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Clinically Insane
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Nov 22, 2008, 08:15 PM
 
What do people do when they have to go to the bathroom while they are in a hot air balloon?
     
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Nov 22, 2008, 08:35 PM
 
Hold it?
     
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Nov 22, 2008, 08:39 PM
 
make sure the farts aren't big enough so the methane doesn't trail back to the basket when it reaches the flame?
     
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Nov 22, 2008, 09:53 PM
 
What if they can't hold it? Is it legal to go over the edge, and if so, should we be concerned about being underneath these balloons?
     
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Nov 22, 2008, 11:41 PM
 
the intarweb has the answer to everything
http://www.balloonfiesta.com/Gas/gasfaqs.php
"Pilots usually carry survival gear, in case they have to make an emergency landing, but not parachutes. They also carry easy-to-eat food, warm clothes, maps, passports, and a Porta Potty-type bathroom device."
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Nov 23, 2008, 12:08 AM
 
That's gas balloons. Hot air balloons won't be aloft long enough for anyone aboard to need to evacuate.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 12:32 AM
 
Could I get a balloon for this guy's ego...?
I crack myself up.
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Nov 23, 2008, 12:37 AM
 
Nope. Some hot air balloon rides last several hours. Always take a 1 liter Code Red Mt. Dew (or beverage of your choice) wide mouth drink with you. If you have to go, fill it up and drop it out the window. No one wants to walk into an FBO carrying a clear bottle full of urine. If you're in a hot air balloon, you're probably over an area where littering would be frowned upon, so you'd probably have to go au natural over the side of the basket.

As long as you feel there is no risk to anyone on the ground, you can drop things out of aircraft. Just be ready to defend your actions to the FAA if it's over a lot of houses.

I've seen a watermelon dropped out of a plane. I've seen a few bags of puke dropped out of a plane. I've "seen" several bottles of Code Red Mt. Dew dropped out of a plane. The best is dropping a roll of toilet paper out the window and seeing how many times you can cut it in half with the prop before it gets too close to the ground.

It pretty much depends on what you're dropping and what kind of area you're flying over.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:11 AM
 
have you heard of the time when a body with a message scrawled onto it was dropped from a plane onto a car that was just cleaned?
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:27 AM
 
I knew this thread had to do with poop.

Why ?

Because poop-fixated Besson started it.

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Nov 23, 2008, 01:33 AM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
I knew this thread had to do with poop.

Why ?

Because poop-fixated Besson started it.

-t
We need to just have a single thread dedicated to besson's infantile obsession with fecal material. That way, he can keep it all restricted there.
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:34 AM
 
and so all his poop threads can be in one neat lil pile.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
have you heard of the time when a body with a message scrawled onto it was dropped from a plane onto a car that was just cleaned?
Only someone like Nicolas Cage would do something like that.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:36 AM
 
thank you. I didn't think people would get the reference to that great movie.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:38 AM
 
On a more constructive note, when you are in the air, you could always can your poop.

Something that Besson should have thought about

-t
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 02:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
thank you. I didn't think people would get the reference to that great movie.
Yeah, me either, figured I'd throw a bone out to a fellow fuzzy wombatter. This thread has 2 useless skills I possess: bad movies and throwing things out of airplanes. I couldn't help but reply to it. A few years ago, I got a call from the local PD about throwing a chicken out of an airplane. Silly PETA people and lack of a sense of humor or sarcasmometers. I didn't actually throw a chicken out of a plane, just joked about it.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 09:21 AM
 
I would love to piss out of a hot air balloon.

Are you allowed to drink beer on one of those?
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 09:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by SSharon View Post
the intarweb has the answer to everything
http://www.balloonfiesta.com/Gas/gasfaqs.php
"Pilots usually carry survival gear, in case they have to make an emergency landing, but not parachutes. They also carry easy-to-eat food, warm clothes, maps, passports, and a Porta Potty-type bathroom device."
I'm talking about those little hot air balloons with the basket, not a blimp. There is no room for a porta potty in one of those things.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 09:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by shifuimam View Post
We need to just have a single thread dedicated to besson's infantile obsession with fecal material. That way, he can keep it all restricted there.
You guys need to lay off, or else I will report all of you. This thread is not about poop (not that there is anything wrong with that), it also deals with pee, vomit, or any other bodily fluid that wants to exit the body. This is also about the law and what happens when you are hit with one of these fluids or solids.

The fact that you immediately assumed that it is all about poop is flat out discrimination, and I do not want to be discriminated against. Please do not make me report you, and don't think that the only place I will report you to is the MacNN mods - I can also report you to the Canadian Embassy.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 11:04 AM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
I knew this thread sucked.

Why ?

Because Besson started it.

-t
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Clinically Insane
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Nov 23, 2008, 11:07 AM
 
Laminar, or should I say Haminar, Lam the Ham is just upset because he has run out of soy sauce to put on his genitals.
     
zro
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Nov 23, 2008, 11:23 AM
 
Well, I actually thought it was a thread about hot air balloons.

Imagine my surprise when I found it's actually another **** thread.
     
Clinically Insane
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:12 PM
 
You are welcome to ask your own hot air balloon questions in this thread.
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:18 PM
 
Has anyone here ever had sex in a hot air balloon?
     
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Nov 23, 2008, 01:35 PM
 
They think before that before they board. Sort of like a forum member should do before starting this sort of thread. It's sort of like knowing how something will progress ahead of time...
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