Man-spreading

[Hvr]

Equally frustrating is the VIB - Very Important Bag, often requiring multiple seats of their own.

I've been known to tell the owners that I'm going to sit down. Feel free to move your bag.

As for manspreading I could tell you why but then you'd complain I was mansplaining.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I've been known to tell the owners that I'm going to sit down. Feel free to move your bag.

As for manspreading I could tell you why but then you'd complain I was mansplaining.

Its ok I'm fluent in Manspeak, I learned it from a book.

 

[jb747]

I'm ulta-considerate. I let my testicl_s fly in business while the rest of me settles into Economy.

So, if business is on the upper deck, and economy down, you’d be guilty of a balls up.

 

[SeatBackForward]

So, if business is on the upper deck, and economy down, you’d be guilty of a balls up.

Equally considerate is letting things go belly up.

 

[vetrade]

Cynical me thought "What a strange little man"! Thin and only 5'5" - only the size of a jockey by all accounts. Probably had short femurs too - surely not ideal for manspreading effectively.

This little man gets even stranger given that he's apparently stupid enough to have his phone in his back pocket, where he would be sitting on it, and yet apparently repeatedly retrieved and returned said phone to his back pocket where he could sit on it again and again.

Thank god his arms were probably too short to cause further offence by holding a newspaper open.

 

[rikkitikkitavi]

I'm a pretty big guy, 6'2" about 130kg, not morbidly obese by any means, and I make a conscious effort in Y to stay in my box. I always book an aisle seat, and I the. fold one of my shoulders over so my arm doesn't go over into the other seat despite it being excruciating PER->SYD. It always amuses me to see Napoleons and the rarer female "Empress Joséphine" going out of their way to be selfish.

Best I had was a mid size Ozy Osborne impersonator (spiky jacket and everything), could see he'd be trouble and knew I was doomed to sit next to him as he walked towards me . He startered with a loud whiny conversation on his phone until told to hang up, he then started fidgeting like an ice addict (maybe a similie is not required) obviously displeased not to be seated alone. At some stage he agressively bashed into me and did the timeless " you got an effing problem?! " to which I calmly replied " yes, but not for long". He calmed down a few hours and then started prodding me, I must have given him an Oscar winning death stare as recoiled and said "I just want to go to the dunny " . So I let him up and had a look for another free aisle seat, none to be found sadly.

 

[kookaburra75]

I stand guilty here. When doing my SYD - BNE legs, I read the paper. Chance to catch up on Australia, etc. I do try to keep the ballooning paper within my "airspace" but it is hard.

Ah. It really isn’t pleasant for the passenger seated next to you. Takes up a fair bit of ‘free space’ in the row. I’m a bit claustrophobic which is why I never take bulkhead seats. I need all the perceived free space I can get.

I too go for the print version, but always go for aisle so I can fold the paper out in open space - except when the trolley comes through and they try and take my arm off (I'm sure they wait specially just for me when they do that).
But then I grew up in Melbourne and being on the trains, learned to fold the full size Age with one hand - including change to new page, fold in half along the centre etc, while hanging on the strap. Sitting on a plane is nothing

 

[jb747]

I never look at a print newspaper now. I can't change the font size with a stroke of the finger!

 

[Gold Member]

I never look at a print newspaper now. I can't change the font size with a stroke of the finger!

I found myself using the iOS scroll next page gesture on a newspaper the other day :/

 

[Quickstatus]

What IFE?

In flight entertainment, but not always via a electronic/tv screen.... "Live streaming" from surrounding seats usually make for interesting social observation.

I never liked print newspaper because of the ink residue on the fingers.
By the time I enter an aircraft I already know the news so dont need the newspaper

 

[SOPOOR]

Just off QF405 from Syd to Mel, ss the 6:45am was cancelled yet again (everytime ive booked this flight it gets cancelled and i end up on either the 6:30 or 7:00am), and it was one of the least comfortable journeys I've had in a long time.

What caused the discomfort was the guy sitting next to me, not happy with his own space who felt the need to spread his legs well into my space, meaning his left knee was touching my leg the entire time and then kept taking his phone in and out of his back pocket, elbowing me in the ribs each time he did it.

Now this guy wasnt at all large ,in fact below average height id say 5'5" and quite thin, so its not like he couldnt easily fit in his own seat, he had plenty of room (more room than me).

I asked politely if he could please move his leg off mine and he grunted as if i was being unreasonable.

Gentlemen there is no need to man-spread on the plane, you arent impressing anyone, it just makes you a jerk.

so many inconsiderate jerks in this world,
going to sound like an old fart but I think technology is making society so much more ruder,
yet we are getting stupidly Politically correct

go figure

 

[Pushka]

so many inconsiderate jerks in this world,
going to sound like an old fart but I think technology is making society so much more ruder,
yet we are getting stupidly Politically correct

go figure

Interesting point. Although technology is making us more insular and not interacting so much with others so I guess it makes sense. PC - well, there surely was stuff said, produced etc years ago that made me cringe at the time but maybe you would be called a fuddy duddy if you didn’t laugh. Now, we can call it as it really is. But like all things in life it’s a pendulum and it swings too far before it gets corrected.

 

[Denali]

..... I think technology is making society so much more ruder,...

Approx 7am this morning someone parked across our driveway to get on their phone.

My husband knocked on one of the windows (pax side) and asked her to move forward a few metres so he could drive out of a drive way (bakery & milk run). She told him to cough off and "cant you see Im on my phone?'. Lovely.

 

[Melburnian1]

I dislike the smell of the print too. I have no idea why they hand them out, maybe in J where there is room but there isn’t in Y.

Reading printed editions is a joy. One can always take it off the conveyance.

 

[Rocket88]

I am also quite tall and big and now in my later years obese, (yes I will admit it), but even when I was tall and skinny I manspread . It is natural for most blokes. Sorry Ladies and others offended by the habit. I do need to be recalled back to the factory to have this, amongst many other faults, rectified. My wife tells I wouldn't be released and nobody would recognize me if all my bad habits were adjusted to being not the man I am. Yes, I am talking about the prostate. Another defect in most blokes. Ladies and others, please understand it not easy being an Aussie Bloke in this world. If I could go to a school to learn how not to manspread I would go - I am even manspreading at my computer as I write this.

I was recently on a trip from BKK to SYD and sitting next to me was this little Southern Asian man who would run his hand up my leg to my groin everytime I manspread and then rub that area. even if I just about to fall asleep. This is true aversion therapy. I am not suggesting this approach to the Ladies and others, but it may make for an interesting journey.

My apologies to anybody offended.

 

[froggerADL]

Just off QF405 from Syd to Mel, ss the 6:45am was cancelled yet again (everytime ive booked this flight it gets cancelled and i end up on either the 6:30 or 7:00am)

Have you considered booking the 6:30 or 7:00 flight instead of the 6:45, seeing as it gets cancelled every time you book it?

 

[Pushka]

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I am also quite tall and big and now in my later years obese, (yes I will admit it), but even when I was tall and skinny I manspread . It is natural for most blokes. Sorry Ladies and others offended by the habit. I do need to be recalled back to the factory to have this, amongst many other faults, rectified. My wife tells I wouldn't be released and nobody would recognize me if all my bad habits were adjusted to being not the man I am. Yes, I am talking about the prostate. Another defect in most blokes. Ladies and others, please understand it not easy being an Aussie Bloke in this world. If I could go to a school to learn how not to manspread I would go - I am even manspreading at my computer as I write this.

I was recently on a trip from BKK to SYD and sitting next to me was this little Southern Asian man who would run his hand up my leg to my groin everytime I manspread and then rub that area. even if I just about to fall asleep. This is true aversion therapy. I am not suggesting this approach to the Ladies and others, but it may make for an interesting journey.

My apologies to anybody offended.

The offence is not that you do it but if you start pressing against others legs in their seating area while doing so. That’s the issue. If you can’t do it while moving in to others comfort area then maybe you need to book a comfort seat.

 

[froggerADL]

Agree - I wish they'd stop handing out free newspapers, and just make electronic version available as part of the IFE.

Or, as part of the safety demonstration, they could show people how to fold a newspaper so as to not encroach into other people's space, for the imbeciles who can't work it out.

 

[JJJJJJJ]

Just off QF405 from Syd to Mel, ss the 6:45am was cancelled yet again (everytime ive booked this flight it gets cancelled and i end up on either the 6:30 or 7:00am), and it was one of the least comfortable journeys I've had in a long time.

What caused the discomfort was the guy sitting next to me, not happy with his own space who felt the need to spread his legs well into my space, meaning his left knee was touching my leg the entire time and then kept taking his phone in and out of his back pocket, elbowing me in the ribs each time he did it.

Now this guy wasnt at all large ,in fact below average height id say 5'5" and quite thin, so its not like he couldnt easily fit in his own seat, he had plenty of room (more room than me).

I asked politely if he could please move his leg off mine and he grunted as if i was being unreasonable.

Gentlemen there is no need to man-spread on the plane, you arent impressing anyone, it just makes you a jerk.

GOOD FOR YOU for asking him to stop it. And ladies, if you have to request it twenty times, please do so. You're helping the next unfortunate lady who has to sit next to him.

 

[Lynda2475]

Have you considered booking the 6:30 or 7:00 flight instead of the 6:45, seeing as it gets cancelled every time you book it?

Well company policy says i have to book the cheapest qanatas flight within 30 mins of my preferred departure, usually the :15 and :45 are up to $50 cheaper.