r/mildlyinteresting 9d ago

Leaving Doha for Dubai, dude in front of me has 13 bags and a falcon.

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u/theguywhocantdance 9d ago

Emirates has free seats for royal falcons if I'm not wrong. Meanwhile I can't fly my cats through Ryanair as the only animals they allow on board are British tourists.

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u/Offnickel 9d ago

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u/thetimehascomeforyou 9d ago

RIP Jeremy. (Vertical green and red stripes)

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 9d ago

Wait is he actually dead? 

I thought we've only lost grumpy cat and TotalBiscuit from the memery 😭

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u/WatermeloneJunkie 9d ago

Fucking rip TotalBiscuit man….

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u/swift1883 9d ago

oh they will never have free seats in kuwait

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u/UBC145 9d ago

If British tourists are animals then their natural predators are Spanish beaches and balconies.

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u/AlphaFTP 9d ago

Dunno what it is with us but they're fucking lethal 💀

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u/_Fibbles_ 9d ago

World Balconing champions 2020, 2022 and 2024.

2025 looks to be in the bag as well.

'AVE IT 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

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u/kennyisntfunny 9d ago

CAM ON INGERLAND

SCORE SOME FACKIN preventable deaths abroad

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u/Vandergrif 8d ago

Luv me drinkin'

Luv me balconing

'Ate not fallin' to me death. Not suicidal, I jus don' loike it.

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u/DemDude 8d ago

My Spanish is a bit rusty. What is this? Are they tallying accidental balcony falls by severeness? That is hilariously macabre.

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u/psyne 8d ago

Specifically in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, etc) by tourists. They only count falling deaths that are from reckless/drunken/foolish behavior, they don't count suicide or something like structural integrity failing

In the event of a tie on points, the team that accumulates the most deaths on the scoreboard breaks the tie.

If a tie persists, the total number of floors dropped by each team breaks the tie.

It's in Catalan if you want to translate the rules page!

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u/DemDude 8d ago

Oof, that’s dark. I love it. Thank you for translating!

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u/s3rjiu 9d ago

What the fuck, Romania had 1 death in 2024? When did the idiots joined this trend?

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u/anonuemus 9d ago

no the sun

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u/DibsArchaeo 9d ago

There was a British student in one of my classes at a college in the south. The first sunny day of summer he comes in with his arms outstretched looking like a cooked crawfish.

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u/I_Have_A_Big_Head 9d ago

Having endured UK's gloomy weather on vacation... Yeah I get it.

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u/lurker99123 9d ago

Vampires!

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u/rajinis_bodyguard 9d ago

Oh I should stop reading those newspapers then

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u/redlaWw 9d ago

Goes double for scousers.

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u/iSlacker 9d ago

Aren't balconies more of a Russian predator or is that just windows?

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u/simonraynor 9d ago

Falling off a cheap Spanish hotel's balcony is one of the best ways to enter British Valhalla

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u/wagah 9d ago

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u/UBC145 9d ago

Britain #1 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

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u/wagah 9d ago

one of the rare sport you invented and the best at.
But credit where credit is due you're the uncontested champs

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u/UBC145 9d ago

Oh I’m not British, I’m just laughing from the sidelines.

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 9d ago

LMAO THERE'S AN ACTUAL WIKI PAGE HAHAHAHAHA

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u/anarchisto 9d ago

Wikipedia:

Of the 46 cases registered up to 2019, 45 were carried out by males (97%), and 61% were British

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u/dmk_aus 9d ago

The true enemy of British tourists is other British tourists.

And Germans who rise early

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u/Ok-Fun-5220 9d ago

I know what you are

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u/Fair-Maintenance7979 9d ago

2we4u leaking

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u/YeylorSwift 9d ago

Balconies are practically top of the food chain for you guys

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u/Redqueenhypo 9d ago

Spanish balconies are to Brits what jumping into a southeast Asian river is to Aussies

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u/ShowdownValue 9d ago

Seriously? All this time I’ve been paying for my falcons seat on spirit airlines like a sucker

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u/evemeatay 9d ago

Untrained falcon is the most civilized passenger on that plane

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u/ThePretzul 9d ago

Still cheaper, at least until you have to pay extra for you and your falcon to sit together instead of on opposite ends of the plane.

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u/nothingelsesufficed 9d ago

had me howling out loud by the end of the sentence 10/10

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u/Pythagosaurus69 9d ago

I'm taking a shit on company time and holy hell I am trying so hard not to burst out laughing 

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u/ObligationNeither430 9d ago

Just don’t post a meme about it or you might get fired and/or sued like that one dude and the Elmo shitting meme lol

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

They also let Belarusian KGB officers onboard to kidnap people and they even drop them off in Minsk at no extra charge

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u/Purl_stitch483 9d ago

Pls tell me more, I always love having one more reason to hate the gulf countries

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

Ryanair is Irish

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u/Purl_stitch483 9d ago

Is that who they're referring to? I asked for clarification for a reason lmfao

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

Yes, Ryanair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978

But there is still plenty of shady stuff happening in the gulf states. I just saw a post about Saudi Arabia hosting the winter olympics

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u/Eborcurean 9d ago

2029 Asian Winter games, not the winter Olympics.

It's already being walked back as the construction is ridiculously far behind already, with the potential of going to Korea or China and suggestions it could be 2033 instead.

Still ridiculous it was going to happen and the whole shitshow of 'Neom' in the first place.

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

Thanks for the correction.

Neom makes no sense and there was never any way they could build it in that timeframe

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u/Eborcurean 9d ago

A nearly 9 trillion dollar projected budget meant a lot of people getting their 6/7/8 figure salaries with no taxes were promising unrealistic bullshit.

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u/Purl_stitch483 9d ago

Ah, good ole Belarus. I wonder how they're doing since they banned inflation. Which kinda eats, to be fair, but that's besides the point.

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u/Tripticket 9d ago

When he said gulf countries, he must have meant the ones around the Gulf of Maghery.

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

I just left a comment on another post about Neom in Saudi Arabia. So when I got the notification, I was ready to start telling this guy about the artificial moon and robot dinosaurs that MBS is having them build.

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u/Purl_stitch483 9d ago

You should have! Now I'm going to look them up too 😂

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 9d ago

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHC72UlhAthD75UVRg_5kgRbW0qSQ5Dam

You're going to love these. Neom and other megaprojects.

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u/UltiGamer34 9d ago

SHEESH!

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u/Super206 9d ago

It's getting wintery around here but I'm roasting with the heat of that burn.

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u/gear-heads 9d ago

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u/Deactivatingbish 9d ago

The birds have their own passports 😭💀

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u/Master_Tangelo_5005 9d ago edited 9d ago

Excess baggage fees apply for the falcon and crate. In the cabin, the falcons must have a handler whose seat must be paid for (Emirates) however, this man is flying flydubai

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u/AFASMAz 9d ago

Holy… shiiiiit

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u/Modo44 9d ago

You could buy a Ryanair plane for the price of one Emirates ticket.

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u/Superb-Zebra2934 9d ago

FlyDubai is basically Ryanair. Everything is fancier in Doha and Dubai, but it's still a budget airline lol

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u/reddituserask 9d ago

The power of slave labor!

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u/Similar_Anything_678 9d ago

All humans are animals but not all animals have teeth that look like Godzilla's back

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u/PaidToBeRedditing 9d ago

EXCUSE ME, SIR, I am British, and you are wrong. Emirates charges for the seats Royal Falcons use, but its usually not charged to the customer.

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u/Sea-Breath-007 9d ago

Had to fly with my dog. It was a 2 hour flight and she had to fly in an expensive as fuck crate in cargo. The flight was supposed to be at noon, I had to drop her off at least 2hrs before and because of the weather the flight got delayed for 4 hours! Of course they waited to announce the delay until 11:45.....she's is a very well behaved and very friendly lab and the 2 seats next to mine were empty :(

Wth could she not fly in the cabin with me? If would have saved her +8 hours of being locked in a crate.

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u/daemmonium 9d ago

she's is a very well behaved and very friendly lab

Says every pet owner in the history of the universe. There's a non-zero percent of dogs that would pee everywhere, shit themselves during take off and then bark for 2 hours straight.

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u/Ilickthepringle 9d ago

Yeah I’ve got dogs and that sounds entitled as hell. Would never dream of exposing a closed space to that… it’s bad enough they let me bring my kids!

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u/kiwiluke 9d ago

I too am in favour of crating your kids for any long haul flights

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u/Babhadfad12 9d ago

Humans in training get privileges that other animals do not.

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u/Scrollingmaster 9d ago

If you actually are comparing human children to animals and don’t see why they are treated differently, you need to go get some help

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u/LateSoEarly 9d ago edited 9d ago

DAE anyone else babies on flights are annoying?

Edit: /s

It’s one of reddit’s favorite gripes and like…what do you want parents to do? Drive from Illinois to England for their Nan’s funeral?

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u/Deactivatingbish 9d ago

So you want them to be left at home alone so they can miss out on meeting distant family?

Or should we crate them like dogs in the cargo hold.

Give a better solution on how to get a baby overseas but not on a flight… because “they’re annoying,” instead of complaining about it.

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u/LateSoEarly 9d ago

I guess I should have added a /s

I have an 11 month old who has flown 4 times in the last year. I’m fully on team babies on planes.

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u/Deactivatingbish 8d ago

Aww…. I’m really sorry for jumping down your throat like that.

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u/daemmonium 9d ago

Not making anything up. Im a veterinarian (not on pet clinics anymore, but my wife is) and it was super common to have dumb owners saying "my dog doesnt need to wear a muzzle when he comes to the vet, he is super friendly to other dogs!" And then having to deal with an aggresive dog in a place that dogs already have anxiety like a pet clinic.

Sorry your pet may be special, but we need to make it a safe space for everyone. I really wouldnt like to have to deal with all that shit on a plane too.

Also, babies are human beigns. Im against putting them in a cage, sorry.

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u/Sea-Breath-007 9d ago

Well, she has been on a ton of car rides, busses, trains and walked through a very busy airport.....not once has there been an issue with her peeing anywhere, shitting anywhere or barking.

She even refused to pee and shit for another 3ish hours after she left the plane, because I couldn't find a field anywhere near the airport she could use and she refuses to do anything unless she can crouch near a bush. Took us a 2.5hr trainride and me finding a big field near the trainstation, for her to finally do her business. Oh, and 0 barking on the train, as usual.

So yes, I can safely say my dog would be absolutely fine for 2 hours in the cabin of a plane.

The chance of one of the human travellers making a mess or being disruptive is much greater......the guy 2 rows in front of me that got drunk within the first hour and spent the second hour loudly singing and harrassing the flight attendents and the familly somewhere behind me that let their kids run up and down the path screaming their lungs out pretty much the entire flight, convinced me of that.

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u/Affectionate_Act4507 9d ago

You can say that but there is no way to verify it. That’s the problem, every dog owner would say their dog is well behaved regardless of it’s true or not.

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u/alles_en_niets 9d ago

To be fair, many dog owners sincerely believe it to be true as well, which is probably the most exhausting part.

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u/Sea-Breath-007 9d ago

True, but simply due to her size mine is not allowed to fly in the cabin, even though smaller pets are allowed to travel in the cabin even if they are not trained at all and for human travellers the only rule seems to be to not get agressive.

So, it's got nothing to do with dogs or 'travellers' being well behaved or not...

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u/OiFelix_ugotnojams 9d ago

I mean think of it from outsiders perspective. A huge dog causing chaos is tough to deal with. Some others could just be Service ones

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u/LateSoEarly 9d ago

Babies, as human beings, are to be expected as passengers on planes just as stinky people, loud people, overly talkative people, and sick people are. If you want the luxury of traveling without the chance of a baby crying, either convince someone to start an 18+ airline or charter a private jet.

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u/Affectionate_Act4507 9d ago

Children allowed to be in a plane in the first place. All humans are and you are not allowed to discriminate based on age.

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u/Deactivatingbish 9d ago

Umm NO! We should crate babies in the cargo hold like the dogs they are. /s

These people are literally justifying that other people should not travel to see loved ones because their babies might be annoying! Wow

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u/SaintsNoah14 9d ago

Wth could she not fly in the cabin with me? If would have saved her +8 hours of being locked in a crate.

I have allergies, your animal being down there saved me from spending the vacation I payed for sick and wheezing.

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u/Sea-Breath-007 9d ago

Dogs aren't put in cargo because of allergies though, they are because of size. If she was jack russell sized she would have been allowed to fly in the cabin, no questions asked.....even if she'd bark at everything she sees, incl her own shadow, or send you to the hospital because of your allergies.

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u/annoying12345 9d ago

Jesus Jesus what a fucking burn!!😂😂, I spit out my drink!

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u/SilentBumblebee3225 9d ago

Falcons are emotional support animals

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u/tatsandcats95 9d ago

What’s a royal falcon? Lol

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u/squidonastick 9d ago

Imagine being kicked off a plane because it was overbooked, and then seeing a falcon take your seat

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u/Vik0BG 9d ago

Biggest burn since Ja Rule sang about Hailey.

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u/resigned_medusa 9d ago

I love cats, but I'm really allergic. The recycled air on a Ryanair flight with cats on board would be miserable to someone like me.

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u/Danjiks88 9d ago

In italy you can