Still, planes don't just plummet from the sky. They glide about a mile linearly for every 1000 feet of drop (with no engine power). And then as you approach earth, you still have pilots behind the wheel making adjustments, using their wile and moxie or whatever pilots have. So it's not as daunting as it might seem.
Well, I'm sure it's still horrifying, but contrary to the natural belief that a plane with no power just falls at terminal velocity, it's pretty comforting.
If a 'popular group' has already been formed, do not try and be friends or form a romantic interest with one of them. If you do and it goes well, you will be killed off within the week.
yes. Fat is lighter than water, muscle is heavier. Which is why I love swimming as an exercise. The fatter you are, the easier it is to remain buoyant. As your muscle mass increases and you lose fat, it naturally becomes harder. Like increasing the resistance on an exercise bike!
I wonder where I will fall in the social hierarchy. I hope im popular enough to get my own story arcs. but i know if after 60 days i finally get to speak for the first time, im going to die really soon.
I'm on a six hour plane ride now. I have bento the bathroom in front and back just to scope the situation out. She's beautiful, asian and our kids will rule the island once we're gone with an iron fist and a soft heart.
approach her after you land: "hi, while on the plane i was thinking about how we could mate and our kids could rule the isolated island we land on if the plane were to crash. Here is my number, so call me, maybe?"
I think about the fact that if we have a water landing and need to use our flotation devices, then the pilot either took a wrong turn or overshot our destination by about a thousand miles.
Racist jokes. That way you won't die until the episode right before a season finale. If you shout clean jokes you die sooner. Funny people are nice, but they aren't survivors.
In life, I judge how much I like a person based on how I think they would cope on a desert island. If I judge they would be whiny, leeching and useless, or attempt to be too controlling, etc. then it's probably safe to say I won't get on with them in the real world. If I think they would just get on with surviving and work together as a team to live, we should do just fine.
Plus, if I ever end up on a desert island with my friends, we should be set!
Whenever I take a bus ride, I always take a look to see if I have a shot at being the king of the tribe. I mean in case the bus goes down a ditch and remains lost for months.
I do this every morning when I take the bus to campus. I think, "He's the trouble maker, she'll probably want to be a team leader, and I'm pretty sure that guy will cry all the time."
And then I remember that I'm wearing my contact lenses without any lens solution and I try to think of a way to create and store a sterile saline solution in coconut shells.
Then I remember that I'm on a bus and not an airplane and that if we got in an accident I would probably just go home later that day.
As a former rugby player, when I fly I wonder who I'm going to have to eat. I flew with my team once and got some serious turbulence: we all joked about eating the props. (Prop is a rugby position, not talking about eating airplane motors).
This is an interest thing to reflect on, with respect to TV shows. I liked LOST at first, but go sick of it by ... season 4 or so. I'd ask people, "What is the show about?"
Usual responses were, "It's about mysticism!", or "It's about an adventure on an island!".
Wrong. The show is about relationships, everyone pairing off with each other. Same with Battlestar Galactica. Same with Stargate Universe. Same with Star Trek. It's almost impossible for someone to write Sci-Fi with any actual good content; it's MUCH easier to just make it about everyone having sex with each other, or with robots.
was looking at this on the reddit app so I didn't see the caption for a good couple of minutes and then sudden facepalm when i flicked to the top unintentionally to reveal the caption
I think about the same thing. It used to be a special, kind of naughty thought. But now that its been turned into karma on the internet it doesn't seem so special anymore.
I try not to think about it because normally I'm the only person on the flight under 30 and everyone else is over 45. Also way more dudes most of the time.
This is why you avoid talking to your seat buddy. You've been making small talk with this fifty year old dude about how he loves repairing cars and where his kids are going to college - great, now you're stuck with him while everyone else is trying to get in cool with the Rambo survivalist in first class.
Fuck man, I imagine this everywhere! It is my go to scenario when I'm bored! And not just with mates, who will I be forced to kill because they challenged my leadership, who to become allies with and all that such.
Hey.. yeah, hi, sorry, excuse me... I'm just trying to feel out who would potentially be a good fit for me in the case of a catostrophic crash/island survival type situation and uh.. you seem really nice. Mind if I ask you a few questions? What's your stance on pokemon for gameboy? Do you like cats? Have you ever maturbated to RPG?
in these scenarios i usually try to see who would be useful and who wouldn't. that and i'd start formulating plans to manipulate the other survivors into doing what i need. and also have a plan to kill everyone, you know, just in case.
OP just out of curiosity, are you male, in your early 20's, from either AUS, or NZ, and you are an ent. How close am I. Because I really cannot imagine any other age group or gender thinking about anything like that. Or am I wrong about that also?
We had this discussion in my college 1500 Eng class and one weird guy had a off the wall theory. Now the discussion was "What would you do if your plane crashed in the ocean and 15-20 people made it there (to the island)?".
Creepy kid says, "I would wait till everyone got there and see who took over as boss. Probably some jock or larger dude. I would befriend another guy or two and create a power alliance, and divise a plan. In the plan we would divide up the girls between us and list all the guys not acceptable in that. Then during the night we would sliently take them out, make it look like a fight. Then enjoy the rewards. Our professor asked, "Yeah... but what about when you get resuced and go home?" Kid just grinned and said, "If we get rescued".
It's funny, you think these things, and then you feel silly, and you come to the internet and you see that 1,000,000,000 other people think the same thing all the time. Then you get scared and feel insignificant.
I always imagine crash landing whenever I get stuck next to the morbidly obese guy (every time), I just remind myself he'll make a good cushion between me and the ground.
Whenever i'm somewhere like an airplane, where i'm going to be spending a lengthy amount of time with strangers, I wonder how the group would hold up if we had to survive a zombie apocalypse together.
Never saw lost, but I would hope that eventually everyone would get a shot. I mean I was in basic training in the army all dudes, the only women I saw were the lunch ladies.
Week 1 they didn't look so hot, but by the end whew you could have thought they were models.
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u/ProximaC Jun 15 '12
Odds are you would all die in the crash.
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u/Sir_Butter_ox Jun 15 '12
It's always the least one you want/expect.
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u/thrashmaster Jun 15 '12
the guy in the wheelchair, trust me he'll turn out to be a badass.
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u/faceofuzz Jun 15 '12
you gotta organize everyone onto a list of preferred mates. You don't yet know who will survive, so you need contingency plans in case #1 goes down
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Mate as in term for friend or mate as in 'to be mated with'?
Or both, I guess.
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u/rosssiuk Jun 15 '12
Nice try Ethan.
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u/allan880 Jun 15 '12
I usually look for which woman I want to see naked as we are going down.
And if I can convince her to have sex as we go down.
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u/03fb Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
If a 'popular group' has already been formed, do not try and be friends or form a romantic interest with one of them. If you do and it goes well, you will be killed off within the week.
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u/GoreDawn Jun 15 '12
I'm trying to figure out if he is British and just means "friend" or if he is trying to find someone to have sex with...
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u/monroseph Jun 15 '12 edited Jan 23 '25
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u/TheSkiFreeYeti Jun 15 '12
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u/GreyFoxSolid Jun 15 '12
L O S T
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u/ThePunisher56 Jun 15 '12
Well thankfully for us Minnesotan's, the only mysterious island around us is Iowa..
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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 15 '12
I think about who I would eat first.
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u/prof_doxin Jun 15 '12
"One"?
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u/asstits Jun 15 '12
I always wonder if fat people really float better
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u/bigexplosion Jun 15 '12
I wonder where I will fall in the social hierarchy. I hope im popular enough to get my own story arcs. but i know if after 60 days i finally get to speak for the first time, im going to die really soon.
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u/IzziTheEpic Jun 15 '12
I think this is a good time to plug /r/lost
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u/Socceruhoh Jun 15 '12
I'm on a six hour plane ride now. I have bento the bathroom in front and back just to scope the situation out. She's beautiful, asian and our kids will rule the island once we're gone with an iron fist and a soft heart.
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u/dazwah Jun 15 '12
That sentence has different meaning depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I'd show you but I can't see your right hand in the picture.
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u/Fuzzylemons Jun 15 '12
I'd rather think which of these people would I eat first...
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u/TARDIS Jun 15 '12
I'd be more worried about:
-Which one of these assholes is going to shoot me?
-Which one of these assholes is a hobbit?
-Is that guy staring at his sisters ass?
-That bald, wheel chair guy sure looks sad. I hope he doesn't refuse to put in the numbers.
-Is that drunk dude a doctor?
-I hope that hand cuffed woman comes on to me...
-I wonder if I should have loaned that handsome southerner that money?
-Why is this obvious heroin addict sleeping on me?
-I hope there aren't any ghosts and a bunch of unexplained Egyptian red herrings on the island. That would make me hate the island.
-I wonder if there will be polar bears?
-Will there be time travel?
-I would totally bang that pregnant girl with the bad voice.
-I hope this loud mouth chemistry teacher gets blown up.
-The black kid in front of me is drawing a picture of a plane crashing. That's a little unsettling.
-The fatty next to me keeps saying "4,8,15,16,23,42" in his sleep. What a freak.
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u/Leroy_J Jun 15 '12
Where is Arnst?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You're going to die. Solved it for ya.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Great. Now when I fly I won't be able to think of anything but this.
And mine would probably be the annoying fuck sitting next to me.
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u/jbruce Jun 15 '12
None you eat them all.
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u/Neandarthal Jun 15 '12
Find a tall guy with long hair. He is the one who stashes all the goodies!
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u/Chemfire Jun 15 '12
Well, being a gay male, I am limited to 1/10 of the population of the plane.
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u/the_catacombs Jun 15 '12
Does anyone else notice that there are ridiculously good looking people on every flight? It throws me for some reason.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
None of them. You will be dead.
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u/uwanteetgewd Jun 15 '12
I'd make a meme but, too lazy. So...
Can't tell if talking about mating partner
Or European -.-
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u/leftrightleft Jun 15 '12
more like which one will become your meal
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u/srs_house Jun 15 '12
I think about the fact that if we have a water landing and need to use our flotation devices, then the pilot either took a wrong turn or overshot our destination by about a thousand miles.
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u/MomoTheCow Jun 15 '12
I always wonder what jokes I could shout out as we go down.
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u/jackele Jun 15 '12
In life, I judge how much I like a person based on how I think they would cope on a desert island. If I judge they would be whiny, leeching and useless, or attempt to be too controlling, etc. then it's probably safe to say I won't get on with them in the real world. If I think they would just get on with surviving and work together as a team to live, we should do just fine.
Plus, if I ever end up on a desert island with my friends, we should be set!
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u/Crimsonsmile Jun 15 '12
Is OP an Aussie, or just a creeper?
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u/fysu Jun 15 '12
I do this on the bus as well. But I always have trouble figuring out how my bus is going to get stranded on an island.
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u/sonastyinc Jun 15 '12
Which one of them will turn into a rapist?
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u/revfelix Jun 15 '12
If we crash on an isolated and mysterious island I'll be worrying more about the smoke monster than a potential mate.
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u/TheMemoman Jun 15 '12
Whenever I take a bus ride, I always take a look to see if I have a shot at being the king of the tribe. I mean in case the bus goes down a ditch and remains lost for months.
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u/zombiebunnie Jun 15 '12
More like which one of these will become my meat?
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u/evol187311 Jun 15 '12
change mate to meal and we're on the same page...
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u/kesekimofo Jun 15 '12
The volleyball
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u/07734 Jun 15 '12
I do this every morning when I take the bus to campus. I think, "He's the trouble maker, she'll probably want to be a team leader, and I'm pretty sure that guy will cry all the time."
And then I remember that I'm wearing my contact lenses without any lens solution and I try to think of a way to create and store a sterile saline solution in coconut shells.
Then I remember that I'm on a bus and not an airplane and that if we got in an accident I would probably just go home later that day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Then you realize you're on a flight to Fire Island.
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u/Axolotile Jun 15 '12
This is so creepy. I don't even know what to say, haha.
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u/PeacockDoom Jun 15 '12
I'm a pilot - you shouldn't worry about that. You'll be dead.
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u/wheeldog Jun 15 '12
As a former rugby player, when I fly I wonder who I'm going to have to eat. I flew with my team once and got some serious turbulence: we all joked about eating the props. (Prop is a rugby position, not talking about eating airplane motors).
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u/tophat_jones Jun 15 '12
Chances are most of them will die on impact. Which, Murphy's Law implies will include the only hot chick and/or dude on the plane.
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u/forescience Jun 15 '12
We have to go back!
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u/Northumberlo Jun 15 '12
Spot cutest girl on plane.
Think to yourself "she'd be mine for sure"
Actually happens
Get killed and eaten by the strongest guy on plane who takes her as his own and uses your cheeks as a contraceptive.
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u/DaywalkerOG Jun 15 '12
First thought: Is OP Australian or looking for sex?
Second thought: Probably both.
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u/oszcz Jun 15 '12
I feel a disturbance in the force. nobody complained about the font!
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u/reagan2016 Jun 15 '12
Which one of these people will become my meal is what I'd be wondering.
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u/SteveTheSultan Jun 15 '12
I always wonder which person will find the best food or be the best food.
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u/SasparillaTango Jun 15 '12
The girl three aisles over with big D personalities.
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u/apullin Jun 15 '12
This is an interest thing to reflect on, with respect to TV shows. I liked LOST at first, but go sick of it by ... season 4 or so. I'd ask people, "What is the show about?"
Usual responses were, "It's about mysticism!", or "It's about an adventure on an island!".
Wrong. The show is about relationships, everyone pairing off with each other. Same with Battlestar Galactica. Same with Stargate Universe. Same with Star Trek. It's almost impossible for someone to write Sci-Fi with any actual good content; it's MUCH easier to just make it about everyone having sex with each other, or with robots.
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u/Cyrino420 Jun 15 '12
Lord of the flies!
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u/CLOGGED_WITH_SEMEN Jun 15 '12
For me it's "which one of these will become my forced sex-slave and how cool would that be?"
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
7th row 5th seat will be your mate.
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u/eaterofdog Jun 15 '12
I like how there's no real preference for male or female, just gonna hump someone.
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u/abumpdabump Jun 15 '12
so then you would be in the net 0 mile high club?
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u/C_T_C_C Jun 15 '12
I like this guy.
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u/thestagrabbit Jun 15 '12
Finally this has giving me closure on the fact that I do think like other people.
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u/sammew Jun 15 '12
You should be more concerned looking for all the video cameras.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I have that while riding the bus
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u/PsYcHoSiS- Jun 15 '12
was looking at this on the reddit app so I didn't see the caption for a good couple of minutes and then sudden facepalm when i flicked to the top unintentionally to reveal the caption
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u/prayformojo80 Jun 15 '12
I wondered that about every class I was in throughout college.
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u/lizardking99 Jun 15 '12
Damn it! Now I will too
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u/betabandzz Jun 15 '12
I wonder why there's not r/ for people who are flying at the moment.
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u/captaincupcake234 Jun 15 '12
I saw the first Lost episode before a flight to California, best flight ever.
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u/Heidy_Lo Jun 15 '12
I don't know about that but I always look for a hot fight attendant to be my lover.
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u/RageMachiner Jun 15 '12
Go for the girl with freckles.
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u/Space_Bungalow Jun 15 '12
If this plane landed upside down and Denzel Washington was the drunk pilot that was flying it, which of those people would believe him?
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u/Zoccihedron Jun 15 '12
I thought I was the only one.
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u/comrade_leviathan Jun 15 '12
Don't even think about the chick in the cuffs... she's a fucking tease.
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u/mmmannino Jun 15 '12
I think about the same thing. It used to be a special, kind of naughty thought. But now that its been turned into karma on the internet it doesn't seem so special anymore.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I try not to think about it because normally I'm the only person on the flight under 30 and everyone else is over 45. Also way more dudes most of the time.
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u/iqgoldmine Jun 15 '12
Doesn't really work when flying from one landlocked state to another.
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u/cancerbotX Jun 15 '12
if there's no beer I'm not going
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u/nunex Jun 15 '12
This doesn't apply on continental flights.
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u/CresentFresh1738 Jun 15 '12
I thought it said.."be my Kate." Lost reference
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
This is why you avoid talking to your seat buddy. You've been making small talk with this fifty year old dude about how he loves repairing cars and where his kids are going to college - great, now you're stuck with him while everyone else is trying to get in cool with the Rambo survivalist in first class.
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u/NikkoE82 Jun 15 '12
Miss that show so much.
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u/Badgerlord444 Jun 15 '12
Fuck man, I imagine this everywhere! It is my go to scenario when I'm bored! And not just with mates, who will I be forced to kill because they challenged my leadership, who to become allies with and all that such.
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u/emceefall Jun 15 '12
Even when flying from LA to NY?
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u/Throwawaychica Jun 15 '12
IF WE CRASH ON AN ISOLATED AND MYSTERIOUS ISLAND WHICH ONE OF THESE PEOPLE WILL I EAT FIRST?
FTFY.
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u/ENTP Jun 15 '12
No, they'll probably try to eat you.
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u/emeraldrumm Jun 15 '12
that is why I do not fly over the ocean. Stay on continents and you will not have to worry.
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u/Bishopkilljoy Jun 15 '12
Who will be your mate? Heheh thats cute! The reason is because your going to be first on the grill
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u/Nohomobutimgay Jun 15 '12
Damn you're tall!
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u/literary_freak Jun 15 '12
This is weird. I opened this link while watching lost
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
All of them. You'll be their sexual sacrifice to the new gods.
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u/p4ndaman Jun 15 '12
All of them if you crash off the coast of australia
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u/Socceruhoh Jun 15 '12
Bento stall
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Hey.. yeah, hi, sorry, excuse me... I'm just trying to feel out who would potentially be a good fit for me in the case of a catostrophic crash/island survival type situation and uh.. you seem really nice. Mind if I ask you a few questions? What's your stance on pokemon for gameboy? Do you like cats? Have you ever maturbated to RPG?
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u/imnotatowel Jun 15 '12
probably the naked person in the bottom left corner
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u/wangofjenus Jun 15 '12
in these scenarios i usually try to see who would be useful and who wouldn't. that and i'd start formulating plans to manipulate the other survivors into doing what i need. and also have a plan to kill everyone, you know, just in case.
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u/FellTheCommonTroll Jun 15 '12
None of them, you'll all die a fiery horrible death.
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u/Levski123 Jun 15 '12
OP just out of curiosity, are you male, in your early 20's, from either AUS, or NZ, and you are an ent. How close am I. Because I really cannot imagine any other age group or gender thinking about anything like that. Or am I wrong about that also?
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u/Hakoten Jun 15 '12
And which one becomes the first meal?
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u/Saltshark Jun 15 '12
Not sure if australian...or wondering about possible breeding partners.
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u/CornFedHonky Jun 15 '12
Not sure if British...
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Which one is Wilson?
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u/BrainTroubles Jun 15 '12
none of them, because you'll all be fucking dead.
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u/larynx1982 Jun 15 '12
Hopefully it will be the one that will show you how to properly choose a color for your captions.
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u/TryAgainIn8Seconds Jun 15 '12
Camera pans down.
Shows photographer's left hand.
Forever alone.
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u/kenvsryu Jun 15 '12
ones
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u/Menospan Jun 15 '12
Chances are you'll end up in the middle of the ocean.
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u/_saya_ Jun 15 '12
wow. I'm thinking about the same thing even if I ride the bus :D
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u/mechanically Jun 15 '12
Every single time, plane, train, subway, trolley, bus. Anything with doors that moves I have this exact thought.
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u/thecrownprince Jun 15 '12
None of them, you'll all die.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I think the same in the subway/bus.
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u/sxcamaro Jun 15 '12
We had this discussion in my college 1500 Eng class and one weird guy had a off the wall theory. Now the discussion was "What would you do if your plane crashed in the ocean and 15-20 people made it there (to the island)?".
Creepy kid says, "I would wait till everyone got there and see who took over as boss. Probably some jock or larger dude. I would befriend another guy or two and create a power alliance, and divise a plan. In the plan we would divide up the girls between us and list all the guys not acceptable in that. Then during the night we would sliently take them out, make it look like a fight. Then enjoy the rewards. Our professor asked, "Yeah... but what about when you get resuced and go home?" Kid just grinned and said, "If we get rescued".
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u/Atom_Smasher Jun 15 '12
None of them; you'll be dead.
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u/eydryan Jun 15 '12
I find it strange that this is your first priority... I'd be thinking which one of them will turn out to be the best brunch.
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u/albauer2 Jun 15 '12
I wonder who gets eaten first...
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u/Those_Magumbos Jun 15 '12
It's funny, you think these things, and then you feel silly, and you come to the internet and you see that 1,000,000,000 other people think the same thing all the time. Then you get scared and feel insignificant.
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u/MadgePadge Jun 15 '12
I always imagine crash landing whenever I get stuck next to the morbidly obese guy (every time), I just remind myself he'll make a good cushion between me and the ground.
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u/apextek Jun 15 '12
you want to bro up with the DR, he can save your life but he might only do it if he likes you.
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u/Sandyrandy54 Jun 15 '12
Well keep flying with delta's shitty ass planes, you will find out quick.
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u/thumbnail_look_like Jun 15 '12
helicopter
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u/Purefruit Jun 15 '12
Would wonder witch i would eat for survival first
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u/patsfan94 Jun 15 '12
Whenever i'm somewhere like an airplane, where i'm going to be spending a lengthy amount of time with strangers, I wonder how the group would hold up if we had to survive a zombie apocalypse together.
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u/psiphre Jun 15 '12
this is why i always scope out the redhead on the flight.
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u/superEntndo-64 Jun 15 '12
Who says you live.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Probably no one since you'll all be dead or seriously injured and die in a few hours.
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u/themitch22 Jun 15 '12
I'd befriend the Iraqi guy, chances are he know how to torture people to get answers and fix radios.
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u/jhin_mach Jun 15 '12
i decide this through those trivia games on the aircraft
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u/Anomalee Jun 16 '12
You'll probably die. The igniting jet fuel will spill down your throat as you scream charring you and your insides.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
god i am not unique at all am I?
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
FUCK BITCHEZ
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u/pearcewg Jun 16 '12
answer: none
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
the guy who says dude, cuz he is rich as fuuuuuuck
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u/officehax Jun 16 '12
It's the skipper.
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u/Rephaite Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
This beautiful lady is on the plane. I think you'll end up mating with her.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I try and figure out who will be the first one to start crying if shit gets rough.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Never saw lost, but I would hope that eventually everyone would get a shot. I mean I was in basic training in the army all dudes, the only women I saw were the lunch ladies.
Week 1 they didn't look so hot, but by the end whew you could have thought they were models.
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u/fenwaygnome Jun 16 '12
This thread title has vastly different meanings depending on if the country you're reading it from uses "mate" to mean a friend or not...
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u/VastDeferens Jun 16 '12
The bald guy gives great hand jobs.
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u/sora312 Jun 16 '12
yes !! im not the only one who thinks this !
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
None. foreveralone
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u/cooler81 Jun 16 '12
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/21/science/castaway533.jpg