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Sep 23, 2014, 10:22 am
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Sep 23, 2014, 11:45 am
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Perhaps that's for another day for the BA board.
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Sep 23, 2014, 12:41 pm
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Sep 23, 2014, 3:48 pm
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Sep 23, 2014, 4:06 pm
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Sep 23, 2014, 4:47 pm
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Sep 23, 2014, 8:37 pm
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Originally Posted by livetutravel
Try BA for a day and you will immediately know racism is not yet dead in this world. For non-white and non-Indian people like me, it is always a complete lower-class experience on BA. Many times, I tried to return to my seat from bathroom and somehow the BA FAs would come and police the policy of 'going back to your cabin'. I need to show my J BP to prove I am a J passenger returning to my J seat after using the J bathroom. Never an apology for the annoyance.
Sep 23, 2014, 9:19 pm
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Sep 24, 2014, 9:10 am
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Way OT, just for one sentence, but if you really want to see this different-service-levels-for-different-ethnicities thing in action, try being a Caucasian woman on a Korean carrier, begging for service from female Korean cabin crew. My wife will never set on KE, etc. again.
Sep 24, 2014, 10:34 am
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Way OT, just for one sentence, but if you really want to see this different-service-levels-for-different-ethnicities thing in action, try being a Caucasian woman on a Korean carrier, begging for service from female Korean cabin crew. My wife will never set on KE, etc. again.
Sep 24, 2014, 1:23 pm
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I recently attended a presentation from some upper management type and his desktop was projected onto the big screen and before he could start his presentation his browser was briefly visible and what was open in a tab? Of course, Mail Online.
Sep 24, 2014, 7:20 pm
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So I have been reading it daily (for... research purposes ) and find that I often skip the article and go straight for the comments - it's quite a bit more interesting than the article itself most of the time. Am I the only one?
) and find that I often skip the article and go straight for the comments - it's quite a bit more interesting than the article itself most of the time. Am I the only one?
Sep 27, 2014, 10:13 am
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Time to end the disastrous democratic experiment?...
Sep 28, 2014, 4:22 am
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He thinks he does it because it's a bit of light entertainment (watching the hordes baying for blood, etc), but unfortunately, of course, over time he's internalised many of the editorial worldviews of the paper. Not necessarily from reading the articles, but simply from being exposed to the subject matter.
It is, as somebody earlier on said, a bit like Fox News: if the channel only reports on minor issues, you come to think that they're major. So, reading the Daily Mail (even though he ostensibly holds quite liberal views and is open-minded) seems to have made my dad think that issues such as immigration and benefits-cheats, etc. are important issues. When, of course, they make no difference in his life and are arguably essentially non-issues. But because the Daily Mail is talking about them all the time, he thinks it's acceptable to do so as well-- using the despicable language of their headline writers.