Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 29, 2022

Not me, Caulfield. No matter how much the airlines try to ruin it, I still love flying.

Most don’t complain about the flying. We complain about the conditions under which it takes place.

Naturally, Frazz feels that way.

There’s a place in France where you can get strapped under a blimp. They then give you some paddels and you can controll every movement (up, down, sideways, front, back) with these. It’s probably the closest we humans will ever get to actually flying by ourselves. And yes, I learned that from the Tom Scott video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwABJGzifao

“MOST humans have flown mechanically”?

First World assumptions…

I applaud Frazz’s conclusion. Human spirit can sometimes be sublimely successful and uplifting. Human nature, on the other hand, is truly a mixed blessing.

Example. After mustering out, I was an ad rep for a mid-major newspaper. Turned out to be good training for when I later became a middle-school and secondary teacher. In the years since I retired, I find that my memory favors dealing with 100 or more kids a day, their parents, the administration, and federal interference over having to deal with adult humans in business and sometimes in their leisure activities.

There is a VAST difference between flying and being stuffed in a tube and air freighted. Most, when admiring the birds, long for that freedom and open space; neither of which exist on an airliner.

an ically existence.

Excellent distinction that Frazz makes

Frazz, “Friend to All Children” isn’t fond of human nature. Okay….

I do like Caulfield’s vocabulary.

When I compare the experience a bird has in the air with the experience I have in an airliner, I do not call what I do “flying”.

LY’d to death here

That complaining isn’t human nature, Frazz, except so far as it is human nature to complain about discomfort, inconvenience, & highway robbery resulting from corporate greed.

Airline companies – yet another reason to invest a modern high-speed rail system………

Less than 20 percent of the world’s population has ever taken a single flight,

If you really want to fly, go to Saturn’s moon Titan. With its dense atmosphere and low gravity, a human could probably take flight (or at least jump remarkably far) with plastic wings.

Caulfield and Frazz are having an adverbsarial relationship today.

I am sure that people in the international space station, or its equivalentskylab, Tiangong ..etc have experienced trued human flight.

Terrible assumption. I expect better of him.

Well, when complaint is generously merited, what’s wrong with it?

Early this year, I was on a 14-hour flight. I won’t complain about the airline, but there were five little kids nearby, and hardly five minutes would go by without one of them screaming. They never slept at the same time.

Within his narrow sphere he is speaking not the entire world.

If God had meant man to fly, he would have made it easier to get to the airport.

Fun with adverbs.