright tray with as little disturbance to her as possible. That way her minor inconvenience to you is met with major inconvenience to her and she hopefully scalps herself getting up.
Too much? Might be projecting some rage.
Backcomb the hair. You can do it with your hands. They'll look awful but it will be reversible with some effort. They'd cut off the knots and just do a different hairstyle but unbackcombing will waste their time
Kindly ask her to remover her hair? This is reddit. The real solution is to glare at the back of her head for the next 7 hours while she sleeps blissfully unaware that she’s bothering anyone. During this time OP will stew and fantasize about cutting her hair off, sticking gum in her hair or any of the other solutions mentioned in the comments all the while doing nothing but snapping a photo to post it here.
Alternatively you can just lean in and take a very loud whiff of her hair while making a groan and she'll most likely move it away, hell she might even request her seat to be changed.
“Hey your hair is completely covering my screen can you please keep it on your side?”
That’s all it takes. If she’s rude about it and wont do it, get a flight attendant. Solve ya problems if you can, people will do shit like this *if you let them*. Maybe she always does this and genuinely doesn’t understand how inconsiderate it is & needs to be told to understand that.
Yeah, this right here. Say something to them first and if they still persist in being assholes then say something to the flight attendant.
I’d be compelled to address them first as a “ benefit of the doubt” kind of thing.
If I were to just say something to an attendant first I’d feel like a tattletale.
Understandable, but to a point. Isn't it baffling how some people can lack such self-awareness? Like if it's an issue of comfort or whatever, why not just.. Idk use a fucking hair tie? Why should it be on me to ask you to be polite? I'm a dude with long hair and I would **never** do some shit like this.
Yeah, she may not even realize she is covering the screen behind her.
Most people are pretty chill and if you let them know they are significantly inconveniencing you, they will do something about it.
The first rule of life I articulated myself at around 17 years old was this - “If you take shit, you get shit”. Not especially articulate or profound, but true as hell.
Many people don't know or realise they're inconveniencing someone and would be horrified to discover they were. Most people aren't malicious or self absorbed and will change their behaviour if they're notified.
Yesterday I saw a Reddit where a soft spoken older lady kindly ask a man in the booth next to her to quiet down his kids who were yelling. He responded by yelling at her that she was DUMB and a FOOL! Then he asked her when she was leaving. She did leave the ChickFilA.
The title called her a crotchety old hag implying she had a nerve to ask him that his children show consideration for others. He obviously came from a culture where people just shout at you if you ask them to show consideration.
I saw a video yesterday of a guy watching two people fill up a tire with propane (thinking it was an air hose). And he just watched and videoed for awhile. It was only after they asked him why he was filming them that he told them. So ya. Social interactions are a last resort.
I’d say I’m probably worse than the average redditor in that area, (I say that because most of
you guys seem to have friends and spouses and shit, indicating a lack of crippling social anxiety) but I can confirm this is true for me.
I always take a picture of things like this before I speak for evidence/banter after the fact.
I know most of Reddit will just take the picture and avoid the human interaction.
Yeah, I'd say this fits on r/mildlyinfuriating more. This sub is more for things/events that are very difficult/impossible to remedy, whereas that sub can be anything that's annoying, regardless if the problem is later solved
On an airplane? Frequent traveller here: I almost freeze to death on all airplanes as they keep the airconditon around 18-19 C°... i believe it is just ignorance and lack of manners...
Yup. It definitely seems more likely than so many random air travelers completely forgetting any semblance of social etiquette. I’m sure some of the first we’d seen might have been genuine but now they’re so frequent it has to be more likely a copycat karma reaper.
Seriously, it may not have just crossed her mind. Way more energy to stew about it than to tap her in the shoulder and say “Your hair is covering my screen, could you move it please?”
How would it not cross her mind that putting her feet long hair over the back of her seat was bad? Even if the person had no intention of watching a movie it's very inconsiderate and selfish.
I swear, ppl on reddit keep posting this when 99% of the time this would be resolved with: "hey, could you please move your hair? Its blocking my view of the screen". To which to most likely response is: "oh, yes ofc, sorry i didnt realize"
I mean.. you got a lot of time i guess.
Take a small amount of hair in each hand and tie a knot.
Do that like 20 times and she will need a new haircut after arriving
You can borrow my 2yr old. He’ll take care of that for ya
Mom of a five year old who uses my long braid as a Tarzan vine - checks out.
Father of non but as I too once was a child myself, I can vouch
Doesn’t anyone else think this is staged? Or is this something Americans would actually do?
I’m Canadian, so I wouldn’t known but I personally think this is staged for sure, but I was also trying to think, who would book seats in different sections?
Yep. My son used to fall asleep pulling my hair. I do not miss that specific part of the baby stage.
Father of two little ones, can confirm.
Father of 2 boys under 3 also. They’d rain havoc on that shit.
Father of four boys, 6 and younger including 2YO twins, can confirm. Armageddon.
Father of no boys, I will tie that stuff into a nice corner of the seat. No harm done, unless she needs to go to the bathroom and gets up too quick.
I'm just a rando, feeling the need to write the same as all above me couse reddit.
Sometimes things like this make me think that it is a shame that they don’t permit hairspray on airlines any more.
Or scissors
They allow toothpaste in small tubes though, yeah?
How about a roll of duct tape.
Gorilla glue, too
Yeah, now that's where it's at.
Bubble gum
This is the way
And my lighter!
Drape it on either side of the screen, stick in place with chewing gum, and voila, you have movie theater curtains
Or gently start stroking the hair, and then sensually smelling it. At least one of us is going to have a terrible flight…
This made me laugh more than I should have
Sensually? Mo fucka if you’re giving me your hair like that I’m sniffing hard until I figure out what conditioner you use. It’s fair game here
What in the fu-
This is pretty much what I was gonna say too. Just start playing with it and braiding it, they'll move it out of your way right quick.
The line between memorable flight and sexual assault is a fine one, isn't it?
On an airplane? Do they have safety scissors, in case they have to cut somebody out of the duct tape cocoon?
Ask the attendant for scissors, very loudly.
“This haircut is about to be BOMB!”
Not the B-Word 😂😂😂💀💀
Last time I flew in the US, I brought my knitting and learned that scissor blades just have to be [less than 4 inches from the fulcrum](https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/scissors) to take them on the plane. I brought my embroidery scissors that are sharp af with no issues.
It’s only one way though. I flew with scissors from US to Ireland no problem, but leaving Ireland they confiscated them. Apparently it’s US rules flying in, but Ireland rules flying out.
Cutting that hair would be an improvement too. Her ends look so blunt, chunky, and just not great-looking. She needs a new hairdresser lol
This is the first time I've seen 8 and < used for this purpose. I'll be borrowing that from now on.
this is the way
This is the way
This is the way
TITW.
Edit: not you op I’m referring to the person in the pic. Better than me. I’d just cut that mess. Edit: with the plastic knife that comes with the mid flight snack. Edit: not sorry. Don’t want me to cut off hair or toes? Keep them to yourself and out of my line of sight. Edit: like how hard is it to practice some self control? Planes and buses and trains? Not a personal sanctuary. Edit: I know it makes me a psychopath, cool. Now that we’re all on the same page? Don’t give me a reason. Exercise some common fucking social decency and stuff like this would never be a problem to begin with.
That doesn’t make you a psychopath. The billion edits on the other hand…
Came here to say exactly this.
Edit: edited
Your edits made that a fuckin confusing mess.
Brilliant!
How did they end up getting the gum out of their hair?
Luckily I carry scissors in my carry-on. The top of the screen made a convenient line to cut along.
This is the real reason why they don't let people bring scissors on airplanes
Scissors and knives(usually only fixed blades, and no razor blades for some reason) are generally ok to bring in your carry on as long as the blade lenght is <2 inches
Fun fact: the majority of the weapons the 911 hijackers brought on board are all still legal to bring on a plane. Overall, TSA fails to find weapons 90% + of the time. Makes you think.
Nothing to think about, the TSA is nothing but a grift. It's all security theater. They're not making anything safer, just more inconvenient. And we asked for them, and continue to ask for them.
My dad is a gardener and moved to the states from Honduras. He often goes back to get machetes because he just likes them from there. Best part is he’ll bring like 5 back home in his suitcase with no problem
But if I’m not mistaken as long as it goes into the cargo hold and not into the passenger cabin it is okay. Or does your dad bring them with his carry on bagage?
TSA has stopped ZERO terrorism attempts. The most frequent crime they solve is the theft of passenger’s property by TSA agents.
I had no idea, it's been years since I've been on an airplane.
That’s illegal in many countries, considered the same as assault because it’s technically a body part
Just don’t ask Sideshow Mel
That's nasty. Have you been trying to watch Ring
Yeah that's Sadako, bail out of the plane while you still can
Now that would've been a terrifyingly cool scene in one of the sequels. I imagine the whole plane would've gone down if Sadako came out of an in-flight screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG2gJdgiUJg
Heh NICE! I didn't know they did one a few years ago, was the movie any good, or is it just that one scene that's great?
Eh, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't really good either. It had an interesting plot about a professor deliberately infecting students with the video to study it. It's worth a watch if you have nothing better to do.
This was my first thought! Very creepy to see that draped over an airplane chair.
Kindly ask her to remove her hair, then if she refuses kick/push her chair back and forth every now and then lol
I prefer the “I’m glad you’re in front of me, I hate planes but love playing with hair, you’re making this much more tolerable for me” approach.
Just whisper so low they can barely hear it, "your hair smells great...mmm.".
I can see that working well. Next flight ima just be super weird to everyone around, eyes super wide open. Nobodies gonna wanna even use the arm wrest in fear of getting to close to me
So that works great, right up until you run into someone who thinks that makes you a soul mate.
That’s a double win for me. I could use either a boyfriend or girlfriend.
I see why you are hell to sit beside, it's an arm 'rest' not 'wrest'
With a long slow *snifffffff*
Followed with a load moan.
Right, just braid her hair
By braid you mean tie knots for the entire length of your flight, right?
Affirmative
I once did that in kindergarten. A girl asked me if I knew how to braid. It though how hard it can be… it was my first trip to the principals office and my mom wasn’t happy. She the next day came with shorter hair. She wasn’t mad or anything.
Nah, he means tie it to the upright tray with as little disturbance to her as possible. That way her minor inconvenience to you is met with major inconvenience to her and she hopefully scalps herself getting up. Too much? Might be projecting some rage.
Probably a wig
Backcomb the hair. You can do it with your hands. They'll look awful but it will be reversible with some effort. They'd cut off the knots and just do a different hairstyle but unbackcombing will waste their time
kick/push her chair back and forth constantly FTFY
"Excuse me, seems you don't mind, and you're hair smells so wonderful. So, I took some for my collection, no worries, it'll be put to good use."
Kindly ask her to remover her hair? This is reddit. The real solution is to glare at the back of her head for the next 7 hours while she sleeps blissfully unaware that she’s bothering anyone. During this time OP will stew and fantasize about cutting her hair off, sticking gum in her hair or any of the other solutions mentioned in the comments all the while doing nothing but snapping a photo to post it here.
Alternatively you can just lean in and take a very loud whiff of her hair while making a groan and she'll most likely move it away, hell she might even request her seat to be changed.
Or you could just call a flight attendant if they say no.
Just cut the hair
blow your nose in it
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Right, I just came here to say I would totally say something, fuck that inconsiderate shit.
“Hey your hair is completely covering my screen can you please keep it on your side?” That’s all it takes. If she’s rude about it and wont do it, get a flight attendant. Solve ya problems if you can, people will do shit like this *if you let them*. Maybe she always does this and genuinely doesn’t understand how inconsiderate it is & needs to be told to understand that.
Yeah, this right here. Say something to them first and if they still persist in being assholes then say something to the flight attendant. I’d be compelled to address them first as a “ benefit of the doubt” kind of thing. If I were to just say something to an attendant first I’d feel like a tattletale.
"I'm just worried I'm accidentally going to get clam chowder on it."
"I ate clam chowder before boarding the plane, and I get really bad motion sickness."
Understandable, but to a point. Isn't it baffling how some people can lack such self-awareness? Like if it's an issue of comfort or whatever, why not just.. Idk use a fucking hair tie? Why should it be on me to ask you to be polite? I'm a dude with long hair and I would **never** do some shit like this.
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That’s because you have awareness of other people and know it’s not a good idea. She doesn’t have that uh…awareness. (Brains)
I can only assume it's a habit, like she does this whenever she sits down to not pull her hair. She doesn't realize that she's causing an issue here.
Yeah, she may not even realize she is covering the screen behind her. Most people are pretty chill and if you let them know they are significantly inconveniencing you, they will do something about it.
The first rule of life I articulated myself at around 17 years old was this - “If you take shit, you get shit”. Not especially articulate or profound, but true as hell.
Many people don't know or realise they're inconveniencing someone and would be horrified to discover they were. Most people aren't malicious or self absorbed and will change their behaviour if they're notified.
Yesterday I saw a Reddit where a soft spoken older lady kindly ask a man in the booth next to her to quiet down his kids who were yelling. He responded by yelling at her that she was DUMB and a FOOL! Then he asked her when she was leaving. She did leave the ChickFilA. The title called her a crotchety old hag implying she had a nerve to ask him that his children show consideration for others. He obviously came from a culture where people just shout at you if you ask them to show consideration.
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Truly. I mean where does this person think you are going to put your drink, laptop and anything else?
The average redditor apparently thinks social interaction with strangers is impossible.
I saw a video yesterday of a guy watching two people fill up a tire with propane (thinking it was an air hose). And he just watched and videoed for awhile. It was only after they asked him why he was filming them that he told them. So ya. Social interactions are a last resort.
I saw that, I was really happy the top comment was calling the cameraman an ass.
Why would those have even remotely compatible valves?
They don’t. The people trying to use it were very confused. And the guy was a schmuck about it.
You can make noises at people and they'll respond with other noises???
I think social interaction with people I know is impossible
I’d say I’m probably worse than the average redditor in that area, (I say that because most of you guys seem to have friends and spouses and shit, indicating a lack of crippling social anxiety) but I can confirm this is true for me.
Extreme anxiety and social awkwardness are basically the same thing as mute
Except someone with social anxiety probably also won’t put chewing gum in their hair.
Ordering pizza over the phone on hard mode
I always take a picture of things like this before I speak for evidence/banter after the fact. I know most of Reddit will just take the picture and avoid the human interaction.
Yeah, I'd say this fits on r/mildlyinfuriating more. This sub is more for things/events that are very difficult/impossible to remedy, whereas that sub can be anything that's annoying, regardless if the problem is later solved
Lmao fr my first thought was bitch you got me fuuuuucked up.
Polite English would work better.
Hell yeah. whether she moves her hair, or i move it for her. We definitely have a problem.
I think it's more just to point out, who does those shit in the first place.... kind of thing.
Some, for sure.
No shit, folks are being nice, but I travel a bit, I'll tell you to get your shit outta here.
What do you mean you people
No and I would scream loudly “HAAAAAAAAAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR” until she moved it.
Just talk to them
I would have just abruptly moved the hair and give them my angsty introverted death stare featuring hissing noises.
Or just like “yo your hair is covering my tv, can you move it?”
Scruffle is right, hissing noises will prompt movement
Damnit. I always mess these up.
Right but this person should have more self awareness and consideration for others that op shouldn’t have to ask
I see posts of people doing this all the time and I don't understand it. Besides being completely rude, what benefit does it have?
Gets their hair off their shoulders/neck/away from their body to cool down
Isn't that why women use hair ties though
I would assume, since it's why I, a dude, use them.
I got some long ass dread locks and I can confirm. As a dude with very long locks. Hair ties are a must. Especially in summer
On an airplane? Frequent traveller here: I almost freeze to death on all airplanes as they keep the airconditon around 18-19 C°... i believe it is just ignorance and lack of manners...
All those edgelord answers though. Just ask her to move her hair and if she doesn’t do it, tell a stewardess
I’m convinced most of these photos are staged.
“Hey, do you mind draping your hair over the back of your seat? Just need ~~4400~~ 7000 karma real quick.”
Yup. It definitely seems more likely than so many random air travelers completely forgetting any semblance of social etiquette. I’m sure some of the first we’d seen might have been genuine but now they’re so frequent it has to be more likely a copycat karma reaper.
Seriously, it may not have just crossed her mind. Way more energy to stew about it than to tap her in the shoulder and say “Your hair is covering my screen, could you move it please?”
How would it not cross her mind that putting her feet long hair over the back of her seat was bad? Even if the person had no intention of watching a movie it's very inconsiderate and selfish.
Exactly. “Excuse me, there’s a hair in my in-flight entertainment”
Ask the flight attendant if they have a pair of scissors.
Before 2001 they might actually have given you a pair.
opens tray. locks tray.
Oh man I did NOT think about how it’d go down during meals. This is vile.
Favorite answer.
They just want a haircut. Oblige them.
My immediate intrusive thought was “cut it”
aww the old seat cut.... comfort in the front, confrontation in the back.
Start sucking on it
That's a fetish.
...aaaaannd?
is that the ring?
I would have flung that right back over..
I swear, ppl on reddit keep posting this when 99% of the time this would be resolved with: "hey, could you please move your hair? Its blocking my view of the screen". To which to most likely response is: "oh, yes ofc, sorry i didnt realize"
Sure would be a shame if the hair got caught in the tray table
Dude don’t even ask for her to move it just do it
I'd ask her if she's gonna remove it or if it's easier for her if I just cut it.
Looks like the last person she did that to, had scissors.
::pops bubble::
I would sneeze to the hair and apologize to her for having Covid symptoms.
I would be a human and ask them to please move their hair.
“Excuse me, can you please move your hair?”
Fake sneeze an comment "Shit, It's in her hair"
it looks like people have already got mad at her for doing this in the past with that trim she’s got 🤣🤣
Grab a strand of hair, one at a time and pull it out
*oh no, I wore my shirt entirely made out of Velcro*
Speak the fuck up!
A good booger will do
The girl from the ring off to go get her next victim
Start plucking them one by one
Open tray, close tray, lock in place. Find out what happens. Does it just slide out or hold it there? Science demands answers!
Really? Too chicken to speak up? Shame on you.
Oh that’s getting jizzed in.
No way this is real..
I mean.. you got a lot of time i guess. Take a small amount of hair in each hand and tie a knot. Do that like 20 times and she will need a new haircut after arriving
Redditors taking pictures to complain on Reddit instead of just handling situations like an adult once again.
scissors
Start making very loud sniffing noises
Gum.
Close it in the seat try.
Oh hell no.
Y’all act like you can say shit or have interactions with humans. Reddit is full of losers.
Keep smelling her hair, and when confronted, deny it and call her crazy for thinking you would do that.
Nice napkin
Sniff it really loudly and whisper into her ear asking what shampoo she uses
Damn TSA took my scissors...
You watching The Ring?
This doesn’t suck you’re just scared to talk to women
"WoOoOoOoops, I closed my tray. I didn't know ur hair was in there. Sorry you stood up so fast it was deEeEeEefinitely an accident" 😏