{"id":53273,"date":"2012-05-07T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53273"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:11:23","slug":"airline-passengers-as-explained-by-their-pants-istanbul-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/07\/airline-passengers-as-explained-by-their-pants-istanbul-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Passengers as Explained by their Pants: Istanbul Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline Passengers as Explained by their Pants: Istanbul Edition<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53275\" title=\"6a00d8341c617b53ef0128778d3a2b970c-150wi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6a00d8341c617b53ef0128778d3a2b970c-150wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"178\" \/>One thousand apologies to McSweeny&#8217;s for ripping off its post, Airline Passengers as Explained by Their Pants, but it was too America-centric for our taste. As the primary hub serving Crapistan, Istanbul&#8217;s Ataturk airport (IST) deserves its own list.<\/p>\n<p>Red tracksuit: Will vomit in the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>White hiphuggers with gold pinstripes, matching sport coat, jheri curls: THY 365 to Tripoli is now boarding.<\/p>\n<p>Pleated shiny slacks, with Hugoe Bose label, pointy toed shoes: Will applaud upon touchdown in Erbil.<\/p>\n<p>Cargo pants and a polo shirt with a corporate logo: Checked a stun grenade, two tasers and steroid powder.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing but a white towel: Checked six liters of Zamzam in Jeddah. At carousel, retrieves two litres and two empty plastic jugs. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Low rise jeans, muffintop: Fell in love with her waiter, sobs the whole flight back to Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Dirty white shalwar: Will leave footprints on the toilet seat.<\/p>\n<p>Clean, light blue shalwar: Asks flight attendant which direction is Mecca, does ablutions in the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Leopard skin capris with rhinestone seams, stiletto heels: Did not pay for her own ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Stonewashed jeans with matching jacket: Passport has \u201cstan\u201d somewhere on the front cover.<\/p>\n<p>Quik-dry travelpants with 7+ zippered pockets, white running shoes: Loved the food, is no longer afraid of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Pleather jeans with a camel toe: Checked 75 kilos of red Chinese-made bras.<\/p>\n<p>Baggy cotton trousers, floral: Put a lamb in the overhead bin.<\/p>\n<p>Baggy cotton trousers, striped: Aspriational busker, put a juggling kit in the bin (Thanks to @AJKhn.)<\/p>\n<p>Any we missed? Do add in the comments, or send via twitter @carpetblogger1<\/p>\n<p>via Airline Passengers as Explained by their Pants: Istanbul Edition &#8211; Carpetblogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline Passengers as Explained by their Pants: Istanbul Edition One thousand apologies to McSweeny&#8217;s for ripping off its post, Airline Passengers as Explained by Their Pants, but it was too America-centric for our taste. As the primary hub serving Crapistan, Istanbul&#8217;s Ataturk airport (IST) deserves its own list. Red tracksuit: Will vomit in the aisle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":53275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939,1094],"tags":[8141],"class_list":["post-53273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","category-tourism","tag-airline-passengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}