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2019-10-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Air Canada to stop announcing ‘ladies and gentlemen’ in recognition of gender fluidity

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Better: "Ladies, Gentlemen, and Justin Trudeau ..."

Posted by Lex 2019-10-14 01:20|| 2019-10-14 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 New official Canadian greeting begins, "Hey Hosers!"

Posted by Whavimp Grath4899 2019-10-14 05:01|| 2019-10-14 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Ignoring 99.9% of the population to indulge the delusional.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-10-14 06:53|| 2019-10-14 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This is your purser speaking identifying as your captain today.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-10-14 07:37|| 2019-10-14 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, considering how few ladies & gentlemen are left in the world...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-14 07:57|| 2019-10-14 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Go with the good old Sergeant announcement start.

"Alright listen up you Fuck-heads"

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-14 08:48|| 2019-10-14 08:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-10-14 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm a LumberJack and I'm Okay......

Posted by FleeingCal 2019-10-14 10:18|| 2019-10-14 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Attention Cattle!

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-14 13:12|| 2019-10-14 13:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Komrade passengers

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-14 13:13|| 2019-10-14 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 First Class: "Comrades!" Everyone else in the plane: "Cattle"...

Posted by magpie 2019-10-14 13:25|| 2019-10-14 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Greetings, peoplekind.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-14 14:44|| 2019-10-14 14:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Or from the Coneheads: " Welcome Carbon-based lifeforms...."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-10-14 14:50|| 2019-10-14 14:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-10-14 15:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-10-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#16 ...or species.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-14 19:39|| 2019-10-14 19:39|| Front Page Top

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