Ah, of course. I now regret trying to engage with you like a human being.
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Weāre still trying to figure out if it can be 3D-printed.
op-ed-column-whatever-thing in the NYT: In Defense of the Knee Defender.
The entitlement reeks in that op-ed!
The problem seems akin to people walking on a 48-inch city sidewalk with those ridiculous 54-inch-wide golf umbrellas. Or is a better analogy the range wars of the American West in which cattlemen try to stop the farmers until Shane fights back with his ivory-handled Colt revolver?
Yep: he actually compared using the Knee Defender to using a gun, as a literal weapon of defense.
And who believes this guy spends much time walking on sidewalks in the rain, let alone that he has a regular problem with 54" golf umbrellas on those same city sidewalks? Sheesh.
Although the people using those umbrellas anywhere other than a golf course are arseholes. Same as the people that walk 4 abreast on the pavement and donāt leave any space for someone coming the other way.
Which makes them self absorbed, selfish and generally oblivious of other people, just like basically everyone else.
This problem, like most others, just comes down to people, and how they all suck.
Did you read the other Op Ed about the free market solving this? Donāt want the person in front to recline? Just pay them not to. The invisible hand will push the seat back upright.
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Totally agree that a large number of people are self-centered to the point of being jerks to others!
However, Iāve lived in a number of rainy cities (including London) and have seen maybe a dozen 54" umbrellas used in total over 50+ years. The op-ed writer used two comparisons to argue his point that he has a right to use the Leg Defender: the rare inconvenience of occasional golf umbrellas outside their native habitat, and literal self-defense with guns. Letās just say, itās not a convincing argument to me!
I did read the capitalist argument regarding allocating individual seat space in airplanes. Isnāt that the current state of air travel anyway? The difference would be that a customer rather than the company would get the money. And we all know that AINāT happening!
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Wow, this is hilariously terrible. I wonder if it occurred to this guy that someone using the Knee Defender can both prevent the person in front from reclining and recline themselves. Apparently, everyone needs to buy a Knee Defender, just to keep up with the reclining arms race.
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Have you ever lived in New York City? It rains, and one walks.
ENTITLEMENT!
Yes, I have. I do not recall golf umbrellas in use there, which makes sense because everyone knows it would be a stupid thing to do on such crowded sidewalks, and liable to cause an angry confrontation.
Apparently, itās a trend, and the times is ON IT.
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New Yorkers Ponder Rain Rage; wielded as weapons, Umbrellas Poke Prod and drip
LOL! Whoād a thunk it? Interesting that thereās a gender aspect to it. āDo you have anything bigger than that?ā The jokes just write themselves.
Guess I havenāt lived there in a while, huh?
Itās like everyone has gotten more sociopathic these days.
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less than the cost of one passengerās share of jet fuel.
LOL. No.
If that were actually true, the airline would leave all those seats empty,
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