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You don't need a time machine to travel forward in time.

He didn't get the memo that revenge is best served cold

Only if orange wants to stay the same age.

Here's a tip for anyone suffering of crying babies on a plane: remember that at least it's not your baby, so you don't have to try to calm him/her down while a bunch of annoyed passengers around you are giving you looks.

If it is your baby, you're out of luck. Gotta just deal with it, I guess.

That's not a time machine. He just sat in that contraption for 20 years.

Need to play the Happy Song

Here's a tip for anyone feeling embarrassed by their crying baby on an airplane:

Stay the fuck at home or take a road trip, next time. Nobody else paid $400 to listen to little Jaxleigh shriek at the top of their lungs for 6 hours, and the entitlement of dragging an infant onto an airplane ought to be what actually embarrasses you.

First thing I thought of

On point with Jaxleigh. Or Reighighighilynnnn

They also paid 400$ to go on that plane asshole. They have as much right to be on that plane as you do. If the babies bother you so much you'd be the one staying at home.

It may shock you to learn that children are people and need to travel just like other people.

I remember when my brain flipped from being upset about it to feeling sorry for the parents. It was like after I graduated school and I was like, "wow, those parents can put up with so much"

Anybody that gets upset about this can buy ear plugs and eye masks and stuff. Shits dirt cheap and useful when you're traveling in general in case your hotel or friends place or whatever has issues. I get upset too but like, I don't know what trip they're going on for whatever reason... for all I know it's a death in their family and they can't leave the kid alone ... I prefer to think the best of it and prepare that way.

Iron lung.

I mean, literally everyone's out of luck on that airplane and has to deal with it.

I don't get it. Can you explain why those obviously made up names are funny?

Jaxleigh and Reighlynn are real names. Using unnessecary English language weirdness to make them "ImUnique". Its not clever.

Its just how people name kids now. Like how theres tons of Aiden and Hunters. Its the new "Bob" and "frank". For white suburbanites.

Noise cancellation headphones help. Don't even need to play music. Cuts down the plane noise too.

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Nah, FedEx them little shits

So brave of you to call them out.

But if I spend the entire flight screaming in someone's ears, I get to go to jail for it afterwards. If we start locking up the entitled parents when their children do something that would get an adult arrested, I'd be a lot less militant about children not belonging in public spaces.

It may shock you to learn that I don't give a fuck.

I don't have kids. I didn't sign up for the sacrifices that go with parenting. The mombie dragging her baby on a vacation it'll never remember did, but somehow idiots act like there's nothing wrong with parents pushing the sacrifices they signed up for onto everyone around them.

Given the reactions? Seems braver than quietly and meekly accepting the entitlement of parents.

Many parents don't give a fuck tho. They bring their screaming baby to restaurants, cinemas, events etc. And everyone is supposed to just put up with it.

Everyone else can put on their ANC headphones. The parent(s) of the baby have to try and calm down the baby. That ought to be fun on an airplane. As a parent I'll tell you that the only way I'd have flown when my kid was still in the crying every time something is wrong phase would've been if there was truly no other option.

If you go on a long flight and don't bring ANC headphones, that's kind of on you.

Put on your headphones, turn on your active noise cancellation and chill the fuck out. Maybe get a first class ticket if you don't want to be annoyed by the poors who can't afford to fly private with their babies?

I think more people would tolerate crying babies if they realized those infants are currently experiencing the worst thing in their lives and they have no idea what it is or how to make it better.

You were a child once too.

By the sounds of things, people could have been nicer to you. Hope you find some happiness somewhere mate.

They're not screaming in your ears. They're screaming because of unexpected severe head pain, and you don't go to jail for that.

I still think they should have family flights. Let the little monsters roar all they want. Everybody wins.

You exist in a society, so you do sign up for those sacrifices. That crying baby may be the nurse that changes your bed pan in 40 years and whose taxes will pay for retirement and healthcare for you.

Them taking a baby on vacation is an assumption. People fly for other reasons. And even assuming it's a vacation, parents actually dont want to take babies on vacation believe it or not.

...I did say "literally", this isn't a blame situation.

Modern air travel is already basically no fun for anyone. Everyone's restless, cramped, and inconvenienced. The baby has the usual baby issues that can make it cry plus the same uncomfortable pressure in their ears we all experience without knowing what it is or how to cope, loss of routine, unfamiliar noises and lights, even less opportunities for a diaper change, etc. The parent(s) have to deal with that in addition to themselves, other passengers have to endure extra noise... Again, everyone is less happy in that situation, but the baby can't suck down 4 Bloody Marys and put on headphones to stay zonked for several hours!

Sounds expensive so they won’t.

Well yeah, there are douche bags with kids as well in this world. They're a small minority though.

I can assure you that the parents with crying kids don't consider themselves entitled to anything. They just want their kid to calm down.

The self-centered arseholes who think they own the place though, they're a different story..

The only entitled person here is you, who somehow thinks that the rest of society should bend over backwards to accommodate you.

The thing is, if you want to use public transport you have to accept that other people are also going to use it, often at the same time, and some of those people will happen to be babies, who are a normal part of society.

If you don't like that, then either buy a private jet, or get over yourself. You were once a baby, we all were. And I'm sure you cried sometimes just like everyone else. It's just a normal part of life :)

I was going to say this if you didn't already.

How about you don't bring kids that young on an airplane?

I was on a flight from São Paulo to Orlando, which is normally 8 hours but take off was delayed by 2 hours. From the moment the doors closed until the moment I got off the plane, a baby was crying about 5 rows behind me absolutely non stop. 10 full hours of screaming bloody murder. I can understand the baby's discomfort but holy fuck

People who get mad at babies being babies are babies.

https://xkcd.com/209/

Even if it isn't a death in the family, people deserve to be able to go on a trip now and then. The only thing worse than a crying baby is a crying adult. I get it's annoying but that's life sometimes.

That is a very sweet and light hearted cartoon. I love it! Thanks for posting it!

My pleasure! As the saying goes, there's always a relevant xkcd.

Literally said that I never did and I suspect no other parent would do it willy-nilly either, so there's almost certainly a good reason. But seriously if you fly without proper headphones you're asking for noise anyway, a baby crying isn't even that much noisier than the airplane itself. You can also just upgrade to first class if you think you're more important than everyone else.

If we start locking up the entitled parents when their children do something that would get an adult arrested

Flawless plan, I see no downsides whatsoever

Why would it cost more?

Less people on any given flight.