Should Lner Have Apologised?

[ladybirder]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9574901/LNER-slammed-apologising-staff-said-good-afternoon-ladies-gentlemen-boys-girls.html

[emmie]

what's wrong with good morning everyone....

[burlyshirley]

Bloody ridiculous, but this is our world now isn't it ??

Dougie's wit is out of this world, clever man ..

[naomi24]

No, LNER should not have apologised. They should have told it to take a hike. If the passenger felt the message wasn’t addressed to it, it could have just ignored it instead of causing trouble for the sake of it.

[Spicerack]

Apart from it being the afternoon, nothing, emmie.
But it rather misses the point. There was nothing wrong with what he said. You seemed to agree on the first page.
This man sounds full of joie de vivre, slightly camp perhaps? Just the type that excels in dealing with the public (the opposite of me)
And some attention seeking misery guts wants everybody dragged down to his miserable, deranged existence. And worse, gets his way.

[emmie]

good morning, or afternoon should suffice, i think that was he said initially was fine.

[ladybirder]

It's now reported that LNER has had a backlash with the firm accused of being ridiculous and pandering to woke nonsense. Not changing their minds though.

[emmie]

stupid people. ^

[tomus42]

Perhaps he wouldn't have felt excluded if the the announcement had said ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, and attention seeking whingearses.

[tommy39]

so a non-binary complained// bless it, rest of the passengers did not

[New Judge]

But their preferred method of address does not matter, tommy. The 0.001% minority must be appeased and sod everybody else.