Commuters more stressed than fighter pilots?

Mobo\'s more stressed than yotties

oh i'd definitely agree. Much further down the evolutionary pile to fall on a mobo, see.

In an MAB (or even MAWB) yotties should be v relaxed as the craft is a pointy plastic coracle with big weight screwed on underneath, some foam cushions inside to kip on, and (in the really advanced ones) a camping gaz to warm up pies and make cup of tea. The drifting around in the tide is assisted by hoisting sails, but not absolutely necessary qv Columbus etc. Main req is patience, and being able to kip in aforementioned small plastic bucket .

It makes sense that power gives way to sail cos of course, no knowlege of anything newer than about 3000 year old technology really needed on a sailing boat

If you need to get anywhere commercially or to a timescale, at sea or on land or in the air, you need an engine. Frexample, not many parcel delivery peeps use a land yacht, and not many airlines run gliders. Zero, actually.

BUT some enterprising people manage to rent out MAWB's as "holidays" which is half the price of staying in a proper hotel, but there again there's hardly fire/safety regulations on boats, no staff to help with bags, no room service, no bathroom or bog worth the name, so that still makes it a bit steep, considering.

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Yes, fully agree.

Much more stressed than yotties but in an interesting sexy way, sort of like for space shuttle crews. Riding their big throbbing vibrating beast bared to the sea and when the end comes is like a shooting star.

John

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Yes, and it is a good lot too Chris. Thanks for putting me onto your own personal supplier /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

Whoops, we shouldn't be sharing intimacies on here - oh what the hell, I am going to go off catawauling again.

John

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Re: Nobody

I think that this was the premise of the research.

As someone who commutes by rail 100 miles each way daily, I don't feel stressed, out of control and certainly don't stand any comparison to a fighter pilot. Perhaps this is the answer to defence cuts, replace the RAF with commuters?

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by a calamitous twist of fate, after the oil ran out and the Big Issue pictured thousands of homeless mobo owners watching distraught as their plastic tubs sank ever deeper into the mud, the hydrogen powered engine which was gradually replacing the internal combustion engine had a fatal flaw for marine applications. the free radical hydrogen atoms aggressively sh*gged chlorine ions present in salt water and produced explosive hydrochloric acid .......

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By what twisted logic have you arrived at the conclusion that you are subsidising their fuel?

Pray tell!

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Er, think again, friend.

According to your logic you are in turn "subsidised" by people who smoke lots, drink lots, buy hugely expensive cars, move house a lot, pay tax as well as school fees, more taxes as well as private health insurance...and pay lots of tax (already) on loads more fuel than you - yet you yer stingy thing using the same facilities and same price mooring for the same length of boat that raises no tax whasoever! Govt might raise the fuel price to attempt to raise more tax and then - according to your loonyomics - I'll be "subsidising" you some more, won't I? In truth, of course your sails should be taxed v heavily - abilty to pay, see.
 
"Who ever met a caring Mobo ?"
Try being pleasant to them for a change, you'll find it makes a difference.
"Even their fuel is subsidised - by me"

Too stupid a remark to be worth commenting on


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Nahh

I feel more relaxed at work than if I had to commute. Give me upside down over Scotland rather than commuting any day! /forums/images/icons/cool.gif

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I agree

On the results of the research, that is.
Not because I consider commuting - as such - a huge source of stress.
But being a fighter pilot - again, as such - is not a source of stress at all.
Can be occasionally risky, of course, but stress is a different thing.
I never met a fighter pilot (and I've met some) who was forced to accept the job because he had no alternatives...

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Apparently the clinical definition of stress is not being able to control the (undesirable) situation you are in... until it becomes unbearable. So commuting (and the rat race generally) oftens scores high in these stakes. Whereas most fighter pilots choose to be in the high-octane environment they are in and generally love it and enjoy it. Sure, at certain times their workload might get a bit heavy and the stakes might get higher than most of us - but they are nowhere near as stressed on a day-to-day basis, I reckon.

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Re: I\'d love to be . .

. . Upside down over Scotland, or even the right way up! Every time I'm up in the hills and see one of these fast RAF chappies hurtling through the glens BELOW me, I go green with envy.

If ever "Jim'll fix it" comes back, my wish would be to go in the back seat of one of these things and do that.

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What's this Jack Aubrey's "Not a minute to be lost" talk all about then?

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Don\'t dream it...

...be <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.adventures.cc/fly_the_legend/fly_mig_sukhoi.asp>it</A> !

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