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Air Canada to stop announcing ‘ladies and gentlemen’ in recognition of gender fluidity
2019-10-14
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "Good evening male, female, approximately either, or neither passengers. This is your captain speaking. Our flight to Yellow Knife will be departing on time, eh?..."
Posted by:Fred

#16  ...or species.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-10-14 19:39  

#15  In the US pilots announce to "passengers," as if they don't care about our sex lives.
Posted by: Regular joe   2019-10-14 16:14  

#14  This is flight 581 from Toronto to Vancouver, and how dare you. How dare all of you.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-10-14 15:36  

#13  Or from the Coneheads: " Welcome Carbon-based lifeforms...."
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-10-14 14:50  

#12  Greetings, peoplekind.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-10-14 14:44  

#11  First Class: "Comrades!" Everyone else in the plane: "Cattle"...
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-14 13:25  

#10  Komrade passengers
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-14 13:13  

#9  Attention Cattle!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-10-14 13:12  

#8  I'm a LumberJack and I'm Okay......
Posted by: FleeingCal   2019-10-14 10:18  

#7  Ladies and gentlemen are not actually genders so much as expected behaviors and on that note, looking around at folks flying these days they should have retired the saying long ago.

Peasants & Barbarians maybe?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-10-14 10:00  

#6  Go with the good old Sergeant announcement start.

"Alright listen up you Fuck-heads"
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-10-14 08:48  

#5  Well, considering how few ladies & gentlemen are left in the world...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-14 07:57  

#4  This is your purser speaking identifying as your captain today.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-10-14 07:37  

#3  Ignoring 99.9% of the population to indulge the delusional.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-10-14 06:53  

#2  New official Canadian greeting begins, "Hey Hosers!"
Posted by: Whavimp Grath4899   2019-10-14 05:01  

#1  Better: "Ladies, Gentlemen, and Justin Trudeau ..."
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-14 01:20  

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