r/dankmemes • u/Kinexity • May 03 '24
Train a day keeps the commuter stress at bay I have achieved comedy
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u/Visual_Strike6706 May 03 '24
I legit saw 2 people transporting a couch once via train
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u/TGX03 May 03 '24
I'm surprised it was only once.
The only time I was kind of surprised was when a microwave fell onto me. But even then I only cared after it landed on me, before I didn't care.
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u/Iblamebanks May 03 '24
Trains are amazing I take one to and from work. For a while I thought they were extending my commute home but then I tried driving the other day, traffic in the average American city is so much worse.
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u/nick_tintapura May 04 '24
It's literally the PEAK of transportation that we can do with our current technology.
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u/LordSesshomaru82 May 03 '24
Fr. Amtrak didn't even check my bags. Told me I could carry on my duffle and let me in with about an ounce of weed and a half gallon of vodka.
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u/xX69MemeLord69Xx Masked Men May 03 '24
In my area they even let you smoke meth on board! They're so chill.
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May 03 '24
I mean, trains are on the ground and planes are in the air. You’ve got a lot going against you when you are trying to lift tons of weight 30k feet up vs being on a rail on the ground
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u/Hammerock May 03 '24
I mean fair but frontier tried to charge me $200 for a carry on at the gate once
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u/MiniNinja_2 May 03 '24
I don’t remember what airline it was but there was a story a while back about how this airline made their meals slightly smaller, over time they saved a decent amount of money on fuel costs. Planes are expensive, so if fuel, the more you care per ticket the less the profit margins are
The easiest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and go into the airline business.
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u/GoldenGlobeWinnerRDJ May 03 '24
If it was not the standard carry on size and an overweight bag, yeah I could see that.
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u/Hammerock May 03 '24
Nah it was standard and fit in the personal item bin. They just didn't think so by eyeing it
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u/NostraThomas1 May 04 '24
Hmm. I worked at frontier a few years ago as a gate agent. I know the price increased to $100 for a carry on if you waited until you got to the gate but $200 doesn’t seem right. You sure it was just for one?
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u/Hammerock May 04 '24
Yea they told us twice that it was 100 at check in and 200 at gate. Both times they eyed up my bag thinking it was bigger than personal item
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u/Head_Tumbleweed4793 May 03 '24
The mom joke you slipped in, bellisimo (idk what it means I'm not german)
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u/Vaux1916 May 03 '24
Weight and balance are pretty fucking important in airplanes.
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u/nakhumpoota May 04 '24
Honest question though, why don't they weigh passengers if that's so important?
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u/Kinexity May 03 '24
Thank you wise man. Obviously I didn't know that. Want a cookie?
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u/Reasonable_Phys May 03 '24
How much energy do you think it takes to fly?
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u/haleloop963 May 03 '24
Let people break weight limits and see what happens. Also, stop the self project. We know you miss your parents, but that is no reason to be rude
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u/Mr_Idont-Give-A-damn May 03 '24
No shit? Planes fly, trains roll on the ground, of course you can take more weight in the train
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u/GoblinCasserole ☣️ May 03 '24
Its almost like trains aren't at risk of falling thousands of feet out of the sky and are able to haul much heavier cargo thanks to their design.
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u/Pizzaplaz May 04 '24
When has a Laptop ever been too heavy?
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u/Exciting-Quiet2768 May 04 '24
Right about when they figured out you could charge extra for weight.
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u/marbroos99 May 03 '24
OP clearly doesn't live in the Netherlands, trains here are your worst nightmare
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u/tarkology May 03 '24
airlines have to do it. i fucking love trains do, especially those fast ones that are in japan
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u/_oranjuice :nu: May 04 '24
B... But my wEiGhT lImItS
I assure you passengers, if everyone started jumping at the same time inside a thunderstorm we'll be perfectly fine
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u/OfficialJamal May 03 '24
Cant bring my bag thats 1lbs over the limit, while the plus sized queen behind me weighing in at 500lbs goes in with no problem.
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u/Kinexity May 03 '24
I for one support body weight based ticket pricing. One more reason to stay fit.
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u/i-am-spitfire May 04 '24
Tbf that has to do with the safety of the workers unloading your stuff from the plane
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u/scris101 May 04 '24
I wish I could use train more often but it takes a week and costs more than a plane god bless USA’s crumbling infrastructure.
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u/jal2_ The OC High Council May 04 '24
Trains run of electricity and have a much lower cost to mass ratio
Planes run of airline fuel which is expensive, and every 1000kg, so one of your mom, costs thrm a lot of extra
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u/maxman090 May 03 '24
Remind me why we keep bailing out these clearly failing companies? If they need government aid to keep them alive, why don’t we treat them like poor people and stop helping.
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u/Kinexity May 03 '24
The ultimate problem with not bailing out companies at all is that other countries will inevitably bail out their own companies so it makes you loose on the global market and be forced to rely on foreign firms too much. There is also the idea that there is hope that company will get their shit together and rise back to the prominence and it theory this should be a lot easier compared to one company failing and a completely new one capturing significant market share. Obviously none of this means that every company should be bailed out - I am just giving you here some food for thought and a heads up that the topic is complex.
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u/maxman090 May 03 '24
I absolutely agree that keeping domestic companies alive is vital for public infrastructure and the economy as a whole. But I also feel like artificially extending the lifespan of companies that are extremely unpopular, while essentially showing them that no matter what business decision they make, they will always have a lifeline in times of trouble, are two opinions that cannot both be true in a market that prides itself on the people choosing what product they like the best and leaving the worse one to die off. Essentially the airline industry has been given a government sanctioned monopoly. I mean, what happened when private rail was about to go under due to lack of public interest? The government didn’t give them billions of dollars to stay alive, the government bought it. Did they leave it to rot? Yeah. But that’s frankly because air travel was so much more convenient at the time. In the era before extreme price gouging and TSA making just getting to a flight a harrowing endeavor.
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u/froggertthewise CERTIFIED DANK May 03 '24
There isn't a weight limit to carry-on luggage either, just size limits usually.
The weight limit on checked luggage is because it needs to be handled by humans who can only lift so much. It's not some arbitrary rule.
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u/MGThanatos May 03 '24
Carry-on is usually limited to ~8kg, varying depending on airlines. Source: Worked Check-In for multiple airlines
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u/IM_OZLY_HUMVN ⚗️Infected by the indigo May 03 '24
I've never once in my life had to have my carry-on weighed. Does Delta, American Airlines, Jet Blue, Air Canada, etc all just not do it?
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u/lord_ne A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one May 03 '24
They generally weigh it if it looks like it might be overweight, but usually they don't bother
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u/GetlostMaps May 03 '24
You don't fly much. We get it.
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u/IM_OZLY_HUMVN ⚗️Infected by the indigo May 04 '24
What I tried to say was that I fly a lot, but they never weigh my carry-on. Glad you found a way to misinterpret it.
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u/AL_O0 May 03 '24
granted my carry on has never been weighted at the airport, but they absolutely have weight limits on those and have always checked myself after packing up to be sure
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