The people that complained need to be checked by TSA (or the aussie equivalent) again..."excuse me sir/miss, that stick up your bum, needs to be left at the gate..." Sheesh...
Just when you thought that leaving your turban back home made you look less scary, this is what gets a guy in trouble on a plane:
Wynand Mullins of Sydney, Australia, was asked to remove the offending item because it was intimidating some of the other passengers. No word on whether or not they had eleven fingers.
Mr Mullins said he didn't have another shirt to wear and hoped he would get to wear a pilot's shirt - but wondered how the other passengers would then react to that.The flight attendant left in search of another T-shirt but never returned - and didn't make eye contact with Mr Mullins again.
Wait, wait, wait. Okay, so look, we probably all agree it was silly to overreact to the shirt - but once you have decided it's a threat, you then do nothing? I mean, I understand not wanting this guy to go shirtless, but if you've decided he's harmless, the nice thing to do would be to apologize.
But who knows - maybe they had other safety protocols in place. After all...
I love the paragraph that the original article adds for context at the end:
A 1987 movie, The Princess Bride is a classic fairy tale, which contains many often quoted lines. Directed by Rob Reiner, it has swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess, and a Mark Knopfler soundtrack.In a 2012 interview in New York Magazine, actor Mandy Patinkin said his famous line ("Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die") gets quoted back to him by at least two or three strangers every day of his life. He said he loves it.
This story has been edited. Rob Reiner, not Carl, directed the film.
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I have that shirt! The people who complained should be kicked off the planet along with their kin.
I know two people who are flight attendants. One is around my age (29) and the other is older (60+). The younger one loves it because she gets to fly for free all over the world, her boyfriend is a works with her and when they stop off they get to go out and live it up in those exotic places. The older one, I think she thought it was going to be like it was back in her heyday but I she works only certain domestic routes and doesn't seem to be all that thrilled with it. I think it keeps her away from her husband a lot.
@Dudley_DawsonAgreed, i'm sure there are highs and lows. I mean, Marge Simpson couldn't fly because of this...
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So a t-shirt about a fictional vendetta "intimidated" the passengers...god, people are weak. I say we as a nation of TR head over there and take over the country with that slogan as our flag. We should have the country by lunchtime.
@Canadian.Scott or OR, people could stop being retarded and think "maybe wearing something that loosely mentions killing people on a plane might be a stupid idea". People don't want to be reminded they are going to die when they are getting on a plane. Planes are just buses that wizards have figured out how to launch into space, and you know how shitty bus rides are.
Ordinarily the worst being the people who are phobic about flying and express this anxiety by being assholes.
I never understood why they went with "flight attendant" instead of the title of steward. I can understand dropping the "ess" because it's pointless gender distinction, but a steward is a classic job title, the person who manages stuff and makes sure what needs to get done gets done, while a flight attendant sounds like they're being paid to be present on the flight.
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@Gallen_Dugall Actually, historically, a Steward was a *much* more prestigious position than an attendant. As a Steward of a kingdom, you were basically the next step down from the king. An "attendant" was usually the person who washed the king's feet, cleaned the palace, or was sometimes used as a "nice" term for the king's harem.
Alas, most people are too "busy" to be bothered with learning the truth. Some pushy person decided that Steward/Stewardess was derogatory (largely because of the stereotypical behavior of certain people back when the role was referred to as "Stewardess") and everyone else just agreed with them because everyone is so terrified of hurting anyone's feelings these days.
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In fairness, I'm sure it was less fear about a potential jihadist and more the concern of the New Zealanders that if anyone finds out that other fantasy films exist, their entire Lord of the Rings dependent economy will collapse into self like the Tower of Sauron after the ring is destroyed.
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Man, being a flight attendant must be the shittiest job in the world. I can't imagine how someone could be a flight attendant for any length of time and not hate the entire human race. Just being a passenger in a plane makes me want to build a device that would attract giant asteroids to Earth. What would it be like to have to provide quality customer service at the same time?
@doctor_mindbender working closely with the public in any retail or enclosed setting will destroy any faith you have In humanity being an evolved species. When the day comes that I no longer need to scrub snot off walls windows and stainless steel then i'll think we improved a bit.
@FreeHat I was a janitor in a large urban high school for a couple of years when I was in college. I've scraped more boogers off of more walls than I care to think about.
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@doctor_mindbender Try working in retail if you ever want to develop a deep, burning hatred for people. One week of retail and Mother Teresa would turn into Johnny The Homicidal Maniac.
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@skrag2112 @doctor_mindbender Comrade Dread too worked in retail. In book store. For supposedly literate people who read books.
Nothing destroyed ComradeDread's faith in humanity than customer asking him to find 'that one book with the red cover in the fiction section. You know the one I'm talking about..."
@ComradeDread@skrag2112@doctor_mindbenderThere used to be blogs about things said in actual bookstores, but most of them have come down due to being turned into actual books.
Then of course there's this, which, as someone who spent half a decade running a comic shop, is of particular interest.
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@skrag2112@doctor_mindbenderI've worked retail during Christmas, brother! I've gone to see the elephant.
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Too bad they don't do peanuts on airplanes anymore because this would have been the perfect time to repeat that line.
