Three people and a bonus

[fruitvilla]

There was some discussion on the US politics thread about being a celebrity that helps win elections. Here's a question: Which three people would you like to sit next to on three separate flights, chat, and discuss things with? My three are:

Steven Pinker
Susan Blackmore
Sean Caroll 

And as a bonus I would like to sit next to Donald and give him an earful.

Edited November 11 by fruitvilla

[colhint]

Samuel L Jackson

Chris Evert tennis player

Mick Fleetwood

I used to work in LA, and travelled there frequently and frequently got upgraded to first class.

So the three above I did actually sit next to. Chris Evert did a lap dance for me. Well she actually stumbled getting past me to go to the toilet. I told her that I'm going to tell everyone she did a lap dance, she laughed.

[bickster]

Can I pick three dead people who definitely won't make the plane?

[mjmooney]

6 hours ago, fruitvilla said:

Steven Pinker
Susan Blackmore
Sean Caroll 

Heaveeee! I had to Google Sean Caroll (I've actually read books by the other two). 

 

[sidcow]

38 minutes ago, colhint said:

Samuel L Jackson

Chris Evert tennis player

Mick Fleetwood

I used to work in LA, and travelled there frequently and frequently got upgraded to first class.

So the three above I did actually sit next to. Chris Evert did a lap dance for me. Well she actually stumbled getting past me to go to the toilet. I told her that I'm going to tell everyone she did a lap dance, she laughed.

Was it a nervous kind of laugh where she turned her head away from you afterwards with a scowl? 

[sidcow]

35 minutes ago, bickster said:

Can I pick three dead people who definitely won't make the plane?

John Lennon, George Harrison and Brian Epstein? 

[colhint]

7 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Was it a nervous kind of laugh where she turned her head away from you afterwards with a scowl? 

Nah we ended up having a good chat

[mjmooney]

Bob Dylan, obviously - but almost certainly a waste of time, as he'd just refuse to converse (Joni Mitchell actually wrote a song - Talk To Me - about having had that experience) 

I'll have to think about the other two. 

[nick76]

7 hours ago, fruitvilla said:

There was some discussion on the US politics thread about being a celebrity that helps win elections. Here's a question: Which three people would you like to sit next to on three separate flights, chat, and discuss things with? My three are:

Steven Pinker
Susan Blackmore
Sean Caroll 

And as a bonus I would like to sit next to Donald and give him an earful.

As a person who struggles with sleep, for some reason I can always sleep on a plane whether short or long haul.  So I’d want somebody who won’t turn up so I’d have two seats to myself

[tonyh29]

I'd rather pour petrol over myself and set fire to it than be stuck next to a celeb on a  flight  , but I wouldn't mind a chat with some of the great leaders of human history , so my 3 would be 

Julius Caesar

Alexander of Macedon 

Ramesses II

bonus would be  Oliver Cromwell  

 

[choffer]

1 hour ago, bickster said:

Can I pick three dead people who definitely won't make the plane?

Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Rocky Marciano?

[bickster]

Just now, choffer said:

Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Rocky Marciano?

3 random dead people, I don't care as long as they don't turn up.

Last thing I want to do on a flight is talk to random strangers no matter who they are.

Much prefer the empty seat next to me

[mjmooney]

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Last thing I want to do on a flight is talk to random strangers no matter who they are.

But that's the point of the thread - they wouldn't be random strangers; you get to choose. 

[bickster]

6 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

But that's the point of the thread - they wouldn't be random strangers; you get to choose. 

Yes but my point is that I'm on a plane, I don't want to talk to anyone. Earphones in, read a book or eyes shut. There's something about being squeezed into a tightish space for a number of hours that makes me rather anti-social

[tonyh29]

14 minutes ago, bickster said:

3 random dead people, I don't care as long as they don't turn up.

Last thing I want to do on a flight is talk to random strangers no matter who they are.

Much prefer the empty seat next to me

I've spoken to many people on flights , I quite enjoy it , mind you I'm from the friendly South rather than the anti-social North 

true , some get on wearing  clearing in the woods headphones and never remove them the whole flight , so be it , they want to be left alone , but apart from them I always start the flight with a Hello to the person next to me  , if they want to chat they will let you know easily enough   , its usually a quite interesting way of killing a few hours , the Jehovah's Witness that tried to convert me on my flight to Budapest once was one of my favourite flights , it was like trolling a captive audience and she couldn't use the ignore button 

Edited November 11 by tonyh29

[tomav84]

jo brand, kathy burke, probably a villa player too...mcginn or mings i guess

but i'm with @bickster, if i get to choose which 3 i sit next to, i vote for 3 empty seats and a nice row of 4 all to myself

[chrisp65]

Are you allowed any weapons? Or is this a post 9/11 flight?

Makes a difference on the invites.

[tonyh29]

9 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Are you allowed any weapons? Or is this a post 9/11 flight?

Makes a difference on the invites.

unless you were in the PLO I'm not sure weapons on planes were ever allowed ?

[chrisp65]

2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

unless you were in the PLO I'm not sure weapons on planes were ever allowed ?

Usual woke health and safety gone mad nonesense

 

[villa4europe]

assuming that they were all very open (kw) and talkative

Deano

Noel Gallagher

Ian Kershaw

and that said I agree with bicks, headphones are on, switch is on, I'm in my own bubble for the duration of the flight, I'm not interested in what other people on the flight are up to, the wife doesn't agree seeing as she has the two kids...