...bit of advice I've heard in awhile:

Skip the pretzels: starving may fend off jet lag
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Starving yourself before a long flight may help prevent jet lag, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Normally, the body's natural circadian clock in the brain dictates when to wake, eat and sleep, all in response to light. But it seems a second clock takes over when food is scarce, and manipulating this clock might help travelers adjust to new time zones, they said.

[...boring scientific crap...]

While skipping meals ahead of a long flight or night shift has not been proven to work in humans, it may be worth a try.

Okay... so not only do we have to be miserable, crammed into tiny little seats. With some fat bastard's blubber spilling into our personal space. Wondering if at any moment we are going to go plummeting to our watery graves. Being fed rubbery crap in tiny, bite-sized portions. Feeling dried-out and filthy from god-knows-what embedded into the furniture. Nothing for entertainment except some crappy movie from 10 months ago or an in-flight magazine tempting you to spent $15,000 on Duty Free crap that is 3 times the normal price or conversation with the Italians next to you who don't speak a word of your language and for some reason are waving bread in your face and can't fill out their customs cards [Okay... maybe that one just happens to me]. But now we are supposed to starve ourselves while doing it???

I say FUCK YOU scientists [who can't even conclusively say if this is a valid theory or not]. FUCK YOU airline industry. You starve yourselves and then plummet through the air at break-neck speeds AND THEN try to tell me its a good fucking idea.

Bastards.

[edited for link and a bit more text]

Damn Pinchy....


*backs away*

like i said before, my prefered state of being, while aboard a crowded plane is helped by:

1 large eggplant parmigiana hero sandwich - pre flight
2 benedryls
1 large 16oz heineken
sleep mask
ear plugs
adidas hooded sweatshirt
Adidas sandals

the plane could go down in flames, i'd go down dreaming of large boobs

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!


BUY ME SOMETHING OR PERISH.

Hahahaha Excellent!

Not eat before a flight?
No.
Chance.
I've had to get up at all kinds of ungodly hours and the only thing to get me out of bed? The prospect of a bowl of cereal and (maybe ) a banana.
Now they want to take that away from me?
Nope. Not going to happen.

They could tell me that it was just me and a pride of lions on the flight. And that bowl of cereal was all that stood between me and safety, I'm still eating it.

[edited errors. Bah. ]

Hahahah... You go git down wit' yo' bowl of cereal and banana!

[added a little urban slang for fun]

AHAHAHA... Nice video, Manolo!

See... the birds know what's goin' on.

that seagull looked like a pro at thieving

Hahah. That's right!

Heh. Jack 'the Stalk' Gull...on Interpol's most wanted list!!!

Caught on camera! Now he can't claim he was eating worms at the time

Hahah...

Nice, boys. Nice.

I smoke up and drink before boarding. Not only am I the annoying drunk, but I'm the guy that will sit there and ask you about how pretty that fucking cloud looks out that window there *reaching across you, knocking over your 5th cran&vok*

Whoops

=:p