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Ock, pot lounges might be a good idea if another airline winds up canceling all it's flights for several days and stranding passengers...But, they should just pipe it in throughout the whole terminal when that happens.

And I've seen people get wasted at concerts where beer is 8-9 bucks a pop, so if the same morons (who usually wind up ejected from the venue when they inevitably pick a fight) are flying, then they're counting 6 bucks a pop as a price break!

Oh yerah, one more thing.

No pot lounges please. I don't want to see a bunch of friggin stoaners everywhere, and our kids shouldn't be witnessing it. I'm not worried about it though. Never happen!!!! Believe that!

Techguy,

Please! Pot lounges make zero sense. Smoking doobies will most definitely not solve the huge problem airlines and airports have today. The thought alone is just silly.

If you really think it will make a difference? Please explain exactly how.

Honestly, I don't have a problem with pot smokers. But to put pot smoking lounges in airports is never gonna happen. They don't even have them (to the best of my knowledge) in Amsterdam.

sirB, just so you know, I was suggesting pot lounges in jest...But they should have some kind of calming gas they can pipe in terminals when airlines piss off passengers by stranding them in an airport for 3-4 days because they cancel all their flights.

And yeah, B of A is insanely expensive on everything...So is Great Woods (or whatever it's called now). Last summer, beer was 9 bucks a pop, it's probably up to 15 now. Good thing I don't drink!

Limit my in flight drinks hmmm okay.
or
Herb lounges in the Airport, Awesome sounds like Schippel Airport in Amsterdam.
do you know why most people drink so much on planes?
to not think about the large burning craters they make when takeoffs and landings dont go well.

Who in his right mind would get on a 40 year old plus aluminum tube filled with people,baggage,plastic, old wiring and thousands of pound of highly flamable jet fuel and do it Sober.

so when you 5 miles in the air and you smell that funny odor comming thought the ventalation system. or in turbulace you realise that the seat you sitting in isnt realy attached to the planes hull, or even if you think about what happens when hatch or window fails, and you get blow out of the plane like a spitball coming out of a straw yeah stay sober
but me.. Stewardess
(opps sorry Fight attendant)
could I have a $6.00 drink please.. and 5 bags of your $4.00 dollar a bag pretzels.

gauranteed if you put cannabis lounges in airports. snack sales will sky rocket.. and lets face it whens the last time you herd of a stoner causing any more trouble, than asking for extra ketchup on those fries..

Lumin Acendi lighten up

Mark,
You said "no matter how good the in-flight movie is"
So what if you get stuck on a flight
that's going over the ocean, and they are showing Jaws. or the titanic
People would want to drink as much as they could so the bite from the shark wouldn't hurt so much.LOL LOL
No seriously it doesn't matter, what the price is people will pay whatever, to get that
"EDGE" The flight crew should just tell the people ahead of time, it's a 2,3,or 4 drink
limit,period end of story no questions.

Only one comment directed at SirB...I have read a few of your posts on various issues, and it seems you do not want your kids to see anything! If you sheild them from REAL LIFE, you are going to have some really messed up kids. Expose them to things, but explain them too.

So far as drunks on the planes...have seen too many of them, they often puke all over the bathroom, or are beligerent throughout the flight. I usualy have one or two glasses of wine with my dinner (we fly overnight to Europe) and then I go to sleep. But I don't know which is worse, an obnoious drunk on a 7 hour flight, or a screaming baby.