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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?
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.
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.
Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.
Twisted logic.
You get your nuts pet when you go through security before the flight.
Oh.
Now I understand all those dirty looks I've been getting.
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.