wih all this shitty airline behavior it’s time to revive United Breaks Guitars
OK, I’m clearly missing something. Elucidate, please?
It’s a line from the '90s pop song “Ice Ice Baby.”
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Guess how I know you didn’t read the article? 
The flight attendants did bring her bags of ice to help cool the baby.
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Not quite - at least, not applied directly to the baby.
When the body senses cold, it kicks into overdrive to heat up. Applying ice could well super-charge the temperature.
When we were all brought up the advice was put a baby with a fever into a cold bath to cool them. Now, you drizzle them with tepid water. Cold water turbo-charges the overheat. Much like eating an ice cream makes you hotter.
I’ve done this drizzling, and it works fantastically. I’ve brought a feverish child (mine) from floppy and eye-rolling back to gurgling and smiling in short order. They’re only little - large skin surface / volume ratio, so like mice, they can cool quickly.
That said - I’m not a Dr - cooling the air around the infant is a good idea.
Fuck United - I’ll never fly them. Nor Delta (fuck them and their appalling practices too). Likely not Virgin Atlantic (since they’re tangled with Delta). Easyjet, Ryanair - that lot can jump in a lake.
It’s nice where I am, anyway. I’ll stay right here.
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Sorry. Didn’t mean to be opaque. “Selah” is sometimes translated into English as “stop” or “hear the word of the Lord” or just transliterated directly from the Hebrew. It might be a musical direction. Sort of a verbal fermata. Maybe. Hebrew is wild.
I threw in the first line of Ice Ice Baby as a riff on the image I was replying to.
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It is also Not Okay that the other hundred or so passengers had to wait two hours in a plane with no AC, food, water, or access to restrooms.
Fuck United.
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