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Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone
JamJam writes "Air Canada has been told to create a special 'buffer zone' on flights for people who are allergic to nuts. The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that passengers who have nut allergies should be considered disabled and accommodated by the airline. Air Canada has a month to come up with an appropriate section of seats where passengers with nut allergies would be seated. The ruling involved a complaint from Sophia Huyer, who has a severe nut allergy and travels frequently. Ms. Huyer once spent 40 minutes in the washroom during a flight while snacks were being served."
I'm allergic to idiots. Is there anywhere in Canada I will be able to travel?
If you can get past Customs, the rest of the country will be just fine for you...
Bill Stewart
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Really, not a joke, serious proposal: can't we just force everyone to eat peanuts, lots of peanuts, and let Nature take its course? In one generation just get rid of these allergies once and for all. I prefer that to altering everyone's lives to accomodate an allergy that a tiny percentage of the population has.
Is that you, Dubya?
I also propose that anyone who receives more than a certain number of down mods be killed. That ought to fix Slashdot conversations on the double.
I hate printers.
>> Really, not a joke, modest proposal
Fixed that for you.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.
Twisted logic.
You get your nuts pet when you go through security before the flight.
I suppose they could land at the nearest airport, but I have a much better solution. Simply strap a parachute on the passenger, give him a brief overview of how a parachute is to be operated, and shove him out the door. And the passenger will also get lots of fresh, peanut-free air to breathe on the way down!
...but if the case gets severe enough, have you thought about the lives of the noisy babies and unruly children?!?
He opens up his briefcase, pulls out a Playboy, drops his pants, and proceeds to have a wank.
The woman is horrified.
When the man is finished, he pulls up his pants, closes the briefcase, and then turns to the woman and asks:
"Do you mind if I eat nuts?"
Baba-boom-ching!
Thank you, tip the veal, try the waitress . . . etc.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Oh.
Now I understand all those dirty looks I've been getting.
when i was growing up, no one had this problem, but now it seems that it is almost commonplace. is this a symptom of something we've done lately (to our food source perhaps), or a symptom of me just not getting exposed to news sources as a kid?
In some way, this is all Jimmy Carter's fault.
Today is red jello day - all workers must eat all of their red jello. Failure to comply will result in five demerits.
I'd say that it works especially well on iocane powder, but that would be a joke so bad it would be inconceivable...
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
Stop it! I'm allergic to logic, and YOU'RE MAKING ME ITCH!
Yeah but, you might drop them on a peanut farm. Not good. We'll have to require all peanut farms to have a giant glass bubble over them in case of in-flight ejection.
MG
Better than announcing "no peanuts will be served, because of the passenger in seat 17D".
I'm allergic to noisy babies and children who kick my seat-back. Where's my zone?
According to my kid, the "zone" is just above your right kidney ...
I'm sure lots of us have lists of things that we'd like air transportation to be "free" of. For example: fat people not in first class, drunk college kids on their way to spring break, young yuppie males on their way to (or from) Vegas, babies, children, people who want to start conversations with me that are not cute females, etc. I am particularly allergic to the baby thing, having changed many many diapers some years ago, and now feel I am entitled to not be confronted with the aroma of baby poop when I'm in an enclosed space in which I am not allowed to light a cigar. I mean, outside of some sniffy matron with a stick up her bum, and maybe some of the more "sensitive" Mac users, who could possibly object to a gentleman like myself enjoying a fine cigar whilst flying? Fascists, that's who! But we're all supposed to go "awww.." when a wrinkled little brat squirts a toxic load into his pampers just as you're about to bite into that meatball and melrose pepper sandwich you lovingly wrapped in wax paper and have been waiting to eat since you were back on the tarmac. But that's a fight for another day.
I say, if you are so allergic to peanuts that someone sitting next to you eating an ersatz oreo "cracker" that may or may not have been made on equipment that also processes nuts is going to cause you to have to lock yourself in the bathroom for a 4 hour flight, then I suggest you are certainly a candidate for the no-fly list and possibly a pay-no-mind list, while we're at it, because you are clearly a royal noodge and pain in the ass to be around. In fact, it's things like this that are the reasons you are still single. And everyone knows allergies are psychosomatic, anyway, and besides, who cares about your little anaphylactic shock tantrum because your mother was scared by Mr Peanut when you were in utero? Maybe try for five minutes not to be such a fucking lightweight. And have you ever noticed that people with these so-called "food allergies" also tend to be non-smokers and irritating as hell? No, seriously. Think about the people you know with food allergies. They're really irritating in other ways too, right? Right?
But I'm still trying to figure out what this story has to do with technology, unless Air Canada is about to employ sensitive equipment that will sense as little as 5 molecules of nut meat within a radius of 50 yards and runs Linux.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Anybody want a peanut???
(Strangely, on-topic)
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
Couldn't the allergic individual just wear a face mask while they were serving?
In addition to the allergy you want them to put on a stewardess costume and hand out the snacks?
You have no heart sir, no heart.
The way I remember it:
The man sneezes. He takes out a tissue, wipes his nose, then unzipps his pants, reaches in and wipes there too. After repeating this a few times, the woman asks, "What exactly is your problem with the Kleenex in the pants?".
Rather embarrased, he replies, "I suffer from a condition where I orgasm every time I sneeze."
After a bit, she asks, "Isn't there something you could take for that condition?"
"Yes. Pepper."
Have gnu, will travel.
"and an elephant-free zone, and so on"
If they stopped serving peanuts on planes they wouldn't have problems with elephants.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Already babies are euthanized because they are considered unfit to survive. Or in less advanced countries (such as the US), left to starve on their own because that is what god wants..
Obama isn't God, despite what he wants you to think.