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"FAT-SHAMING" – this is the new no-no. A woman was removed from a United Airlines flight in the US for fat-shaming the bulky passengers seated either side of her.
They were waiting for take-off on a flight from Las Vegas to Newark, New Jersey, according to Huffington Post. A woman was complaining on her cellphone that she was "stuck" between two other passengers.
"I can't sit here because they're both so big. Left and right. I can't even sit here."
One of the two then asked the flight attendant to find the woman another seat. "I will not be verbally abused by this bitch or anybody else."
The flight attendant offered the woman another seat. As the woman stood to change seats, she uttered the ultimate insult: "I eat salad."
Other passengers, including Jonathan Fernandez, of the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop New York, told the woman she was disgusting.
"Why don't you sit in between those two big pigs?" she responded.
At which the woman was removed from the flight. Fortunately they had not yet taken off. Would they otherwise have heaved her out in mid-air? Fat-shaming is taken seriously these days.
This was America. How long before it takes over here? Be warned. We will have to mend our ways. No more jolly nicknames, as in the Street Shelter for the Over-Forties – Big Bertha, Two-ton Tess, Jellywobble Julia …
Fat-shaming - the social blight of the 21st century.
READER Manfred Kohrs sends in an exercise in logic.
Aboard a plane are 500 bricks. One brick falls out. How many bricks are left on board?
Easy – 499.
Next question: How to put an elephant in the fridge in three steps?
1. Open the fridge. 2. Put an elephant in. 3. Close the fridge.
All right. How to put a deer in the fridge in four steps?
1. Open the fridge. 2. Remove the elephant. 3. Put in a deer. 4. Close the fridge.
Great! Now: It's the birthday of the lion, king of the beasts. To congratulate him all the animals come to visit, except one. Why?
Because the deer is still in the fridge.
Wonderful! Now: Can Grandma go through the swamp that's full of crocodiles?
Yes. Because all the crocs have gone to celebrate the lion's birthday.
All right! And now the last question: Grandma went through an empty swamp, but still died. What happened to her? Maybe she drowned?
No - the brick fell on her out of the plane.
A-a-a-a-rgh! That's enough logic!
BARCLAYS Bank is to transfer investment assets worth €190 billion (R2 trl 910bln) from the City of London to Dublin as the Brexit deadline approaches.
Other banks - including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and a host of others - have set up continental hubs in preparation for Britain's exit from the EU.
But the Brexiteers deride it all as "Project Fear". As of old, they'll sail the seas and singe the beard of the King of Spain. Hoo boy!
"STILL at it …" so reads the headline to an image doing the rounds showing Prince Phillip in a fairground dodgem car, another dodgem tipped over in front of him.
The photoshoppers do not rest.
Tailpiece
HOSPITAL doctors went on strike. The hospital administrators weren't quite sure what it was about. So they sent a pharmacist to read the picket signs.
Last word
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
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