I have a long (fourteen hour) plane flight ahead of me. What shall I do to keep myself and my companion occupied? Please be serious, I don't want any of the usual "open the exit doors" or "start a fire" or "mile-high club" type responses.

I have a bit of money to spend prior to takeoff on Wednesday afternoon (46 hours from now), but not enough to go buy a Nintendo DS or PSP (well, not to get any games for them, anyway). I already bought a magnetic traveller's chet board so I can teach my friend how to play chess, but one can only bear certain things for so long.

Good ideas and responses are appreciated.

lots and lots of cds?
half-blood prince/order of the pheonix?

books, magazines, drawing boards and things like that are great. just make sure to take your own blanket and pillow

Sleep is good.
Or a book.
Or watch the movies.

If you are at all artistically inclined, get a big sketchbook and take turns drawing panels of a comic. Woo!

Read.

Or take a deck of cards and gamble, while you're over international waters anything goes, baby!

Laptop, DVDs, and possibly a carry-on bag with a lead-acid battery to keep it going that long... (ha, I'd like to see someone try to get a car battery past the airport screeners)

Unfortunately, on such a long, international flight, weight and space are an issue. The authorities will thoroughly search and weigh my baggage as well as my carry on, so I can only carry a few heavy items (laptops and Harry Potter books are somewhat heavy). My luggage is allowed to be 20 kilos (44 lbs), but that will be stowed. My carry-on can be 4.5 kilos (about 10lbs), but anyone who has flown international before knows there are certain things one must have in their carry-on (in the event luggage is lost), so that means my working space is rather limited.

I've got an iPod, so that covers the CD category. I only have on battery, and no way to charge it in another country with their different power standards (besides, they battery only lasts 6 hours anyway, half the trip). I will probably bring a sketch pad and a few pencils, that was a good idea.

Sadly, the inflight movie will be in Russian (that's where I'm headed), and even then they're only showing two movies (cheap European airlines).


Thanks for the ideas. More are appreciated.

You could run around frantically, telling everyone that your daughter has disappeared and get people to look for her (even though she doesn't exist), then perhaps try getting into the ventilation ducts.

Or maybe you could harass the stewardesses, and break into the cockpit and try to fly the plane, or stand up and scream "IVE GOT A BOMB"

bring a guitar and wear a nun suit >.>

They are not "Stewardesses", you chauvanistic pig. They are "Flight Attendants" (but I call them "Air Waitresses").

Who will you be flying with?

I've killed alot of time by playing cards.

I will be flying over and back with my friend Amy (and I hate playing cards). That's over 28 hours of flight time. I figure by the end of the trip, she's either going to love me, or be plotting my demise.

ADDED: You know, I bought a harmonica about two months ago... I'm sure everyone would love to hear me learning 12-bar blues for 14 hours.

So I guess that lady that served my dinner the other night isn't a "waitress" either, right? I should have called her a "non-gender-specific person who serves meals"?

EDIT: Just noticed that you used "waitress" anyways, haha.

okay, so don't relive stories about the war... >.>

I always bring books on a flight. Other then that, I can't help you.

Psh, I took a 20 hour (16h but I had 2 2h layovers) train ride less than a week ago and then the next day took a 10 hour flight. Just grab a book or two and plan on sleeping.

And the iPod thing, as long as you have the adapter that allows you to plug the big fat part into the wall you're good to go. The big fat part is a converter in itself.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood prince took me two days of mostly continual reading to finish. It should last you the entire flight, and it is a DAMN good book.

Hombre, make sure you get one of those power converter kits so you can charge any electronic items you may have.

You can always watch the in-flight movie (in some planes your own headphones will work so you don't have to pay to use theirs. Reading works pretty well as does sleeping.

Step 1) Get a good laptop with decent specs.

Step 2) Get Rome Total War, and its modification Rome Total Realism.

Step 3) ???

Step 4) Profit!

I totally ***** Stinky in the north while fighting the Gauls to the west. Pesky people they are. I think Wrix allied with the Parthians though, them being so close and all.

Damn straight.

Their horse archers will kick your ***!

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor
iRiver IFP-899
Lots of music

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sleep? make up songs abtou the flight and sing them for everyones enjoyment?

Where are you going flying to?

Drop acid, just enough time, bring a drawing pad ( even if you can't draw well), you'll be set for the whole ride, and you'll never be bored :P.

My girlfriend and I flew for the first time last summer. We flew from Louisville, KY to Dallas, TX (layover), and then onto Phoenix, AZ. I stared out the window in fascination the majority of the time, and read the rest. My girlfriend slept most of the way, but read a bit as well. Fill your iPod with music, bring a good book, and be sure to be very sleepy.

That would be a terrible idea.

get a sleep aid!!! plus crying babies happen on long flights, then again the secret to that is the pilots turn up the pressure in the cabin but you didn't hear that from me (dad works for Delta Airlines). plus, if the airline is anything like delta hombre, they'll have english subtitles

Yeah, I leave tomorrow, I'll go buy a powerhouse laptop just so I can play crappy games on a plane flight.... oh, and drugs, too, they'll let me take those on the plane.

There were some decent ideas, however. Thanks.

I leave in 24 hours for Moscow, Russia. The airline is Aeroflot, some cheap-as-free Easytern European airline with movies in Russian without subtitles (I've been told by previous passengers).

You are way too serious, Hombre. Lighten up/relax.

GoY got his friends to sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" with him.

To be fair, it'd be insanely hard for them to detect acid on you. Either way, I know the laptop suggestion at least was in jest. Chill.

yay for GoY

Just so you know, Hombre, I have a 24 hour trip (including layovers) from California to India coming up in a week or so. I've already made the trip once, too.

And I tend not to worry too much about long flights because airlines show lots and lots of movies on long flights like that.

Sm0cC is leaving us.

Upgrade to business class and all your problems will be solved.

Almost forgot; do everything on this list: http://lotsofjokes.com/cat_137.htm