Captain Obvious and Friends
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at 12:21 by FaroFlyer.
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FDOS_UKParticipantHotels.com uses the character of ‘Captain Obvious’ on their website, making tautological comments e.g. ‘Hotels.com is a site for finding hotels’, whilst attired in what appears to be a Austro-Hungarian’s naval special forces uniform from circa 1867.
But he has a challenger.
Whilst checking out what mischief SimonS1 has been up to on Flyertalk, which I find much more interesting than FT itself, I came across this quotation that Capt. Obvious would be proud of
I find that the F seat on BA is much more comfortable than CW and there is a lot more space, particularly on the A380.
Who’d have thunk that?
14 Apr 2017
at 15:52
GivingupBAParticipantFaroFlyer, thanks for that, by the way the Monarch announcement reminds me of Groucho Marx’s well-known humorous question, “Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?”
14 Apr 2017
at 18:09
SimonS1ParticipantIndeed FDOS.
There is a group of posters whose job it is to defend BA at whatever cost and regardless of the situation.
Included within that is a range of good distraction techniques including talking about the A380 when the OP has just said how dire his F experience on a 777 was.
14 Apr 2017
at 18:41
LuganoPirateParticipantReminds me when I wanted to hire a 4×4 in Togo from Avis back in the 80’s, but couldn’t think of the translation to French of 4 wheel drive. The (translated) conversation went as follows.
I’d like to rent a car with four wheels.
Yes sir, all our cars have 4 wheels!
No, I mean that the wheels all turn at the same time.
I can assure you sir all the wheels on our cars turn at the same time.
No, no, I mean all turn at once in the same direction even on a hill.
(Deadpan but puzzled face) Yes sir, they all do that?
Finally I said, no, I mean like a Land Rover or a Jeep.
Ah sir, a four by four?
Yes, that’s it. Thanks.
Sorry sir, we don’t have any!!!15 Apr 2017
at 08:31
LuganoPirateParticipantThanks Tom, I think it is an amusing thread and let’s hope we get a few more captain obvious stories.
It’s also great you listen to your readers and don’t assume the air of an offended dictator, unlike some other editors I know!15 Apr 2017
at 09:55
FDOS_UKParticipant[quote quote=802342]Not quite the same as Hotels.com or FT, but on 2 recent flights with Monarch the Captain has announced that “We shall be starting the engines before take off”, which came as a complete surprise to me.
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Just noticed that – what a classic 🙂
15 Apr 2017
at 14:09
FDOS_UKParticipantHow about a roadsign?
+++++Unfortunately, won’t upload, never mid.
Here’s a link to another…..
http://www.dirtygirlmotorracing.com/articles/Leonard/sign-caution-rain-wet.gif
15 Apr 2017
at 14:13
GivingupBAParticipantTom, thanks for all your work. I appreciate it. Forum moderator is a job where you get a lot of flak but few notes of thanks.
The BT forum is very useful to me. I also enjoy it and read it twice a day.
15 Apr 2017
at 14:56
FlightlevelParticipantYes I always laugh at the UK road sign about wet roads – or is that sexist?
17 Apr 2017
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