Airplane Seats & Text Acronyms

Do you have a favorite seat on an airplane? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says A1, the window in first class is most coveted. Plus, people are Googling LWKY for text acronyms and it means "low key". We look at what acronyms we look up the most.

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the den withdangerous date. The travel site Upgraded Points
pulled three thousand people to find themost coveted seats on a plane. They
showed each person's seating charts for seventhirty seven and asked them to choose their
top seating location. Eight of theten choices window seats, another two were
aisle seats, and the top seatcoveted seat A one window seat first class.

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Those seats are usually pretty pricey,though, seven F, which is
a window seat in the first rowof economy, just behind the bulkhead so
there's a little more leg room andno one's in front of you. Seven
A is the other window seat inthe same row, also the most coveted
seats one F the other window seatin the front of his first class seven
C another bulkhead seat, and theaisle seat. Another seat in the first

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class is four F than twenty A, which is the exit row and the
window seat aisle seat in first classone B four to A the first class
window seat in twenty F exit rowwindow. Now just under two percent of
people chose a middle seat. Someof us do like being wedged between two
strangers. I guess I don't knowif they're just psychopaths or whatever. People
said they'd pay an average of thirtythree dollars and fifty nine cents to choose

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a seat in advance. It's atopic because new Southwest open seating policy going
bye bye, so spared announcer switchingthings up as well, So it's not
a catacol for Southwest anymore, becausethey said the biggest complaint they had was
people want to choose their seat.I like picking my seat. I don't
know about choosing it deeper in thetwo, Well, have you texted somebody
LWKY lately? Do you know whatit meant? Google searches for it have

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hit all time high. It's notactually INITIALS stands for low key, just
one of the phrases gen Zs haveopted to redefine for us. Low Key
is like, you know, keepingit low key. Let's say we're inviting
ten people. Well, they saylow key is a guilty pleasure, something
you're embarrassed about that you don't wantto tell anybody. But I'll keep a
low key love of let's say nickelback. Now, Google went through fifteen years

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of data and looked at the searchesfor each acronym, and when it peaked,
people started using them, and peoplestarted searching for what they meant.
For example, in two thousand andnine FML, which meant f my life,
twenty ten FTW for the win SMH, I still use a lot.
Twenty eleven PEAKED was shaking my headYOLO, you only live once, ALSOTD

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in twenty thirteen, Outfit of theDay, in twenty fifteen TBH, to
be honest, WYD what you doing? That was in twenty sixteen, twenty
seventeen that feeling win, which istf W, twenty eighteen WTF full moo
fear missing out was twenty nineteen FYPfor your page, as in, in

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other words, a tab for youtwenty twenty one was fourteen thirty seven,
which means I love you forever.H one has different letters one, four,
three and seven, I y Ky K if you know you know
BFFR b F for real, andtwenty twenty four is lwky low key,

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which, of course we talked aboutthat, but I think I forgot what
it meant. I dka tune itagain for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous Dave right here