And waiting to feel "lift off". I love take offs and landings!I loved the bit about paying for the oxygen, but the part about children was even better.
I really like Virgin's safety video. The FAs demonstrate everything while the video (cartoon) does all of the narrating.
The safety speech is my favorite part of the flight because it means we're preparing for takeoff. I love feeling the plane speed up and hearing the engines getting louder and louder. It's so exciting.
Since I didn't have the sound on, I didn't notice the missing words, but, being hard of hearing and one who uses CC a lot, I agree that CC can be pretty bad. This one looked good to me.Although as a former closed-captioner, I cringed at whoever put the captions on that video. (It's "good enough," but there are some typos and some places where they didn't put the actual words she was saying.)
I'm fine with most aspects of Southwest's business model but their corny humor isn't one of them. I've heard the same government mandated warnings literally hundreds of times so the only thing I want is for it to be over as quickly as possible. I couldn’t care less if everyone listens to the warnings because I believe that emotional mob logic will ignore and misunderstand most of it anyway. If the plane is going down my best bet is to be near an exit. I'll get the door open and you can either follow me or get stuck in your seat because basic mechnical devices easily confuse you.I've always enjoyed Southwest's safety announcements because they inject some much needed humor into the process.
The problem with captions is that the person writing them needs to understand the subject matter. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to read news captions in public locations only to see the caption author scrambling to comprehend who is saying what. You'd think they'd be embarrassed enough to either educate themselves or quit, but apparently you'd be wrong.Since I didn't have the sound on, I didn't notice the missing words, but, being hard of hearing and one who uses CC a lot, I agree that CC can be pretty bad. This one looked good to me.Although as a former closed-captioner, I cringed at whoever put the captions on that video. (It's "good enough," but there are some typos and some places where they didn't put the actual words she was saying.)
Are you trying to be funny or just hypocritical? Preemptive passive aggressive behavior seems like such a silly way toBe careful here. We wouldn't want to mention anything at all that we like about flying. We don't want those who think they and only they have the right answers for everything and think they and only they have the correct way of thinking to tell us we are mindless sheep, too stupid to realize our rights are being trampled on by the TSA
I'm sure at least some live captions are people because you see them make corrections as they go.Are live captions really done by live people? I assume it is voice recognition software operating in real time.
If it's on YouTube, it should be correct. Absent the time constraint, honest typos are rare. My opinion, of course.
Truth. You should see how angry I get when I see videos of people grabbing their stupid luggage from the stupid overheads while the plane is being evacuated.I'm fine with most aspects of Southwest's business model but their corny humor isn't one of them. I've heard the same government mandated warnings literally hundreds of times so the only thing I want is for it to be over as quickly as possible. I couldn’t care less if everyone listens to the warnings because I believe that emotional mob logic will ignore and misunderstand most of it anyway. If the plane is going down my best bet is to be near an exit. I'll get the door open and you can either follow me or get stuck in your seat because basic mechnical devices easily confuse you.I've always enjoyed Southwest's safety announcements because they inject some much needed humor into the process.
Yes, some live captioning is done by live people -- stenographers using a court reporter's phonetic keyboard, translated into actual words by computer -- and some is done using voice recognition software, but it's one person repeating what they hear into the software (voice-recognition software is nowhere near good enough to directly handle the audio from a TV show).Are live captions really done by live people? I assume it is voice recognition software operating in real time.
There's a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon that has a bit of fun with this point.Truth. You should see how angry I get when I see videos of people grabbing their stupid luggage from the stupid overheads while the plane is being evacuated.I'm fine with most aspects of Southwest's business model but their corny humor isn't one of them. I've heard the same government mandated warnings literally hundreds of times so the only thing I want is for it to be over as quickly as possible. I couldn’t care less if everyone listens to the warnings because I believe that emotional mob logic will ignore and misunderstand most of it anyway. If the plane is going down my best bet is to be near an exit. I'll get the door open and you can either follow me or get stuck in your seat because basic mechnical devices easily confuse you.I've always enjoyed Southwest's safety announcements because they inject some much needed humor into the process.
What part of, "LEAVE EVERYTHING," do you not understand? :angry:
If I die in a fire because some idiot in yoga pants can't live without her Coach bag full of $80 lotions, I will come back and haunt her in the worst way imaginable. I'd make "Paranormal Activity" look like "Sesame Street".
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