Friendly fire's just gotten friendlier!

Thought I warned you so! Gas attendant Chainey was a nasty piece of work; always has been. Oops, what I meant was "is" a nasty piece of work period lest anybody should impose draconian blog sanctions on me for accidentally, putting out a blog obit on him. However; in line with Donald Duck's rhetoric of 'stuff always happening,' I think it will not be remiss for me to say, I have the almighty government apparatus behind me on this one, to cover my 'derrier'; as it were.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have some unfinished business to get back to; finishing a how-to chapter on "Media Spin when out Hunting."

Shoo now! Big Momma who lives downstairs might start to feel just a little trigger happy.
It's going to be our little secret, okay?

Where the Dickens did it all go so horridly wrong?!

The English language is today dying a slow and excrutiatingly painful death. One would need only to look at blogs for example, to get a feeler for the kind of distasteful vocabulary people would allow into their blog-casting language.
Almost every other entry on blogosphere carries with it a burden of comments teeming with profanities and every darn expletive under the sun ever to be expleted. Mostly, the forte of emotionally immature people; not wont to logical reasoning and whose very definition of life is a zero sum game, it brings into sharp relief their desperation in making a stab at muffling a contrary point of view.

Ahem! It's going to be one sad day when almost, as if by second nature, people start answering their phones with a f*** morning, wtf do you f***** expect me to do for you?(sorry about that!). Quite possibly,an exaggeration yes, but if a sample reading of blogs world-wide is some indication of the shape of things to come; communicating in English is going to become so much more technicolour that it will leave your face drained of any colour it has ever known. Non-native speakers might as well drop the whole idea of learning English, altogether. You will do just fine gesticulating with fingers, as it were; or using a litany of mostly provocative emoticons that will never cease being in short supply in order to keep that communication, or rather, the lack of it going.

Is it within our grasp then, to actually do something about this at the grass roots, and to somehow keep the 'Profanity Fairy' at a safe remove from our centres of learning, blogs and the office space?
Also do you think it a fair deal to expect others; raised as they are on a diet comprising mostly, the 'f' and the 'c' words, B-rated Hollywood flicks, and macFries to go on the side to conform to our old school standards of what should, and shouldn't be allowed in blog(-al)ese, or is that being too fuckin’ harsh on them?!

Send up, or for real?....you decide

This just came into my in-tray this morning. Before I even set eye balls rolling; I am unable to authenticate the veracity of this story or to vouchsafe the source....Big time!Sorry.
Why don't we just take it as is, and throw away caution to libel lawyers?

The scene depicted below, purportedly,took place on a trans-atlantic commercial flight. It isn't clear how far back in time this did happen, if at all it did.

A white woman, 50 something years, was assigned a seat next to a black man. Disturbed by this, she called the air hostess. "You, obviously, do not see it then?" she responded. You placed me next to a black man. I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat. "



"Be calm please," the hostess replied. "Almost all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another place is available."



The hostess went away, and then came back a few minutes later. "Ma'am, just as I thought, there are no other seats available in Economy . I spoke to the supervisor and he informed me that there is also no seat in Business Class. All the same, we still have one place left in First Class." Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued - "It is not usual for our company to permit someone from Economy Class to sit in the First Class. However, given the circumstances, we discussed this with our captain, who feels it would be scandalous to make anyone sit next to someone so-oooo disgusting." She turned to the black guy, and said, "Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in First Class." At that moment, the other passengers, who'd been shocked by what they had just witnessed, stood up and applauded. End of Story.

Did I have you there? The latterly bit about the other passengers' reaction was only me, trying desperately to cook up some politically correct mash into the hash; as if what this story needed is somemore pc: wouldja say I'll be damned if I do?

Assuming this to have REALLY happened, what would you have done in the flight attendant's shoes and why? I'd like to hear of your experiences with hate and prejudice in the airline industry; of which I have it on good authority there's a lot of that knocking about.
Any guesses, which airline, this is purported to have happened?
Disclaimer : Your comment risks instant disqualification if you so much as think mentioning Air India, Air France, MEA or Kuwait Airways, for that matter, as probables. So,there!