Airports are separated from all societal norms

I've been places in the states where even airports won't give you a beer before noon. Damn Puritans, ruining things for 250 years.

I think you're legally allowed to kick people in the crotch in that scenario.
- Yes, violence is great at convincing people to give you alcohol!
I was in an airport in NY from 5am-6am, and they didn't serve alcohol during that hour. It was awful, and I had to wait!
Yeah SLC is one of these. Worst layover ever.
ATL is the best layover. You can go bar hopping across the terminals using the train.
They even ruined those muskets with the bell thingies on the end of the barrel. Haven't seen one of those in centuries.

I like arriving 6 hours early for a flight. I have time to drink beer and take a nap on the ground.

That's basic airport etiquette.
Arrives on time. Flight is delayed for five hours. Welp hitting the bar I guess.
Same

It's almost like if people understand why someone is doing something, they don't judge them! Maybe people should just stop judging people if they don't understand them!

I'm judging you for saying this.
- I'm judging you for judging them.
- squints
It's almost that way? What would it take for it to actually be that way?
I told my brain to stop judging, but for some reason it still judges!
It’s almost like
I hate when people write this
- It's almost like it turns any normal statement of fact into a sarcastic, condescending, passive-aggressive jibe for literally no reason at all
- I am sorry.

Seen all of this at every college I've been to

What is this, a festival starter pack?

I am fully on board with brushing your teeth in a public restroom. That is perfectly acceptable behavior.

Unless you leave toothpaste in the sink, in which case you're a monster!
- That's just people that do the same thing no matter where they are.

Really? Which airports so I can avoid them? There are so many!
meanwhile europeans hopping on international sleeper trains (small hotels on wheels) without even having to show up an hour before departure
Prostate and testis exams are vital though ;p
we allow our buttholes to be fingered and our balls to be fondled for our “safety”
what??
Imo the real damage to society was done not by terrorists but by the politicians who enacted counter terrorist laws

You mean it's NOT common practice to do all these things at Wal-Mart??

- Video game releases

I don't know what it is, but aside from the side effects of nicotine addiction and access problems in these spaces(which, whatever, I get it), transportation hubs (airports, train stations, ferry terminals, etc.) are my favourite places to be.

I have it the oposite way :( Especially the airports, they pressent themselves as this beautiful, clean location for happy traveling people. In reality it looks more like in the picture, people beeing on the edge of collapse, exhausted, living like shit
- I've always felt like they just present themselves as transportation hubs and that's it. They're often very utilitarian and full of signage and whatnot. Remind me of other transport terminals.
As a frequent flyer with lounge access I tend to agree. When I want to be alone with a movie or something, I can be, and when I feel like having a (free!) beer where the people are, I can do that too.
- I'm so angry Delta removed lounge access from Amex Platinum card holders.
- I liked to think that I was a frequent flyer but the bar is set so high. I flew twice a week, every week, for nearly a year straight at my job. Only made it up to Delta Gold status recently and I can't even access the lounge.
  I already spent nearly a year of my life living in a hotel and I'm not even in the top tiers of the travel world.
Those little white nicotine pouches have solved my nicotine access issues while flying. I still hate that most airports completely did away with smoking areas though. I don't smoke, but I vape. It's pretty fucked up to put someone into an area that takes 4 hours to get into, and then not provide an area for their basic needs. Yes, I know nicotine isn't an actual need, but it's an addiction, and it feels like a need when you're addicted.
- Snuss. I’m about to board a plane in 14 hours and I have several cans ready. I’m a vaper too.
public transport in general is just nice because you're around other people, the idea of sitting isolated in a car for hours on a highway fills me with primordial dread

Are airports as a whole liminal spaces?

An airport fits the definition pretty well
- unless you're a staff member
Yes.
But one can be a bit more specific and think of their long corridors as liminal spaces, but the cafés and stores in them as not. I flu a few times per year out of the same airport, and typically wait in the same café for over one hour. I use this time to rest a bit before getting on the flight and eat something, and it doesn't feel liminal at all.
Flying into small fields in a small plane can be an interesting experience; some are actually quite busy, they'll either have a popular mechanic shop on the field, a busy local flight school, or it's a destination for business jet travel because of a local golf course or something. Others are almost abandoned, which can be an interesting experience to visit.
Yes. Especially the bits that connect multiple concourses on foot.

Be me, keep a toothbrush and toothpaste at work so I can brush my teeth after lunch in the employee restroom.

Me too! Every morning after coffee. I work from home now, but I did this every day.
- I heard from dentists it was better to do it before eating or drinking anything, as you've coated your mouth in the good shit to protect it. But I guess it's splitting hairs.
- Hope you’re waiting around 15 minutes after finishing that coffee and having a drink/rinse with water before you brush, otherwise you risk damaging your enamel
A lot of Japan does this, actually.

Drinking at 6am - Christmas Day.
Sleeping on floor - After night out smashed.
Brushing teeth in public bathroom - After getting smashed and sleeping on the floor, heading to work.
$10 Water - Never acceptable.
Pyjamas - You ever been in a council estate.

Pyjamas - You ever been in a council estate.
you don't have to get dressed when you're still in the estate mum. it's not like going OUT.
- Out out?
- My line is, I can go out in my dressing gown so long as I'm within sight of the house.
  And I can drive in my dressing gown to drop someone off, so long as it's inside town.

Drinking tomato juice (more related to the airplane). WTF! never seen it in vending machines, offered on tap, in fast food joints …

But 9/10 times someone in my hearing range orders a tomato juice to chillax and drink that sweet thick pseudo-ketchup.

Tomato juice has a considerable amount of sodium in it. I wonder if there's some sort of correlation?
It is a travesty you can’t buy it in more places. I typically ask for a virgin Bloody Mary instead.
I order. I use it to mix in my airplane bottle of vodka and the others you mention are probably doing it as well.

I bet Diogenes would pay the senate to let him live in an airport.

Why would the Cynic pay for something, especially to the Senate?
- It's a reference to the time Diogenes payed the senate to be able to live in a Market.

Brushing teeth in public bathrooms is common in Brazil, especially those of an office.

It's funny. In America you never see it. I brush in the bathroom at work after lunch and everyone looks at me like I'm a mental patient. Like where else am I supposed to brush after lunch? Do people just not brush their teeth after every meal?
- Do people just not brush their teeth after every meal?
  In the USA the norm is morning and evening. Twice a day. Only at home.
  Across my life in corporate America, I've seen a few people doing it after lunch, but it's very rare.
To be fair, yall don't have fluoride in the water so you need to brush more often. (This is aimed at the Americans commenting)

Since when are we not brushing our teeth in public bathrooms? Hell they've even got outlets so that you can shave!

That's like, the least weird thing I pull in public bathrooms.
please don't shave into sinks, that's how you create horrible clogs
just shave onto the sink and gather it up with a tissue paper and toss it in the trash can
- Yeah I'm thinking like a daily shave, like just to get stubble, not like clipping any real amount of length. That's closer to a haircut lol

Fuck not brushing your teeth regularly and having unbrushed teeth from lunch till night time.

I try to brush my teeth three times a day. Used to have regular issues, now I don't and my teeth are less yellow.

No brainer.

I found out in some cultures brushing your teeth three times a day is the norm.
I asked my dentist about it and he said if you brush twice a day and floss once a day that's the most important. You're better off doing something else, like not eating sugar, probably won't get much benefit from brushing three times a day.
Maybe you need a better electric toothbrush or your toothpaste is shit?
- That and following any "bad for teeth" food or drink with something neutral/good to mean it's not just sitting there.
  Glass of water after sweets/coffee/coke/etc..
to be fair, everyone's teeth are different - some people just get blessed with healthy teeth, and if you don't eat messy, you might be good with a sip of water in between morning / evening tooth brushing. After all, cave men also didn't get caries in their 20-something years of life at least.
- While it's true that some people inherit the genes for harder enamel, which goes a long way toward determining how scrupulous a person has to be about their dental hygiene, it wasn't until very recently that we had diets filled with refined sugar.
I think every three weeks is reasonable.
I just found out my daughter's best friend only brushes once a day at bedtime. They're 11. I truly question some parents.
Coincidentally whenever they're facetiming I always yell in the background if she brushed her teeth this morning.
I see you Cecily. Your parents may not but I do. Brush your damn teeth!
- Once a day isn't crazy if she doesn't eat tons of sugar.
- I'm a school bus driver and one of the girls on my bus this morning was complaining about her teeth being yellow. I asked her if she brushes them and she said "no" like I had asked her if she could fly. TBF we think her mom steals her medication so her lack of basic life skills is understandable.
I just don't stop brushing. Every second you're not brushing, you're letting bacteria fester in your mouth.
Some people have toothpics in their mouth, I have a whole toothbrush.

Mine has free water fountains but yeah....

The 10 dollar bottle of water is slowly becoming a thing outside of airports

Converted to roubles. That's a lot of roubles. I can get 3.5 full lunches for this much.
Flew last week and was surprised when all of the shops were reasonably priced

sitting with a wide stance

What the hell lol, what exactly did he do?
- a hardcore rightwing republican got caught soliciting a gay sex bathroom hookup and then tired to play it off as if he was simply shitting with his legs so wide his feet went into the adjacent stalls.

Walking around in Pyjamas seems acceptable in a airport & Ellesmere Port it seems

Airports do not, under any circumstances, want you to sit down. They hate people who sit down. You will NEVER find a chair or a bench in a modern airport. These places are for entering in a mad dash and leaving ASAP.

If you have a layover you can straight up get fucked. Pay $400 to use the AMEX Platinum Place To Sit Down Club, cram yourself onto the most uncomfortable bar seating imaginable at a restaurant that charges you $30 for lukewarm soup, or learn how to hover.

Tell me you’ve never been in a Centurion lounge without telling me you’ve never been in a Centurion lounge.

A layer of hell unto themselves. Punishments contravening multiple human rights conventions that people pay for the privilege of being subjected to just so they can get somewhere, be dissatisfied with it and be forced to do it all again to get back home.

Not going to lie, the 6:00 a.m. beer hits different.

Bathroom? I've brushed my teeth on a public sidewalk.

4 out of 5 dentists aprove

2, 3, and 4, sure, but 1, 5, and 6 are common in many non-airport locations

I don't think it's common to sleep on the floor in public. Even those who do are typically homeless and many don't think that's socially acceptable.
1 for short-haul and 6 for layover longhaul. Or being in an airport that weirdly doesn't have public transport early morning but has early flights.
No excuse for 5. Society is degrading.

Awfully lot like Indian railway stations

Honestly, we should have the suited up janitors walking around hosing people down with sanitizer.

Drinking before 6AM? LOL

I ordered a bloody Mary at an airport in Florida and the bartender looked at me, indignant, and said "sir, it is ILLEGAL to serve alcohol before 8am in this county."
Bro, you are the one peddling addictive substances in an airport. Get off my case. For me it was midnight a few hours ago.
- TX had similar bullshit (nothing until 11) when I was there working overnights. It's my 8pm. I've been up keeping patients alive all night. Make my drink.
- But it’s always before 8AM! What’s his imaginary cut off time where the previous night ends and the new day begins?
There are already people bellied up to the bar as soon as it opens in airports.

I’ve seen all of these in Wetherspoons.

That describes pretty much my Monday

Tell me you've never been to LATAM without telling me you've never been to LATAM

Pre flight beer is essential. It's like the one thing I like about flying.

No... it's not acceptable to sleep on the floor. And It's not ok to walk around in pajamas.

Those people can go fuck themselves with Vaseline and sea-salt.

And seriously. You can just ask for some water at any bar or coffeeshop.

Walk around in pyjamas, who cares? Oooohh, that person dresses different from how I like it, KILL ZHEM!
Sleeping on the floor? Been there. Wouldn't have to if airport designs, you know, the places where people many times need to stay for an entire night, were not so hostile to sleeping anywhere. If those benches would allow a person to lay down when needed and nobody is around, it'd be so much nicer. That kind of also applies to cities and the homeless, but I digress.
And yeah, you can ask for some water.you have to eat there then, though, and can't just get a nice big bottle that you need.
Airports generally suck
- Who's talking about killing? Why are you escalating it?
  And no. Just ask for water. You ndont HAVE to eat there.
- Oooohh, that person dresses different from how I like it, KILL ZHEM!
  Jfc mate, chill out a bit.
we need to normalize walking around in pajamas in any and all locales.
- so comfy
Disagree. I will wear my most comfortable clothes. I will sit wherever I want, which includes the floor. I will sleep if delayed, even 30 min. I will not judge others for anything they have to do to get through that nonsense.
- Ofc you disagree, you're an offender. You treat the airport as if it's your own living-room with no disregard for other people or decorum.
  Bet you chew with your mouth open too
- Frankfurt has water fountains all over. How you miss them is beyond me. But maybe you were there 20 years ago, what do I know.