Hong Kong Airlines is making all its cabin crew take kung fu lessons to help them to deal with drunk and unruly passengers. All staff had been invited to undergo training in wing chun — a form of kung fu used in close-range combat — but it was only compulsory for cabin crew. The airline [...]
And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Last month, Alan Hanson pleaded guilty to a breach of the Air Navigation Order (Dangerous Goods) Regulations in the U.K. He was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £1,000 ($1,600) in court costs for traveling on an airplane with a chainsaw in May 2010. Airport security staff were alerted to the smell of [...]
What’s in a name? Sometimes its something that is patently offensive to people. And sometimes a name just sticks and nobody gives it thought until its pointed out that its a silly name. Kudos to Brits and their Comic Relief Red Nose Day. For some reason we here in the States think we’ve conquered all [...]
One would think that United Airlines would mind its P’s and Q’s in light of last year’s United Breaks Guitars You Tube hit and its pending merger with Continental. But no. In an egregious example of airline customer service United has hit a new low. Read on… Jessica Cabot, of Courtenay, British Columbia, was on [...]
Embarrassed by bad translations and tired of utterly confusing English speakers, the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use has been working feverishly for the past two years to correct Chinglish, the often flawed melding of Chinese and English, on public signage and restaurant menus all over the city. Using an army of over [...]
The Europeans seem to have the most descriptive road signs in the world. Last month we saw that the Romanians had a road sign to warn of drunks crossing the road; now from Northern Italy, the province of Treviso has a road sign warning motorists of hookers. The red-bordered triangular sign shows a scantily-clad woman [...]
In a few hundred years when our simian overloads have taken over control of the Earth, we’ll have Thailand’s Safari World to thank for setting their ancestors on a path of revenge against humanity. The Thai theme park features orangutans kickboxing, pretending to be knocked out of boxing rings, and has others dressed in bikinis [...]
Disneyland Paris officials are investigating after two park employees committed suicide in the past six weeks, under working conditions which a trade union described as “humiliating”. The Disneyland division of French union Force Ouvriere (FO) believes the suicides are associated with poor work conditions. The first of the year was a chef who threw himself in front [...]
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