<![CDATA[ - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[ - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[]]> @katxyz: Oh yeah, it's funny, but also you gotta give them some love for not caring. Bravo, Deutschland!

bowleserised

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Flying naked? Why do I fear that the TSA might take this idea and run with it?

Also, concur on the "Germans like to be naked" part. Unfortunately, it's never the ones you might want to see naked. If you are at the FKK section at the beach, it's always the people over age 60, not the dudes who look like Christoph Metzelder.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @The HZA:
And had to wear girdles, take classes in make up and retired when they reached their late 20s or got married? Because that's how it was during the 1960s.

Well, maybe being an 80s stewardess might have been fun. Or were they flight attendants by then?

Katxyz

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I have always wanted to be a flight attendant, but when they were called stewardess and had the fab outfits.

The HZA.

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @bowleserised:
I honestly just find it amusing. and it is totally GERMAN. It is!

Katxyz

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Soooo, the whole women's mag body fascism and super models and encouraged eating disorders and feeling bad about yourself is BAD, but when Germans are happy being nekkid they're WEIRD and ODD and GERMAN and UNATTRACTIVE and not a sort of inspiration?

bowleserised

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @zivah:

There are a number of rules--social rules, I mean--for clothing-optional groups, meetings, etc. Usually a towel is kept on hand in case you need some quick modesty.

For the most part, naked people aren't in my experience any more smelly, ugly, or dirty then they are with clothes on. Being nude in a group of strangers is not as weird as one might think.

Shevek

]]> <![CDATA[]]> ...and the mile-high club loses its sense of challenge and adventure and thus, its exclusivity.

cinemaddict

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Germans do believe in airing out! Where I was stationed, it would take a long time to warm up in the Spring, but when it did, you had to be really careful going in the back gate of a German family you wanted to visit, because you would surely get an eyeful of some nekkid German flesh of one sort or another, all laid out on lounges catching some rays! The German ladies that babysat my kids always had them swimming in the kiddie pool buck, even when I sent them over with swimsuits. To this day, my kids don't mind being nekkid...well, they are grown now, but still...

Sarasvati49

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Gumbina80: I was so thinking that these would ALL have to be aisle seats. You know what, some people dont maintain their junk fros and quite frankly I would be able to handle it because I have a hair phobia. I mean good Lawd people. What kind of foolishness is this...

though it would make banging in the bathroom easier...just a though

Incognegro is a Grinch

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @siren77: Yeah I live in Hamburg and I disagree but where were you living that people had swimming pools?- it is too f-ing cold and rainy here for that, I'm jealous.

Plus all kids are nudists- that isn't the same as the FKK.

99centbar

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ugh, I know someone who unfortunately worked on Soul Plane. But on the bright side, I've never seen it. Maybe it would have been better received had the plot resembled this German airline stuff.

Smiling_Politely

]]> <![CDATA[]]> When do the clothes come off? At the gate? Before security check? On the plane itself?

What if you're flying some normal airline whose gate is next to nudityair? You gotta look at all those nakeds while you're waiting for a flight?

Oh, the inhumanity.

More questions:
-do you have to be naked, or is it optional?
-what if you have your period?
-what if the dude next to you pops a boner?
-how would you deal with the european b.o.?

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[]]> There was this great video shown in the German language class at my high school. Well, it was mostly boring, just a man interviewing people in German, until the scene in the park where a HUGE, naked German man walked through the background. What a relief that must have been in a boring class.

Katxyz

]]> <![CDATA[]]> OH MY GOD I want to introduce y'all to my German parents, uncles, cousins, etc. family members. Snark some sense into 'em. But, to be fair, when your blood has been polluted by beer and wars for generations, there's bound to be some oddness. Bless their hearts.

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Wilhelm (not Willhelm), Captain Spell-Check.

jessicamcb

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BeAgrestic: I definitely will. The Cape has some serious sentimental value to the bf and I (in a corny way that I will spare the internets from hearing about) but I have lived in NE my whole life and never made it to the Vineyard. I think it is about time.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ass cloth. Haha.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I'll bet the tray tables won't be the only thing in the "upright and locked" position.

midwesternmom

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @99centbar: I grew up in the former West Germany and, trust me, all Germans love to be nekkid. Pretty much every swimming pool becomes a nudist colony after 5 p.m. My parents had some explaining to do when we decided to stay an extra hour during my brother's eighth birthday pool party. All the little American boys suddenly decided to strap on their goggles and play find the penny at the bottom of the pool. The things people do in front of the jet streams when they think no one can see!

siren77

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BringBackTheBustle: Does having the junk of a Miller-swigging Jeff Foxworthy lookalike pass centimeters from my face count as joining the mile high club? Damn. I wanted my boyfriend to be my first.

Gumbina80

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ever notice how whenever you see a documentary on nudist colonies or go to a nude beach it is never the kind of people I want to see naked. Old guys with major grey chest hair and beer bellies naked as a jaybird wearing socks and tennis shoes and a Dale Jr hat.

erikafl

]]> <![CDATA[]]> All I can think of is..the smell? Planes are stinky and stuffy enough as it is..ARGH!

TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Note to self: Walk.

Ms. Pants

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @bangieb: He'd never have to worry about making a connection.

*Bah dah dum!*

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Miss Pelled: My mouth is wide open and no sound will come out.

Jessi Ramsey

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @rhody: Cool! Definitely let me know if you do, my family has been going there for a long time so if you need any advice about where to stay, etc, I'd be happy to help out.
I used to go for the whole summer and work my ass off to live in a crappy 3 bedroom for $1000 a month. I'd much rather go for a week and live it up than spend all of September recovering.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Gumbina80:
Is this the beginning of your "And that's how I joined the mile high club" story?

BringBackTheBustle

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @99centbar:
Under Communism all they had was nudity.

BringBackTheBustle

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Well done for not mentioning the Nazis yet guys, even if you've hit every other stereotype.

It's a hella expensive, extremely short flight. Weird.

bowleserised

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Hey, they're just beating the TSA to the punch with the shoes-off, jackets-off, belts-off routine. Way to sail through the security lines!

IvyLeagueMetalhead

]]> <![CDATA[]]> [Random joke about breezing through security]

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Oh god. All I can think of is the redneck I sat next to once who didn't make the compulsory announcement "I need to get up", and just squeezed past my aisle seat, shoving his stonewashed-clad junk in my face before I had a chance to unbuckle and get out of the way.

Gumbina80

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BeAgrestic: It was Brattleboro, I am an idiot. We were thinking of swapping our regular Cape Cod vacation for the Vineyard this year so that is a good tip.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Does the nudity cause the ticket prices to go up or down?

MaMaMoose

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Said Bret Michaels "Nude flights from Germany? That kinda turns me on."

BAngieB

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @titania1285: Probably not. Sorry. Shouldn't have warned you (it's on YouTube, though, so it's not too naughty... especially if you don't have bifocals on).

Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Haha- this is from Eastern Germany,which explains everything. I was wondering what was going on as most Germans aren't nudists, and could care less about David Hasslehoff.

99centbar

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @hortense: Bwa ha ha ha!!! Oh dear me...

AbbyNormal

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Miss Pelled: something tells me i don't want to watch that at work?

titania1285

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @hortense: Brattleboro makes way more sense. I was in Burlington a couple weeks ago looking for all the naked people, but I figured I couldn't find any because it was 15 degrees outside.

LOVE Vermont and all their liberal towns.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @rhody: I have never heard that about vermont! Maybe? The nude beach I was at was on Martha's Vineyard and I ran into a couple that hang out with my grandparents. Talk about awkward.

@Archetype: The ones I saw had native boys on leashes. Did I mention I won't be going back to the Dominican EVER?

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @titania1285: This could also be a potential result:
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Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Also, do they give out blankets? If so, do they sanitize them afterwards? Gross.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I am almost certain that I would be seated next to Augustus Gloop.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[]]> DO NOT WANT.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Airplanes are cold.

I would totally want to risk the damage to my goodies for a hot coffee.

ExtensionOfBob

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I have a German friend who is not a nudist but does have a uh, different body image, I guess? I tell him, "What's with you Europeans believing that the body is a natural thing to be unashamed of? Protestant guilt is where it's at!"

lalaland13

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @rhody: No, that's Brattleboro, VT. They are also voting on whether or not to arrest W. and Cheney for war crimes if ever they set foot in the town.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @cardboardbelt: NOOOOoooo. mental image of fat naked german man running. jiggling. my eyeeeeeeeeees.

titania1285

]]> <![CDATA[]]> well, I guess that will speed up the security check-in, since they won't have to take their shoes off. Very efficient.

midwesternmom

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @meaghan2k: +1!

cardboardbelt

]]> <![CDATA[]]> So the staff WONT be naked, just sun-burnt Gunter and Hans, enjoying some bratwurst and Hasslehoff music videos while giggling on thier 'specially-sized cloths'? No cloth could be ever be large enough. Yeeesh.

And what if there's a crash and Wolfgang has to make a run for it?

cardboardbelt

]]> <![CDATA[]]> But will sandals with socks still be allowed?

Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[]]> is the woman in the picture wearing one of those 'leg avenue' slutty air-hostess costumes?

h_a_l

]]> <![CDATA[]]> There are so many horrible, horrible obvious jokes in here that I don't even want to start.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BeAgrestic: I saw a ton of naked Germans a few years ago in Mallorca. They do like to vacation at the beach.

What a weird bunch.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[]]> As a former lifeguard, I saw too much of the Euro male in chains with the cheeta print speedo. Don't want to see them out of it either.

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BeAgrestic: Burlington, Vermont is pretty openly nudist, right? I love Vermont but when I picture this I just think of pubes, like, EVERYWHERE.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Naked flying would make going through metal detectors easier. They already make you take your shoes off, even if they're fucking flip flops. And what the fuck are those terrorism detectors that basically just blow wind up your skirt Seven Year Itch style?

BringBackTheBustle

]]> <![CDATA[]]> This reminds me of those Blue Fly commercials about a faster way to get through security

girlreporter has a dorky journalism blog

]]> <![CDATA[]]> i'm not a big "naked" person. i'm an underpants person-- inside my apartment. alone or with boyfriend ONLY.

titania1285

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Like flying isn't traumatic enough...

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[]]> My junior high health textbook said most people look better naked. Untruer words were never spoken.

myrtlebeachbum

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Aww, Germany. First you vote David Hasselhoff 'Sexiest American TV Personality' YEARS after he's been ousted from American television and now this? Y'all ain't right. But you can slang your beers my way any day.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[]]> The only time I've ever gone to third base on a plane was with a German. I guess Europeans still see flying like Americans did in the sixties.

BringBackTheBustle

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I'm imagining them serving hot drinks anyway, and oh is it funny.

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I was just thinking to myself the other day, "There aren't enough naked people on airplanes. Sure, there's me, but I get a lot of funny looks from people."

meaghan2k

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I went to a nude beach once in Massachusetts. NEVER AGAIN! Nudists are almost always the last person you would ever want to see naked.
-shiver-

I saw my share of scanitly clad German tourists in The Dominican Republic. Do.not.want.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> First class all the way

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Nightmarish!

CharlemagneBucket

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ew.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ew, yuck.

Pinkosaurus

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Yeah, that's just what I need on a plane, a fat, sweaty naked guy on one side of me and a naked crying baby on the other.

DorothyZbornak

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