Monthly Archives: August 2010

I Don’t Know Why Taiwan Keeps Animating Everything, But I’m Glad They Do

Pretty soon, people in Asia are going to think that all Westerners are animated cartoons. And I’m ok with that, as long as Taiwan keeps giving me the low down on how things really went down in America’s biggest news stories. Below, the entire reenactment of Steven Slater’s glorious JetBlue outburst.

There are no subtitles, but there are bleeps, so we can get the picture. The Taiwanese also make (maybe not) a big leap in assuming that Slater is gay, which I haven’t read in any reports. I guess in Asia, male flight attendant automatically means you have a same-sex lover waiting for you at home in his boxer shorts. Astute profiling Taiwan, very astute.

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” George Bernard Shaw

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This Guy is Quickly Gaining on Basil Marceaux for a Place in My Heart

I flew JetBlue down to North Carolina this week. The flight attendant that graciously catered to me offered a cold Coca-Cola (the whole can!) and a bag of animal crackers (the lady next to me also offered her Star magazine and told me I smelled better than her sisters, but that really has nothing to do with this story). There was no turbulence, and everyone on the plane obediently followed the pilot’s fasten-your-seatbelts sign.

However, this was NOT the case on a JetBlue flight into JFK yesterday, where flight attendant Steven Slater became so enraged at a passenger that he yelled obscenities into the loudspeaker of the plane, stole two beers, deployed the plane’s emergency blow-up slide, escaped the aircraft by sliding down said slide and went home to his house in Queens, all the while fist-pumping and yelling “suck on that!” Ok, the last part I made up.

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