Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls

[Jongleurterre]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9574901/LNER-slammed-apologising-staff-said-good-afternoon-ladies-gentlemen-boys-girls.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2wKNJ4_n_LHvU0MZRGb58f6bbnx5NM9YAEsQPZVG2VA72q6EwGtjHdUIU

I have had enough of this utter tosh, have you?

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Yes I’m particularly fed up of privileged tossers using it to bully working people.

This, especially when the one doing the bullying is a union rep.

@minipie

The Daily Mail’s done a few of these stories recently haven’t they? Not overtly expressing a view, but picking out examples that highlight how weird it’s all got? Subtly bringing this to the attention of people (ie DM readers) who don’t move in woke or feminist circles and might otherwise might have no clue this is going on.

Never thought I’d be glad of anything the DM wrote, but...

Yup. Better than the utter bull that are the guardian and the Indy.

FFS. I just said on another thread, I don't know why people bother talking to others at all anymore. Literally everything you say is offensive to someone!

It’s a strawman.
Sorry!
Strawperson.

Absolutely beyond crackers!

How very dare you!

Christ, the train would've done its journey 10 times over if he'd have listed everything these dickheads identify as

You can imagine poor Laurence bouncing up and down in his seat shouting, ‘what about me, what about me? I’m non-binary and he hasn’t said good afternoon to me!’

I imagine them sitting with their hand up like in class, squirming ‘mememememe! Miss ask ME!!’

the complaint was annoying and probably intended to ruffle feathers but the response from the rail company is beyond absurd. You would have thought the conductor had used a slur by their reaction.

It's fear, companies are terrified of not being woke enough.

YANBU. This is a new low level of twatty wokiness.

Fucked off to the nth degree with it I am.

What the fuck have we become? Can't say fuckall without some professionally offended wokie fucker, being all sniffy and huffy and whiny.

GET! A! LIFE!

what a load of bollocks these.. er..people believe in. i'm with the the conductor on this for politeness.

Ridiculous. Saw it yesterday on twitter.

Complaint so entitled and absurd it would be funny if it wasn't being pandered to by the rail company apologising
"that their managers really shouldn't be using language like this"

Language like what exactly?

The need to appear woke and the fear of angering the wokeratti is hopefully getting so preposterous that the tide will turn and people will call it out for the absurdity that it is.

Yes

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Yes I’m particularly fed up of privileged tossers using it to bully working people.

THIS. So, so much this.

@mumsiedarlingrevolta

Ridiculous. Saw it yesterday on twitter.

Complaint so entitled and absurd it would be funny if it wasn't being pandered to by the rail company apologising
"that their managers really shouldn't be using language like this"

Language like what exactly?

The need to appear woke and the fear of angering the wokeratti is hopefully getting so preposterous that the tide will turn and people will call it out for the absurdity that it is.

Indeed. It's not like the conductor shouted "Listen up, you fuckers", though more people would listen, I imagine.

They apologised for the use of language.

FFS. Now normal language is offensive.

If someone is non binary surely they don't identify as anything so any label is offensive. So we literally have to stop any reference to anything or anyone?

@PeanutButterCheesecake

Laurence sounds like a snowflakey little twat.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Fed up of it here too

LNER went on to post a gif of naked dancing trolls in response to someone else which kicked off on Twitter by people saying it was inappropriate

@Jongleurterre

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9574901/LNER-slammed-apologising-staff-said-good-afternoon-ladies-gentlemen-boys-girls.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2wKNJ4_n_LHvU0MZRGb58f6bbnx5NM9YAEsQPZVG2VA72q6EwGtjHdUIU

I have had enough of this utter tosh, have you?

Yes!

It's so self indulgent and precious...

i'd be so embarrassed if one of my dc carried on like this, non binary, non penis wearer shite etc just comes across as attention seeking like pc thankfully alot of that seems to have died the death.

What a crock of shite.

I'm sorry but you're either male or female. It's your DNA.

Fuck off with your non binary shit and stop trying to make the rest of us tiptoe around your sensitive feelings.

So sick of this crap. I saw that Twitter storm about NHS East England talking about pregnant ‘people’’ rather than women. I really take issue with the fact that it’s principally women’s stuff that’s being changed/erased - I wouldn’t care if people had the same fervour in changing men’s stuff too. But go to e.g. prostate cancer page on NHS website and lo and behold apparently it’s not people with prostates - apparently only men can have prostates.

This pissed me right off .. they’re reprimanding the driver ! I have never wanted to rip into a company as bad as I do now and I may be one of those who “writes a stern letter” (I don’t do Twitter)

Maybe they will start announcing star signs (Chinese and get other - not sure what it’s called) as well as blood groups, race, hair colour, eye colour (and various combinations). Weight, number of fingers...