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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote:
Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a prescription from a physician. There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee, where Souther redneck morons rule. The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than 14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic reason that the pill COULD be habit forming. When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a major surgery, the drug store filled only 14. My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day, with the 14 pills in one month?" The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to sleep. I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other creatures infested in the state. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
Per -hh:
While a 1st class seat is usually the best single option, most people aren't willing, understandably so, to pay the significantly higher cost. "willing"? How about "able"? It strikes me as arrogant when people denigrate others for not flying first or business class. -- PeteCresswell |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per -hh: While a 1st class seat is usually the best single option, most people aren't willing, understandably so, to pay the significantly higher cost. "willing"? How about "able"? If you have enough money to fly someplace on vacation, you probably could save enough money to be able...but it simply isn't important enough to do so with your personal trade-offs of what's important to you (such as a vacation once per year, instead of once every 3 years). It strikes me as arrogant when people denigrate others for not flying first or business class. That's because it is arrogant. Its a classial put-down done by those that are grossly insecure little self-aggrandizing parahs who try to make themselves feel taller by stepping on others. As such, their pathetic opinions can be utterly ignored. -hh |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
Rick Blaine writes: No kidding. Between being bumped and dealing with the "thump thump thump" of people that have lead feet, it's near impossible to sleep on a plane. Reminds me of a flight I was on awhile back. Short of sleep and ensconced in a first-class aisle seat on an AA 757 (SJC-DFW) on an early-morning trip, I tried to get some shuteye. I'd noticed earlier that my seat was adjacent to a soft spot in the deck, and that whenever someone would walk by in the aisle, I'd feel a slight, sharp dip (a short, sharp shock...dig it?) to one side. But with only occasional foot traffic, I could live with it. As time went by, I started noticing my seat jerking like this more and more; the foot traffic had become more than occasional. And not only that, there was stage-whispering in the vestibule of door 2L just around the bulkhead from where I was sitting. Sleep had become impossible. It was annoying, all the more so because this was the first time in years that I'd really needed to get some sleep on an airplane. It was the stewardesses who were doing all the whispering and the walking back and forth, so I knew something was up. When we landed at DFW, everyone was asked to remain seated. An airline employee boarded the plane and came down the aisle with one of those narrow aisle-wheelchairs and collected a pudgy, thirtysomething woman from a seat back in economy class. It appeared that Marshmallow Woman had suffered some sort of medical emergency -- probably of the cardiac nature, judging by her pneumatic, Michelinesque physique. She was trundled up the aisle, out the door, and onto a gurney. Welcome to Dallas, toots! I bet now you'll watch your diet and try to get some exercise once in a while, eh? Then there was my connecting Mad Dog flight to RDU, but that's a whole 'nother peeve. Geoff -- "As Tim would never say about your kind, you need to be put to death." -- Steve Thompson |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
"Reef Fish" wrote in message oups.com... On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote: Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a prescription from a physician. There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee, where Souther redneck morons rule. The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than 14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic reason that the pill COULD be habit forming. When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a major surgery, the drug store filled only 14. My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day, with the 14 pills in one month?" The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to sleep. I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other creatures infested in the state. -- Reef Fish Bob. You obviously haven't read the widely publicised literature & even wider anecdotal reports of serious problems associated with the long-term use/abuse of zolpidem tartrate. It is only meant to be a short term treatment for insomnia, if the problem persists, then other investigations need to be made. I guess, also that your "physician" hasn't, either. Try a walk on the google side..... |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
Reef Fish wrote:
On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote: Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a prescription from a physician. There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee, where Souther redneck morons rule. The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than 14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic reason that the pill COULD be habit forming. When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a major surgery, the drug store filled only 14. My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day, with the 14 pills in one month?" The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to sleep. I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other creatures infested in the state. -- Reef Fish Bob. Monkey Trials? Fornicating Southern Baptists? Hey, maybe you can ask your physician for some of those pills Anna Nicole Smith used to take to go to sleep. She said they gave her visions of demons fornicating in the sky and all that good stuff. |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:37:03 -0400, "CLK" wrote:
How about you veteran fliers suggesting ways us infrequent fliers can help time go by on a very long 13 hour flight on a full plane. Also maybe some tipsa on how to make the flight more enjoyable. For me, it''s music: I carry a nice MP3 player that holds 30 gig of music and will reliably run for more than 10 hours on a full charge. I use a really good set of Sennheiser earphones that seal out almost aything short of a gunshot and just lose myself in a serene world. I carry a small CD player that handles MP3 files as well as a backup and a few selected discs...each can hold about 10 hours music as MP3 and the thing uses AA batteries. Due to a medical condition I can't really sleep on a flight as sometimes I stop breathing and have to sleep with a device pushing air in or one of these times I won't start back up..also I snore like a drunken walrus without the air pump which is no fun for anyone within five or six rows and occasianally causes the fliight enginer to worry that a turbine shaft has come unbalanced..grin I also bring a light pair of binoculars and if there's room enough, I can watch the world go by outside from a window seat...especially gorgeous at sunset/sunriose or in polar areas where you can see miles of unbroken ice and snow or icebergs. or watch what moonlight does to everything you can see. The movies are dreck, the in-flight entertainment is often lame and the supplied headphones horrid so I generally amuse myself as above...take an ocasional stroll up and down the aisle to keep the legs from falling off and to let my butt know it's not really dead it's just the half inch thick seat padding compressing down to a lack-of-spongy level usually only seen in compressed bales of jute. I'm not a terribly social person so I don't usually engage strangers in chit chat but would not be averse to it if someone actually proved to be interesting and they stay off politics...grin..or how much their invisible pal "jesus" can do for me. A pda with some mind losing games like bejewelled helps too but they usually don't last long enough on batteries to be wortht her weight unless you carry one anyway. Hope that helps, Jim P. |
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Per -hh:
If you have enough money to fly someplace on vacation, you probably could save enough money to be able...but it simply isn't important enough to do so with your personal trade-offs of what's important to you (such as a vacation once per year, instead of once every 3 years). Not having flown anywhere on vacation in a looooong time, I was thinking more along the lines of somebody whose boss told them to go to LA to this or that meeting - and whose employer only supports the cheapest tickets. -- PeteCresswell |
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How to pass time on a 13 hour flight
On May 17, 6:36 pm, "a" wrote:
"Reef Fish" wrote in message oups.com... On May 17, 1:39 am, (P T) wrote: Someone mentioned Ambien to aid sleeping. Ambien requires a prescription from a physician. There is something funny and stupid about the state of Tennessee, where Souther redneck morons rule. The state has a LAW that no physician can prescribe more than 14 Ambien pills within 30 days -- presumably under the moronic reason that the pill COULD be habit forming. When I physician prescribed 30 pills (if needed) after I had a major surgery, the drug store filled only 14. My physician was incredulous and prescribed me something else --together with the Ambien, they could probably put ALL the Tennessee legislative morons to sleep. The physician ask, "Is the patient supposed to sleep every OTHER day, with the 14 pills in one month?" The net result was that the deadly Ambien pills couldn't make me sleep anyway when my body was not ready to sleep. I now have 12 remaining Ambian pills for any pill popping insomniacs so that they can dream about the Monkey Trial, the fornicating Southern Baptists, and other creatures infested in the state. -- Reef Fish Bob. You obviously haven't read the widely publicised literature & even wider anecdotal reports of serious problems associated with the long-term use/abuse of zolpidem tartrate. You guessed correctly. I've never read anything about ANY sleeping pill because I never used any. But my point is that it's none of the business of LAW makers to arbitrarily limit the prescription of 14 per month when any drug is approved and used under the supervision of medical doctors. As for "long=term use/abuse" of anything, serious problems are not surprising. It is only meant to be a short term treatment for insomnia, if the problem persists, then other investigations need to be made. Of course it was prescribed as a shorterm treatment. Since it DIDN'T work for me, it lasted two days! I abandoned its use and went back to the old fashioned way of counting sheep. :-) I guess, also that your "physician" hasn't, either. Try a walk on the google side Nothing in the google webpages supported any LEGISLATION or law applied blindly and indiscriminantly on that drug. Everything pointed to FDA approved (a VERY conservative organization in the US on drug approval) and pointed to "doctor's order and direction", and NOT any arbitrary limit by some legislative rednecks. I know of ONE drug for motion sickness that is approved in most countries except the USA -- Sturgeron (brand name), cinnarizin (medical ingredian) that is banned by the USA presumably because of the same "drowsiness" side-effect. I purchase them in Mexico, and it turned out to be the ONLY effective pill for me for motion sickness on SCUBA trips on extended 8-10 foot tossing of small vessels (such as the 30 hour crossing from Costa Rica to the uninhabited Cocos Island to dive with hammerhead sharks. NONE of the other known motion isckness medication kept me from serious barfing for more than 8 hours, except the Surgeron (forte) that are freely dispensed in Cozumel Mexico where I've done well over 1000 dives. Medication and drugs (good or bad) are supposed to be governed by the MEDICAL profession and its researched results, and used under the supervision of medical docs -- NOT by any law maker -- the lowest form of creature on earth, aka politicians. That's the bottom line. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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