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can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage", "excessorexia", "e-rage" and "it-friendly". Thanks.
can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage", "excessorexia", "e-rage" and "it-friendly". Thanks.
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Agata filted: [nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? this term suggests the same thing when flying in an airplane.. (Less probably, it describes how I feel when forced to listen to a broadcast radio station)..
- Agata filted: [nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases?
- this term suggests the same thing when flying in an airplane..
- (Less probably, it describes how I feel when forced to listen to a broadcast radio station)..
- never heard it before..
- again, the anonymity inherent in the setting is considered partly responsible..
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Agata filted:
[nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
Analogous to "road rage", which is the tendency of people to become highly antisocial when driving cars, a tendency reinforced by one's relative anonymity in such circumstances...this term suggests the same thing when flying in an airplane..
(Less probably, it describes how I feel when
[nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
Analogous to "road rage", which is the tendency of people to become highly antisocial when driving cars, a tendency reinforced by one's relative anonymity in such circumstances...this term suggests the same thing when flying in an airplane..
(Less probably, it describes how I feel when
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In alt.english.usage on 4 May 2005 08:19:16 -0700
[nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.
"excessorexia",
This
[nq:1]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.
"excessorexia",
This
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[nq:2]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
In BrE "air rage" is used of passengers who become unruly during a
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
In BrE "air rage" is used of passengers who become unruly during a
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[nq:2]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
So, "air rage" refers to the all-too-common situation in which one
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
So, "air rage" refers to the all-too-common situation in which one
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"excessorexia": the condition of being obsessed with wanting more than one already has. (Derek Roger, York University, 2001)
"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross."
"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross."
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[nq:1]It refers to unruly, hostile and occasionally violent passengers who have often had too much to drink in the airport lounge prior to a flight.[/nq]
Yes.
[nq:1]And WHY do so many passengers drink too much prior to a flight? Perhaps it's because we're all told to ... flight, and there's nothing to do at the ******* airport for two hours besides sit in the lounge and drink![/nq]
Yes
Yes.
[nq:1]And WHY do so many passengers drink too much prior to a flight? Perhaps it's because we're all told to ... flight, and there's nothing to do at the ******* airport for two hours besides sit in the lounge and drink![/nq]
Yes
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StrayShots filted:
[nq:1]"excessorexia": the condition of being obsessed with wanting more than one already has. (Derek Roger, York University, 2001)[/nq]
Isn't that just avarice?...why come up with a new name when the old one is perfectly fine?...r
[nq:1]"excessorexia": the condition of being obsessed with wanting more than one already has. (Derek Roger, York University, 2001)[/nq]
Isn't that just avarice?...why come up with a new name when the old one is perfectly fine?...r
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[nq:2]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
Air rage is when an airline passenger goes beserk on a flight. Flig
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
Air rage is when an airline passenger goes beserk on a flight. Flig
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(air rage)
[nq:1]It refers to unruly, hostile and occasionally violent passengers who have often had too much to drink in the airport ... flight, and there's nothing to do at the ******* airport for two hours besides sit in the lounge and drink![/nq]
Perhaps it's also related to the amount they drink during the flight, when (in many cases) drinks are free.
[nq:1]It refers to unruly, hostile and occasionally violent passengers who have often had too much to drink in the airport ... flight, and there's nothing to do at the ******* airport for two hours besides sit in the lounge and drink![/nq]
Perhaps it's also related to the amount they drink during the flight, when (in many cases) drinks are free.
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[nq:2]hi, can you help me with explaining some phrases? Here they are: "air rage",[/nq]
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
Passengers - the phrase was coined for the behaviour of angry/abusi
[nq:1]Air rage would be a take-off on road rage. It would mean one pilot acting with hostility to another pilot, or maybe someone on the ground. Generally they don't do much though because it's even more dangerous than on the road.[/nq]
Passengers - the phrase was coined for the behaviour of angry/abusi
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