&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hey, G&eacute;rard Depardieu &lt;i&gt;Urin&#039;&lt;/i&gt; trouble!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Love it or hate it, CNN&#039;s Anderson Cooper program knows how to put together the clever repartee as demonstrated in the show&#039;s Ridicu-list segment last night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cooper jabbed French film star G&eacute;rard Depardieu for turning an British airliner into his personal urinal by peeing into a bottle after flight attendants told him he could not get up and go to the bathroom while the plane was on the tarmac waiting for takeoff.&nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJQPnSSq5f0/Tk1gRdlbugI/AAAAAAAABW0/EQqV4eHaGuU/s1600/Ryanair.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;143&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJQPnSSq5f0/Tk1gRdlbugI/AAAAAAAABW0/EQqV4eHaGuU/s320/Ryanair.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;Ryanair.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But lest the Dublin-based &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cityjet.com/about-us/&quot;&gt;CityJet&lt;/a&gt; reap too much &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/airline-takes-the-piss-out-of-famous-passenger-on-twitter/&quot;&gt;good publicity&lt;/a&gt; for taking a yucky situation and treating it with just the right amount of humor and discretion, fellow Irish airline, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ryanair.com/en&quot;&gt;Ryanair&lt;/a&gt; has jumped in with a &lt;i&gt;just-in-time &lt;/i&gt;advertisement that queries travelers, &quot;Pissed off with high fare airlines?&quot;&nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lggV1snOx04/Tk1hmB-5fHI/AAAAAAAABW4/L6RWihh5ho8/s1600/A+ryan+air+ad.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;157&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lggV1snOx04/Tk1hmB-5fHI/AAAAAAAABW4/L6RWihh5ho8/s320/A+ryan+air+ad.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;A+ryan+air+ad.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well that&#039;s rich considering that the budget carrier is the airline that routinely trots out the notion that passengers should pay-to-pee.&nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there&#039;s a take-away on this story, beyond the pants-wetting puns produced by the CNN writers, it is that in the rush to pick on airlines, it doesn&#039;t hurt to consider what it&#039;s like to be on their end of the story; ill mannered customers who stopped holding their tongues and their tempers long ago, may now be finding it difficult to hold their bladders.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BUbgeOrc7hs/Tk1fXh4hBnI/AAAAAAAABWw/j-twCXYipYY/s1600/passenger+waiting+area+bleinam.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;223&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BUbgeOrc7hs/Tk1fXh4hBnI/AAAAAAAABWw/j-twCXYipYY/s400/passenger+waiting+area+bleinam.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; alt=&quot;passenger+waiting+area+bleinam.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps the folks who really should be seizing the spotlight here are the clever sign makers in Blenheim, New Zealand where, while waiting to board my plane at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marlboroughairport.co.nz/&quot;&gt;Marlborough Airport&lt;/a&gt; recently, I followed the wise and wordless advice offered up the passenger waiting area.&nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hge8WyA_unw/Tk1cLxKg7bI/AAAAAAAABWs/HdaDy_zx3ac/s1600/New+Zealand+airport+bathroom.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hge8WyA_unw/Tk1cLxKg7bI/AAAAAAAABWs/HdaDy_zx3ac/s400/New+Zealand+airport+bathroom.jpg&quot; width=&quot;271&quot; alt=&quot;New+Zealand+airport+bathroom.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hey, Depardieu -- maybe you should, too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9133703253863123050-1837839151002170553?l=christinenegroni.blogspot.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/CllGQ/~4/F28yxkis2BY&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; alt=&quot;F28yxkis2BY&quot; /&gt;