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Jamiroquoi resents Johnny Rotten's gastro wrath

by Anne T. Donahue

To put it plainly, airplanes are disgusting. But between the bathrooms, the recycled air, and the fact you’re often sitting next to passed-out, drooling total strangers (and again, I’m sorry about that), it’s rare you have to endure the wrath of another passenger’s gastrointestinal wrath.

Unfortunately, for Jamiroquoi frontman Jay Kay, Johnny Rotten (aka Johnny Lydon) lived up to his name. (We really tried to avoid the puns, but come on – it’s right there.)

According to an interview with Britain’s The Sun, Kay described his fellow passenger as “a fucking nuisance” after he was “seated next to him on a flight and the whole trip he just kept farting”. Evidently, Lydon tried to pass off his intestinal misery by saying, “oh, that wasn’t me” or “the meal smells a bit off, don’t you think?”, leaving the traumatized singer to insist that next time, he’d rather a seat in economy than in first class next to the Sex Pistols singer. (Wow, economy! He must really be willing to make some compromises.)

Though there’s been no further comment, here’s hoping Jason Kay never learns the horror of IBS. [via canoe.ca]