Wouldn't say a word but with a little cheese and time, she'll wish I was speaking with my mouth. Hopefully the collateral damage will understand that they suffer for a noble cause.
She IS peasant class. Working for a living is peasant class
She could be merchant class. Probably is.
Bought airport food? Didn't have free corporate airline lounge meal as high-margin customer? Peasant.
Not knowing poster, is anyone sure this isn't ironic usage of "peasant" before the pitchforks are distributed?
I'm guessing this person isn't a real frequent flyer if shes expecting a chatterbox and has a sandwich with her.
Probably just shock how how much worse planes have gotten.
But who knows
Is she someone I should know? Otherwise I could see my peasant-ass joking about the same thing, especially if I’m grinding for a middle seat on a row that apparently didn’t even have a window.
Now, if she’s one of the privileged, that’s an entirely different joke.
Apparently she's an author of self help books. "#1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits, CEO of Vision Advertising, TEDx Speaker and America's Happiness Coach."
#1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits
Notice how Bestselling refers to author, not the book, and with her probably being the only author, she can prefix it with any superlative she wants.
CEO of Vision Advertising
Imagine calling yourself CEO unironically for the maybe 3 person gig you're running to have some overpaid management fill their calenders with instead of doing actual work.
TEDx Speaker
This is not the flex you (edit: she) think(s) it is
America's Happiness Coach
Complains about other travelers... preemptively.
Ah yes, a bloodsucker.
Author of The Six Habits
Is this lady the hitchhiker from There's Something About Mary, copying Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
Hitchhiker : You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Ted : Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the exercise video.
Hitchhiker : Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Ted : Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
Hitchhiker : Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Ted : I would go for the 7.
Hitchhiker : Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Ted : You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?
Hitchhiker : If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
Ted : That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
Hitchhiker : No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Ted : That - good point.
Hitchhiker : 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby.
I just got off of a flight, it was about 40 minutes in the air, and there were people who paid to upgrade to 'first class' for a 40 minute flight.
I'd rather be peasant class than so weak that I couldn't stand 40 minutes sitting 6 inches closer to the person next to me.
How do you know they paid? When I was a frequent flier I'd always get upgraded on short flights because... No one paid for first class on those flights but the airline could consume an upgrade.
If you had chronic back pain, you might consider paying for that upgrade. Normal plane seats are painful.
Hell, some airlines have seat pitches so low that I can't even fit in the seat.
.. Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem calling it "peasant class"? It's the kind of slang I'd use and I always fly economy.
That's our word, she can't use it
Exactly haha. A poor person can say it to joke about themselves and their circumstances, a rich person doing so is just in poor taste..
Yeah, but would you post a picture of yourself online saying that, with a fake smile and undertone of smug superiority?
I joke about calling it steerage. Just keep walking back until you hear the Irish fiddles.
Personally, I call it cattle class.
Imho it's less about calling out the airplane than preemptively shitting on her neighbour. It's the whole "I'm with the plebes so my neighbour will be a pita" that makes her sounds so disdainful.
Also, I call it cattle class when I fly because that's how it makes me feel.
Peasant class? I like that. Where is my pocket guillotine again?
I think the thing you are looking for is a cigar cutter. A bit small, but it is great for cutting off another type of head.
Rabbi Tuckman?
Tbf calling it peasant class is more honest. The new planes economy sections must have been designed by the same people who designed cattle cars.
This is why I hate the Boeing max line. It's not because of the safety things, for those I decide are self-correcting and thus I can wait those out.
No, it's the new layouts they enable and offer that has seats cramped even harder, washrooms without full enclosure - no really, a public restroom divider with a 4-inch gap at the bottom between my farts and the galley - and cheap porous plastic everywhere. The whole this is a McDonald's lobby you can't escape for ours at a time, nor express the slightest frustration at being in.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
I don't care who you are, on a plane I'm putting on my noise canceling headphones and reading.
I wouldn't have known who she is without the comments and even then i still have never heard of her books.
I bought earbuds in flesh color. I tend to only ever have one on to stay alert and I listen to podcasts. I'm not ashamed to admit that I bought them in flesh color so that I can pretend it's a hearing aid so I can ignore strangers on transit. I like to pretend like it's off and I can't hear you
That's why I like headphones, sends a clearer signal I feel.
wait people write shit like this on LinkedIn?
There was a post where a kid was shooting a penalty against a professional goal keeper and the goalkeeper was blocking every shot. He was also posturing against the kid.
People were commenting on how great that was to make strong men.
That's the kind of weird shit I've sorta come to expect from LL but people referring to economy as peasant class is kind of wild even for this kinda community haha
If I was next to her and knew about this post, my introverted self would suddenly be the most chatty asshole to ever fly.
What an asshole.
Pretty sure she’s just being goofy yall.
Peasant is usually tongue-in-cheek. At least, the antiquated pretension and caricature of disgust strongly implies irony. Referring to her own economy airfare as “peasant class” is more likely an attempt at self-deprecating humor than actual elitism.
Maybe next time she’ll have to really sell it with “THE POORS” or something lol
She's not Boomer, maybe Gen X, if she aged well but most likely early Millenial.
Hmm you’re right, probably only 10 years older than me. I didn’t look closely at the face. Will fix.
Edit: I was trying to figure out why I guessed so wrong. Was it humor style? Clothes? But it turns out it was just the 2000s Sarah Palin vibes smh
Her seat, my cheeks.
I hope that plane crashes, and in a freak twist of fate everyone survives but her.
